pigge

You shall see them sometimes (to season their bodies) come out of their bathstoues all on a froth, and fuming as hoat almost as a pigge at a spit, and presently to leape into the riuer starke naked, or to powre colde water all ouer their bodies and that in the coldest of all the winter time.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

So Radisson watches his opportunity, prowling at night near the visitors 'cabin, and when the dog comes out, snatches him up, stabs him, and carries him to his party, where he is immediately cut up and "broyled like a pigge."

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

Capou {n}, pigge/vensou {n} bake, leche lombard [188]/frutur {e} viaunt [189] fyne;

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Gyng {er} sawce [128] to lambe, to kyd/pigge, or fawñ/in fere; to feysand, p {ar} trich {e}, or cony/

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

I brought him to the cottage, where [he] was broyled like a pigge and cutt in peeces, gutts and all, soe every one of the family had his share.

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

You shall see them sometimes (to season their bodies) come out of their bathstoues all on a froth, and fuming as hoat almost as a pigge at a spit, and presently to leape into the riuer starke naked, or to powre colde water all ouer their bodies and that in the coldest of all the winter time.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584

The Olde English word for the pig farm animal was "picga," and the Middle English word for it evolved into "pigge," possibly because of the fact that the animals rolled around in "pygg" mud and dirt.

ComingAnarchy.com Curzon 2009

He hath alsoe vpon some considerations promised me a sowe pigge, and the keepinge of her and her increase from hence for 3 yeares, by which tyme I hope to come ouer; if I can gett of Sir Robert a kidd or a calfe, I shall thinke my selfe reasonablie well rewarded of him for my paines.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

[c]  Ffurmente w {i} t {h} veneson, swanne, pigge.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

I could bye the best pigge or goose that I could lay my hand on for four pence which now costeth 12d., a good capon for 3d. or 4d., a hen for 2d., which now costeth me double and triple. '[

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893