"SIRLOIN."
In Lancashire there is a tradition that King James 1., during one of his visits to the county, > knighted —at a banquet at Hoghton Tower, near Blackburn—a loin of beef. Dr. Pegge conceives the word to be "compounded of the. French 'sur' (upon) and the English 'loin,' for the sake of euphony, our particles not easily submitting to composition. In proof of this, the piece of beef so called grows upon the loin and behind the small ribs of the animal." The tradition is also related as a waggish freak of Charles 11. Hence the epigram:—
Our Second Clmrles, o£ fame facete, On loin of beef did dinp; lie lipid his sword,, pleased o'or t.lifi meat, "Klse up, tnou fumed sirloin !" The table upon which the burlesque ceremony was said to have been performed was shown a few years since at Friday Hill House, Chingford, Essex.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 12
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