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XXVII. Extracts from the Private Account Book of Sir William More, of Loseley, in Surrey, in the time of Queen Mary and of Queen Elizabeth. Communicated in a Letter from John Evans, Esq. F.S.A. to J. Y. Akerman, Esq. Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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I have again the pleasure of sending you a transcript of some of the numerous documents of antiquarian interest preserved in the Muniment Room of Loseley House, near Guildford. for access to which, as on a previous occasion, I am indebted to the kindness of their proprietor, James More Molyneux, Esq. of Loseley, a Fellow of this Society.
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page 287 note a Kempe, p. 217.
page 287 note b Kempe, 265.
page 288 note a Saye; a kind of woollen stuff or serge.
page 288 note b Table; picture of King Henry VIII.
page 288 note c Tables for playing at backgammon and similar games.
page 288 note d Cruell; worsted.
page 289 note a Crepers; andirons or small low irons between the andirons.
page 289 note b Gittorne; a cittern or guitar.
page 289 note c Carpet of carrys; possibly of kersey (Fr. carisée), or of Cairo (Fr. Cairen, a turkey carpet); carrel is given as fustian by Halliwell; and cary as a kind of coarse cloth, Piers Ploughman, p. 475.
page 289 note d Counterpane.
page 289 note e Warmynge. Probably a warming-pan, of which article this is I think the earliest recorded notice.
page 289 note f Gardevyance. A gardeviand or gardemanger; achest or bag in which to keep food.
page 289 note g Stills.
page 290 note a Sic in orig. Probably a picture.
page 290 note b A board on which to cast accounts with jettons or counters.
page 290 note c Coffyne; a coffin or chest.
page 290 note d Standyshe; inkstand.
page 290 note e For pounce.
page 290 note f Calepino's Vocabulary of the Latin Tongue.
page 290 note g A boke of the orders of divers matters in London. (Qy. Arnold's Customs of London) 2nd Catalogue.
page 291 note a Carion's Chronicle, printed by Walter Lynne, 1550
page 291 note b Flores Terentii ad loquendum Latine.
page 292 note a Cover of a book.
page 292 note b Scrolls.
page 292 note c Capcase; a small trunk: “a cappecase for to carrye ye letters in. Archaeol. XXV. 559.
page 292 note d Sukket; sweetmeat.
page 293 note a A bottle for sprinkling perfumes.
page 294 note a Breke. To cut up: conf. to “break up ” a deer.
page 295 note a Shoeing.
page 295 note b Corner-stones, or quoins.
page 296 note a a Probably from Sir T. Cawarden's house.
page 300 note a Harte lathe; laths made from the heart of the tree.
page 300 note b Taylynge; cutting to pieces (Fr. tailler).
page 309 note a A kind of nails so called, probably hodie “brads.” Halliwell refers to Florio, p. 68, ed. 1611.
page 310 note a In the bay window of the Hall at Loseley are still the arms of More: Azure, a cross argent, charged with five martlets sable, with the date 1568.—Kempe.
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