Note E447 — 86.
Reading edition
"Chippings." The "Chippings of Trencher-brede" in Lord Percy's household were used "for the fedynge of my lords houndis."—Percy Household Book, p. 353. "Other ij pages ... them oweth to chippe bredde, but too nye the crumme."—Household Ordin. pp. 71-2. In the Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, ed. 1634, p. 71, we are warned against eating crusts, because "they ingender a dust cholor, or melancholly humours, by reason that they bee burned and dry."