FIrst ye thust be diligent to know your Master's pleasure and to know the order, & custom of his house. For divers masters are of sundry conditions & appetites. And if thou be admitted in any office as Buttery, or Pantry, in some places they are all one. Then take an inventory of all such things as ye take charge of, how it is spent. For it pleaseth a master to have a true reckoning, them in your office of the pantry se that your bread be chipped & squared, & note how much ye spend in one day. Also see your napry clean, & sort every thing by itself, the clean from the foul & keep your house of office clean, & all that belongeth to it. When your master will go to his meat, take a towel about your neck, them take a cupboard cloth, a basin & an ewer, & a towel to array your cupboard, then cover your table, & set on salt, breed & trenchers, the salt before the bread, & trenchers before the salt, & set your napkins & spoons on the cupboard ready, & lay every man a trenchour and napkin and a spoon: & if ye have more messes than one at your master's table consider what degree the persons are of, & thereafter you may serve them, & then set down every thing at that mess as before, except your carving knives. If there be many gentlemen or yeomen, them set on bread, salt, trenchours, spoons, after they be set, or else after the custom of the house. Also some do use to set before every man a loaf of bread & his cup, & some use the contrary, thus must you have respect to the custom of your house, & in some places it is use to set drink & a loaf or two. In some places the carver doth use to sew and set down and goeth before the course, and beareth no dish, and in some place, he beareth the first dish, and maketh obeisance to his Master, and setteth it down covered before the degree of a Knight, or else not used, & take of the covers & set them by. Also the carver hath authority to carve to all at his masters mes in special, also unto other that sit joining by them if he list, also ye have voiders in a readiness to avoid the morsels that they do lean on their trenchers. Then with your trencher knife take of such fragments and put them in your voider, and set them clean again. And whether your sovereign have trenchers or bread void the once or twice, specially when they are wet, or give him clean, and as ye see men leave eating of the first and second dish: so avoid them from the table. And then if that so be ye have any more courses than one or two: ye may make the more haste in voiding, and ever let one dish or two stand till the next course, and then take up all and set down fresh and clean voiders withal, and let them not be to full or ye empty them, and then set clean again and look what sauce is ordained for any meat void away the sauce thereof when ye take away the meat. And at the degree of a knight ye may set down your cup, covered, and lift of the cover and set it on again, and when he listeth to drink and taketh of the cover: take the cover in thy hand and set it on again, and when he hath drunken look the cup of wine or ale be not empty, but often renewed. Also the carver shall break his dish before his master or at side Cupboard with clean knives, and see there be no lack of bread nor ale, and when men have well eaten, and do begin to ware weary of eating, or if ye perceive by the countenance of your master when ye shall take up the meat and void the table: begin at the lowest mess, take away your spoons if there be any, howbeit ye may avoid them, after broths and bake meats are past. Then take away your voiders and then your dishes of meat as they were set down so take them up in order and then set down cheese or fruits, and that ended avoid your cheese & fruits and cover your cup, Ale or Wine, first avoid the Ale, & then the Wine, then set on a broad voider and put therein the small pieces of bread and small crumbs, with trenchers and napkins, and with your trencher knife or napkin make clean the table, than set away your bread whole and also your voider, and then take up the salt and make obeisance, mark if your master use to wash at the table, or standing, if he be at the table cast a clean towel upon your table cloth & set down your basin and ewer before your sovereign, and take the ewer in your hand and give them water, then avoid your basin and ewer and fold the board cloth together with your towel therein, and so take them of the board. And when your sovereign shall wash: set your towel on the left hand of him, and the water before you at supper or dinner, if it be to bedward set up your basin & your towel on the cupboard again. And if your master will have any conceits after dinner, as Apples, Nuts or cream, then lay forth a towel on the board, and set thereon a loaf or two, se that ye have trenchers and spoons in a readiness if need require, and then serve forth your master well, and so take it up again with a voider.  

¶ The ordering of your masters chamber at night to bedward.  
Array your cupboard with a cupboard cloth with your basin and ewer, candle light and towel, if ye have help set one to bear a Torch, or some other light before & another fellow to bear a Towel for your table with bread as thou seest need. And if you have banquet dishes whatsoever it be, as fruits put in sundry dishes and all other confections & conceits of spicery, also when the dishes are emty avoid them from the table, if your sovereign be a Knight or squire: set down your dishes covered and your cup also. And if your sovereign be not set at the table let your dishes stand covered till he be set, and when he is set: then take away the voiders. And when your master intendeth to bedward see that ye have fire & candle sufficient, & see ye have clean water in at night and in the morning, and if your master lie in fresh sheets dry of the dankishenes by the fire. And if he lie in a strange place, se his sheets be clean & sweet, and then fold down his bed, and warm his night kerchef, and see his house of office be clean, and help of his clothing and draw the curtains, & make sure the fire & camble, & avoid the dogs & shut all the doors. And in the evening or in the mornig your master being alone if ye have any thing to say to him, then is good leisure & time to know his pleasure. In the morning if it be cold make a fire & have in clean water, & bring him his Petticoat warm with his Doublet and all his Apparel clean brushed, & his shoes made clean, & help to array him, trus his points, strike up his hosen clean, and see all thing clean & cleanly about him, give him good attendance, & in especial among strangers, for attendance doth please masters very well. Thus doing with diligence God will prefer you to honour and good fortune,   

¶ Here followeth the book of Nurtur and of good manners, for Man and Child.  

ALL ye that would learn, and then would be called wise  
Obedience learn in youth, in age it will avoid vice  
I am blind in Poet's art, thereof I can no skill,  
All eloquence I put a part, and follow mine own will,  
Corrupt in speech my breves and longs to know:  
Born and bred in Devonshire, my terms will well show  
Take the best and leave the worst, of truth I mean none ill  
If the matter be not curious, th'intent is good mark it well  
Pardon I ask if I offend, thus boldly for to writ  
To master or servant (young & old) I do myself submit  
I would reform both youth and age, if any thing be amiss  
To you will I show my mind, reform ye where need is  
All that have young people, good manners set them to learn  
To their elders with gentle conditions, let do nor say no harm  
If they do ill, wise men may report their Parents soon  
How should they teach other good, belike themselves can none  
I good Father maketh good Children, if wisdom be then win