Acatery
ACATERY
Provisions purchased; also, the room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the king; [related to] acater, a caterer, a purveyor.
-James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
Christmas Feasting
On December 17, 1213, one Reginald de Cornhill was ordered to give what might be considered a culinary command performance for King John, providing his servants with enough food to prepare "right royal feasting" for the court's Christmas celebration. The king's enormous grocery list included "twenty hogsheads of wine, costly, good, and new, both Gascony wines and French wine" and stipulated 'that it be sent without delay, that it may be received before the day of the Nativity. And we require for our use, against that day, 200 head of pork, 1000 chickens, 500 pounds of wax, 50 pounds of pepper, 2 pounds of saffron, 100 pounds of almonds, good and new, 100 ells of linen cloth to make table cloths." The requisition concluded, "Ye shall send thither 15,000 herrings and other fish, and other victual, as Ph. de Langeburgh shall tell you."
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar
Provisions purchased; also, the room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the king; [related to] acater, a caterer, a purveyor.
-James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
Christmas Feasting
On December 17, 1213, one Reginald de Cornhill was ordered to give what might be considered a culinary command performance for King John, providing his servants with enough food to prepare "right royal feasting" for the court's Christmas celebration. The king's enormous grocery list included "twenty hogsheads of wine, costly, good, and new, both Gascony wines and French wine" and stipulated 'that it be sent without delay, that it may be received before the day of the Nativity. And we require for our use, against that day, 200 head of pork, 1000 chickens, 500 pounds of wax, 50 pounds of pepper, 2 pounds of saffron, 100 pounds of almonds, good and new, 100 ells of linen cloth to make table cloths." The requisition concluded, "Ye shall send thither 15,000 herrings and other fish, and other victual, as Ph. de Langeburgh shall tell you."
from: Jeffrey Kacirk's Forgotten English 2006 Calendar