April 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cheered, rejoiced, or, to use an analogous modern 

 term, elevated. Until lately I had supposed up- 

 lifted in that sense to be a Shalcsperian word only ; 

 but I have more than once heard peasants in 

 Northamptonshire use it in common conversation, 

 with precisely the same meaning. Is it so used in 

 other counties ? and especially near Stratford-on- 

 Avon ? Sttlites. 



EXPENSES OP Jl TOUNG LADY S SCHOOL IN THE 

 SEVENTEENTH CENTUKT. 



Some of the following Items appeared to me so 

 curious, and so unlike those which I presume to 

 issue half-yearly from the fashionable young 

 ladies' schools of the present day in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, that I thought the whole 

 account might be acceptable to some of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." From the consumption 

 of soap and starch, one might suppose it was the 

 bill of a washerwoman, rather than the school 

 account of a young lady of condition. It "was 

 found among a very large number of miscel- 

 laneous papers In Warwickshire : 



" Tht Account for Peggy's Disbursetnents since her going to 

 Schoole at Richmond, being in Sept. 1646. 



' Payd for a louehood - - - 



For carriing the truncke to Queenhive 

 For carriing it to Hammersmith. 

 Payd for two pair of slioes . - - 



Payd for a singing booke - - - 



Given to M""'' Jervoises mayd 

 Payd for a hairlace and a pair of showstrlngs - 

 For an inckhorne - - - _ 



For faggotts, 2s. 8(i. ; and cleaving of wood, V2d. 

 For 9" of soape, 2s. Ad. ; and starch, Ad. 

 For hookes and a bolt for the doore - 

 For sugar and licorich ... 



For silke and thread - - - - 



For 3" of soape, lid.; and starch, Ad; and 



carrying letters, 6d. - _ . 



For 3" of soape, 12d. ; and starch, Ad. 

 For sugar, licorich, and coultsfoot 

 For a necklace, 12d. ; for a m. of pins, 12<f. 

 For a pair of cands (candles ?), 6d. ; for muck- 



adine, Ad.; for wormsend (worsted), 2d. 

 For showstrings, 6d. ; for going on errands, 6 J. 

 For 3""of soape, 12d. ; for starch, Ad. ; for thread 



and silk, Ad. _ _ . _ 



For a bason. Ad. ; for carrying letters, 6c?. ; for 



tape, Ad. - 

 For soap, 12<i. ; for starch, Ad. ; for going on 



errands, 6d. _ _ _ . 



For a pair of pattins, 16tf. ; for three pair of 



shoes, Gs. - 

 For callico to line her stockins, 2d. ; for show- 

 strings. Ad. _ _ . _ 

 For 3" of soape, 12d. ; for a pint of white 



wine, Ad. ----- 

 For ale, dd. ; for J" of sugar, M. 

 For a m. of pins, 12d. ; for a corle and one pair 



of half-handed gloves, 8d. - 

 Given to the writing-m"" - - - 



For silver for the toothpick-case 



3. d. 



2 6 

 8 



1 9 



1 A 



1 6 



2 



1 

 1 



1 8 



1 2 



1 10 



7 A 



6 



1 4 



U 



1 8 



2 6 

 1 6 



s. d. 



For silke, 12c?. ; for a toothpick-case, 4c?. - 1 4 

 For a sampler, 12c?. ; for thread, needles, paper, 



■pins, and parchment, 30c?. - - ^ S G 



For a pair of shoes, 2s. 2c?. ; for ribbon, 3d. - 2 5 

 For soape, 12c?. ; for starch, Ad. ; for carriing a 



letter, 4c?. - - - - - 1 8 

 To the waterman bringing the [box?] to 



Richmond - - - - - 1 



For shoestrings, 6d. ; for a purge, 18d. - 2 



For bringing the box from Richmond - 1 

 For a coach from Fleetestreete - -10' 



For wood to this time 



- 15 10 



Totall of disbursements to this 15th dav of 

 -4prill, 1647, is - - - ' £3 18 5." 



Ev. Ph. Shiklet. 



Houndshill. 



The Newspaper Stamp. — In the third volume 

 of Almon's Parliamentary Register (Svo., 1776, 

 p. 480.), I find a report of Lord North's speech on 

 " opening the budget," April 24, 1776. One of 

 his financial propositions was an additional half- 

 penny to the newspaper stamp ; and I extract for 

 " N. & Q." that part of the speech which relates 

 to this topic, as I presume It will now be read 

 with some interest : 



" Newspapers in general, he thought a very fit object 

 of taxation. He said, many persons thought they did 

 more harm than good, while others looked upon them to 

 be of great public benefit. He did not pretend to deter- 

 mine whether they were, or were not ; but he could not 

 help observing that they inculcated one thing which he 

 believed was not to be credited, which was, that the 

 liberties of this country were in danger from cruel, am- 

 bitious, and tyrannical ministers; when, under this ty- 

 rannic government, newspapers were daily permitted to 

 abuse the persons and misrepresent the measures of those 

 very men, whom they described as enemies of liberty, 

 Avith impunity. He could farther inform them that those 

 calumnies and falsehoods were propagated and repeated 

 in the course of a year, in no less than 12,230,000 news- 

 papers. It was difficult to determine whence this avidity 

 for reading newspapers arose. He could not say it was 

 from a thirst of knowledge or improvement. He pre- 

 sumed, therefore, it was from a general desire of knowing 

 what was passing, of spending half an hour that lay 

 heavy on their hands, or from an idle foolish curiosity ; 

 but, let the reason be what it might, it was a species of 

 luxury that ought to be taxed ; and, from the propensity 

 just mentioned, would, he made no doubt, well bear it. 

 He said, by the last returns in the stamp oifice, the 

 amount of the tax was fifty thousand pounds on the 

 penny stamp. He proposed now to lay on an additional 

 halfpenny ; which would, if the sale were to continue the 

 same, produce twenty-five thousand pounds ; but, as the 

 sale might possibly decrease somewhat, and thereby affect 

 the penny stamp, and that several papers which were 

 charged were returned as unsold, and the stamp after- 

 wards allowed for, he would compute the produce of this 

 tax to be no more than eighteen thousand pounds per 

 annum." 



H. Martist. 



Halifax. 



