Note 832 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

See orders to sheriff—who of course was Peter’s deputy—for cleaning and repairing the royal lodgings, hall, painted chamber, kitchen, &c., Close Rolls, vol. i. p. 483. Roger of Wendover, vol. iv. p. 75, says “Rex ... fuit ad Natale apud Wintoniam, episcopo civitatis Petro omnia sibi necessaria ministrante.” So he did, no doubt, but as sheriff acting under orders and at the King’s expense, not as host.