The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of ... Richard II ... and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq / Illustrated with notes, and a ... glossary. A MS. of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder].

Date:
1780
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Credit: The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of ... Richard II ... and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq / Illustrated with notes, and a ... glossary. A MS. of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    + Tap killed. The reafon given in the author, why a perfon fo nearly allied to the Great Man. was affigned to the office, is this, ‘ Ne procuraretur aliquid vene- ‘ norum, quod nimis [i. e. valde] timebat legatus ;’ and it is certain that poifoning was but too much in vogue in thefe.times, both amongft the Italians and the good people of this ifland*; fo that this was a poft of fignal truft and confidence. And indeed after- wards, a perion. was employed to fa/fle, or take the afjaie, as it was called', both of the mefles and the water in the ewer, at great tables; but. it may be doubted whether a particular perfon was appointed to this fervice, or it wasabranch of the Sewer’s and cup-bearer’s duty, for I obferve, the Sewer is fometimes called Pregujiator*, and the cup-bearer taftes the water elfewhere’. The religious houfes, and their prefidents, the abbots.and priors, had their days of Gala, as likewife their halls for ftrangers, whom, when perfons of rank, they. often entertained with fplendour and magnificence. And as for the fecular clergy, archbifhops and bithops, their feafts, r M: Paris, p4. 69. ; . * Dugd. Bar. I. p. 45. er p- 184. M. Paris, p. 377. 517+ M. Weitm. p. 364. : t Lel. Colleétan. VI. prey. det. w Ibid. p. g. 13. -x Compare Leland, p. 4. with eres de Prefal. p. 65 5. and _ fo Junius in Etymol. v. Sewer. ¥ Leland, p. 8, 9. There are now éwvo yeomen of the mouth in Ric ; king’s houfehold, ¢ of