[Footnote 11: See descriptions of a dinner in Parker’s Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages, iii. 74-87 (with a good cut of the Cupboard, Dais, &c.), and in Wright’s _Domestic Manners and Customs_. Russell’s description of the Franklin’s dinner, l. 795-818, should be noted for the sake of Chaucer’s Franklin, and we may also notice that Russell orders butter and fruits to be served on an empty stomach before dinner, l. 77, as a whet to the appetite. _Modus Cenandi_ serves potage first, and keeps the fruits, with the spices and biscuits, for dessert.] [Footnote 12: The extracts from Bulleyn, Borde, Vaughan, and Harington are in the nature of notes, but their length gave one the excuse of printing them in bigger type as parts of a Text. In the same way I should have treated the many extracts from Laurens Andrewe, had I not wanted them intermixed with the other notes, and been also afraid of swelling this book to an unwieldy size.] [Footnote 13: The Termes of a Kerver so common in MSS. are added, p. 151, and the subsequent arrangement of the modes of carving the birds under these Termes, p. 161-3. The Easter-Day feast (p. 162) is also new, the bit why the heads of pheasants, partridges, &c., are unwholesome--’for they ete in theyr degrees foule thynges, as wormes, todes, and other suche,’ p. 165-6--and several other pieces.] [Footnote 14: _do the_, l. 115, is _clothe_ in the MS.; _grayne_, l. 576 (see too ll. 589, 597,) is _grayue_, Scotch _greive_, A.S. _gerefa_, a kind of bailiff; _resceyne_, ll. 547, 575, is _resceyue_, receive; &c.] [Footnote 15: This is doubtless a different book from Hugh Rhodes’s _Booke of Nurture & Schoole of Good Manners_, p. 71, below.] [Footnote 16: What this _Edyllys Be_ means, I have no idea, and five or six other men I have asked are in the same condition. A.S. _æþel_ is noble, _æþeling_, a prince, a noble; that may do for _edyllys_. _Be_ may be for A B C, alphabet, elementary grammar of behaviour.] [Footnote 17: P.S. Mr Hazlitt, iv. 366, notices two others in MS. Ashmole 59, art. 57, and in Cotton MS. Calig. A II. fol. 13, the latter of which and Ashmole 61, are, he says, of a different translation.] [Footnote 18: See Hazlitt, iv. 366.] [Footnote 19: The MS. has no title. The one printed I have made up from bits of the text.] [Footnote 20: Still one is truly thankful for the material in these unindexed books.] [Footnote 21: Sharon Turner’s _History of England_, vol. v. pp. 496-8.] [Footnote 22: This is the stanza quoted by Dr Reinhold Pauli in his _Bilder aus Alt-England_, c. xi. p. 349: