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    survive of the expenses made to feed the Scottish royal household in the sixteenth century, and the remains of royal kitchens can be seen in the ruins of...
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  • The office of Master of the Household is one of the Great Offices of the Royal Household of Scotland. It was held by various Earls of Argyll from the...
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    Morton Food portal Scotland portal List of British desserts List of restaurants in Scotland Food and the Scottish royal household "Scotland's Traditional...
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    The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal...
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    the company and that the goods nominated are suitable for supply to the royal household. Within the company, there is a nominated person called the grantee...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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  • 2024 New Year Honours (category 2024 awards in the United Kingdom)
    Service Scotland David Gibson, Watch Commander, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Iain Morris, Acting Director, Asset Management, Scottish Fire and Rescue...
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    official host of the visitor. It is a royal event that involves all the assets in the Civil Service, the Royal Household and the Household Division. It also...
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  • Seneschal (category Court titles in the Ancien Régime)
    position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward...
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    The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society. Yet in contrast to the household of...
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    food security. Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members of a family, at all times, have access to enough food for...
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    as the gentlemen's department on the first floor. It also contains a tea shop and several restaurants. William Fortnum was a footman in the household of...
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    Alastair Bruce of Crionaich (category Members of the British Royal Household)
    journalist and television correspondent, and a senior British Army reservist and officer of arms in the Royal Household. He commanded the TA Media Operations...
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  • James Anstruther (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
    appointed to the royal household, and an overview of the finances of the household. Amongst the recorded expenses of the household, he paid the queen's Danish...
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  • Scottish Society in the High Middle Ages pertains to Scottish society roughly between 900 and 1286, a period roughly corresponding to the general historical...
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  • Mungo Graham of Rathernis (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
    the Masters of Household supervised the allocation of food to members of the royal household. The royal household accounts for this time do not survive...
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    Duncan Forestar (category Household of Margaret Tudor)
    and spending royal revenue. In 1508 he was "Great Purveyor to the Queen" or "Magnus Provisor", in charge of purchasing food and other items for the household...
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  • Patrick Hume of Polwarth (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
    the Scottish court, probably by his father as a member of the royal household, sometime before 1580. He became one of the household servants of the king...
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  • Purveyance (category Monarchy and money)
    right of the English Crown to purchase provisions and other necessaries for the royal household, at an appraised price, and to requisition horses and vehicles...
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    known as the Yeomen of the Crown); and (3) the esquires of the royal household. The actual number of archers varied over the course of the 14th-15th...
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  • Dobbies Garden Centres (category Horticultural companies of the United Kingdom)
    Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following...
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    The Royal Court of Scotland was the administrative, political and artistic centre of the Kingdom of Scotland. It emerged in the tenth century and continued...
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  • Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath (courtier) (category 16th-century Scottish people)
    of the hunting forest at Glen Finglas, Archibald Edmonstone was involved in hosting the royal hunting household at the Hunt Hall in the glen and providing...
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  • Andrew Melville of Garvock (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
    and venison. They were asked to have the food delivered to Andrew Melville at the old royal mint in Edinburgh. Melville received a pension from the lands...
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    former Scottish royal palace and important tourist attraction in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. It is currently, along with other buildings of the adjacent...
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  • set of food items served together during a meal, all at the same time. A course may include multiple dishes including side dishes or only one, and often...
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    Edinburgh, 2006 Scottish Inventors . . . who keep the world in touch, Global Friends of Scotland (a Scottish Executive website) Scottish Inventors and their Inventions...
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    Kingdom of Alba (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    The Kingdom of Alba (Latin: Scotia; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) was the Kingdom of Scotland between the deaths of Donald II in 900 and of Alexander III in...
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  • informally as the Royal Christmas message) is a broadcast made by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms to the Commonwealth...
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  • Gilbert Balfour (category Masters of the Scottish royal household)
    bringing the food into the Great Hall, which he joined as a Master of Household walking with the Laird of Findlater and Francisco de Busso. During the entertainment...
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