Brewer's: 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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