Note 241 — Chapter VIII · The Governors of the City

‘Andrew the Mayor came to serve as butler with 360 cups, on the ground that the City of London is bound to serve in butlery to help the great butler (just as the City of Winchester serves in the kitchen to help the steward). The King said that no one ought to serve by right except Master Michael Belet, so the Mayor gave way and served the two bishops on the King’s right hand. ‘De Servitiis magnatum in die Coronationis Regis et Reginæ, Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. by Hubert Hall, pt. ii., 1896, pp. 755-760 (Rolls Series). The germ of the Court of Claims will be found in this MS. See also Wickham Legg’s English Coronation Records, 1901, pp. 60, 63.