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 nours were those golden days of peace and hospitality, when you enjoyed your own so as to entertain and relieve others.

"Right Honourable and Right Worshipful, I have not only been an eye witness, but interested by my attendance, so as that I may justly acknowlege those Triumphs and magnificent Trophies of Cookery that have adorned your tables; nor can I but confess to the world, except I should be guilty of the highest ingratitude, that the only structure of this my art and knowledge I owed to your costs, generous and inimitable expences; thus not only I have derived my experience, but your country hath reapt the plenty of your humanity and charitable bounties.

"Right Honourable and Right Worshipful, Hospitality, which was once a relique of gentry, and a known cognizance to all ancient houses, hath lost her title through the unhappy and cruel disturbances of these times; she is now