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without any superfluity. He only has two Alter Masters,[1] & two Gentlemen-servants, one who serves at the table, another who gives him drinks, six cooks, two wine stewards, two bakers, a bakehouse, two fruitiers & a purveyor; a purse–bearer, three-chamber valets, & two of the wardrobe, two Doctors, & two Squires, one to train the large horses, the other to follow him to the hunt: He has ten pages & ten lackeys,[2] & & keeps no more than fifteen great horses, & as many runners, hunting horses & hackneyed horses, three coaches with six horses each. All these Officers are of their own, & not quartered, in order to avoid superfluity and great expense. Besides this, he also has a great falconer who is obliged to maintain six piqueurs,[3] twelve horses, & fifty species of birds of all types, for the sum of three thousand escus per year. That's more or less the equipage of this Prince, who gives himself as much pleasure as anyone else in the world with little expense, having an infinity of Lords, who when coming to approach him, as he goes to the fields, greatly add to the number of birds & dogs, making him a present of the best, so that he C |
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1. Not sure of the meaning, or office of the "Maistres d'Autel", or "Altar Master".
2. laquais=lackey: See Etymology of the work lackey or lacquey. 3. According to Cosgrove a picqueur or piqueur is "A pricker; also a Rider; and (in hunting) one that on horseback pursues the dog in their full speed." |