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BILL OF FARE OF 1626.

If an _actual_ bill of fare in a gentleman's house, anno 1626, be worth
your acceptance, as a pendant to the one _prescribed_ in your fourth
number, you are welcome to the following extract from the account book
of Sir Edward Dering, Knt. and Bart.:--

"A Dinner att London, made when my Lady Richardson, my sister E
Ashbornham, and Kate Ashb,--my brother John Ashb, my cosen Walldron and
her sister, and S'r John Skeffington, were with me att Aldersgate
streete, December 23, 1626. My sister Fr Ashb and cosen Mary Hill did
fayle of coming.


Wine 3s. 10d.
Stourgeon 7s.
a joll of brawne 5s.
pickled oystres a barrell 1s. 6d.
viniger 3d.
Rabbets a couple--larkes a dozen--plovers 3 and
snikes 4 7s.
Carrowaye and comfites 6d.
a Banquet and 2 dozen and a half of glass plates to
sett it out in 1l. 3s.
Half a doe--which in y'e fee and charge of bringing
itt out of Northampton 8s.
a warden py that the cooke made--we finding y'e