The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Name: The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
Author: Reynolds, Myra

Reynolds, Myra

Women -- Education -- Great Britain; Women -- Great Britain; Women authors, English

Payd for two pair of shoes                                   4. 0

  Payd for a singing booke                                     1. 0

  Given to M^{rsis} Jervoises mayd                             1. 0

  Payed for a hairlace and a pair of showstrings               1. 0

  For an inckhorne                                             0. 4

  For faggots. 2_s._8_d._; and cleaving of wood, _12d._        3. 8

  For 9^{li} of soape 2_s._ 4_d._; and starch 4_d._            2. 8

  For hooks and a bolte for the doore                          0. 9

  For sugar and licorich                                       1. 4

  For silke and thread                                         0. 6

  For 3^{li} of soape, 11_d._; and starch 4_d._; and carrying
  letters 6_d._                                                1. 9

  For 3^{li} of soape, 12_d._; and starch 4_d._                1. 4

  For sugar, licorich and coultsfoot                           1. 6

  For a necklace, 12_d._; for a m. of pins, 12_d._             2. 0

  For a pair of cands (candles?) 6_d._; for muckadine 4_d._;
  for wormsend (worsted), 2_d._                                1. 0

  For shostrings, 6_d._; for going on errands, 6_d._           1. 0

  For 3^{li} of soape, 12_d._; for starch 4_d._; thread and
  silk 4_d._                                                   1. 8

  For a bason, 4_d._; for carrying letters, 6_d._; for
  tape 4_d._                                                   1. 2

  For soape, 12_d._; for starch, 4_d._; for going on errands,
  6_d._                                                        1.10

  For a pair of pattins, 16_d._; for three pair of shoes,
  6_s._                                                        7. 4

  For callico to line her stockins, 2_d._; for showstrings
  4_d._                                                        0. 6

  For 3^{li} of soape, 12d.; for a pint of white wine 4d.      1. 4

  For ale, 3_d._; for 1/2^{li} of sugar, 8_d._                 0.11

  For a m. of pins, 12_d._; for a corle and one pair of
  half-handed gloves, 8_d._                                    1. 8

  Given to the writing mr.                                     2. 6

  For silke, 12_d._; for silver for the tooth-pick case,
  4_d._                                                        1. 4

  For a sampler, 12_d._; for thread, needles,
  paper, pins, and parchment, 30_d._                           3. 6

  For a pair of shoes, 2_s._ 2_d._; for ribbon, 3_d._          2. 5

  For soape, 12_d._; for starch, 4_d._; for carriing a letter,
  4_d._                                                        1. 8

  To the waterman bringing the (box?) to Richmond              1. 0

  For shoestrings, 6_d._; for purge, 18_d._                    2. 0

  For bringing the box from Richmond                           1. 0

  For a coach from Fleetestreete                               1. 0

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The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

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