 A separate tradition of Lenten fish pie required Yarmouth cooks to send the king two dozen pies containing 100 herrings.The customary gifts of fish in crust prevailed in 1530, when the prior of Llanthony, Gloucester, baked eels and carp into a pie for Henry VIII.The presentation of the royal eel pie continued in 1752, when bakers sent one to the Prince of Wales, and again during Queen Victoria's reign.