Olden Bread-making--Manchets, Recipes for--The Manciple--Pastry-making taught in Schools--Christmas Game Pie, 1394--Cookery, _temp._ Richard II.--History of Sugar, 195--Tea and Coffee introduced--Spices and other Condiments--Olden Confectionery--March-pane and Biscuits--Dessert Fruits, 13th century--Oranges introduced--Lincoln's Inn Fruit and Vegetable Garden--Ornamental Fruit Trenchers--Vegetables in early use--Conveyance of perishable Food--Antiquity of Cheese--Banbury and Cheshire Cheese--Ballad on Cheshire Cheese--Sage Cheese--Ale and Beer--Hops introduced--Our National Drink 192-216 IV. Peasant Life. "A bold Peasantry, their Country's Pride"--Serfdom--Were and Wergild--Operative Tenants--Rent paid in Labour--Monday-men--Villeins--Stocks for Vagrants and unruly Servants--Services of Tillage--Ploughing Boon--Harrowing and Bed-weeding--Threshing, Thatching, Delving, &c.--Inclosures--Malting for the Lord--Malt-silver--Ancient Harvest--Reaping Boon--Hayward--Love-boons or Law-days--Autumnal Precations, _temp._ Edward II.--Ram Feast--Beltane Superstition--Hayfield cut and cleared--Mutton Rewards--Hock-day Court and Sports--Hardicanute's Death--Scot Ales--Sheep Shearing and Clipping-time Customs--Conveyance Service--Arriage and Carriage--Farming a Castle or Monastery--Vraic in the Channel Islands--Langerode--Watch and Ward--The Beadle--Sleeping in Church--"Firm Locks make faithful Servants" 217-234 Olden Housemarks: Land, Cattle, Sheep, Swans, and Ducks; Houses and Cottages--Merchants' and Tradesmen's Marks--Picture Marks--Ancient Conveyancing 235-237 V. Customs and Ceremonies. May-day Carol on Magdalen College Tower, Oxford--Flower Customs at Oxford--May-day Song at Saffron Walden--May-poles still extant--Raine's Charity--Picture of Oxford 238-244 BANBURY CAKES, CONGLETON CAKES, ETC. Banbury Cakes abolished by the Puritans--Banbury Cross--Banbury _zeal_ and _veal_--Old Fuller on Banbury--High Church Banburians--Congleton Triangular Cakes and Gingerbread--Sale of Banbury Cakes--Banbury Cheese--Banbury Cross restored--Sack Brewage at Congleton--Shrewsbury Cakes--Islington and Holloway Cheesecakes 245-253 HORSELYDOWN FAIR IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. Horselydown--Curious Picture at Hatfield House, of the Fair, described--Hermitage 254-258 WAKE FESTIVALS IN THE BLACK COUNTRY. Bull-baiting, Cock-fighting, &c.--Wake-time, better spent--Bloxwich Bull 259-263 KEEPING BIRDS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.