Family MS. of the Cunliffes. Quoted byLetitia Elizabeth Landon in the note to her poem, Christmas in the Olden Time, 1650. (1835): 'Their entertainment was, a large hall of curious ashler work, a long table, plenty offurmenty like new milk, in a morning, made of husked wheat, boiled and roasted beef, with a fat goose, and a pudding, with plenty of good beer for dinner.'