ABSTRACT
On July 30, 1634, King Charles I attended a feast at which were served “Whole sturgeons in seuerall dishes.” The description, found on a piece of folio paper torn in half length-ways and now housed in the Warwickshire County Records ofce, continues: “A very long table at the least between 7 & eight yards was full of nothing but sawced sh vpon which it was set out before it was served vp.”1 The document goes on to list 40 species of domestic, wild, and water fowl served by the dozen, including thirty swans, thirty peacocks, and ve dozen “fat chickens.”
