{"date":"July 15","id":"07-15","intro":["Meals in the houses of the gentry and noblemen in Elizabethan England were taken most seriously. No one spoke. Holinshed records the strange table etiquette of our ancestors."],"minutes":38,"readings":[{"author":"Raphael Holinshed","end":288,"start":271,"volume":35,"work":"Chronicles"}],"slug":"july-15","status":"proofread","title":"When Elizabeth Dined","url":"/harvard-classics/july-15/","words":7551}