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Table Etiquette at Anne Boleyn’s Banquet

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 10, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 22.

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Table Etiquette at Anne Boleyn’s Banquet

TABLE etiquette has doubtless changed a good deal at the royal palace of England in the last 353 years. At the coronation banquet of Anne Boleyn, it was counted worthy of record in the matter of royal manners that, "Two countesses stood, one on each side of the queen, during all the dinner, which divers times in the dinner-time did hold a fine cloth before the queen's face when she list to spit."—Sel.