Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.Anonymous
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Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
Anonymous
Clergy; Medicine -- Anecdotes; Medicine -- Humor; Pastoral theology -- Anecdotes; Physicians
Fuller, in his _Church History_, relates that "George Nevill, brother
to the great Earl of Warwick, at his instalment into the Archbishoprick
of York, gave a prodigious feast to all the nobility, most of the prime
clergy, and many of the great gentry, wherein, by his bill of fare,
three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred and thirty tuns of ale,
one hundred and four tuns of wine, one pipe of spiced wine, eighty fat
oxen, six wild bulls, one thousand and four wethers, three hundred
hogs, three hundred calves, three thousand geese, three thousand
capons, three hundred pigs, one hundred peacocks, two hundred cranes,
two hundred kids, two thousand chickens, four thousand pigeons, four
thousand rabbits, two hundred and four bitterns, four thousand ducks,
two hundred pheasants, five hundred partridges, four thousand
woodcocks, four hundred plovers, one hundred curlews, one hundred
quails, one thousand egrets, two hundred roes, above four hundred
bucks, does, and roebucks, one thousand five hundred and six hot
venison pasties, four thousand cold venison pasties, one thousand
dishes of jelly parted, four thousand dishes of plain jelly, four
thousand cold custards, two thousand hot custards, three hundred pike,
three hundred bream, eight seals, four porpoises, and four hundred
tarts. At this feast the Earl of Warwick was steward, the Earl of
Bedford, treasurer, the Lord of Hastings, comptroller, with many more
noble officers; servitors, one thousand; cooks, sixty-two; kitcheners,
five hundred and fifteen.... But," continues honest Fuller, "seven
years after, the King seized on all the estate of this archbishop, and
sent him over prisoner to Calais in France, where _vinctus jacuit in
summa inopia_, he was kept bound in extreme poverty. Justice thus
punished his former prodigality."
DA VINCI A GREAT ANATOMIST.
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