_Banbury Cakes_ (Vol. vii., p. 106.).--In _A Treatise of Melancholy_, by T.
Bright, doctor of physic, and published in 1586, I find the following:
"Sodden wheat is of a grosse and melancholicke nourishment, and bread
especially of the fine flower unleavened: of this sort are bag-puddings
or pan-puddings made with flour, frittars, pancakes, such as we call
_Banberie cakes_, and those great ones confected with butter, eggs,
&c., used at weddings; and howsoever it be prepared, rye and bread made
thereof carrieth with it plentie of melancholie."