It was a luxurious bread eaten by the medieval aristocracy and remained popular into the Restoration period. A recipe appears in A True Gentlewoman's Delight (1653) printed for the Countess of Kent. Lady Arundel's Manchets crossed the Atlantic to Virginia with the early colonists according to Katherine E Harbury. Florence White also references Lady Arundel's Manchet's in her 1932 English Cookery book Good Things in England, publishing a description of a 1676 recipe and updating it for a contemporary readership.
Florence White
Lady Arundel