pagedom

Maintain the same spirit you have shown here; be obedient and reverent to your superiors; give your whole mind to your duties; strive earnestly during the three or four years that your pagedom will last, to perfect yourself in military exercises, that when the time comes for you to buckle on armour you will be able to bear yourself worthily.

A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes 1867

"Hadst spoken of being out of pagedom, 'twere another thing."

Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Leonard Copeland, and, contrary to all the laws of pagedom, he was too angry not to argue the point.

Grisly Grisell Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

A fine, active, handsome youth was he, with bright, keen eyes, close-curled black locks and hardy complexion, telling of his out-of-door life, and a free use of his limbs, and upright carriage, though still with more of the grace of the free mountain than of the training of pagedom and squiredom.

The Herd Boy and His Hermit Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"Ay; you have judged the poor youth somewhat hardly, as if the folly of pagedom never were outgrown," said the Earl.

Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Still more interesting was the imitation, "in very wonderful drawing, devised by mamma, of the career of a true knight --- from pagedom upwards --- in pale watery Prussian-blue armour, a crimson scarf, vermilion plume, gamboge spurs, and very peculiar arms and legs.

Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862