APPENDIX. 727 



Befides the birds in the above lilt, there are 

 mentioned, in the particular of the courfes*, 

 RedJJoanks^ Styntes, Larks and Martynettes roft\ 

 if the lad were the fame with the martin fwallow, 

 our anceftors were as general devourers of fmall 

 birds as the Italians are at prefent, to whom none 

 come amifs. 



We muft obferve, that in the order of the 

 courfes it appears, that only the greateft delicacies 

 were ferved up, as we may iuppoie, to the table 

 where the nobility, gentlemen, and gentlewomen 

 of worjfjip were feated •, and thole ieemed to have 

 been dreffed with almoft as much art and difguife 

 as at prefent. They had likewife their defert, or, 

 as the term was, futteltie -, which was in form of 

 dolphins or other animals -, and fometimes recourfe 

 was had to the kalendar to embellifh the table, 

 and St. Paul, St. Thomas, St. Bunftan, and a 

 whole multitude of angels^ prcphetes and patri- 

 arkes -J-, were introduced as futtelties to honor the 

 day. 



As no mention is made amon^ the dimes that 

 compofed two of the courfes, of the geefe, the 

 pygges, the veales, and other more fubftantial 

 food, thofe muft have been allotted to the franklins 

 and head yeomen in the lower hall: and thole moft 

 Angular provifions, the porpofes and feales, inde- 





