Banbury cheese.

The cheese of this place was remarkable for its richness and fatness, as long back as the time of Shakespear [Shakespeare], who makes one of his characters, in the play of Henry IV. call Falstaff a Banbury cheese. The excellency of Banbury cheese is likewise recorded by Camden, in his Britannia.

Entry taken from Provincial Glossary, edited by Francis Grose.

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