Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
gure from the MS. of theromance of Alexander, (Bodl. 264,) shewsthat the churn of that day did not differmaterially from that now in use. THE LARDER. The larder, as we said before, must often have beenof considerable size, as it was used to keep provisionsstored up for some length of time. For… … THE LARDER. 139 find that it contained0 the carcases of twenty oxen, andfifteen pigs, of herrings eight thousand, of dograves (a sea-fish peculiar to those parts) seven score, twenty pounds ofalmonds, thirty of rice, six barrels of lard, enough oatmealto last till Easter, two quarters of salt.…
Architecture, Domestic
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