Early English Meals and Manners Part 43

See the old French satire on the Lady and her Dogs, in _Rel. Ant._ i. 155.]]

[Footnote 251: The Boke of Curtasye (l. 519-20) lets the (chief) usher who puts the lord to bed, go his way, and says

?omo{n} vssher be-fore e dore In vtter chamb{ur} lies on e flor{e}.]

[Transcriber's Note: Footnote 252 contains supplementary notes for some items in this stanza, lines 991-994. Note that there is no independent Footnote 260 ("hey hove"), and that "bilgres" was not marked. Numbers in parentheses are the note numbers as originally printed.]

[Footnote 252: See note at end. Mr Gillett, of the Vicarage, Runham, Filby, Norwich, sends me these notes on the herbs for this Bathe Medicinable: --253 (2): "YARDEHOK = Mallow, some species.

They are all more or less mucilaginous and emollient. If Yarde = _Virga_; then it is Marshmallow, or Malva Sylvestris; if yarde = erde, earth; then the rotundifolia. --254 (3): PARITORY is Pellitory of the wall, _parietaria_. Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of pota.s.s. There are two other pellitories: 'P. of Spain'--this is _Pyrethrum_, which the Spanish corrupted into _pelitre_, and we corrupted _pelitre_ into pellitory. The other, b.a.s.t.a.r.d-pellitory, is _Achillea Ptarmica_. --255 (4): BROWN FENNELLE = probably _Peucedanum officinale_, Hog's fennel, a dangerous plant; certainly not _Anethum Graveolens_, which is always dill, dyle, dile, &c. --259 (8): RYBBEWORT, _Plantago lanceolata_, mucilaginous. --260 (9): HEYHOVE = _Glechoma hederacea_, bitter and aromatic, abounding in a principle like camphor. --261 (10): HEYRIFF = harif = _Galium Aparine_, and allied species. They were formerly considered good for s...o...b..tic diseases, when applied externally. Lately, in France, they have been administered internally against epilepsy. --263 (12): BRESEWORT; if = brisewort or bruisewort, it would be _Sambucus Ebulus_, but this seems most unlikely. --265 [_unlabeled, 1 on next page_] BROKELEMPK = brooklime. _Veronica Beccabunga_, formerly considered as an anti-s...o...b..tic applied externally. It is very inert. If a person fed on it, it might do some good, i.e.

about a quarter of the good that the same quant.i.ty of water-cress would do. --267 [_unlabeled_] BILGRES, probably = henbane, _hyoscysmus niger_. Compare Dutch [Du. _Bilsen_, Hexham,] and German _Bilse_. _Bil_ = byle = boil, modern. It was formerly applied externally, with marsh-mallow and other mucilaginous and emollient plants, to ulcers, boils, &c. It might do great good if the tumours were unbroken, but is awfully dangerous. So is _Peucedanum officinale_. My Latin names are those of Smith: _English Flora_. Babington has re-named them, and Bentham again altered them. I like my mumpsimus better than their sumpsimus."]

[Footnote 253: 'The common Mallowe, or the tawle wilde Mallow, and the common Hockes' of Lyte's Dodoens, 1578, p. 581, _Malua sylvestris_, as distinguished from the _Malua sativa_, or "_Rosa vltramarina_, that is to say, the Beyondesea Rose, in Frenche, _Maulue de iardin_ or _cultiuee_ ... in English, Holyhockes, and great tame Mallow, or great Mallowes of the Garden." The "Dwarffe Mallowe ... is called _Malua syluestris pumila_."]

[Footnote 254: Peritory, _parietaria_, _vrseolaris_, _vel asteric.u.m_. Withals.]

[Footnote 255: ? The sweet Fennel, _Anethum Graveolens_, formerly much used in medicine (Thomson). The gigantic fennel is (_Ferula_) _a.s.saftida_.]

[Footnote 256: _Sambucus ebulus_, Danewort. See Mr Gillett's note for Book of Quintessence in Hampole's Treatises. Fr. _hieble_, Wallwort, dwarfe Elderne, Danewort. Cotgr.]

[Footnote 257: Erbe In', or Seynt Ionys worte. _Perforata, fuga demonum_, _ypericon_. P. Parv.]

[Footnote 258: Centaury.]

[Footnote 259: Ribwort, _arnoglossa_. Ribwoort or ribgra.s.se, _plantago_. Withals. _Plantain pet.i.t_. Ribwort, Ribwort Plantaine, Dogs-rib, Lambes-tongue. Cotgrave. _Plantago lanceolata_, AS.

_ribbe_.]

[Footnote 260: _No separate note: see Footnote 252, above._]

[Footnote 261: Haylife, an herbe. Palsgr. _Galium aparine_, A.S.

_hegerifan corn_, grains of hedgerife (hayreve, or hayreff), are among the herbs prescribed in _Leechdoms_, v. 2, p. 345, for "a salve against the elfin race & nocturnal [goblin] visitors, & for the woman with whom the devil hath carnal commerce."]

[Footnote 262: _Herba Benedicta_. Avens.]

[Footnote 263: _Herbe a foulon_. Fullers hearbe, Sopewort, Mocke-gillouers, Bruisewort. Cotgrave. "AS. 1. _brysewyrt_, pimpernel, _anagallis_. _Anagallis_, brisewort." Gl. Rawlinson, c. 506, Gl. Harl. 3388. Leechdoms, vol. 1, p. 374. 2. _Bellis perennis_, MS. Laud. 553, fol. 9. Plainly for Hembriswyrt, daisy, AS. _daeges eage_. "Consolida minor. Daysie is an herbe at sum men callet hembrisworte oer bonewort." Gl. Douce, 290. c.o.c.kayne.

_Leechdoms_, v. 2, Glossary.]

[Footnote 264: _Persil de marais_. Smallage; or, wild water Pa.r.s.eley. Cot.]

[Footnote 265: Brokelyme _fabaria_. Withals. _Veronica Becabunga_, Water-Speedwell. _Hleomoce_, _Hleomoc_, brooklime (where lime is the Saxon name (_Hleomoc_) in decay), _Veronica beccabunga_, with _V. anagallis_ ... "It waxeth in brooks" ... Both sorts _Lemmike_, Dansk. They were the greater and the less "brokelemke," Gl.

Bodley, 536. "Fabaria domestica _lemeke_." Gl. Rawl. c. 607....

Islandic _Lemiki_. c.o.c.kayne. Gloss. to _Leechdoms_, v. 2. It is prescribed, with the two centauries, for suppressed menses, and with _pulegium_, to bring a dead child away, &c. _Ib._ p. 331.]

[Footnote 266: Scabiosa, the Herb _Scabious_, so call'd from its Virtue in curing the Itch; it is also good for Impostumes, Coughs, Pleurisy, Quinsey, &c. Phillips.]

[Footnote 267: _See footnote 258, above._]

[Footnote 268: See the duties and allowances of 'The Gentylmen Usshers of Chaumbre .IIII. of Edw. IV.', in _H. Ord._ p. 37; and the duties of Henry VIII's Knight Marshal, _ib._ p. 150.]

[Footnote 269: Queenborough, an ancient, but poor town of Kent, in the Isle of Sheppey, situated at the mouth of the river Medway.

The chief employment of the inhabitants is oyster-dredging.

_Walker's Gazetteer, by Kershaw_, 1801.]

[Footnote 270: The Annual Receipts of the Monastery "de Tinterna in M{ar}chia Wallie," are stated in the _Valor Eccl._ vol. iv.

p. 370-1, and the result is s. d.

S{u}m{m}a to{ta}lis clar{e} val{oris} dec' predict' cclviij v x ob'

Decima inde xxv xvj vj ob'q'

Those of the Monasteriu{m} Sancti Petri Westm. are given at v. 1, p. 410-24, and their net amount stated to be 4470 0 2d.

[Transcriber's Note: Roman numerals shown as ^x were printed as superscripts (iij^c = CCC).]

s. d.

Et reman{ent} clare M^lM^lM^liiij^clxx -- ij q'

Decima inde iij^cxlvij -- -- q']

[Footnote 271: The clear revenue of the Deanery of Canterbury (Decan' Cantuar') is returned in Valor Eccl. v. 1, p. 27-32, at 163 0 21d.

s. d.

Rem' clxiij -- xxi Decima p{ar}s inde xvj vj ij

while that of Prioratus de Dudley is only

s. d.

S{u}m{m}a de claro x.x.xiiij -- xvj Decima p{ar}s inde iij viij j ob'q'

_Valor Ecclesiasticus_, v. 3, p. 104-5.]

[Footnote 272: Dudley, a town of Worcesters.h.i.+re, insulated in Staffords.h.i.+re, containing about 2000 families, most of whom are employed in the manufacture of nails and other iron wares.

_Walker_, 1801.]

[Footnote 273: Two lines are wanting here to make up the stanza.

They must have been left out when the copier turned his page, and began again.]

[Footnote 274: The word in the MS. is _syngle_ or _synglr_ with a line through the _l_. It may be for {syng}u{ler}, _singulus_, _i._ _unus per se_, sunderly, vocab. in _Rel. Ant._ v. 1, p. 9, col. 1.]

[Footnote 275: _Credence as creance_ ... a taste or essay taken of another man's meat. Cotgrave.]

[Footnote 276: Compare _The Boke of Curtasye_, l. 495-8,

No mete for mo{n} schall{e} sayed be Bot for kynge or prynce or duke so fre; For heiers of paraunce also y-wys Mete shall{e} be seyed.]

[Footnote 277: _Gardmanger_ (Fr.) a Storehouse for meat. Blount, ed. 1681, _Garde-viant_, a Wallet for a Soldier to put his Victuals in. Phillipps, ed. 1701.]

[Footnote 278: The Boke of Curtasye makes the Sewer alone a.s.say or taste 'alle the mete' (line 763-76), and the Butler the drink (line 786).]