Part 44 (1/2)
NOTES.
[Transcriber's Note:
Numbering of linenotes does not always correspond exactly to a word's place in the main text. References that are off by only a line or two have not been corrected.]
l. 11-12. John Russell lets off his won't-learns very easily. w.i.l.l.yam Bulleyn had a different treatment for them. See the extract from him on ”Boxyng & Neckweede” after these _Notes_.
l. 49. See the interesting ”Lord Fairfax's Orders for the Servants of his Houshold” [after the Civil Wars], in Bishop Percy's notes to the Northumberland Household Book, p. 421-4, ed. 1827.
l. 51. Chip. 'other .ij. pages ... them oweth to chippe bredde, but not too nye the crumme.' _H. Ord._ p. 71-2. The ”Chippings of Trencher-Brede” in Lord Percy's household were used ”for the fedyinge of my lords houndis.” _Percy H. Book_, p. 353. [[”_Non comedas crustam, colorem quia gignit adustam_ ... the Authour in this Text warneth vs, to beware of crusts eating, because they ingender a-dust cholor, or melancholly humours, by reason that they bee burned and dry. And therefore great estates the which be [_orig._ the] chollerick of nature, cause the crustes aboue and beneath to be chipped away; wherfore the pith or crumme should be chosen, the which is of a greater nourishment then the crust.” _Regimen Sanitatis Salerni_, ed. 1634, p. 71. Fr.
_chapplis_, bread-chippings. Cotgrave.]]
l. 52. _Trencher._ The College servant 'Sc.r.a.pe Trencher,' R. Holme, Bk.
III., Chap. iv., p. 099 [199], notes the change of material from bread to wood. [[Note renamed and moved from l. 94; see Corrigenda]]
l. 56. _Trencher bread._ ITEM that the _Trencher Brede_ be maid of the Meale as it c.u.mmyth frome the Milne. _Percy Household Book_, p. 58.
l. 66. Cannell, a Spout, a tap, a c.o.c.ke in a conduit. _Epistomium. Vne canelle, vn robinet._ Baret.
l. 68. Faucet. Also he [the yeoman of the Butler of Ale] asketh allowaunce for tubbys, treyes, and _faucettes_, occupied all the yeare before. _H. Ord._ p. 77.
l. 74. _Figs._ A. Borde, _Introduction_, a.s.signs the gathering of figs to ”the Mores whych do dwel in Barbary,” ... ”and christen men do by them, & they wil be diligent and wyl do al maner of seruice, but they be set most comonli to vile things; they be called slaues, thei do gader grapes and _fygges_, and with some of the _fygges_ they wyl wip ther tayle, & put them in the frayle.” Figs he mentions under Judaea. ”Iury is called y^e lande of Iude, it is a n.o.ble countre of ryches, plenty of wine & corne ... _Figges_ and Raysions, & all other frutes.” In his _Regyment_, fol. M. iii., Borde says of 'Fygges ... They doth stere a man to veneryous actes, for they doth auge and increase the seede of generacion. And also they doth prouoke a man to sweate: wherfore they doth ingendre lyce.'
ll. 74-95. _Chese._ 'there is iiij. sortes of Chese, which is to say, grene Chese, softe chese, harde chese, or spermyse. Grene chese is not called grene by y^e reason of colour, but for y^e newnes of it, for the whay is not half pressed out of it, and in operacion it is colde and moyste. Softe chese not to new nor to olde, is best, for in operacion it is hote and moyste. Harde chese is hote and drye, and euyll to dygest.
Spermyse is a Chese the whiche is made with curdes and with the Iuce of herbes.... Yet besydes these .iiij natures of chese, there is a chese called a Irweue [rewene, ed. 1567] chese, the whiche, if it be well ordered, doth pa.s.se all other cheses, none excesse taken.' A. Borde, _Reg._ fol. I. i. See note on l. 85.
l. 77. In his chapter _Of Prunes and Damysens_, Andrew Borde says, Syxe or seuen Damysens eaten before dyner, be good to prouoke a ma{n}nes appetyde; they doth mollyfie the bely, and be abstersyue, the skynne and the stones must be ablated and cast away, and not vsed. _Regyment_, N.
i. b. [[Note renamed and moved from l. 177; see Corrigenda]]
l. 78, 83. The Bill-berry or _Windberry_, R. Holme, Bk. II., p. 52, col.
1; p. 79, col. 1; three Wharl Berries or Bill-Berries ... They are termed Whortle Berries or _Wind Berries_, p. 81, col. 2. -- xxviii. See the prose Burlesques, _Reliq. Antiq._, v. 1, p. 82. Why hopes thu nott for sothe that ther stode wonus a c.o.ke on Seynt Pale stepull toppe, and drewe up the strapuls of his brech. How preves thu that? Be all the .iiij. doctors of _Wynbere hylles_, that is to saye, Vertas, Gadatryme, Trumpas, and Dadyltrymsert.
l. 79. _Fruits._ These officers make provysyons in seasons of the yere accordynge for fruytes to be had of the Kinges gardynes withoute prises; as cherryes, peares, apples, nuttes greete and smalle, for somer season; and lenten, wardens, quinces and other; and also of presentes gevyn to the Kinge; they be pourveyours of _blaundrelles_, pepyns, and of all other fruytes. _H. Ord._ p. 82.
l. 80. Mr Dawson Turner's argument that the ”ad alb.u.m pulverem” of the Leicester Roll, A.D. 1265, was white sugar pounded (Pref. to Household Expenses, ed. 1841, p. li., proves only that the _xiiij lib. Zucari_ there mentioned, were not bought for making _White powder_ only.
ll. 81-93. _Crayme._ 'Rawe crayme undecocted, eaten with strawberyes, or hurttes, is a rurall mannes ba{n}ket. I haue knowe{n} such bankettes hath put me{n} i{n} ieobardy of theyr lyues.' A. Borde, _Regyment_, fol.
I. ij.
l. 82, l. 93. Junket. The auncient manner of grateful suitors, who, hauing prevailed, were woont to present the Judges, or the Reporters, of their causes, with Comfets or other _Jonkets_. Cotgrave, w. _espice_.
l. 85. Cheese. Whan stone pottes be broken, what is better to glew them againe or make them fast, nothing like the Symunt made of Cheese; know therfore it will quickly build a stone in a drie body, which is ful of choler adust. And here in Englande be diuers kindes of Cheeses, as Suff.
Ess.e.x, Banburie .&c. according to their places & feeding of their cattel, time of y^e yere, layre of their Kine, clenlinesse of their Dayres, quant.i.tie of their b.u.t.ter; for the more b.u.t.ter, the worse Cheese. _Bullein_, fol. lx.x.xv.
l. 89. _b.u.t.ter._ A. Borde, _Introduction_, makes the _Flemynge_ say,
b.u.t.termouth Flemyng, men doth me call.