Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.Robert Grosseteste
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Robert Grosseteste
And take care that no servant or bailiff receive the money of the returns, but only the provost and another who shall have wherewithall to answer.
Robert Grosseteste
Command that all those who work at a craft be obedient and ready to those who are over them in the things which belong to their craft.
Robert Grosseteste
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
Robert Grosseteste
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