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

John Evans

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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

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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.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 1855 , pp. 284 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900001636 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1855

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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 y^e 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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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

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