This splendid household was still continued.

Twenty-four noblemen and eighteen pages of gentle birth officiated regularly in his family.

His establishment was on so extensive a scale that upon one day twenty-eight master cooks were dismissed, for the purpose of diminishing the family expenses, and there was hardly a princely house in Germany which did not send cooks to learn their business in so magnificent a kitchen.

The reputation of his table remained undiminished for years.

We find at a later period, that Philip, in the course of one of the nominal reconciliations which took place several times between the monarch and William of Orange, wrote that, his head cook being dead, he begged the Prince to "make him a present of his chief cook, Master Herman, who was understood to be very skilful." In this hospitable mansion, the feasting continued night and day.