The following is a true copy of the original lodged in the Tower of
London:[2]--
George Nevil, brother to the great Earl of Warwick, at his instalment
into his archbishopric of York, in the year 1470, made a feast for the
nobility, gentry, and clergy, wherein he spent:
300 quartrs of wheat
300 ton of ale
104 ton of wine
1 pipe of spic'd w.
80 fat oxen
6 wild bulls
300 pigs
1004 wethers
300 hogs
300 calves
3000 geese
3000 capons
100 peacocks
200 cranes
200 kids
2000 chickens
4000 pidgeons
4000 rabitts
204 bitterns
4000 ducks
400 hernsies
200 pheasants
500 partridges
4000 woodcocks
400 plovers
100 carlews
100 quails
1000 eggets
200 rees
4000 bucks and does, and roebucks
155 hot venison pasties
1000 dishes of jellies
4000 cold venison past
2000 hot custards
4000 ditto cold
400 tarts
300 pikes
300 breams
8 seals
4 porpusses
At this feast the Earl of Warwick was steward; the Earl of Bedford
treasurer; the Lord Hastings comptroller, with many noble officers
servitors.
1000 cooks. 62 kitchiners. 515 scullions.
[2] _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. xxx.
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