A HARD-WORKING DIET. 391 



Then follow directions in similar style, for gentle- 

 man ushers and marshalls of hall. 



For gentlemen of household, viz. korvers, cup- 

 bearers, &c. 



For ii meas (mess ?) of gentlemen o' th' chapel and 

 a meas of children. 



For my Lord's clerks viz. clerks of the kitchen, &c. 



For goemen officers of household, &c. 



Here follows flesh days. Then comes breakfast 

 of fish to be allowed within my Lord's house on 

 Saturdays throughout the year " OUTE OF LENT." 



My Lord and my Lady, a loaf of bread in 

 trenchers, two manchets, a quart of beer, a quart of 

 wine, a dish of butter, a piece of salt fish or a dish of 

 buttered eggs. 



And so on all the household salt fish or buttered 

 eggs. 



[Another extract, date 1610, is given at the end of 

 the book.] 



4. DATE 1259 to 1400. 



ROGERS' ' HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 PRICES IN ENGLAND.' Vol. I. 



THE following is a curious old memorandum of the 

 1 4th century : 



" Be it rememberyd that y Elys holcote wardeyne Prices A.D. 

 of Merton College in Oxforde owe to Will Thommys 

 Cytesyn and Stokke fysch monger of londone for 

 dyverse ffysche bowght of the same Will xiii li. vis. 

 iiird. (payabyle) to be payd at Wytsontyde next 

 comynge aftyr the date of the bylle. In wytneise 

 whereof y have sett my seal to the present bylle 

 yevyn at londone on the feest of Seynt valentyn 



