Surtees Society, Boldon Book, p. 28.
“English Monastic Life,” p. 198.
The English were famed in the Middle Ages for their preference for good bread. They would eat no bread
“That beans in come,
But of cocket[30] or clerematyn[30] or else of clean wheat.”
—Piers Plowman, A. vii. 292.
Better kinds of bread, but not the best (wastel).