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INVENTORY OF ROBERT MARPLES. 



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Itm One table 



Twoo seeled* chaires... 



One turnedt chaire ... 



One chistej 



Five Buffet stooles§ ... 



One Dresser|| one smale forme 



One paire of pistles ... 



One Barrell and some salte 



Two Roopes of unwinsll and one hammer 



Foureteene pewter dishes foure saltes one cupp two 



sawcers one pewter botle two flagons eight pewter 



poringers two pewter plates, in weighte 93 pounds 



at iod. a pound in all 

 Tenn glass botles 

 One Jacke** tipped with silver... 

 One silver flagontt foure silver spoones ... 

 One paire of snuffers two shealves with other husle 



mentsjj ... 



* Pannelled. " The wals of our houses . . . are seeled with oke of our 

 owne." — Harrison's England, ed. by Fumivall, part i., 235. 



t Turned by the turner's wheel, or lathe. A remarkable chair of this kind 

 was formerly in Hazelbarrow Hall, Norton. I may describe it as a great 

 bundle of spindles. 



X Chest. Chiste occurs in Havelock the Dane, 220. Lat. cista. 



§ The Prompt. Parv. has " bofet, a thre fotyd stole." Buffet is still used 

 for a stool in Derbyshire. 



II " Dressar where meate is served ou' at."— Palsgrave. " Dressour or bourde 



whereupon the cooke setteth forth his dishes in order." — Huloet's Abcedanum, 



1552. Our modern sideboard may be compared with it. In the Boke of 



Curtasye, ed. Furnivall, 1868, p. 195, the clerk of the kitchen is thus directed : 



At dressour also he shalle stonde, 



And sett forth mete dresset wilh honde. 



IT Onions. As the word is derived from the Lat. unionem, ace. of unio, this 

 may have been the old pronunciation. I remember a man at Cold Aston being 

 called Onion, though his real name was Unwin. 



** A leathern drinking vessel. A vessel of this kind, made of dark leather, 

 tipped with silver, and called a "black jack," was exhibited, amongst other 

 specimens of ancient art, in the Sheffield Cutlers' Hall, in 18S5. 



ft The value of this silver flagon, probably an heirloom, should be noted. It 

 will appear below that 25 sheep are valued at £$. It was probably a large 

 two-handled cup, like the sconce-tankards used in the colleges of Oxford. 



++ Small articles of furniture. The Catli. Angl. has " an hustylmentt, supellex, 

 supellectile, utensile." Long notes on the word will be found both in the 

 Prompt. Parv. and the Cath. Angl. 



