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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• Robert Grosseteste:

  And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

• Robert Grosseteste:

  And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lad

• Robert Grosseteste:

  And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when

• Robert Grosseteste:

  Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall,

• Robert Grosseteste:

  And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

• Robert Grosseteste:

  And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your p

• Robert Grosseteste:

  Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres

• Robert Grosseteste:

  If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil o

• Robert Grosseteste:

  The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calve

• Robert Grosseteste:

  The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wo