all the higher clergy (especially Bishops) had monstruous installation feasts in the later middle ages. When the Prior of Canterbury was installed in 1309, there were 6,000 guests, who consumed 53 quarters of wheat, 58 of malt, 11 tuns of wine, 36 oxen, 100 hogs, 200 piglets, 200 sheep, 1,000 geese, 793 capons, hens and pullets, 24 swans, 600 rabbits, 16 shields of brawn, 9,600 eggs, and so on, at a cost of 287 pounds.
"I'm gonna do what I want and I'm gonna get paid."
Posted by matty-b at February 18, 2005 2:07 PM