A TUDOR COOKERY B00/14 Miss FREBE has made an attractive
volume of her new edition of a Tudor cookery book. She was introduced to it, we learn in the Introduction, "by the Librarian of Corpus Christi College, who, knowing my interest in the subject, told me of this most delightful black-letter book of the sixteenth century, which has lived so long in the College Library ; and at the Librarian's request on my behalf, I received the kind permis- sion of the Master and Fellows to edit it, with such explanatory notes as the ancient wording made necessary." The little volume was left to the College Library by Archbishqp Parker, among many other "rare, and early, printed books." "It con- sists of but twenty-seven small pages," and is bound up with other pamphlets; but though the receipts are few in number, their interest is considerable, from the light whioh they throw on the management of a great Tudor household, such as that of Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury. Realizing this,
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Miss Frere has given us a charming and able sketch of Matthew Parker's life, "his remarkable character and history, especially as regards its domestic and personal side, as friend, as host, as husband and father, and head of a great household—as a man, in fact—a great typical Englishman." This sketch is chiefly founded on a biography written in the eighteenth century by John Strype, the last edition of which was issued in 1821, "and as yet Strype has had no editor!" Will not Miss Frere undertake the task, after tantalizing her readers by such a sentence as this : "Strype seized on the character and the very soul of the man whose Life he wrote, and we feel when we have read Strype's records that Arch- bishop Parker is our personal friend" ? The Introduction is also full of delightful stories and curious and amusing facts, put together with a "light hand." Here is an account "by Thomas Wilson, 1553," of how an Italian who had a '"ante here in Englande to the archbushope of Yorke that then was .. . knockt at the gate, (at about 11 o'clock in the morning) unto whom the porter, perceiving his errand, answered that my lord bishope was at dinner. The Italian departed, and returned between 12 and 1; the porter answered they were yet at dinner. He came again at two of the Clocks, the porter told him they had not half-dined. He came at 3 a'clocke, unto whom the porter in a !mate answered never a worde, but churlishly did shutte the gates uponbim. Whereupon others told the Italian that there was no speaking with my lord almost all daie, for the solemn dinner sake,' and he left, disappointed. But meeting an Englishman, a friend of the Archbishop, three years later in Rome, 'I pray you tell me,' qnoth the Italian, hath that Archbushope yet dined?" In the Proper Newe Boole of Coherye itself the reader will also find much entertain- ment, both in Miss Frere's notes, printed in red type, and in such Arcadian directions as "take a posye of Rosemary and time and lipid° them together . . ." and with other ingredients, "you shall have a good Pyke sauce." We have not space to do more than call the reader's attention to a beautiful repro- duction of a portrait of Matthew Parker, dated 1573, a very full and interesting glossary-index, and to the charming and appropriate binding, well carried out from Miss Frere's own design.
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