Groom of the Stool

groom of the stool English 2019 December 15 Etymology From en groom officer of the English royal household + en of + en the + en close-stool (close-)stool a chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box.Grooms of the Stool John Middleton World Monarchies and Dynasties Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. Routledge 2015 2 349 https://books.google.com/books?id=R63ACQAAQBAJ&pg=PA349 978-0-7656-8050-1. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɹuːm əv ðə ˈstuːl/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Groom of the Stool.wav Southern England en /ˈɡɹum əv ðə ˈstul/ GA Proper noun Groom of the Stool Grooms of the Stool en Britain monarchy historical Originally an official responsible for helping the English monarch use the toilet; later a senior official who was allowed access to the monarch's privy chamber and served as a personal secretary. en Groom of the Stole en groom#Noun en royal household#Noun en Lord Chamberlain en Charl[e]s George Cock English-Law; or, a Summary Survey of the Household of God on Earth;and that both before and under the Law; and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus. Historically Opening the Purity and Apostacy of Believers in the Successions of Ages, to this Present. Together with an Essay of Christian Government under the Regiment of Our Lord and King, the One Immortal, Invisible, Infinite, Eternal, Universal Prince, the Prince of Peace, Emmanuel. London Printed by Robert White for T. G. and Francis Tyton,and are to be sold at the Three Daggers neer the Inner-Temple-Gate. 1651 52 https://books.google.com/books?id=AXZmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA52 16264937 The leſſer Corporations were [...] his Majeſties gratuities to the Lord of, &c. Marqueſs, &c. Q[ueen] Mother, Lady Nurſe, Groom of the ſtool, that is, the Cloſe ſtool, whether King or Queen (high and advantageous honours) and this diſcended to outlandiſh, as in Land commodities; yea, to pins and brooms; and it was ſaid, to Rags for paper, and Marrow-bones for Kitchin-ſtuff, or greaſe; [...] en Paul Festeau Dialogues Nouvelle Grammaire Angloise, Enrichie de Dialogues Curieux Touchant l’Estat & la Cour d’Angleterre.Augmentée d’un Recueil de Proverbes Anglois, Expliquez en François. Ensemble une Nomenclature Angloise & Franzoise. New English Grammar, Enriched with Curious Dialogues Touching the State & the Court of England.Augmented with a Collection of English Proverbs, Explained in French. Together with an English & French Nomenclature. 2nd corrected and augmented London Chez George Wells,au Cymitiere de Sainct Paul, au Soleil. 1675 193–194 https://books.google.com/books?id=yKkKABNTtuIC&pg=PA194 828592284 The King hath thirteen Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber, who conſiſt uſually of the Prime Nobility of England, whereof the firſt is call'd Groom of the Stool [...] The meaning is a Groom or Servant of the Robe or Veſtment. He hath the Office and Honour to put on his Majeſties Shirt every morning, and to order the things of the Bed-Chamber[.] en w:Simon Degge VII The Parson’s Counsellor, with the Law of Tythes or Tything: In Two Books.The First Sheweth the Order Every Parson, Vicar &c. ought to Observe in Obtaining a Spiritual Preferment, and what Duties are Incumbent upon Him after the Taking the Same, and Many Other Things Necessary for Every Clergy-man to Know and Observe. The Second Shews, in what Manner All Sorts of Tythes Offerings, Mortuaries, and Other Church-duties are to be Paid, as well in London as Elsewhere, and as well by the Canon and Common and Statute-laws, and in what Courts and Manner They may be Recovered, what Charges They are Subject to, and Many Other Things Concerning the same; Necessary for Clergy-men and All Others to Know. 5th corrected and enlarged London Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Esquires, for Richard Sareat Grays-Inn Gate, and Jos[eph] Hindmarshagainst the Exchange in Cornhill. 1695 80–81 https://books.google.com/books?id=zNhIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA81 316367674 [T]he Statute enjoyns the Clergy-man to be reſident in and upon his Living, that is, his Parſonage or Vicarage-Houſe, if he have any, and not at any other Houſe in the Pariſh; [...] But the Chaplains of the Chancellor of the Dutchy, Augmentations, Firſt-fruits, Maſter of the Wards, Surveyor General, Treaſurer of the Chamber and Augmentations, and Groom of the Stool, are to be Reſident twice in a year at leaſt, Eight days at each time: [...] en MONTMORENCY (Anne de) https://books.google.com/books?id=Tk7vefRRdCgC&pg=PP132 Historical, Genealogical, and Classical Dictionary. 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In Two Volumes London Printed for A[ndrew] Millar,opposite to Katharine-street in the Strand. 1743 II 2 221199042 MONTMORENCY (Anne de) firſt baron, peer, mareſchal, high-ſteward, conſtable of France; knight of St. Michael, and of the garter, groom of the ſtool, and governor of Languedoc, &c. was ſecond ſon to William lord of Montmorency. en A Particular and Historical Account of the Ceremonies usually Observed at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain The World of Fashion, and Continental Feuilletons.A Monthly Magazine. Dedicated Expressly to High Life, Fashionables and Fashions, Polite Literature, Fine Arts, the Opera, Theatres, &c. &c. London Printed by Mr. Bell,3, Cleveland-Row, St. James’s. 1 September 1831 VIII 89 211 https://books.google.com/books?id=i89eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA211 1 847983942 The Queen then rises and goes to the faldstool, at which she is to be anointed and crowned, placed between King Edward's chair and the steps of the altar, where the Groom of the Stool to her Majesty (with the two Ladies of her Bedchamber) take off her rich circlet or coronet; when the Queen kneels down, and the Archbishop pours the holy oil on the crown of her head, in the form of a cross, using these words, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost, let the anointing of this oil increase thine honour," &c. en w:Eric Ives Henry VIII: The Political Perspective w:Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety Problems in Focus Basingstoke, Hampshire; London Macmillan Press 1995 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=bEtdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 10.1007/978-1-349-24214-6 978-0-333-57857-5 It is the king's pleasure that Mr Norris shall be in the room of Sir William Compton, not only giving his attendance as groom of the stool but also in his bedchamber and other privy places as shall stand with his pleasure. And the king's express command is that none other of the said six gentlemen [of the privy chamber] presume to enter or follow his Grace into the said bedchamber, or any other secret place, unless he shall be called and admitted thereunto by his said grace. en w:Seth Lerer Pretexts: Chaucer’s Pandarus and the Origins of Courtly Discourse Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit Cambridge w:Cambridge University Press 1997 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=c3790D5cDIEC&pg=PA22 978-0-521-59001-3 As David Starkey has delineated in great detail, one of Henry [VIII]'s major administrative achievements was the centralization of court administration in a collection of younger gentry in bodily service to the King. Grooms of the Chamber, Grooms of the Stool, Esquires of the Body – these were the titles granted men who ministered to Henry's private functions, and as Starkey argues, it is this new sense of intimacy that recalibrates the English body politic into a politics of the King's body. en w:Alison Weir Henry VIII: The King and His Court 1st American New York, N.Y. w:Ballantine Books 2001 978-0-345-43659-7 New York, N.Y. Ballantine Books 2008 81 https://books.google.com/books?id=JW-seRfZ9toC&pg=PA81 978-0-345-43708-2 The title of Groom of the Stool derived from that gentleman's privilege of attending his sovereign whenever he used the close stool; his duties were to provide him with a flannel "to wipe his nether end" and to summon a Yeoman of the Chamber to empty and clean the pot. Sir Thomas Heneage, Groom of the Stool from 1536 to 1546, was witness to the King's chronic constipation and his efforts to relieve it, [...] en Bruce Boehrer The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare’s Theatre Richard Dutton; Jean E. Howard A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works Malden, Mass.; Oxford, Oxfordshire Blackwell Publishing 2003 IV (The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays) 78 https://books.google.com/books?id=fzN6oeHQOQ0C&pg=PA78 978-0-631-22635-2 As cloacal factotum, the Groom of the Stool presides over the offices of royal excretion; he maintains the royal close-stool and examines its products for signs of health or distemperature; he serves, in this sense, both as a royal confidant and an intermediary between the royal self in its private and public capacities. The Groom's office, in short, involves an "exquisite combination of intimacy, degradation, and privilege" (Paster 1993: 32); [...] en w:Leonard Sweet Setting the Table at Home From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed Colorado Springs, Colo. NavPress in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers 2014 part II (Life’s Three Tables) 81 https://books.google.com/books?id=ekUBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 978-1-61291-581-4 The exaltation of a monarch was such that few were fit to dine with one. Meanwhile, as many as eight "grooms of the stool" waited on kings when at privy. A king sat alone at the table and in company at the "throne." Alternative forms en groom of the stool Translations official responsible for helping the English monarch use the toilet Esperanto: eo Kortegano de la Tabureto French: fr porte-coton m Hebrew: he נער בית הכיסא Russian: ru камерге́р сту́ла m References Further reading “groom of the stole, n.” in stole n.2 yes 190713 1917