Swinemeat

head & pluck 4½d: suger 6d: swinemeat 6d

The Hebes, out by only one, suffered macerations and death, being closest to the truth. Ah, Jesu, jewboy worshipped in cloisters: abhorring oysters and swinemeat, they offended their gentle neighbours.

The Druses trace their descent from Jethro, the Midianite father-in-law of Moses. They are monotheists whose religion prohibits them the use of alcohol, tobacco, and swinemeat.

The maidservants had provided them with ale, and wooden plates of swinemeat and bread.

To his eldest son and heir, Edward (then over thirty years of age), and Katherine, his son’s wife and their two children, Jane and Elizabeth, he made various bequests, including all the furnishings of Moor Hall, a chest in the great chamber, all armour and furniture for war, and one great stone used for the preservation of swinemeat.

Instead of racing one another to see who could down oysters the fastest, they improvised, and started simply opening their gullets and pouring in the processed swinemeat.