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Befictes the birds in the above lift; there are 

 mentioned, in the particular of the courfes*, 

 Red/hanks, Styntes, Larks and Martynettes rqft ; 

 if the iaft were the fame with the martin fwallow, 

 our anceflors were as general devourers of fmall 

 birds as the Italians are at prefent, to whom none 

 come amifs. 



We mud obferve, that in the order of the 

 courfes it appears, that only the greateft delicacies 

 were ferved up, as we may fuppofe, to the table 

 where the nobility, gentlemen, and gentlewomen 

 of worfhip were feated ; and thofe feemed to have 

 been dreffed with almoft as much art and difguife 

 as at prefent. They had likewife their defert, or, 

 as the term was, futteltie -, which was in form of 

 dolphins or other animals; and fometimes recourfe 

 was had to the kalendar to embellifh the table, 

 and St. Paul, St. Thomas, St. Dimftan, and a 

 whole multitude of angels, prophet es and patri- 

 ark.es f, were introduced as futtelties to honor the 

 day. 



As no mention is made among the dimes that 

 compofed two of the courfes, of the geefe, the 

 pygges, the veales, and other more fubftantial 

 food, thofe muft have been allotted to the franklins 

 and head yeomen in the lower hall: and thofe moll 

 lingular proviiions, the porpofes and feales, inde- 



* L eland 9 s cotteflanea, vi. 2. 

 i Idem, 23. 



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