TO
H. W.
W. H.

CONTENTS

Twas thought a sumptuous treat
On Birthdays, Festivals, or Days of State,
A salt dry Flitch of Bacon to prepare.
—Congreve.

[INTRODUCTION]

CHAPTER I

[A Narrative of Nine Hundred Years]

CHAPTER II

[The Priory and the Rhymester]

CHAPTER III

[A Yeoman, a Husbandman and Thomas le Fuller]