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Curie wes, - 100. Coldecustardes baked, 



Egrittes, - - 1000. 3000. 



Stagges, buck and Hot pasties of venison, 



roes, 500 and mo. 1500. 



Pasties of venison Hot custardes, 2000. 



colde, 4000. Pykes and breames, 



Parted dishes of gel- 608. 



lies, 1000. Porposes and seals, 12. 



Playne dishes of gel- Spices, sugared deli- 

 lies, 3000. cates, and wafers 



Colde tartes baked, plentie. 



4000. -~:^': '-U 



Besides the birds in the above list, there are 

 mentioned, in the particular of the courses, * 

 Redshanks, Styntes, Larks and Martynettes 

 rost ; if the last were the same with the martin 

 swallow, our ancestors were as general devour- 

 ers of small birds as the Italians are at present, 

 to whom none come amiss. 



We must observe, that in the order of the 

 courses it appears, that only the greatest deli- 

 cacies were served up, as we may suppose, to 

 the table where the nobility, gentlemen, and 

 gentlewomen of zvorship were seated ; and those 

 seemed to have been dressed with almost as 



* Lelands collectanea, vi. 2. ., '.■....,', .i\ * 



