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ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
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enough to provide moderate abundance for himself and his family. Neither priest nor squire was able to estab-

    In the Chamber behind the Chimney.

    One seam and a half of old malt.
    Item, a trap for rats.
    Item, a board of three yards length.

    In the Chamber next adjoining westwards.

    One bedstedyll, one flock bed, one bolster.
    One form, two shelf boards, one little table, two trestylls, two awgyes, one nett, called a stalker, a well rope, fire quarters of hemp.

    In the Butlery.

    Three basins of pewter, five candlesticks, one ewer of lateen, one chafing dish, two platters, one dish, one salter, three podingers [? porringer], a saltseller of pewter, seven kilderkyns, three keelers, one form, five shelves, one byn, one table, one glasse bottell.

    In the Priest's Chamber.

    One bedstedyll, one feather bed, two forms, one press.

    In the Woman's Keeping.

    Two tablecloths, two pair of sheets.

    In the Servant's Chamber.

    One painted hanging, a bedstedyll, one feather bed, a press, and a shelf.

    In the Kitchen.

    Eight bacon flitches, a little brewing lead, three brass pots, three kettles, one posnett, one frying-pan, a dripping-pan, a great pan, two trivetts, a chopping knife, a skimmer, one fire rake, a pothanger, one pothooke, one andiron, three spits, one gridiron, one firepan, a coal rake of iron, two botts [? butts], three wooden platters, six boldishes, three forms, two stools, seven platters, two pewter dishes, four saucers, a covering of a saltseller, a podynger, seven tubbs, a caldron, two syffs, a capon cope, a mustard quern, a ladder, two pails, one beehive.

    In the Mill-house.

    Seven butts, two cheeses, an old sheet, an old brass pan, three podyngers, a pewter dish.

    In the Boulting-house.

    One brass pan, one quern, a boulting hutch, a boulting tub, three little tubbys, two keelers, a tolvett, two boulters, one tonnell.

    In the Larder.

    One sieve, one bacon trough, a cheese press, one little tub, eight shelves, one graper for a well.