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Show ' In illustration of the drinking habits of the seventeenth century, Dr. Fraser, in a report just published by the British Manuscript Commission, quotes from the household account of the sixth Earl of Eglinton an entry of the consumption of ale on Thursday, November 16, 1646:. "To your Lordship's morning drink, a pynt: for my ladies morning drink, I pynt ; to your lordship's denner, 2 pynts ; mair. 3 pynts; to the letter meal, 2 pyntis; efter denner, 1 pynt; at four houres, 1 pynt; ane other pynt; to your lordship's supper, 3 pyntis," etc. |