_Eisell_, the meaning of which has been much discussed in the pages of
"NOTES AND QUERIES," is a word which seems to have been once the common
term for vinegar. The _Festival_ in the sermon for St. Michael's day
employs this term thus:
"And other angellis with h[=i] (St. Michael) shall brynge al the
Instrum[=e]tis of our lordis passyon, the crosse; the crowne; spere;
nayles; hamer; sponge; _eyseel_; gall, scourges [=t] all other thynges
y^t w[=e] atte cristis passyon."--Rouen, A.D. 1499, _fo._ cl. b.