Audley almoner, and the Earl of Worcester, Earl-Marshal, rode
about the hall during dinner on a charger, with a number of constables
to keep order.

The bill of fare consisted of: _First course_--Brawn and mustard,
dedells in burneaux, frument with balien, pike in erbage (pike stuffed
with herbs), lamprey powdered, trout, codling, fried plaice and
marling, crabs, leche lumbard flourished, and tarts. Then came a
subtlety representing a pelican sitting on her nest with her young and
an image of St. Katherine bearing a book and disputing with the
doctors, bearing a reason (motto) in her right hand, saying, in the
French apparently of Stratford-at-the-Bow, "Madame le Royne," and the
pelican as an answer--

"Ce est la signe
Et lu Roy
Pur tenir ioy
Et a tout sa gent,
Elle mete sa entent."

_Second course_--Jelly coloured with columbine flowers, white potage,
or cream of almonds, bream of the sea, conger, soles, cheven, barbel
with roach, fresh salmon, halibut, gurnets, broiled roach, fried
smelt, crayfish or lobster, leche damask with the king's word or
proverb flourished "_une sanz plus_." Lamprey fresh baked, flampeyn
flourished with an escutcheon royal, therein three crowns of gold,
planted with flowers de luce, and flowers of camomile wrought of
confections. Then a subtlety representing a panther with an image of
St. Katherine having a wheel in one hand and a roll with a reason in
the other, saying--

"La royne ma file,
In ceste ile,
Par bon reson
Alues renoun."

_Third course_--Dates in composite, cream mottled, carp, turbot,
tench, perch, fresh sturgeon with whelks, porpoise roasted, memis
fried, crayfish, prawns, eels roasted with lamprey, a leche called the
white leche flourished with hawthorn leaves and red haws, and a march
pane, garnished with figures of angels, having among them an image of
St. Katherine holding this reason--

"Il est ecrit,
Pour voir et dit
Per mariage pur
C'est guerre ne dure."

And lastly, a subtlety representing a tiger looking into a mirror, and
a man sitting on horseback fully armed, holding in his arms a tiger's
whelp, with this reason, "Par force sanz reson il ay pryse ceste
beste," and with his one hand making a countenance of throwing mirrors
at the great tiger, the which held this reason--

"Gile de mirror,
Ma fete distour."

[Illustration: "Marble Panel Florentine 1420,
S. Kensington museum."]

KING HENRY THE SIXTH

became king in 1