Two pewter flagons, a little one and a greate one 0 5 7½ Two smoothing-irons, three pewter quart potts 0 7 6 Three pewter pint potts, 1½ pint pot and two muck potts 0 6 9 Four old pewter saucers and ½ doz. plates 0 6 0 Six dozen wooden trenchers, three tin cover lids 0 8 0 Two frying pans, five spitts, two dripin pans, iron and tin 1 2 6 One puding pan of tin, one greate brasse kettle, three iron 1 16 0 potts, one brasse skillett Two copper saucepans, one little iron kettle 0 6 0 Two pair iron pott hookes, a jack with a w^t of 56 lbs. 1 14 0 Two pair andirons, one brasse ladle, one iron beefe forke 1 0 6 Two pair of tongs, one fire shovell, a long bar of iron 0 4 6 One iron chaine in the chimney and three pot hangers 0 15 6 One bellows, a board to whet knives upon 0 1 0 Two copper pots, two brass candlesticks, six tin 0 10 0 candlesticks [Illustration: PLATE XLVI.—_“Buire,” by Mosyn, Auricular Style._ ] Silverware was an important item in the possessions of the merchant class as well as the nobility. In 1682, we find the following items in the inventory of a prosperous butcher: £ _s._ _d._ Twenty-two silver spoons, one silver forke, three silver 48 0 0 gobletts, one ditto tankard, one ditto mustard pot, one ditto cup with two eares, five silver small cuppes, one ditto, one goblet, two ditto salt sellars, one ditto cup, two ditto saucers, one ditto cup, one ditto spice box, a Cornelia tree cup with silver, two ditto dishes, weight in all ten pounds A silver girdle with hanging keys, one ditto with three 1 4 0 chaines with hookes, one gold bodkin, two silver bodkins, “silver for my booke with a chaine,” silver to a belt for a sworde One silver hat band 0 13 6 One silver tumbler 1 0 0 One silver bell 0 18 0 One silver watch 1 0 0 Two pair silver buckles 0 8 0 Fourteen gold rings 10 7 6 One pair silver buttons, and one silver knife 0 12 0 No view of a Dutch interior of the seventeenth century would be complete if it neglected to take into consideration the family pets. These are very much in evidence in the pictures, by Dutch masters. These consist of monkeys, parrots, peacocks, pheasants, cats and dogs. The monkey is quite a privileged character. Sometimes he is perched on the top of a spinet and sometimes on a _kas_ or a chimney-piece.