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Chap-;VIII. O P M;A;N C H;E S T E R. .255 ftated meJTes of meat, when they gave any entertainments in their private apartments ; the prefident of the palace being ioa«  powered to command three difhes of meat and three horns of th? bed liquor, and the mailer of the mews three horns and one dilh 4 *. But the latter was cautioufly required to bring his cup in perfbn to the hall at every repletion of it, left he fhould drink too much and negleft his birds **. The prefident of the palace might require the bardh to fing to him whenever he > pjeafed 44 . And if the -staffer of the mews m the king's pre*- ience killed oaf of the three bird4 that were denominated noble* , the king was bound to affift him in difmotmthig and Amounting* . 4nd to hold his horfe >tf Kilo he took the birds *'. But if he killed • •the bird in the abfenca of the king, . he was required to haften to court,, and to present * the game 1 to his majefty ; : and, . by the etiquette, of thefcowt* thfe king- rofe up in compliment to hin**, or elie gave- him the *n&antle whfch he-. Was wearing **; . 4 The. cnftomary enfigh; o£ royalty for the.fovereigns of* tiht Britons rnuft hare been the imperial fillet or diadem .which was ooiqmoR to them and to all the eaftem monarch*. Tied round fihe royal head,- it was fometimesfecunad upon the forehead toah^- a:ofc fSlet and a ciafp, and wtt*~i£in*time* owtamen ted .with ^tbe . ti*u&le4>earls attdtbe.iparry .diamoudeof the coontry * V it wasfre* <piently worne by the monarch immediately over bja hair, which . rofe ii» one; two or three, raws of curls* above it# and w*s fome» Jicxm^wra* ujtaa,a,iiiialk dafe cap that juft covered th^: he^i apd. was edged by tsii fA*ti< > Buk after, the owning, of -the ttbmat*, . when^he foveraignuet of the* iflaad fobtoittcil ^e the jBiuthority of th^eraphae* and whtathe.moaareh^and hit^9fcJ9$» - «doj*ed theonaonecs o£ yW. Ramans, the corona, kocwyw c«wn aftuft h^.bee».i»CfndM^ b«A» w»p*e ty tfce. &yejeigae *£ouT fttfof*. And; wa Jwwr.f v«*y Spri^u* z$4 ai^Cft ^l>j>^tk)a pf.it upor> the torqb^fiqne K)f f Brijtifli qwnafch t;feg£ rtjg&ed ki the fifik century. . The ;%qp jva* #$ove*ed i^ • t£e fe^d, , tyiog Ajtf ^ the edg? jf $ j^^ffPtiirt^^ *fc &* J^W™? pf Pab<?, lb the plane of if exhibits the figure of the king, drefied ; in