grome

Bi þ̵ ilke godd q {uo} ð hire feder þ̵ me is lað to gremien beo hit soð þ̵ tu seist to wraðer heale seide ha hit. ant nu ichulle o great  {50} grome al biteachen hire þe. to wurchen þi wil. ⁊ al þ̵ te wel likeð as mit tin ahne. ⁊ me cleopede hire forð biuoren hire feder.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

¶ Thus endeth this Ioyfull medytacyon made & compyled by Stephen hawes somtyme grome of [the] chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henry [the] seuenth

A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth) Stephen Hawes

The comforte of louers made and compyled by Steuen Hawes somtyme grome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henry [the] seuenth (whose soule god pardon).

The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes

Larchant, captaine of the Kings gard, causeth an other to be given unto him with all speed by Saint Prix, the chiefe grome of the Kings chamber.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

Affrican hire feader wundrede him swiðe. ⁊ bigon to swerien. bi þe ilke godes þ̵ me is lað to gremien. beo hit soð þ̵ tu seiist {;} to wraðer heale. ha sehð hit. ant ich wulle o great grome al biteachen hire þe. ⁊ tu do hire. al þ̵ tu  {65} wult.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

The Earl's chaplain, or secretary, in making arrangements for their coming, wrote to request that they should have one chamber in the College, with a "pallett for the gromes of their chamber"; the rest of "his lordships company, being two gentlemen, a grome of his stable and a footman, may be lodged in the towne near the College."

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

¶ To speke w {i} t {h} lorde, lady, squyer, or grome.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

¶ Also a Marshall muste take hede yf the kynge sende to your souerayne ony message; and yf he send a knyght, receyue hym as a baron; and yf he sende a squyre, receyue hym as a knyght/and yf he sende you a yoman, receyue hym as a squyer/and yf he sende you a grome, receyue hym as a yoman.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

¶ Also it is noo rebuke to a knyght to sette a grome of the kynge at his table.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Sternhold grome of the Kmges Ma - icfties Robes diddc in his lifetime draw into Englifh metre.

Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790