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 lodgings in the palace. He made the arrangements for the progress. He received the ambassadors and others entitled to a royal audience and conducted them into the presence. He was liable to be rated by the Queen if there was not enough plate on the cupboard. He not merely planned the revels but himself kept order in the banqueting-hall. And for this purpose the white staff, which was the symbol of his office, was a practical instrument ready to his hand. The delivery of this white staff to him by the Sovereign constituted his appointment, which was during pleasure; and at its

command of the King's guard than the captains hath, he makes all the chaplains, chooseth most of the King's servants, and all the pursuivants; there being then no dean of the King's chapel, he disposeth of all in the chapel.']: M^r. May that translated Lucan having felt the weight of his staff: which had not his office and the place, being the Banqueting-house, protected, I question whether he would ever have struck again'. This was in Feb. 1634 (Strafford Papers, i. 207).]
 * [Footnote: King's house; he disposeth of all things above stairs, he hath a greater