PRICE CHAMBER. Gentlemen of the privy chamber are
servants of the king, who are to wait and attend on him and the queen at court, in their diversions, &c.
In the absence of the lord chamberlain, or vice chamberlain, they execute the king's orders; at coronations two of them personate the Dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy, and six of them, appointed by the lord chamberlain, attend ambassadors from crowned heads to their audiences, and in public entries. The gentlemen of the privy chamber were instituted by Henry VII.