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HENRY'S ADDITIONS 141
privy chamber, he had twelve daily waiters; and of
Gentlemen waiters in his privy chamber he had six;
and of Lords nine or ten, who had each of them two
men allowed them to attend upon them, except the
Earl of Derby, who had allowed five men. Then had
he of Gentlemen,of cup-bearers, of carvers, of sewers,
both of the privy chamber and of the great chamber
with Gentlemen daily waiters, there forty persons; of
yeomen ushers he had six; of grooms in the chamber
he had eight; of yeomen of his chamber he had fortysix
daily; he had also of almsmen some more in
number than other sometime, there attending upon
his board at dinner. Of doctors and chaplains, beside
them of his chapel whichIrehearsed before, he had in
number daily attending sixteen: a clerk of his closet.
Then had he secretaries two, two clerks of his signet;
and four counsellors learned in the law."
Such was the magnificence of the Cardinal's ecclesiastical
retinue.
II
The accounts of the years 1535 and 1536 contain
details as to the cost of the carved oak stalls, of the
chapel door, the windows, paving, the carved roof,
and the men working their " owre tymes and drynkyng
tymes " to finish the font for the baptism of Edward,
Prince of Wales.
Then Henry added to what Wolsey began. It is
difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish his work in