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Priests, were therefore soon enjoined to discontinue the practice of“ drinking to pegs.”

In Ellis’s edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities is the following note,describing the various drinking-vessels used in familiar life, from a workpublished in 1635; but all the articles were known half a centurybefore. “ Heywood, in his ‘ Philocothonista, or Drunkard opened,dissected, and anatomized,’ says, ‘ of drinking-cups, divers and sundrysorts we have; some of elme, some of box, some of maple, some of holly,See. Mazers, broad-mouthed dishes, naggins, whiskins, piggins, criuzes,ale-bowles, wassell-bowles, court-dishes, tankards, kannes, from a pottleto a pint, from a pint to a gill. Other bottles we have of leather; butthey are most used among the shepheards and harvest people of thecountrey: small jacks wee have in many ale-houses of the citie andsuburbs, tipt with silver, besides the great black-jacks and bombards atthe court, which, when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported, at theirreturn into their countrey, that the Englishmen used to drinke outof their bootes. We have, besides, cups made of homes of beastes, ofcocker-nuts, of goords, of eggs of estriches; others made of the shells ofdivers fishes brought from the Indies and other places, and shining likemother of pearle. Come to plate, every taverne can afford you flatbowles, French bowles, prounet-cups, beare-bowles, beakers; and pri-vate householders in the citie, when they make a feast to entertaine theirfriends, can furnish their cupbords with flaggons, tankards, beere-cups,wine-bowles, some white, some percell guilt, some guilt all over, somewith covers, others without, of sundry shapes and qualities.’ He alsotells us: * There is now professed an eighth liberal art or science, calledArs Bibendi, i. e. the art of drinking. The students or professors thereofcall a greene garland, or painted hoope hang’d out, a colledge; a signe