 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...day of the young prince's coronation, king Henry the Firft ' ferved his fonne at the table as fewer, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it according to the manner.' This annual ceremony was accompanied with a carol, of which the following fpecimen is preferved. '... | |
 | 1804 - 812 pages
...ferved at the coronation of his ion, it is recorded that he ferved the young king at t^ble as fewer, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it, according to. the ancient manner. I« the middle ages the art of cookery was as much cultivated and'as much improved... | |
 | John Brady - Commonplace-books - 1826 - 312 pages
.... the day of the young Prince's coronation, King Henry • I. " served his sonne at table as sewer, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it, according to the manner." For this indispensable ceremony, as also " for others of that season, there was a carol, which" <(Wynkyn... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...in the year 1170, upon the day of the young prince's coronation, King Henry I, served hi* sonne at table as server, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it, according to the manner.' For this ceremony there was a special carol. Dugdale also tells us, that 'at the inns of court, during... | |
 | William Sandys - Carols - 1833 - 368 pages
...1170, King Henry the Second, on the day when his son was crowned, served him at table himself as sewer, bringing up the boar's head, with trumpets before it, " according to the manner."* During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, at the revels of the Inner Temple, "At the first course (on Christmas... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...old chroniclers. " The King," says Holinshed, " upon that day served his son at the table as sewer, bringing up the boar's head, with trumpets before it, according to the usual manner. Whereupon the young man, conceiving a pride in his breast, beheld the standers-by with... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...has been occasionally attached to it. Henry IL " served his son (upon the young prince's coronation) at the table as server, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it." A few remarks on several customs appertaining to Christmas may not be uninteresting to our readers... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...hall at Westminster, and King Henry, the father, served his sonne at the table as sewer (or waiter), bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it, according to the manner ; whereupon the young man, conceiving a pride in his heart, beheld the standers by with a more stately... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...music. Holinshed states that, in the year 1170, on the day of the young prince's coronation, King Henry II. "served his son at the table as server, bringing...general custom of the times. With Christmas commenced thr season of mumming, and the reign of the " Lord of Misrule," or " Abbot of Unreason," as he was... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...music. Holinshed states that, in the year 1170, on the day of the young prince's coronation, King Henry II. " served his son at the table as server, bringing up the Aoor'.t head with trumpets before it, according to the manner," or general custom of the times. With... | |
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served his son at the table as server, bringing up the boar's head with trumpets before it, according to the manner, or general custom of the times. 
