Note corrected from “177” to “77” in reprint; note moved in e-text.
p. 7, l. 2 of notes, for Houeshold read Household Corrected in reprint.
[p. 27, l. 418, Areyse]. Compare, “and the Geaunte pulled and drough, but he myght hym not a-race from the sadell.” Merlin, Pt. II. p. 346 (E. E. T. Soc. 1866).
p. 35, note 3 (to l. 521), for end of this volume read p. 145 Corrected in reprint.
[p. 36, l. 536.] Pepper. “The third thing is Pepper, a sauce for vplandish folkes: for they mingle Pepper with Beanes and Peason. Likewise of toasted bread with Ale or Wine, and with Pepper, they make a blacke sauce, as if it were pap, that is called pepper, and that they cast vpon theyr meat, flesh and fish.” Reg. San. Salerni, p. 67.
[p. 58, l. 851]; p. 168, l. 13, 14. Green sauce. There is a herb of an acid taste, the common name for which ... is green-sauce ... not a dozen miles from Stratford-on-Avon. Notes & Queries, June 14, 1851, vol. iii. p. 474. “of Persley leaues stamped withe veriuyce, or white wine, is made a greene sauce to eate with roasted meat ... Sauce for Mutton, Veale and Kid, is greene sauce, made in Summer with Vineger or Verjuyce, with a few spices, and without Garlicke. Otherwise with Parsley, white Ginger, and tosted bread with Vineger. In Winter, the same sawces are made with many spices, and little quantity of Garlicke, and of the best Wine, and with a little Verjuyce, or with Mustard.” Reg. San. Salerni, p. 67-8.
[p. 62, l. 909], ? perhaps a comma should go after hed, and ‘his cloak or cape’ as a side-note. But see cappe, p. 65, l. 964.
[p. 66, l. 969.] Dogs. The nuisance that the number of Dogs must have been may be judged of by the following payments in the Church-Wardens’ Accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster, in Nichols, p. 34-5.
| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of dogs | 0. 9. 8. |
| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer more for killing 14 dozen and 10 dogs in time of visitacion | 1. 9. 8. |
| 1625 | Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of 24 dozen of dogs | 1. 8. |
See the old French satire on the Lady and her Dogs, in Rel. Ant. i. 155.