All things Quote by Robert Grosseteste

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

— 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,…

— Robert Grosseteste

Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

— Robert Grosseteste

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

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