[339] Banks’s Bills in the British Museum.
[340] Hereford Journal, January 7, 1775.
[341] Stow’s Survey, p. 340.
[342] Daily Courant, July 1, 1718.
[343] Banks’s Bills.
[344] Harl. MSS., 279, p. 47, a cookery book of that period.
Lansdowne MS., No. 1, fol. 49. Three weeks’ diet of the Lords of the Star Chamber. These lords appear to have lived very well, as we may learn from some of the items of one day’s dinner:—
ffirst for bread, xijd.; ale, iijs. iiijd.; and wine, xvjd. Item to
viijd.vjd. vd. ijd. xiiijd. xd.
loyne of moton; maribones and beef; powdered beef; ij capons; ij geese; v conyes;
iiijd. xviijd. vd. xijd. vjd. xd.
j leg moton; vj places; vj pegions; ij doz. larkes; salt and sause; butter and eggs,
&c., &c., &c.
[346] Machyn’s Diary.
[347] Archæologia, vol. xii.