ANTIENT EXTRACTS. 
Curlewes, - 100. 
Egrittes, -- - 1000. 
Stagges, buck and 
roes, 500 and mo. 
Pasties of venison 
colde, 4000. 
Parted dishes of gel- 
Colde custardes baked, 
3000. 
Hot pasties of venison, 
1500. 
Hot custardes, 2000. 
Pykes and breames, 
608. 
lies, 1000. Porposes and seals, 12. 
Playne dishes of gel- Spices, sugared deli- 
lies, 3000. cates, and wafers 
' Colde tartes baked, plentie. 
4000. 
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 Jtalians 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 worship were seated ; and those 
seemed to have been dressed with almost as 
* Leland’s collectanea, vi. 2. 
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