496* APPENDIX. 



Befides the birds in the above lift, there are men- 

 tioned, in the particular of the courfes *, Redjhanks, 

 Styntes, Larkes and Marlynettes roji -, if the laft were 

 the fame with the martin fwallow, our anceftors were 

 as general devourers of fmall birds as the Italians are 

 at prefent, to whom none come amifs. 



We mull obferve, that in the order of the courfes 

 it apDears, that only the greateft delicacies were ferved 

 up, as we may fuppofe to the table where the nobility, 

 gentlemen, and gentlewomen of worjhip were feated •, 

 and thofe feemed to have been dreffed with almoft as 

 much art and difguile as at prefent. They had like- 

 wife their defer t, or, as the term was,y#//<?//2>; which 

 was in form of dolphins or other animals j and fome- 

 times recourfe was had to the kalendar to embellifh 

 the table, and St. Paul, St. Thomas, St. Dunftan, and a 

 whole multitude of angels, prophetes and patriarkes -f, 

 were introduced as futtelties to honor the day. 



As no mention is made among the dimes that com- 

 pofed two of the courfes, of the gee-fe, the pygges, 

 the veales, and other more fubftantial focd, thofe 

 muff have been allotted to the franklins and head, 

 yeomen in the lower hall : and thofe moft lingular pro- 

 vifions, the porpofes and feales, indelicate as they may 

 feem at prefent, in old times were admitted to the beft 

 tables : the former, at left, as we learn from doctor 

 Caiusf, who mentions it not only as a common food, 

 buc even defcribes its fauce. 



* Lelaaifis coUeSIcivea, vi. 2. 



f Ioem, 23. 



J Gaii opufc. 113. 



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