Part 62 (1/2)
-- The estate of a kynges sone, a prynce.
-- The estate of an archebysshop.
-- The estate of a duke
-- The estate of a bysshop
-- The estate of a marques
-- The estate of an erle
-- The estate of a vycount
-- The estate of a baron.
-- The estate of an abbot with a myter
-- The estate of the thre chefe Iuges & the Mayre of London.
-- The estate of an abbot without a myter
-- The estate of a knyght bacheler
-- The estate of a pryour, dene, archedeken, or knyght
[Fol. B 6.]
-- The estate of the mayster of the rolles.
-- The estate of other Iustices & barons of the cheker
-- The estate of the mayre of Calays.
-- The estate of a prouyncyall, a doctour dyvyne,
-- The estate of a prothonat: he is aboue the popes collectour, and a doctour of bothe the lawes.
-- The estate of him that hath ben mayre of London and seruaunt of the lawe.
-- [a] The estate of a mayster of the chauncery, and other worshypfull prechours of pardon, and clerkes that ben gradewable / & all other ordres of chastyte, persones & preestes, worshypfull marchauntes & gentylmen, all this may syt at the squyers table.
-- [b] An archebysshop and a duke may not kepe the hall, but eche estate by them selfe in chaumbre or in pauylyon, that neyther se other.
-- [c] Bysshoppes, Marques, Erles, & Vycou{n}tes, all these may syt two at a messe.
-- [d] A baron, & the mayre of London, & thre chefe Iuges, and the speker of the parlyament, & an abbot with a myter, all these may svt two or thre at a messe
-- [e] And all other estates may syt thre or foure at a messe
-- [f] Also the Marshall muste vnderstande and knowe the blode royall, for some lorde is of blode royall & of small lyuelode. And some knyght is wedded to a lady of royal blode; she shal kepe the estate that she was before. And a lady of lower degree shal kepe the estate of her lordes blode / & therfore the royall blode shall haue the reuere{n}ce, as I haue shewed you here before.
-- Also a marshall muste take hede of the byrthe, and nexte of the lyne, of the blode royall.