The meal was a modest affair by the Bishop"s usual standards – there were only 97 people invited. On the table was a carpet of food so extravagantly carnivorous, it was almost the contents of a whole zoo. This included half a cow, three sheep, 24 rabbits, a pig, half a wild boar, seven piglets, two swans, two woodcocks, four mallard ducks, 20 snipes (long-beaked wading birds that bleat like goats), 10 capons (castrated cockerels), and three teal ducks.