Note E91 — [16 contd.]
Reading edition
"Sowe barlie and dredge." In the 13th century the grain crops chiefly cultivated in England were wheat, "berecorn," dragg, or a mixture of vetches and oats, beans and pease. The regulations for the brewers of Paris in 1254 prescribe that they shall brew only "de grains, c'est à savoir d'orge de mestuel, et de dragèe." "Dredge mault, malt made of oats, mixed with barley malt, of which they make an excellent quick sort of drink."—Bp. Kennett's Gloss. "A mixture of oates and barley; and at present used very seldom in malting."—T.R. "Dragée aux chevaux, provender of divers sorts of pulse mixed together."—Cotgrave. From Way's Notes in Prompt. Parv. s. v. Dragge.