Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Date:
1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    u HOW TO LAY THE CLOTH AND WRAP UP BREAD. with your sove- reign’s napkin ; on that, eight loaves to eat, and three or four trencher .loaves: in your left hand the salt-cellar. In your right hand, spoons and knives. Put the Salt on the right of your lord; on its left, a trencher or two; on their left, a knife, then white rolls, [* a space in the MS.] and'beside them a spoon folded in a napkin. Cover all up. At the other end set a Salt and two trenchers. [t ? MS.] How to wrap up your lord’s bread in a. stately way. Cut your loaves all equal. 'Take a towel two and a half yards 196 an on ]>e same arnie ley jiy soueraignes napkyfi honestly; |3an lay on ]iat arine viij. loiiys bred / with iij. or iiij. trenchere lovis ; Take pat oo ende of py towaile / in py lift hand, as pe mane?” is, and pe salt Sellere in pe same hand, looke pat ye do this ; 200 pat oper ende of pe towaile / in ri3t hand with spones & knylFes y-wis ; Set youre salt on pe right side / where sittes youre soverayne, on pe lyfft Side of youre salt / sett youre trencher oon & twayne, on pe lifft side of yoM?’ trenchoure lay youre knyffe syngaler & playn; 204 and on pe . . . .* side of youre knyffee / oon by oil pe white payne ; youre spone vppon a napkyn fayre / 30! foldeil wold he he, besides pe bred it wold he laid, son, y telle the: Cover your spone j napkyn, trencher, & knyff, pat no man hem se. 208 at pe oper ende of pe table / a salt with ij. trench- ers sett ye. Si'r,t 3eff pow wilt wrappe py soueraynes bred stately, Thow must square & proporcioiuz py bred clene & evenly, and pat no loof ne bunne be more pan ope?* p?*o- porcionly, 212 and so shaltow make py wi’appe for py master mane?’ly; pan take a towaile of Raynes,' of ij. yardes and half wold it be, ‘ Fine cloth, originally made at Rennes, in Bretagne.