Holinshed’s Chronicles (Chapter VI: Of the Food and Diet of the English)

<p>Meals in the houses of the gentry and noblemen in Elizabethan England were taken most seriously. No one spoke. Holinshed records the strange table etiquette of our ancestors. (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>Queen Elizabeth entertained at Kenilworth, July 15, 1575.</p>