SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557- 99 



taking seven nights and eight days. She had her Utter, with 

 four horses, three waggons for the luggage, and over forty 

 nag horses for her attendants. The journey to London cost her 

 ;£g6 13s. 9d., or in present value about ^^^yS. The return 

 journey cost her j£ii2 15s. lod., or in present value about 

 ^789. The church bells and the wayts greeted her with their 

 music at each resting-place. 



The accounts for household expenses in London commence : — 



Rheconk of mony disboursed sens my ladies comyng to loundown 

 beginning Tuesdaye the xxiv. off August. An. qt & qnt (4th ^ ^thj 

 Regni Regis & Reginias Philip & Marine. 



The chief things to be noticed are that provisions are bought 

 each day for each day's consumption. There is a market held 

 on Sundays as on other days. The wine is brought in from 

 a wine shop for each meal. 



25 August 



Paid for Wyne at dyner . . . . . vj. d. 



Paid for Wyne at supr ..... viij. d. 



Paid for one pyntt of Seke .... ij. d. ob. (2^d.) 



Paid for one pottell of Malvesey . . . . x. d. 



Paid for Wynne att aftnoune . . . . ij. d. 



Tea had not yet been introduced into England. What did 

 ladies do without their afternoon tea ? They had to be content 

 with their afternoon wine. 



And this lasted down to the year 1857 in Yorkshire to our 

 knowledge. In old-fashioned families, when a friend made an 

 afternoon call, wine and cake were introduced as a matter of 

 course. And in Scotland when the present Duke of Portland 

 first visited his estates there (a.d. 1880) he called upon his 

 principal tenants ; and one afternoon his Grace said to a friend : 

 " This afternoon I have called upon thirty tenants, and do you 

 know what that means ? It means thirty glasses of whiskey." 

 The national popular liquor was offered to the Duke as a matter 

 of course, and he had to taste of each glass. 



Frydaye. 



27. Auguste. 



Paid for halfe a bushell of oysters 



