Before they set out, and after they return, it is usual to present the guests with something to drink, either red or white wine, boil'd with sugar and cinnamon, or some such liquor.

Butler, the keeper of a tavern, told me there was a tun of red port drank at his wife's burial, besides mull'd white wine.

Note, no men ever go to women's burials, nor the women to the men's; so that there were none but women at the drinking of Butler's wine.

Such women in England will hold it out with the men, when they have a bottle before them, as well as upon t'other occasion, and tattle infinitely better than they."] [Footnote B: The will of Benjamin Dod, a Roman Catholic citizen of London (died 1714) runs in part as follows: "I desire four and twenty persons to be at my burial ...

to every of which four and twenty persons ...