_Fish._
Cod, codlings, halibut, skate, sturgeon, soles, salmon, gurnets,
haddock, whiting, sometimes turbots come with the soles, herrings,
perch, pike, carp, tench, eels, lobsters, crabs, crawfish, muscles,
cockles, prawns, shrimps, Thames flounders, and smelts.
_Game and Poultry._
Hares, pheasants, partridges, moor or heath game, grouse, turkeys,
geese, capons, pullets, fowls, chickens, all sorts of wild-fowl, wood
cocks, snipes, larks, wild and tame rabbits, dottrels, wood-pigeons,
blackbirds, thrushes, plover both green and grey.
_Fruit._
All sorts of winter pears and apples, medlars, chesnuts, Portugal grapes
and grapes hung in the room, and walnuts kept in sand.
_Roots and Vegetables._
Same as the last month.
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Beef, mutton, and veal, are in season all the year; house lamb in
January, February, March, April, May, October, November, and December.
Grass lamb comes in at Easter and lasts till April or May; pork from
September till April or May; roasting pigs all the year; buck venison in
June, July, August, and September; doe and heifer venison in October,
November, December, and January.