Note 159 — II THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
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H. O. 34, 'because ray clothinge is not according for the king's knightes, therefore it was left'. But an order of June 1478 (T. R. Misc. 206, f. 11) required Lords, Knights, Squires of the Body, and others within the household to wear 'a colour of the kings livery about their nekkes'.