The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

Office of a sewer. [The word Sewer in the MS. is written small, the flourishes of the big initial O having taken up so much room. The name of the office of sewer is derived from the Old French esculier, or the scutellarius, i. e. the person who had to arrange the dishes, in the same way as the scutellery (scullery) was by rights the place where the dishes were kept. Domestic Architecture, v. 3, p. 80 n.]

"Now sen yt is so, my son / þat science ye wold fayn lere, drede yow no þynge daungeresnes; þus [Inserted in a seemingly later hand.] y shalle do my devere to enforme yow feithfully with ryght gladsom chere, & yf ye wolle lysten my lore / somewhat ye shalle here: Line 660 Take hede whan þe worshipfulle hed / þat is of any place hath wasche afore mete / and bigynnethe to sey þe grace, Vn-to þe kechyn þan looke ye take youre trace, Line 664 Entendyng & at youre commaundynge þe ser|uaundes of þe place; Furst speke with þe pantere / or officere of þe spicery For frutes a-fore mete to ete þem fastyngely, as buttur / plommes / damesyns, grapes, and chery, Line 668 Suche in sesons of þe yere / ar served / to make men mery, Serche and enquere of þem / yf suche seruyse shalle be þat day; þan commyn with þe cooke / and looke what he wille say; þe surveyoure & he / þe certeynte telle yow wille þay, Line 672

Line 672 what metes // & how many disches / þey dyd fore puruay. And whan þe surveoure [See the duties and allowances of "A Surveyour for the Kyng" (Edw. IV.) in Household Ord. p. 37. Among other things he is to see 'that no thing be purloyned,' (cf. line 680 below), and the fourty Squyers of Household who help serve the King's table from 'the surveying bourde' are to see that 'of every messe that cum|myth from the dressing bourde . . thereof be nothing withdrawe by the squires.' ib. p. 45.] & þe Cooke / with yow done accorde, þen shalle þe cook dresse alle þynge to þe sur|veynge borde, þe surveoure sadly / & soburly / with-owten any discorde Line 676 Delyuer forthe his disches, ye to convey þem to þe lorde; And 'when ye bithe at þe borde / of seruyce and [folio 181a] surveynge, se þat ye haue officers boþe courtly and connynge, For drede of a dische of youre course stelynge [See the duties and allowances of "A Surveyour for the Kyng" (Edw. IV.) in Household Ord. p. 37. Among other things he is to see 'that no thing be purloyned,' (cf. line 680 below), and the fourty Squyers of Household who help serve the King's table from 'the surveying bourde' are to see that 'of every messe that cum|myth from the dressing bourde . . thereof be nothing withdrawe by the squires.' ib. p. 45.] , Line 680 whyche myght cawse a vileny ligtly in youre seruice sewynge. And se þat ye haue seruytours semely / þe disches for to bere, Marchalles, Squyers / & sergeauntes of armes [Squyers of Houshold xl . . xx squires attendaunt uppon the Kings (Edw. IV.) person in ryding . . and to help serve his table from the surveying bourde. H. Ord. p. 45. Sergeauntes of Armes IIII., whereof ii alway to be attending uppon the Kings person and chambre. . . In like wise at the conveyaunce of his meate at every course from the surveying bourde, p. 47.] , if þat þey be there, þat youre lordes mete may be brought without dowt or dere; Line 684 to sett it surely on þe borde / youre self nede not feere.