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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 268, August 11, 1827 by Various
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X. Item, If any man breake a glasse, hee shall aunswer the
price thereof out of his wages; and, if it bee not known who
breake it, the buttler shall pay for it on paine of 12d.

XI. Item, The table must bee couered halfe an houer before 11
at dinner, and 6 at supper, or before, on paine of 2d.

XII. Item, That meate bee readie at 11, or before, at dinner;
and 6, or before, at supper, on paine of 6d.

XIII. Item, That none be absent, without leaue or good cause,
the whole day, or any part of it, on paine of 4d.

XIV. Item, That no man strike his fellow, on paine of loss of
seruice; nor reuile or threaten, or prouoke another to strike,
on paine of 12d.

XV. Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable
cause, on paine of 1d. and the cook likewyse to forfeit 1d.

XVI. Item, That none toy with the maids, on paine of 4d.

XVII. That no man weare foule shirt on Sunday, nor broken hose
or shooes, or dublett without buttons, on paine of 1d.

XVIII. Item, That, when any strainger goeth hence, the chamber
be drest vp againe within 4 howrs after, on paine of 1d.

XIX. Item, That the hall bee made cleane euery day, by eight in
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