INVENTORY OF ROBERT MARPLES. 27 



£ s. d. 



In the kttchen. 

 One londiron* one fire pan and tonges one paire of 



frogest ... ... ... ... ... o 12 o 



One paire of CobironsJ four spitts two drippen panns 0070 



One smothen irong and other old iron ... ... o 02 o 



Sixe Brasse potts ... ... ... ... 2 01 o 



Five Brass pannes ... ... .. ... 2 01 6 



Two dozen of Napkins bein Hugabacks|| ... o 12 o 

 One dozen more of Hugabacks & 1 dozen & five 



napkins of DiberU .. ... ... ... i 02 o 



Eighte linnen pillowbeeres** ... ... ... o 06 o 



Nyne table clothes ... ... ... ... 1 10 o 



Foure towels and foure cupbordcloths ft... ... o 08 o 



Thirteene linnen sheets and one paire of hemperL 



sheetes ... ... ... ... ... 2 12 6 



One table & a fourme one cupboard ... ... o 17 4 



One Greate Brewen tubb ... ... ... o 05 o 



One fire pann ... ... ... ... o 01 6 



One penn BowkeJJ four kitts§§ two bowles one truncke 



one dish cradle one syle|||| six piggons*!li one Brass 



Morter one Iron pestle & three dozen of trenches*** o 09 o 



* See /andiron above. 



+ I do not understand this word. Possibly it means the irons upon which 

 the tongs, &c, rested. 



X The irons by which the spit is supported. — Halliwell. 



§ A flat-iron for " ironing " or smoothing linen, etc. 



II Huckaback, a coarse kind of linen. 



11 Diaper. 



** Pillowcases. The word occurs in Chaucer as pilwe-bere. Palsgrave has 

 " pyllowe bere, taye dorei/lier." 



+t " A cupboard-cloth or carpet. Tapes. "— Baret's Alvearie, 1580. " Cup- 

 board or dresser. Abacus" — Huloet's Abcedarium, 1552. " A cupboarde to 

 set plate upon." — Cooper's Thesaurus, 1573. A cupboard was a small table 

 upon which bread and wine were placed ; a table for cups to stand on. " Cup- 

 bonles layde with carpettes and cuysshyns." — The Boke of Keruinge, p 169. 

 Ed. by Mr. Furnivall for the Early English Text Soc, 1S68. 



XX " Bouke, a pail." — Halliwell. 



SS "A wooden vessel." — Halliwell. Still in use, I hear, as a wooden pail, 

 with one handle, for holding milk. 



A strainer, or sieve, for milk. "A mylke syle. Colatorium." Cath. Aug. 



V "' Small wooden vessels, made in the manner of half barrels, and having 

 one stave longer than the rest for a handle."— Halliwell. 



** # Trenchers. 



