masculine

Vassal.

Purveyor of the Royal Household. (CW)

1. Bench, settle, or wooden seat with a high back and armrests. 
2. "Praça dos Escanos" is where Lourenço Martins da Praça lived and  raised Dom João, the future king, during his childhod. It was near the  Lisbon cathedral. There was also a "Rua dos Escanos", according to a letter by King Afonso V dated  1453. See Sousa Viterbo, Duarte Glavão e a sua Família: para um estudo Biográfico (Lisboa: Academia Real das Ciências, 1905), p.47.

1. Animate Prince.

1. Prologue.
2. Spelled 'prollogo' in CDP, Prologue. Lopes wrote the chronicles of all seven Portuguese kings who preceded King Pedro, but no reliable version of that part of his work has reached us. Here, he is probably mentioning the prologue he placed at its beginning. [TA]

1. Crossbowman.
2. Person, soldier or hunter whose weapon is a crossbow.
3. The crossbowmen of the king were responsible for the sovereign's guard but could also serve as summary executioners when the occasion arose. This was common practice especially in Castile. See: Antonio Ferrer del Rio, Examen histórico-crítico del reinado de don Pedro de Castilla (Madrid: C. Monier, 1851), p. 28.
4. Besteiro-mor: chief crossbowman. [Pedro, ch. 20: 53]

1. Riverboat.
2. Skiff; scull.
3. Small rowing boat, typically for a singe person.
4. Batéis de naus: cutters; small ship's boats used to transport light cargo or passengers. [CKJ1, ch.116]

1. Worthy (CDF, ch.39).
2. "os grandes e os bõos" - the eminent and the worthy  (CDF, ch.39).

1. Keeper of the King's Wardrobe. [Pedro, ch. 13: 10, ch.32; Fernando, ch. 150; João2, ch. 1]

1. Chief lieutenant. (PK) [Pedro, ch. 40: 11]
2. Chief standard-bearer. (JP) [Fernando, ch. 150]