Zürich family says grace, ca 1643. Bildarchiv Marburg, archive no 1.164/953
See discussion in "Good Table Manners," Ch. 12 of Bringeus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001, p. 177

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