^{page 154 note [a]} The title of Majesty was not given to our kings till a reign or two after.

^{page 154 note [b]} In the earl of Northumberland's houshold-book, in the beginning of the year 1500, is a note, that pewter vessels were too costly to be common.

^{page 154 note [c]} By inventories of houshold furniture in the same book, it appears, that what furniture was left in noblemen's houses, consisted only of long tables, benches (no chairs mentioned), cupboards, and bedsteads: and when noblemen removed from one house to another, tapestry and arras, bed and kitchen-furniture, cups and canns, chapel furniture, and utensils for the bakery, joiner, smith, and painter, with all their tools, were constantly removed; and those of the earl of Northumberland in seventeen carriages.

^{page 155 note [d]} It appears by a houshold establishment of lord Fairsax's, about 1650, added to the earl of Northumberland's houshold book, that eleven was then become the hour for dining. Towards the end of the last century, the hour was twelve, and so remained at the universities till within these twenty years; but from the beginning of this century, in London, it has gradually grown later to the present times, when five is the polite hour at noblemens houses.

^{page 155 note [e]} Those three gentlemen were cruelly executed some years after, to justify the king's divorce.

^{page 156 note [f]} Four different sizes of wax lights; the first is a square, the third a round of wax, with wicks in the middle.

^{page 157 note [g]} In the earl of Northumberland's houshold-book it appears, that six large trotting horses were allowed for the charat, a sort of covered waggon (for the modern chariots did not appear till the next century) and one great trotting horse for lord Percy.

^{page 157 note [h]} By the above MS. Only Rhenish and sweet wines are ordered to be bought; probably the French wines from Bourdeaux and Gascony were sent over of Course. By the earl's book, the wines then used appear to be a red, a pale red, white, a Vin de Greave; but all from Bourdeaux or Gascony, except the sweet wines.