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 358 Hijiory of Domejiic Manners two barrels of falted eels, fix hundred frelh eels, eight thoufand whelks, five hundred pikes, four hundred tenches, a hundred carps, eight hundred breams, two barrels of falted lampreys, eighty frefh lampreys, fourteen hundred frefli lamperns, a hundred and twenty-four falted congers, two hundred great roaches, a quantity of feals and porpoifes, with a confider- able quantity of other fifli. It will be underftood at once that this feaft took place on a filh day. This habit of profufe and luxurious living feems to have gradually declined during the fixteenth and firfi: part of the feventeenth century, until it was extinguillied in the great convuliion which produced the interregnum. After the Reftoration, we find that the table, among all claffes, was furnilhed more foberly, and with plainer and more fubftantial diflies.