Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 170
ent on him to drink once more, and stillagain, if necessary, until the liquor was on a line with somepeg, or perchance had disappeared. Therefore we find inArchbishop Anselms Canons, made in 1102, that priestswere enjoined not to go to drinking bouts, nor to drink topegs. The expression, to be in a… … No. 86 (1781) down a peg or two, is likewise traceable to the tankard, forto humble a person is like diminishing the liquor peg by peg. In Hones Every Day Book there is pictured and de-scribed a peg tankard made of oak, that was taken from theancient Abbey of Glastonbury. The writer after…
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