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APPENDIX. VIII. 



much art and disguise as at present. They had 

 likewise their desert, or, as the term was, sut- 

 teltie; which was in form of dolphins or other 

 animals ; and sometimes recourse M'^as had to 

 the kalendar to embellish the table, and St. 

 Paul, St. Thomas, St. Dunstan, and a whole 

 multitude of angels, prophetes and patriarkes, * 

 were introduced as siittelties to honor the day. 



As no mention is made among the dishes that 

 composed two of the courses, of the geese, the 

 pygges, the veales, and other more substantial 

 food, those must have been allotted to the 

 franklins and head yeomen in the lower hall : and 

 those most singular provisions, the porposes and 

 scales, indelicate as they may seem at present, 

 in old times were admitted to the best tables : 

 the former, at lest, as we learn from doctor 

 Caius, t who mentions it not only as a common 

 food, but even describes its sauce. 



A transcript from that curious publication, 

 The Regulations of the Hoiishold of the fifth 

 iiJ^r/ o/" Northumberland, begun in 1512, 

 will be esteemed a very proper appendage to a 

 work of this nature. It will shew not only the 

 birds then in high vogue at the great tables of those 

 days, but also how capricious a thing is taste, 



* Leland's collectanea, vi. 23. 'f Caii opusc. 113. 



