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came an usual present from gossips to their god-children at christenings;[1] and that the bason and ewer, for washing before and after dinner, was introduced, whence the ewerer was a great officer,[2] and the ewery is retained at Court to this day;[3] we meet with damaske water after dinner,[4] I presume, perfumed; and the words ewer, &c. plainly come from the Saxon eþe, or French eau, water.

Thus, to return, in that little anecdote relative to the Conqueror and William Fitz-Osbern, mentioned above, not the crane, but the flesh of the crane is said to have been under-roasted. Table, or cafe-knives, would be of little use at this time,[5] and the art of carving so perfectly useless, as to be almost unknown. In about a century afterwards, however, as appears from archbishop Neville's entertainment, many articles were served whole, and lord Wylloughby was the carver.[6] So that carving began now to be prac-

  1. ↑ The king, in Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. act iv. sc. 2. and 3. calls the figts of the sponsors, spoons. These were usually gilt, and, the figures of the apostles being in general carved on them, were called apostle spoons. See Mr. Steevens's note in Ed. 1778, vol. VII. p. 312. also Gent. Mag. 1768, p. 426.
  2. ↑ Lel. Collect. IV. p. 328. VI. p. 2.
  3. ↑ See Dr. Percy's curious notes on the Northumb. Book, p. 417.
  4. ↑ Ibid. VI. p. 5. 18.
  5. ↑ They were not very common at table among the Greeks. Casaub. ad Athenæum, col. 278. but see Lel. Coll. VI. p. 7.
  6. ↑ Leland, Collectan. VI. p. 2. Archbishop Warham also had his carver, ibid. p. 18. See also, IV. p. 236. 240. He was a great officer. Northumb. Book, p. 443.

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