260 ILLUSTRATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MANNERS, CHIVALRY, worshipfulle ordir up on yow, the whiche I, as a knyglit, de- clare nil to yow certeyne poyntis that loiigith an to this hye and worshipfuhe ordir of knyglithode. ye schalle love god above alle tliinge, and be stedfaste in the feythe, and sustene the chirche, and ye schalle be trewe un to yowre sovercyne lorde, and trewe of yowre vvorde and proinys and sekirtee, in that ought to be kepte : also ye schalle sustene wydowes in ther right, at e cry tyme they wol rcquere yow, and maydenys in ther virginite, and helpe hem and socoure hem with yowre good, that for lak of good they be not niysgovernyd. Also ye schalle sitte in noo plase where that eny jugement schulde be genyii wrongefnlly ayens eny body, to yowT knowleche. Also ye schalle not siiffir noo murdreris nor extorcioners of the kyngis pepille with in the Contre there ye dwelle, but with yowre power ye schalle lete doo take them, and put them in to the handis of Justice, and that they be punysshid as the kyngis lawe wolle : and then ye schalle ])utte yowre hande in to the bayne, and take up watir, and make a crosse up on his lyfte schuldir before and behynde, and kisse it and say, in nomine patris, &c. God sende yow as moche Avorshipe as evyr had eny of yowre kynne : and thus muste doo alle the lordis and knyghtis un to every squyer as he sittith in the bayne. ^ Then they schalle goo oute of ther baynes in to ther beddis, and then they schalle arise and make them redy in hermytis aray of Colchestir russet, and the sergaunt of the kyngis chaundre schalle have alle the beddis, the whiche bene thus arayed, a matras, a payre of blanketis, a payre of shetis,- a covyrlite and a coverlid of worstide, and a clooth of golde up on that", and a reed tapite of worstide at his beddis heed hyngynge over the heed'". % Than they schalle goo alle to gedir in to the Chapelle, and bee in ther preyeris tille in the mornynge un to .viij. of the clokke : than they schalle have a masse of the holy goste, and then they schalle offir a tapir, and a peny stikynge in the tapir as nye the lyght as it may i-esonably. When masse is done, then they schalle goo un to ther chambris and chaunge hem, and the kyngis wayte schalle liave alle ther wacchynge garmentis. ^ Than they schalle chaunge them in to a notli(i)r araymcnt. Firste, they schalle putte up on them dubletis with blak liosis chasemles, a reed
- The form <i;ivcn by Anstis describes it ' This description differs much from the
as a " coverture of cloth of gold, culled published I'ornmlary. Sighjion."
