“Gilded hangings, standing bed, and box bed, stamped drogged
hangings, feather bed, bolster, and two pillows, a pallise, five
pair of blankets, and a single one, and a twilt, and two pewter
chamber-pots, six chairs, table, and looking-glass a little folding
table, and a chist of drawers, tonges, shuffle, porrin-iron, and
a brush, two window curtains of linen; in the Laird’s closet,
two trunks, two chists, and a citrena cabinet, a table, and a
looking-glass, the dow holes, two carpet chairs, and a chamber-box
with a pewter pan, and a little bell, and a brush for cloath.
“_My Lady’s Closet._
“A cabinet, three presses, three kists, and a spicerie box, a dozen
leam white plates, a blew and white leam plate, a little blew butter
plate, a white leam porenger, and three gelly pots, two leam dishes,
and two big timber capes, four tin congs, a new pewter basson, a pynt
chopen, and mutchken stoups, two copper tankers, two pewter salts, a
pewter mustard box, a white iron peper and suggar box, two white iron
graters, a pot for starch, and a pewter spoon, thirteen candlesticks,
five pair snuffers and snuf dishes conform, a brass mortar and
pistol, a lantern, a timber box, a dozen knives and a dozen forks,
and a carpet chair, two milk congs, a milk cirn, and kirn staff, a
sisymilk, and creamen dish and a cheswel, a neprie basket, and two
new pewter chamber pots.
“_A Note of Plate._
“Three silver salvers, four salts, a large tanker, a big spoon, and
thirteen littler spoons, two jugs, a sugar box, a mustard box, a
peper box, and two little spoons.
“_An Account of Bottles in the Salt Cellar._
“_June the first 1708._
Of Sack, five dozen and one, 5 1
Of Brandie, three dozen and three, 3 3
Of Vinegar and Aquavitie, seven, 0 7
Of Strong Ale, four dozen and four, 4 4
Of other Ale, nine dozen, 9 0
In the ale cellar, fifteen dozen and ten, 15 10
In the hamper, five dozen empty, 5 0
In the wine cellar, nine with Inglish Ale, 0 9
White Wine, ten, 0 10
Of Brandy, three, 0 3
With Brandy and Surop, two, 0 2
With Claret, fifteen, 1 3
With Mum, fifteen, 1 3
Throw the house, nineteen, 1 7
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There is in all, forty-nine dozen and two, 49 2
And of mutchkin bottles twenty-five, 2 1
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