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equal quantity was for the master’s table alone.”—Forby. ‘And 
there at the manor of Marlingford, and at the mill loaded both 
carts with AZes/lyon and Wheat.”—Paston Letters, iii. p.294. ‘‘ For 
they were neither hogs nor devils, nor devilish hogs, nor hoggish 
devils, but a mesding of the two.”—Fairfax. The mixed grain, meslin, 
was used in France in the concoction of beer, as appears by the. 
regulations for the brewers of Paris, 1254, who were to use “‘ grams, 
cest a savoir, d@’orge, de mestuel, e¢ de dragée.”,—Reglements t. Louis 
IX. ed. Depping, p. 29. Ata dinner given in 1561 to the Duke of 
Norfolk by the Mayor of Norwich, there were provided: ‘‘xvj loves 
white bread ivd., xviij loves wheaten bread, ixd., iij loves muslin 
bread iijd.”—Leland, Itin. vi. xvii. Plot (Hist. of Oxford, p. 242) 
says that the Oxfordshire land termed sour is good for wheat and 
‘“‘miscellan,’ namely wheat and rye mixed. 
37. 22. It is to be regretted, both on the score of policy and 
health, that in reforming false principles, we renounced salutary 
practices. Days of abstinence from flesh-meat, if not prescribed 
by authority, should be voluntarily imposed on ourselves. If the 
fisherman purchases bread of the farmer, the farmer in his turn 
ought to encourage the fisherman, who in peace and war has the 
highest claims to support.—M. 
39. 1. “Auens.” ‘ Avence herbe, Avancia, Sanamunda.’’— 
Prompt. Parv. By some called harefoot. It was used in cookery ; 
see Pegge’s Forme of Cury, ed. 1780, p. 13. 
39. 2. “ Betanie.” Lat. de/onica, said by Pliny to have been first 
called Veftonica, from the Vettones, a people of Spain. 
39. 3. “ Bleets.” The name of some pot-herb which Evelyn in 
Acetaria takes to be the ‘‘Good Henry,” and remarks of it that, 
‘’tis insipid enough.” Greek 8AvTov=insipid. In Lyte’s Dodoens, 
p- 547, are given three kinds of Blitte or Bleet, and the French 
name is said to be Pourrée rouge. ‘‘ Sue@da maritima, or sea-blite, 
belongs to the goose-foot tribe; the good-king-Henry, or Cheno- 
podium bonus-Henricus, is of the same tribe. See Flowers of the 
Field, by C. A. Johns.”—Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat. 
39. 4. “ Bloodwoort,” called also Bloody-dock, from its red veins 
and stems. Rumex sanguineus, L. Called also Walwort and Dane- 
wort in Lyte’s Dodoens, 1578, p. 380, who says that the ‘‘ fumes of 
Walwort burned, driueth away Serpentes and other venemous 
beastes.”’ 
39. 5. “The rootes of Borage and Auglosse soden tender and 
made in a Succade, doth ingender good blode, and doth set a man 
in a temporaunce.”—A. Boorde’s Dyetary, E.E.T. Soc. ed. Furni- 
vall, p. 278. 
39. 6, ‘‘ Burnet, a term formerly applied to a brown cloth, Fr. 
brunette, It. brunetta, and given to the plant so called from its brown 
flowers.” — Dr. Prior, Popular Names of British Plants, 1870. 
Called also Pimpinell_—Lyte’s Dodoens, 1578, p. 138. 
