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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful,… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there. — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
