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 or6 Hijlory of Domeflic Manners various defcriptions, as here a black boar and a caftle. We have here the porpoife eaten among fiflies, and the fquirrel among animals ; we have before feen hedgehogs ferved at table. In the " Menagier de Paris," a French compilation, made in the year 1393, a hedgehog is direfted to have its throat cut, and to be Itinned and emptied, and then to be arranged as a chicken, and prefled and well dried in a towel ; after this it was to be roafted and eaten with " cameline," a word the exa£t mean- ing of which feems not to be known ; or in paftry, with duckling fauce. Squirrels were to be treated as rabbits. The fame book gives dire6tions for cooking magpies, rooks, and jackdaws. The fecond of the feven bills of fare given in the Sloane Manufcript contains turtles (the bird) and throftles, roaliedj in the third we have roafted egrets (a fpecies of heron), ftarlings, and linnets ; in the fourth, " martinettes 5" in the fifth, barnacles, " molette," fparrows, and, among fifties, minnows; and in the fixth, roafted cormorants, heathcocks, ftieldrakes, dotterels, and thrufhes. The feventh bill of fare runs thus : — Firft Courfe, of Nine Di/lies. Lono^ wortes {"vegetables). An hen in dubate. Shuldres of motoun. Wylde goos. Wode doves. Fresh laumprey. Grete codlync^e. Bonsomers. Tortons, in paste. Second Courfe, of Ten D'l/Jies. Pynnonade (« confection of almonds and pines). Malardes of the rivere. Cotes, rost, and dampettes. Quayles, and goldefynche. Ele reversed. Breme de mere. Frypoiirs ryalle. Viande en feast. Quarters of lambe. The bills of fare I have thus given are intended for dinners of mode- rate fize, but I might eafily have given much larger ones, though we fhould have learnt nothing more by them than by the fmaller ones, from which the reader will be able to form a very good judgment of the general ftyle of eating among our forefathers, when they lived well. The fifteenth