Under the heading of spices are enumerated:--Pepper, 50 lbs., raisons of currants, 200 lbs., prunes, 151-1/2 lbs., ginger, 21-1/2 lbs., mace, 6 lbs., cloves, 3-1/2 lbs., sugar, 200-1/4 lbs., cinnamon, 17 lbs., 3-1/2 quarters almonds, 152 lbs., dates, 30 lbs., nutmegs, 1-1/4 lbs., grains of Paradise, 7 lbs., turnfole, 10-1/2 lbs., saunders, 10 lbs., powder of annes, 3-1/4 lbs., rice, 19 lbs., comfits, 19-1/2 lbs., galagals, 1/2 lb., long pepper, 1/2 lb., blanch powder, 2 lbs. The amount of the foregoing is £25 19s. 7d. The list of wine embraces--Gascony wine, 10 tuns, 2 hogsheads, at £4 14s. 4d. per tun, viz., red, 3 tuns, claret, 5 tuns, and white, 2 tuns, 2 hogsheads. There was also provided 90 gallons of verjuice, at 3d. per gallon; this was a sour juice of unripe grapes, apples, or crabs. A barrel and a half of honey was provided at a cost of 33s. The foregoing are the chief items of food and drink for the annual consumption in a Tudor household. The fuel consisted of sea coal, 80 chaldrons, charcoal, 20 quarters, and 4,140 faggots for brewing and baking. Sixty-four loads of wood had also to be provided, for the coal could not be burnt without it. The coal must have been poor. The expenses provide for the players at Christmas, and they appear to have acted 20 plays at 1s. 8d. per play. We find a bearward attended at Christmas for making sport with his beasts, and in the "Household Book" he is referred to amongst those receiving payments as follows:-- "Furst, my Lorde usith and accustomyth to gyff yerely the Kynge or the Queene's _barwarde_, if they have one, when they custome to come unto him, yerely--vj_s._ viij_d._" "Item, my Lorde usith and accustomyth to gyfe yerly, when his Lordshipe is at home, to his _barward_, when he comyth to my Lorde in Christmas with his Lordshippe's beests, for makynge of his Lordship pastyme, the said xi days--xx_s._" At this period, bear-baiting was a popular amusement. Sunday was a great day for the pastime. It was on the last Sunday of April, 1520, that part of the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Beverley, fell, killing a number of people. According to a popular tradition, a bear was being baited, and mass was being sung at the same time, but at the latter only fifty-five attended and all were killed, whereas at the former about a thousand were present. Hence the origin of the Yorkshire saying, "It is better to be at the baiting of a bear than the singing of a mass." An expert horseman was also employed in connection with the household. He had not to be afraid of a fence, and it was his duty to attend my Lord when hunting. Bread and Baking in Bygone Days.