staff over the coffin, 'and thereby discharge all the Officers under his Jurisdiction'.

The Board of Green Cloth

"...they sit with him at the Board of Doom within the Household, that is, at the Green Cloth in the Counting-house, as recorders and witnesses to the truth" (The Black Book of the Household, 1471-72).

In the 14th century, the King's Wardrobe, previously an independent and powerful financial office,

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