Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"_A Bill of ffare at the Christning of Mr. Constable's Child,
Rector of Cockley Cley in Norfolk, Jan. 2, 1682._
"1. A whole hog's head, souc'd, with carrotts in the mouth and
pendants in the ears, with guilded oranges thick sett.
2. 2 ox.'s cheekes stewed, with 6 marrow bones.
3. A leg of veal larded, with 6 pullets.
4. A leg of mutton, with 6 rabbits.
5. A chine of bief, chine of venison, chine of mutton, chine of
veal, chine of pork, supported by 4 men.
6. A venison pasty.
7. A great minced pye, with 12 small ones about it.
8. A gelt fat turkey, with 6 capons.
9. A bustard, with 6 pluver.
10. A pheasant, with 6 woodcocks.
11. A great dish of tarts made all of sweetmeats.
12. A Westphalia hamm, with 6 tongues.
13. A jowle of sturgeon.
14. A great charg'r of all sorts of sweetmeats, with wine and all
sorts of liquors answerable.
"The child, a girle; godfather, Mr. Green, a clergyman;
godmothers, Mis Beddingfield of Sherson, and a sister-in-law of
Mr. Constable's.
"The guests, Mr. Green, Mr. Bagg and his daughter, and the
godmothers.
"The parish'rs entertained at another house with rost and boil'd
bief, geese, and turkeys. Soon after the child dy'd, and the
funerall expenses came to 6_d._"
"1739. Dec. 28, Friday, began a frost. Satterday and Sunday with
the most severe sharp wind that ever was known. Monday and Tuesday
fell a great deal of snow, w'ch continued upon the ground, with
the most severe frost ever known, without intermission till
Friday, Feb. 1st, then thaw'd in the day. Sharp frost at night.
Thaw'd Satterday and Sunday, with rain and sleet of snow, cold air
with frost, and continued till Sunday ye 10, when it thaw'd very
fast with smal rain and wind: continued till Monday, when it
changed into severe frost and a fall of snow, w'ch held till
Sunday, then thaw'd, wind west, in the most gentle manner,
insensibly wasting, no flood: extream dry, cold weather till ye 21
of April: y't day a little rain, and on the 22 fell a great deal
of snow with a severe north and north-east wind: a little wet and
cold wind continued till the 5th of May, when there was hail and
snow a foot thick in many places. Continued cold till ye 9th.
Wheat 6_s._ 6_d._ a strike; barley 3_s._ 6_d._; mutton, in London,
5-1/2_d._ and 6_d._ p'd, beife 5_d._; 3-1/2_d._ mutton in the
country, beife 3_d._
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