7O HISTORY OF HARTINO. 



(Dinner No. I.) (Dinner No. II.) 



Pudding, baked Eggs and yest vi d 



Good (codd) boyled, ii Butter xi lb iiii s ii d 



fishes 



Apple pyes baked Suma xiiii s vi d 



Drinking this week xliii 5 ix d " 



The chief item of all was the ocean of beer con- 

 sumed ; in fact it would seem that at that time more 

 beer was drunk in a month in the single house of 

 Harting Place, than in all the parish with its five 

 public houses now. Over 1000 gallons disappeared 

 from the store in one calendar month ; and of the 

 total expense of the household for one month from 

 Jan. 6th to Feb. 2nd (Twelfth day to Candlemas), 

 4$ : 15 : 1 1 in all, the highest item is for 20 hogsheads 

 of beere at 93. the hogshead, 9 : o : o. It must be 

 remembered, however, that in those days beer covered 

 the space now occupied by tea, coffee and cocoa, and all 

 lighter drinks as well as wine and spirits ; it was nearly 

 the sole beverage for all classes and sexes. And further 

 the account is for a Christmas time. Still when all these 

 allowances are made, we cannot doubt that to get rid of 

 20 hogsheads of beer in a month Harting Place must 

 have wallowed in drunkenness. Other items of the 

 month's bill of store were "30 bushels of wheat at 35. 4d. 

 = 6 : 2 : 4; Beef, no nayles, at I3d. the nayle,* 

 6 : 7 : .3 ; Muttons (sheep), 13^, whereof 5 at ics. 

 ye peece, 8 at 73. ye peece, 6 : I r : o ; 4 turkies, 20 

 capons, 20 rabbits, 2 flitches of bacon, butter, 17 nailes 

 at 5d. the nayle, 75. id. ; 180 eggs, 93. ; old ling (salt 

 fish), iiii at 33. 8d. = i4s. 8d. ; stock fish, 7 at 8d. the 

 cupple, 2s. 3d.; codd, 12 cupple at i6d. ye cupple, i6s." 



" Sum. tot lis - of yo r - wo? 5 - (worships) expenses of 

 household for one whole moneth, that is to say from 

 the sixth January untill the second of February, being 

 the space of one moneth, besides wine, spice, woode 

 and coole (coal) 4$ : 15 : 11." 



The " nail " is still known in Sussex as a measure for eight 

 pounds of meat. 



