Thus on Fig. 284 we have a dish of the fourteenth, and in Fig. 283 those of the fifteenth century; while in the others we have drinking cups, bowls, three-legged vessels with spouts, &c. Fig. 282 gives us a wash-hand basin and jug--an attendant holding the basin in one hand and jug in the other while the guest washes his hands, a female standing by with the towel. In Fig. 281 we have a remarkably fine assemblage of pitchers of the fourteenth century, some of which appear to be ornamented with cross bands; while in Fig. 280 (the dancing of Herodias before Herod) we have dishes, jugs, and bowls. Some of the vessels in these illuminations, it must be borne in mind, may be of metal, but the form is still of the same value and importance. Some excellent figures of mediæval jugs are also given in the next engravings, one of which (Fig. 287) likewise shows a drinking-mug. [Illustration: Fig. 290.--London.] [Illustration: Figs. 291 to 294.--Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.] [Illustration: Fig. 295.--London.] One of the earliest written notices of crockery we have is the oft-quoted entry in the account of payments by the executors of Queen Eleanor, wife of Edward I. “Item Juliana la potere pro ccc picheriis die anniversarii Reginæ viij_s_. vj_d_.”--these three hundred pitchers being probably earthenware vessels “provided for the feast given to the poor on the anniversary of the queen’s death.”[31] Another item in the same accounts is also curious: “Item, Johanni le squeler pro M^{le} et D discis, tot platelles, tot salseriis, et cccc chiphis, xlij_s_.”--the “squeler,” or “sargeant-squylloure,” being “pourveyour of the squylery,” or scullery, who had charge of the pots, and kept them clean and in order. In the household books of Edward IV. and Sir John Howard, in the fifteenth century, and the Earl of Northumberland, shortly afterwards, mention is made of “earth and asshen cuppes” and “erthyn potts”--the latter directing that leather pots be bought in place of earthen ones, of course in consequence of the loss by breakage. The entry in the expenses of Sir John Howard, in 1466, referred to, shows somewhat curiously the cost of “potes” in those days:--“Watekin bocher of Stoke delyvered of my mony to on of the poteres of Horkesley iv^{s.} vi^{d.} to pay hemselfe and his felawes for xi dosen potes,” which would be about 4¾_d._ per dozen for them. [Illustration: Fig. 296.]