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A groom who specializes in palfreys or good quality riding horses..
Grant, for life or until other order, to William de Woubourn, one Leeds Castle, of the king's palfreymen, for long service and because he is now too feeble to work, of 2d. daily towards his sustenance and 10s. for his robe and 4s. 8d. for his shoe-leather, yearly, out of the issues of the county of Nottingham.
His war needs were heavy. In 1330 his stable staff included 29 carters, 37 sumptermen and 92 palfreymen.
From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.
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Palfreyman means A groom who specializes in palfreys or good quality riding horses..
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Grant, for life or until other order, to William de Woubourn, one Leeds Castle, of the king's palfreymen, for long service and because he is now too feeble to work, of 2d. daily towards his sustenance and 10s. for his robe and 4s. 8d. for his shoe-leather, yearly, out of the issues of the county of Nottingham.
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