And be careful of this, tha... by Robert Grosseteste, an English Statesman

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“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.”

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Robert Grosseteste

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Name: Robert Grosseteste

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: 1175

Date of Death: 1253

Profession: Statesman

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

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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.

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Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

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And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

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Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

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