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I take this opportunity of forwarding to you a 

 curious memorandum which I found in rummaging 

 the papers of a "note-maker" of the last century. 

 It appears to be a bill of fare for the entertain- 

 ment of a party, upon the "flitch of bacon" being 

 decreed to a happy couple. It is at Harrowgate, 

 and not at Dunmow, which would lead us to be- 

 lieve that this custom was not confined to one 

 county. The feast itself is almost as remarkable, 

 as regards its component parts, as that produced 

 by Mr. Thackeray^ in his delightful " Lectures," 

 as characteristic of polite feeding in Queen Anne's 

 reign : 



"June 25 3Ir.. and . Mrs. LiddaVs Dinner at Green 



Dragon, Harrowgate, on taking Fflitch Bacon Oath. 

 BUI Fare, 

 Beans and bacon. 

 Cabbage, colliflower. 



Three doz. chickens. 



Two shoulders mutton, cowcurabers. 



Two turbets. 



Rump beef, &c. &c. 



Goose and plumbpudding. ' 



Quarter lamb, sallad. 



Tarts, jellies, strawberries, cream. 



Cherrys, syllabubs, and blomonge. 



Leg lamb, spinnage. 



Crawfish, pickled salmon. 



Fryd tripe, calves' heads. 



Gravy and pease soup. 



Two piggs. 



Breast veal, ragoud. 



ice cream, pine apple. 



Surloin beaf. 



Pidgeons, green peas. 



Lobsters, crabs. 



Twelve red herrings, twenty-two dobifs." 



StockwelL 



W. R. 



ON THE USB OF THE HOUR-GLASS IN PULPITS. 



(Vol. vH., p. 489.) 



Perhaps the following may be of service as a 

 farther illustration of this subject. 



Zacharie Boyd says, in The Last Battell of the 

 S&vle in Deaths 1629, reprinted Glasgow, 1831, at 

 p. 469. : 



" Now after his Battell ended hee hath surrendered 

 the spirit, Clepsydra effivxit, his hoitre-glasse is now 

 runne out, and his soule is come to its wished home, 

 where it is free from the fetters of flesh." 



Tliis divine was minister of the barony parish 

 of Glasgow, the church for which was then in the 

 crypt of the cathedral. I have no doubt the hour- 

 glass was there used from which he draws his 

 simile. Your correspondent refers to sermons an 

 hour long, but, to judge from the contents of " Mr. 

 Zacharie's " MS. sermons still preserved in the 

 library of the College of Glasgow, each, at the rate 

 of ordinary speaking, must have occupied at least 

 an hour and a half in delivery. When he had be- 

 come infirm and near his end, and had found it 

 necessary to shorten his sermons, his " kirk ses- 

 sion " was offended, as — 



« Feb. 13, 1651. Some are to speak to Mr. Z. Boyd 

 about the soon skailing (dismissing) of the Barouie 

 Kirk on Sunday afternoon." 



Though sermons are now generally restricted 

 from three quarters to an hour's delivery, the 

 practice of long preaching in the olden times in 

 the west of Scotland had much prevailed. Withio 

 my own recollection I have heard sermons of 

 nearly two hours' duration ; and early among a few 

 classes of the first Dissenters, on "Sacramental 

 Occasions " as they are yet called, the services 

 lasted altogether (not unfrequently) continuously 

 from ten o'clock on Sabbath forenoon, to three and 



