Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Battels

Rations or “commons” allowed to students at the University of Oxford. (To batten, to feast.)

Battel Bills.
Buttery bills at the universities. (See above.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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