When wheat is sold for two shillings and six pence, manchet shall wey 54 shillings, and cheat 72 shillings.
When wheat is sold for fiue shillings and six pence, thenmanchet shall wey 20 shillings, and cheat 28 shillings.
When wheat is sold for foure shillings, manchetshall wey 36 shillings, and cheat 46 shillings.
When wheat is sold for two shillings, manchet shall wey sixtie shillings, and cheat foure pound.
When wheat is sold for fiue shillings, then manchetshall wey 24 shillings, and the cheat bread 32 shillings.
When wheat is sold for foure shillings six pence, manchet shall wey 32 shillings, and cheat 42 shillings.
When wheat is sold for 18 pence the quarter, manchet shall wey 77 shillings, & cheat foure pound and eight shillings.
When wheat is sold for three shillings, manchet shall wey 48 shillings, and cheat 44 shillings.
When wheat is sold for three shillings six pence, then shall manchet wey 42 shillings, and cheat 54 shillings.
When wheat was sold for six shillings the quarter, then shall euerie loafe of fiue manchet wey 41 shillings, and euerie loafe of cheat shall wey 24 shillings.
With that I ran out of College and fetched in a flagon of ale and a manchet of bread, with some cheese, from the Maidenhead tavern, for the buttery was not yet open, it being not yet noon.
Being come to Whitehall the King passed into his bedchamber; and after prayer he bade me bring him some bread and wine, which being brought, the King broke the manchet and ate a mouthful of it, and drank a glassful of claret wine.
Presently a soldier brought him his breakfast--a manchet of bread and a stoup of wine.
Here is a bottle of wine, a cold chicken, and a manchet of bread which I put in my wallet on starting; let us breakfast, for though I do not pretend to have been fasting as you have, the morning ride has given me an appetite.
Because if so the maid shall bring up a manchet of bread and a cup of sack; if not, our evening meal will be served in the course of an hour.
At five o'clock they were astir again, and their hostess insisted on their eating a manchet of bread with some cheese, washed down by a stoup of ale before starting.
Some writers make manchet (afterwards termed chet bread) the name of the simnel loaf; this is perhaps the true explanation.
Manchet bread, which was of high class, seems to have borne its distinctive name rather in reference to shape than to material, and probably resembled a Yorkshire tea-cake.
This is the explanation usually given by antiquaries; but in Lancashire, within living memory, a manchet was a small square loaf of very white bread.
She bought a manchetof bread, partly out of sympathy and justice (she kept a shop), partly to show her household how much better bread she gave them daily; and returned to Tergou dejected.
Eli even invited him to break a manchet and drink a stoup of wine to give him heart for his journey.
His Breviary was in his hand, however, and he was on the point of taking up his hat when Dolores entered the room, bearing a cup of wine and a manchet of bread.
Yet he drank deeply of the Xeres wine that stood on the board beside the venison pasty and the manchet bread.
The manchet was sometimes thought to be sufficient without butter, as we now eat a scone.
God so deales with his servants: he grindes them with grief and pain till they turn to dust, and then are they fit manchet for his Mansion.
He went, like a man dreaming, and returned to find her cutting the manchetinto slices and spreading them with honey.
See, here——” She showed him a manchet of white bread in the wallet.
She came out to him there with a great pewter dish on which were wooden platters, a knife, the manchetof bread, a jar of honey, and two cups of maplewood.
At five o'clock they were astir again, and their hostess insisted on their eating a manchet of bread with some cheese, washed down by a stoup of ale, before starting.
Give me a manchetfor them, Master Cook, and let not the proceedings in the kitchen be stayed for my presence.
How long he slept he knew not, but when he awoke, he found that the cell must have been visited in the interval, for there was a manchet of bread, part of a cold neck of venison, and a flask of wine on the table.
The providing of the penny manchet at the funeral often formed a paragraph in the deceased person's will, and the doles given to the poor on these occasions were often considerable.
Then have a composition ready, made of Crumbs of stale Manchet grated small, and a little Salt (a fit proportion to Salt the meat) and a less quantity of White-pepper.
Then mince half a peck of Spinage, and two great Onions very small, and let it boil one hour or more; season it with salt as you please, and send the Mutton and the Marrow-bone in a dish with French bread or Manchet to the Table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manchet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
