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Priests, were therefore soon enjoined to discontinue the practice of
“ drinking to pegs.”
In Ellis’s edition of Brand’s Popular Antiquities is the following note,
describing the various drinking-vessels used in familiar life, from a work
published in 1635; but all the articles were known half a century
before. “ Heywood, in his ‘ Philocothonista, or Drunkard opened,
dissected, and anatomized,’ says, ‘ of drinking-cups, divers and sundry
sorts we have; some of elme, some of boa,', some of maple, some of holly,
&c. Mazers, broad-mouthed dishes, naggins, whiskins, piggins, criuzes,
ale-bowles, wassell-bowles, court-dishes, tankards, kannes, from a pottle
to a pint, from a pint to a gill. Other bottles we have of leather; but
they are most used among the shepheards and harvest people of the
countrey: small jacks wee have in many ale-houses of the citie and
suburbs, tipt with silver, besides the great black-jacks and bombards at
the court, which, when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported, at their
return into their countrey, that the Englishmen used to drinke out
of their bootes. We have, besides, cups made of homes of beastes, of
cocker-nuts, of goords, of eggs of estriches; others made of the shells of
divers fishes brought from the Indies and other places, and shining like
mother of pearle. Come to plate, every taverne can afford you flat
bowles, French bowles, prounet-cups, beare-bowles, beakers; and pri-
vate householders in the citie, when they make a feast to entertaine their
friends, can furnish their cupbords with flaggons, tankards, beere-cups,
wine-bowles, some white, some percell guilt, some guilt all over, some
with covers, others without, of sundry shapes and qualities. He also
tells us : ‘ There is now professed an eighth liberal art or science, called
Ars Bibendi, i. e. the art of drinking. The students or professors thereof
call a greene garland, or painted hoope hang’d out, a colledge; a signe
Priests, were therefore soon enjoined to discontinue the practice of
“ drinking to pegs.”
In Ellis’s edition of Brand’s Popular Antiquities is the following note,
describing the various drinking-vessels used in familiar life, from a work
published in 1635; but all the articles were known half a century
before. “ Heywood, in his ‘ Philocothonista, or Drunkard opened,
dissected, and anatomized,’ says, ‘ of drinking-cups, divers and sundry
sorts we have; some of elme, some of boa,', some of maple, some of holly,
&c. Mazers, broad-mouthed dishes, naggins, whiskins, piggins, criuzes,
ale-bowles, wassell-bowles, court-dishes, tankards, kannes, from a pottle
to a pint, from a pint to a gill. Other bottles we have of leather; but
they are most used among the shepheards and harvest people of the
countrey: small jacks wee have in many ale-houses of the citie and
suburbs, tipt with silver, besides the great black-jacks and bombards at
the court, which, when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported, at their
return into their countrey, that the Englishmen used to drinke out
of their bootes. We have, besides, cups made of homes of beastes, of
cocker-nuts, of goords, of eggs of estriches; others made of the shells of
divers fishes brought from the Indies and other places, and shining like
mother of pearle. Come to plate, every taverne can afford you flat
bowles, French bowles, prounet-cups, beare-bowles, beakers; and pri-
vate householders in the citie, when they make a feast to entertaine their
friends, can furnish their cupbords with flaggons, tankards, beere-cups,
wine-bowles, some white, some percell guilt, some guilt all over, some
with covers, others without, of sundry shapes and qualities. He also
tells us : ‘ There is now professed an eighth liberal art or science, called
Ars Bibendi, i. e. the art of drinking. The students or professors thereof
call a greene garland, or painted hoope hang’d out, a colledge; a signe