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 1 40 Hijiory of Dome flic Manners Yet, during the whole of this period, it continued to be the common pradice to make the table for a meal, by merely laying a board upon treftles. The fecond cut on the preceding page (No. 97) is a very curious reprefentation of fuch a table, from a manufcript of the thirteenth cen- tury, preferved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (MS. Arch. A. 154). It muft be underftood that the objefts which are ranged alternately with the drinking-veflels are loaves of bread, qot plates.