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babies.

saing in this wyse, "I am comyng toward your bryde. and a promise of yf ye dirste onys loke to me ward, I wene ye nedys muste."

Another course or servise.

Brawne with mustard, umblys of a dere or of a sepe 2; swanne, capon, lambe.

Cake & Cheese (so called in allusion to the mother's complaints at her delivery) mentioned by Brand, Pop. Ant. ii, 44, ed. 1841, or was the cake the wedding-cake?

1? must get a baby: or is ye=I?

2 sheep.

The Houshold Stuff occupied at the
Lord Mayor's Feast, a.d. 1505.

[Balliol MS. 354, ffl C iii. All the final ll's are crossed in the MS.]

here ffolowith suche howshold stuff as must nedis be ocupied at the mayres fest yerely kepte at the yelde hall.

ffirst, v diaper table clothes // iiij Cowchers of

playn clothe // iiij longe towellis of dyaper // Item x napery doz napkyns / Item ij doz Ewry towellis. Item viij shetis for coberde clothes // Item a doz couer-payns 2

ffor wafere.

Receyte for ypocras.

¶ Item Cynamon x 11 / Gynger iiij 11 / Grayns j 11 / Suger iiij 11 //

Butlers towellis.

xxxvj butlers towellis, the length of a towell an ell & a half3 || & quarter brode / that is, iiij towellis of an ell & a half,3 of ell brode clothe.

Tffor the mayres offessers.

Tffirst ffor sewers & carwers / iiij towellis of fyne clothe, ij ellis longe, & half a yarde brode, summa iiij ellis.

1 Cp. Russell, 1. 187, p. 129.

2 See Russell's portpayne, 1. 262, p. 138.

3 MS. ell d.

ffor drawers of ale & wyne.

viij apurns, summa viij ellis ¶ Item x port payns to bere in brede / ¶ summa xxxviij ellis.

¶wyne.

Rede wyne, a tonne / Claret wyne, a pipe; whit wyne, a hoggishede/ypocras xl. galons.

Brede.

viij quarters of chet brede / In manchettis vijs1 In trenchar brede viijs / In ob 2 brede iiij ; Item in wafers & the waferer must brynge Couerpayns for

ixxx messe

to serue owt his wafers.

Ale pottis & Tappis.

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xxviij barrellis ale / Ertheñ pottis for wyne & ale lx doz // pychars xij dozij doz stenys Item viij C asshen cuppis/ iiij doz tappis.

¶ plate.

Item iiij doz stondyng Cuppis / xxiiij doz bollis Item v doz saltis: xl doz spones / ij doz gilt sponys /

I suppose this and the following s'es to mean shillings. 2 ob bred is ha'penny bread. On ffl C xviij of the MS. is The Assise of Bred with-in London.

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[ C iij back.]

xviij basons with ewers / a payyer of gilt basons // xx siluer pottis.

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At the gyvyng vp of the verder of the wardmot
Inquestis after xijth day.

In dishis xx dozen // In platers x dozen ||
In sawsers iij dozen // In chargers j dozen

ffor the wacche at mydsomer

In platters xij dozen // In dyshes xxiiij dozen

all this was in the tyme of Iohñ wyngar, mayre of london.

for the hire viijd the garnyshe of pewter

Lord Mayor Whyngar was Richard Hill's master. On ffl C lxxvj of the MS. is the entry, "Iste liber pertineth Rycardo Hill, seruant with Master Wynger alderman of london."

At the back of ffl ijC xx of the MS., in the list of Mayres & Sheryffis, is this entry:

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The ordre of goyng or sittyng.'

[Balliol MS. 354, fl C lxxxxi, or leaf 203, back.]

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1 Compare with Russell, p. 186-7, and Wynkyn de Worde, p.

284-5. It differs little from them.

2 This is struck through with a heavy black-line.

3 Last letter blotched.

Struck through with several thin lines.

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