George Lumley, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume VIII…
“ Item, a groom or page ought to take a torch, while the bed is in making, to fetch a loaf of bread, a pot with ale, a pot with wine, for them that maketh the bed, and every man. “Item, the gentleman usher ought to forbid that no manner of man do set any dish upon the king’s bed, for fear of hurting the king’s rich counterpoint that lyeth thereupon. ”
