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Robert Grosseteste

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

– Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

– Robert Grosseteste

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