1892 Drinks of the world

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The Pusey Horn. This horn is an old tenure horn. It was once the custom, when making a gift of land, instead of making out a deed of gift, to present some article of personal use, such as a knife, a drinking or hunting horn, and with it the manor or land, the recipient keeping the present, as a proof that the land was given him. This Pusey horn is said to have been given by King Knut to William Pewse, and on the silver-gilt band, to which are appended dog's legs and feet, is inscribed in Gothic letters " Kyng Knowde geve Wyllyam Pewse This home to holde by thy lond." It is an ox horn, dark brown, and is 25 J inches long, having a silver-gilt rim, and at the small end a hound's head, also of silver-gilt, which unscrews, thus enabling it to be used either as a drinking or hunting horn.