Foods, Feasts, Festivals

This book, Foods, Feasts & Festivals, shines a light on the Beverley area in the 1500s, a time of lavish living that was to disappear for ever under Oliver Cromwell. Like many towns, Beverley had its great festivals around the merchants’ guild or mystery plays (38 of them, played on waggons rumbling through the town from dawn till dusk), described in this book with illustrations. Foods, Feasts & Festivals also describes the lavish meals and feasts at the Earl of Northumberland’s Wresstle Castle and Leaconfield Manor using information from original documents at the Earl’s Alnwick Castle and elsewhere.