92 
LIFE OF LORD SCUDAMORE. 
Wine. 
The Wines were Claret, Sacke, Muscadine, and White Wine. Butterie and Bakehouse 
Meale for ye Coocks. Wheate in corn or meal is charged 4s. the bushel, and Rye, for ye hall 
and poore, 2s. 6d. a bushel. 
fruits and Spices. 
Sugar loafe po. 94 
Sugar powder po. 40 ... 
Currans po. 80 
att is. 8d. ye po. 
is. 6d. po. 
5d. po. 
Raysons sonne po. 80 
Raysons Maligo po. 40 
Pruens po. 40 ... 
att 5d. ye po. 
4d. po. 
2d. po. 
There are also Rice, Pepper, Almonds, Dats, Nutmegs, Ginger, Cloves, Mace, and 
Sinamonde with prices attached. 
Storehouse. 
Here is a great variety of articles, the chief of which are Olives, Capers, Sampire, 
Sallet oyle, Rose Water, Oynions, Lemons (24), Oringes (9), Viniger, Beniamin, Perfuminge 
Cloves, Rushes, Barme, Wardens (350) price torn off, and many other small articles. 
Stable. 
The Hay is only priced in mass. Oats (102^ bushels) and Peas are both charged 
is 6d. buss. 
Hurll. 
Under this head, Wood no loads is charged 3s. 4d, ye load, then there is “haling and 
cuttinge,” “ Smythe making charre 
coales,” 
&c. 
Gifts. 
£ s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
To those that brought presents... 
... 8 3 
0 
To the Singinge boys.. 
• • • • • • O 
5 
0 
Musicke of Hereforde 
••• 4 5 
0 
To Mils ye Taborer ... 
... ... 0 
5 
0 
Welsh Harper 
0 10 
0 
To ye Coocks and others in 
ye kitchinge... n 
10 
0 
Blinde Harper 
0 10 
0 
To two servinge women 
... 0 
8 
0 
To the Organiste 
1 0 
0 
Danes helpinge ye beere 
... ... 0 
7 
0 
Total 
^27 
3 
0 
These Stewards’ Accounts were originally very precise and complete, but the MS. has 
been so much injured at the edges, by damp and time, that the short abstract here given presents, 
perhaps, as full an account as would be interesting. 
