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Updated: May 8, 2025
Warner thinks that it was in the Conqueror's time; but at any rate, in that of Henry II. the husband of the heiress of Bartholomew de Cheney held his land in Addington, Surrey, by the serjeantry of finding a cook to dress the victuals at the coronation; the custom was kept up at least so late as the reign of George III., to whom at his coronation the lord of the manor of Addington presented a dish of pottage.
P. was silenced, and betook himself to the bottled stout. "These lands," continued the antiquary, "were held in grand serjeantry by the presentation of three white owls and pot of honey " "Lassy me! how nice!" said Miss Julia. Mr. Peters licked his lips. "Pray give me leave, my dear owls and honey, whenever the king should come a rat-catching into this part of the country."
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