. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . en, and broth. Honey waslargely used, and bees were extensively cultivated both for thehoney (which was used as sugar is to-day to sweeten foodand ferment liquor, as well as for salves and face-dressingsfor women) and the wax, which was used for seals and forlighting. Salt was considered a necessity, and was mainlyproduced by brine evaporation in Cheshire. Drinks, of course, hold a very prominent place in the Saxonmenage. Beer, ale, and double-brewed ale (made from malt,sometimes from malt and hops); mead, a sweet intoxicating HISTORY OF EN
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . en, and broth. Honey waslargely used, and bees were extensively cultivated both for thehoney (which was used as sugar is to-day to sweeten foodand ferment liquor, as well as for salves and face-dressingsfor women) and the wax, which was used for seals and forlighting. Salt was considered a necessity, and was mainlyproduced by brine evaporation in Cheshire. Drinks, of course, hold a very prominent place in the Saxonmenage. Beer, ale, and double-brewed ale (made from malt,sometimes from malt and hops); mead, a sweet intoxicating HISTORY OF ENGLAND drink fermented with honey; wines, clear, austere, sweet, etc.,sometimes made from vines- grown in England, but generallyimported from the Franks and always rather expensive;drinks of a special kind, hydromel and the southernacid drink, oxymel, which was made of vinegar, honey,and water, and was regarded as having medicinal qualities,being used as a cure for the half-dead disease and epilepsy;mulled wine and daret-cup, were all DanceFrom the Cotton MS., in the British Museum Banquets were not infrequent among the richer classes, onwhose tables dishes of silver and vessels of glass were to befound. At such gatherings musicians, gleemen, or actors,jugglers and buffoons would sometimes appear to amuse theguests. In some cases dancers also attended, but their art wouldappear to have been, as a rule, crude and to have savoured lessof the artistry of the Greek than of the rough horseplay of theknockabout comedian—^they preferred, in other words, tum-bling to dancing. The more elegant forms of dancing were, how-ever, known. In the less formal ftmctions the guests them-selves would sing, and it was customary for the harp to be sentround so that the singer could accompany himself. The priestswere ever good trencher-men and table companions, the firstGoliards, and by no means unhandy with the bumper. We160 SAXON ENGLAND find in Edgars reign the priest forbidden t
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