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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
First, the hall was prepared with a long table on each side, and forms set by them; on the edges of which tables, and under those forms, were layed carpets, and cushions for her majesty to kneel, when she would wash them (the poor). There was also another table laid across the upper end of the hall, somewhat above the foot pace, for the chappelan to stand at. A little beneath the midst whereof, and beneath the foot pace, a stool and cushion of estate was pitched, for her majesty to kneel at during service time. This done, the holy water, basons, alms, and other things, being brought into the hall; and the chappelan and poor folks having taken their said places, the yeoman of the laundry, armed with a fair towel, and taking a silver bason filled with warm water and sweet flowers, washed their feet, all, one after another wiped the same with his towel, and so, making a cross a little above the toes, kissed them.
Skinner, in his Etymologicon, observes, that Minshew derives the word: from the Lat. mandatum sc. the command of Christ to his disciples: But Sir H. Spelman, perhaps more justly, from the Fr. G. Mande, sportula, an alms or dole.
page 8 note [c] I know not what to make of the word cheat; unless it be for chet, and that for manchet, a small white loaf. T. M.