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and certain jurors solemnly present on their oath that
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Our early kings provided against every possible contingency. One tenant enjoyed land by the service of holding the King's stirrup when he mounted his horse at Cambridge Castle. Another must make _hastias_ in the King's kitchen on the day of his coronation. The glossaries are dumb as to this mysterious dish, though the learned darkly hint at haggis! Or was it
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which, being enriched with lard, was called _Maupygernon_--which last is possibly mediæval Welsh for a haggis? Thomas Bardolf, who died, lord of Addington, in 5 Edward III., was pledged to compound three portions of this dainty dish against Coronation Day, and serve them up smoking hot, one to the King, one to his Grace of Canterbury, and the third
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Other manors were held on the tenure of presenting to the King a white young brach (
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of _King Lear_) with red ears; of delivering a hundred herrings baked in twenty pasties; of finding the King a penny for an oblation, whenever he came to hear mass at Maplescamp, in Kent: gifts of roses, falcons, capons (which last dainties your mediæval sovereign held in special favour), were abundant. But how to riddle this one? The manor of Shrivenham, in Berks, was held (_temp._ Edward III.) by the family of Becket, whose head, whenever the King passed over a certain bridge in those parts, must present himself with two white capons, whereto he directed the royal attention in choice mediæval Latin,
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Behold, he said,
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which pleasantry reminds one of the current vulgarism,
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Will you have it now, or wait till you get it?