ne time pounds, shillings, and pence, took the place of
our weights--pounds, ounces, and pennyweights, hence these loaves
would weigh 3 pounds 6 ounces and 8 pennyweights. The price of bread
never varied, but the weight did; contrary to the modern custom.

[d] Mess--a particular number or set who eat together. At the
Inns of Court at the present day, a mess consists of four persons.

[e] This rather upsets the theory as to the origin of eating
a goose at Michaelmas, connected with Queen Elizabeth and the news of
the English victory over the Spanish Armada.

[f] Furmenty or Frumenty was made of new wheat boiled in milk
and seasoned with sugar and spices.

[g] Ale, anciently was made of wheat, barley, and honey, the
term was then applied exclusively to malt liquor. Hops are supposed to
have been introduced into this country in 1524 from Flanders, and the
term "Beer" was used to describe liquors brewed with an infusion of
hops. The two terms are now generally used synonymously.

[h] The seven Canonical hours of the Church were:--

{ Mattins or Nocturns, usually sung between midnight and daybreak.
(1) { Lauds, a service at daybreak following closely on and sometimes
{ joined to mattins.

(2) Prime, a later morning service, about six o'clock.

(3) Tierce, a service at nine o'clock.

(4) Sexts, a service at noon.

(5) Nones, a service at three in the afternoon.

(6) Vespers, a service at six in the evening.

(7) Compline, a service at eight or nine in the evening, being the last
of the seven hours.

These seven offices were condensed in 1519 into two, our present
Mattins and Evensong.

[i] A Paternoster is a chaplet of beads.

A Rosary comprises 15 Paternosters and Glorias, and 150 Ave Marias,
divided into three parts, each of which contains five decades
consisting of one paternoster, ten Ave Marias, and one Gloria, each
preceded by the Creed.

[j] Similar Services and Masses for the Dead were sung over Monks and
Nuns on retiring from the world to a Monastery or Nunnery. See Manuale
ad usum Sarum.

[k] Russet was a coarse cloth of a reddish brown or grey colour, said
by Henry de Knyghton c. 1380, to have been introduced into England by
the Lollards.

Hall in his "Satires" says, "Russet clothes in the 16th century are
indicative of countryfolk."

The tunic is a very ancient garment, it is found on the sculptures and
paintings of Early Egypt; it was in constant use by