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 ...

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Author

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,

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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,

1868.

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Home economics -- England.

Education -- England.

Etiquette, Medieval

Table

England -- Social life and customs

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"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 ..." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA6127.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.

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¶ De thesaurizario. [See the 'Thesaurere of Housholde' in Edw. IV.'s Liber Niger, H. Ord. p. 56-8: 'the grete charge of polycy and husbandry of all this houshold growyth and stondyth moste part by hys sad and dylygent pourveyaunce and conduytes.']

                  
                    ¶ Now speke y wylle of tresurere,
                  
                    Husbonde and houswyf he is in fere;
                  
                    Of þe resayuer he shalle resayue,
                  
                    Alle þat is gedurt of baylé and grayue, [AS. gerefa, reeve, steward, bailiff.] 
                    Line 576 
                  
                    Of þe lordes courtes and forfetis als,
                  
                    Wheþer þay ben ryȝt or þay ben fals.
                  
                    To þo clerke of cochen he payes moné
                  
                    For vetayle to bye opon þo countré:
                    Line 580 
                  
                    The clerke to kater and pulter is,
                  
                    To baker and butler bothe y-wys
                  
                    Gyffys seluer to bye in alle thyng
                  
                    Þat longes to here office, with-outen lesyng.
                    Line 584 
                  
                    Þe tresurer schalle gyfe alkyn wage,
                  
                    To squyer, ȝomon, grome, or page.
                  
                    Þo resayuer and þo tresurer,
                  
                    Þo clerke of cochyn and chaunceler,
                    Line 588 
                  
                    Grayuis, and baylys, and parker,
                  
                    Schone come to acountes euery ȝere
                  
                    By-fore þo auditour of þo lorde onone,
                  
                    Þat schulde be trew as any stone;
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                    Yf he dose hom no ryȝt lele,
                  
                    To A baron of chekker þay mun hit pele.