 | Early English newspapers - 1889 - 642 pages
...who were in attendance, “the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meate; and when...servants did sit downe with us, but the upper messe, in steade of porridge had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.” And I observed, he continues, “no... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 pages
...by an Englishman who- visited Edinburgh in the -year 1S98-: " Myself" says %e, " .was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat, with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...interesting manner, recorded, upon his visiting Edinburgh, in 1598. " Myself," says he, " was at a Knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat, with their heads covered with blue caps; the table being more than half-furnished with great... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1823 - 422 pages
...described by an Englishman who visited Edinburgh in the year 1698 : " Myself," says he, " was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat, with their heads covered with blue caps, - the table being more than half furnished with great... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...giving our author's account of the mode of living and manners of the Scotch. " Myself was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 580 pages
...Myself," »ays the gentleman, who was a messenger from the border or frontier, " wan at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat, with their heads Covered with blur caps, the table being mor« than half furninhed with great... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 488 pages
...in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of Scotland, " was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 710 pages
...in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of Scotland, " wai at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1845 - 320 pages
...poorer knights and barons is furnished by a writer of that period, who says—" Myself was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat, with the heads covered with blue caps; the table being more than half furnished with great platters... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 570 pages
...Scotch eat much colewort and cabbage, and little fresh meat. ' Myself, ' he says, ' was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters... | |
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My self was at a knights house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meate with their heads covered with blew caps, the table being more then halfe furnished with great platters of porredge, each having a little piece of sodden meate;... 
