1809.] L£vtracts from the Port-folto of a Man of Letters. 
magnificent dishes, says Dr. Pegge, (even 
the Roast Beef of Old England, ) must 
have been the product of later reigns; 
perhaps of Queen Elizabeth’s time. >» 
In several subsequent pages, Dr. 
Pegge travels through the most material 
and most used ingredients of the different 
recipes ; incidentally illustrating the in- 
troduction of many articles of luxury. 
The abbreviations used in the manu- 
script, are expressed in the text of the 
printed copy, by the types which were 
projected for Domesday Book. 
Throughout tie work a great variety of 
passages are explained by Dr. Pegge, in 
the margin, after the manner exhibited in 
the latter of the two following recipes. 
And at the end ofall is a copious glos- 
sary. 
The two recipes here given, are per- 
haps sufficient to explain the general style 
of cookery intended through the Rol!, 
499 
Connyng, in Graucy. 
‘* Take connyngs, smyte hem to pacys, 
perboile hem and drawe hem with a gode 
broth with almands blanched and brayed, do 
this inne sug’ and powder gynger, and boyle 
it and the flessh th’with, flour it with sugar 
and with powder gynger, and serve forth,”? 
Gele* of Fyssb. 
‘‘ Take tenchs, pykes, eelys, turbut, and 
plays, J kerve hem to pecys, scalde hem and 
waische hem clene, drye hem with acloth, de 
hem in a pane do therto half vnegar and halfe 
wyne and seeth it wel, and take the fysshe 
and pike it clene, cole the broth thurgh a 
cloth into an erthen panne, do th’to powder 
of peper and safron ynowh, lat it seeth and 
skym it wel whan it is ysode, doft the grees 
clene, cowche fisshe on chargeors and cole the 
sewe thorow a cloth onoward and serve it 
forth.” 
*' Gele, felly. 
+ Plaise. 
te Dot it edo of 
Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters, 
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CICERONI, 
bie ds who have travelled through 
Italy, well know the meaning of the 
word Cicerone; but many persons who 
have not visited that ancient seat of letters 
and the fine arts, may not, perhaps, havea 
precise idea of it, the Continent, and 
particularly Rome, where this appella- 
tion probably originated, being herme- 
tically sealed against the visits of an 
Englishman. 
In the principal cities of Italy. there 
are persons, who,.as soon as a foreigner 
arrives, olfer themselves to conduct him 
to see what is most curious, and explain 
it to him;* and, on account of their 
speeches on the curiosities, &c. the name 
of the great Latin orator was given thera 
in jest, 
The greater part of these Czcerone are 
poor ecclesiastics, who often, to conceal 
their ignorance, give imaginary answers, 
and are never at a loss for something to 
say. Lately, however, some well-inform- 
ed artists have taken this office upon 
themselves ; and we have been informed, 
by a person worthy of credit, that it is 
now become much the fashion in Italy 
to employ such intelligent persons, whe, 
by directing the eye, and enlightening 
the mind, of a young traveller, are more 
hkely to contribute to form his taste, 
especially in’ painting, than if he be con. 
ducted about by an ignorant Abbé, a 
Valet de Piace, or by a Gondolier: in 
- which ease the blind lead the blind. 
FEUDAL CLAIMS. 
The following is a specimen of as 
curious a claim as has been set u 
since the days of A®olus, of doubtful 
fame. It has the advantage of being a 
faithful record from the annals of history ; 
In the end of the fourteenth century, 
the celebrated, but long since destroyed, 
monastery of Augustinians, at Win- 
shieur, in the province of Overyssel, were 
desirous of erecting a windmill, not far 
from Zwolle; but a neighbouring lord 
was desirous to prevent them, by de- 
claring that the wind in that district be~ 
longed to him. ‘The monks, unwilling to 
give up-the point, had recourse to the 
Bishop of Utrecht, under whose juris- 
diction the province had continued since 
the tenth century. The bishop, highly 
“incensed, against the pretender, who 
wished to usurp his authority, atfirmed 
that the wend of the whole province be- 
longed to him, and gave the province 
express permission to erect a windmill 
wherever they thought proper. 
CONSERVATORIO OF S. ONUFRIO, aT 
NAPLES, 
Burney, in his Musical Tour, gives 
the following ridiculous account of 
a school for instruction in music, of all 
instruments in one spot. 
It being holiday-time, many were ab- 
: sent, 
