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 150 Hijiory of Domefik Manners Mufeum (MS. Had. No. 1^27), reprefents probably the fteward of a monaftery receiving a pre lent of filli. In large houfes, and on great occalions, the various meats and diflies were carried from the kitchen to the hall with extraordinary ceremony by the fervants of the kitchen, who delivered them at the entrance of the hall to other attendants of a higher clafs, who alone were allowed to approach the tables. Our cut No. loj, from MS. Reg. 10, E. iv., repre- fents one of thefe fervants carrying a pot and platter, or fland for the pot. [04. A Prcjcnt of Fip. No. 105. ^ Pot and Platter. which, perhaps, contained gravy ufually carried into the hall on rank, were fometimes made of have torn, or cut, from the illuminations reprefent this pra the fpits, and it is alluded to, writers. In the romance of " enter the hall with the meats a roafted peacock on a fpit : — or foup. The roalls appear to have been the fpits, which, amiong people of great filver ; and the gueils at table feem to fpit what they wanted. Several early 6lice of people helping themfelves from not very unfrequently, in the mediaeval Parife la DuchelTe," when the fervants for the table, one is defcribed as carrying At ant e% ks Jerjan-z qui portent h Li tins port e .;'. paon rati en un aj mangier ; vVr.— K,,i,i, In the romance of " Garin le Loherain," on an occalion when a quarrel began in the hall at the beginning of the dinner, the duke Begon,