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Part III - Eating, Drinking and Making Merry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2023

Susan Flavin
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After the delivery of your Honour’s ‘scoule,’ [scull], to O’Neill, he took it in his hand and kissed it at least half-a-score times, and then presently he sent for two hogsheads of wine and christened your scull, and after he had drunk his fill, and he put on his shirt of mail and his jack, and called for a bowl of wine, and drank it to your Honour’s health, withal he put on his scull and drew out his sword with a great oath, and said that Sir John Perrot was the truest man of his word that ever he knew …

C. S. P. Ire, 1588–92, p. 234

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Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
Saffron, Stockings and Silk
 , pp. 141 - 142
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2014

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