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 a?id Sentime?2ts. 357 fifteenth century, efpecially, was celebrated for its great fealls, at which the confumption of provifions was enormous. The bills of expenfes of fome of them have been preferved. In the fixth year of the reign of Edward IV. (a.d. 1466), George Nevile was made archbifhop of York, and the account of the expenditure for the feaft on that occafion contains the following articles : — Three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred tuns of ale, one hundred tuns of wine, one pint of hypocras, a hundred and four oxen, fix wild bulls, a thoufand llieep, three hundred and four calves, the fame number of fwine, four hundred fwans, two thoufand ge^ik, a thoufand capons, two thoufand pigs, four hundred plovers, a hundred dozen of quails, two hundred dozen of the birds called " rees," a hundred and four peacocks, four thoufand mallards and teals, two hundred and four cranes, two hundred and four kids, two thoufand chickens, four thoufand pigeons, four thoufand crays, two hundred and four bitterns, four hundred herons, two hundred pheafants, five hundred partridges, four hundred woodcocks, one hundred curlews, a thoufand egrettes, more than five hundred flags, bucks, and roes, four thoufand cold venifon parties, a thoufand "parted" difhes of jelly, three thoufand plain diflies of jelly, four thoufand cold baked tarts, fifteen hundred hot venifon parties, two thoufand hot curtards, fix hundred and eight pikes and breams, twelve porpoifes and feals, with a proportionate quantity of fpices, fugared delicacies, and wafers or cakes. On the inthronation of William Warham as archbifliop of Canterbury in 1504, the twentieth year of the reign of Henry VII., a feart was given for which the following provifions were purchafed : — Fifty-four quarters of wheat, twenty fliillings' worth of fine flour for making wafers, fix tuns or pipes of red wine, four of claret wine, one of choice white wine, and one of white wine for the kitchen, one butt of malmfey, one pipe of wine of Ofey, two tierces of Rhenifli wine, four tuns of London ale, fix of Kentifli ale, and twenty of Englifli beer, thirty-three pounds' worth of fpices, three hundred lings, fix hundred codfifti, feven barrels of faked falmon, forty frefli falmon, fourteen barrels of white herrings, twenty cades of red herrings (each cade containing fix hundred herrings, which would make a total of twelve thoufand), five barrels of faked fturgeons, two