This entry is more particularly noticed under "Ambrys," but a few words will here be said on the word "Cupboard." Some grounds exist for considering that it formerly meant a very different piece of furniture than a "case with shelves," as Dr. Johnson describes it, and as it is explained by Archd. Nares. The entry referred to in these accounts, it is true, appears to have been of an article resembling a modern cupboard; but it is by no means certain that such is the fact. From the following passage it would seem that the word was used for a kind of closet. Speaking of Lord Shrewsbury having appeared before the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth to vindicate himself from some charges brought against him, a writer of the period says, "Yet, for that he did so instantly require to have their aunswere to that which he had propounded, his Lordship was desired to withdrawe himselfe from the table to the _cupbord_, which he did, and so uppon some consultacion amonge the reste of their Lordships then sittinge, his Lordship beinge agayn called to his place, it was," &c.--_Lodge's Illustrations_, vol. ii. p. 298. It could scarcely have been meant that Shrewsbury merely quitted the Council table and went to where the cupboard was placed, at a distant part of the room. The following extract however does not support the opinion, that a cupboard was a closet; but it could not have resembled the modern piece of furniture of that name. Cavendish, speaking of the chamber in which Cardinal Wolsey died, says "the windows being close shut, having wax lights burning _upon the cupboard_," &c. vol. i. p. 318. It is quite certain that an article called a cupboard was sometimes moveable. Robert Frevyll, by his will dated in 1521, gives his son John, among other articles, "a stone cobard in the hall."--_Testamenta Vetusta_, vol. ii. p. 575. Hall thus uses the word. "The Dutchmen bring over iron, tymber, lether, and weynskot ready wrought, as nayles, lockes, basketts, _cupbordes_, stools, tables, chestes, gyrdels with poyntes," &c. p. 587. In the account of the furniture of Henry the Eighth's palaces, in the _Harleian_ MS., 1419, the word "cuppbord" frequently occurs; and the following extract supports the opinion, that it did not resemble the article now known by that name. "Item, one large cuppbord carpet of grene clothe of gold, with workes lyned with bockeram, conteyning in lengthe three yards iij q'ters, and three bredthes of the same cloth of gold," f. 20. Curcean Nicholas, 215. Curtalls (_i.e._ Quintals), of brass for, 170. "Cut," the king's spaniel, 43. "Cutte," the king's dog, paid for finding and bringing, 108. "Cutte," a lanneret, so called, 288. Cutberd, the king's apothecary, 44, 124, 165, 203. Cutler, paid the, 190, 272. Cypress wood, a coffer of, brought, 184. See Coffer.