The 'Peaceful Persuasion' And Transplanting Of The Marchmen By James VI Scotland & I England/Scotland…
Glossary for Inventory in 16th Century Northern England
Glossary used in Inventories in Cumberland England 16th century
| TERM | ACTUAL | MEANING |
| WORD | ||
| Alame | elm | |
| Almyrie | almery | cupboard |
| Apparrell | clothing | |
| Ark(e) | a chest for meal | |
| Arras | tapestry work | |
| Bands | collars or ruffs | |
| Bigg | barley | |
| Bourdclothes | tablecloths | |
| Bowting | meaning uncertain-kneading tub or one used for raising the dough | |
| Brandreth | a trivet used to support the girdle over the fire | |
| Broke | broken | |
| Candlechist | chest for storing candles | |
| Carsay | kersey | woollen cloth |
| Chargers | large dishes or flat plates | |
| Cleppes | tongs | |
| Cloke bagge | cloak bag | a bag for carrying clothes |
| Cradell with a prodder | meaning uncertain– stand for a poker? | |
| Cressates | cressetts | iron container sometimes used for burning oil or other substances to provide light |
| Croke | crock | an old ewe |
| Crooks and racks | ironwork over fire for hanging pans and basins etc | |
| Dublers | large earthenware/wood/pewter dishes | |
| Dublet | doublet | close fitting mens body garment with or without sleeves |
| Fatte | vat or tub | |
| Fleshe croke | hook for hanging meat to roast over fire | |
| Fustian | Coarse cloth of wool and flax | |
| Gavelock | iron crow bar | |
| Geggans | geggins | small tub of equal diameter top and bottom. They have one stave longer than the other to act as a handle |
| Girdle | griddle | circular iron plate with a bow handle on which cakes were baked |
| Grograin | a coarse fabric of silk or silk and Wool c.f. grosgrain | |
| Gylle fatte | guile fatte | wort tub – a tub for leavings eg of the brewing process |
| Hackes | pick axes with two points | |
| Hagg(s) | turf, turves (peats) | |
| Happen | happin | thick woollen bedcover |
| Harden (cloth) | a coarse cloth | |
| Haver | oates | |
| Heylaith | haybarn | |
| Hogsheads | casks for beer and wine | |
| Imprimis | first (latin) | |
| Kawdran bandes | cauldron ? | |
| Knoppe | small tub with two stave handles | |
| Kouppes | possibly cowp or | small short fellside carts coop carts |
| Kowters | coulters | iron blades fixed in front of shares in a plough |
| Kye | kine | cow |
| Kylle | kiln | |
| Kylppes | hooks | |
| Kytt | kitt | tub or pail sometimes with lid |
| Latten | a brass like metal | |
| Lead | a container for brewing beer | |
| Lyne | flax | |
| Mallertes | mallard ducks ? | |
| Massefatte | tub for mashing malt | |
| Meselen bayson | brass basin | |
| Nag(ges) | horse(s) | |
| Panyers | paniers | saddle bags |
| Platers | plates | |
| Possuat | possett | this usually refers to a drink made of hot milk and ale but in this context seems to refer to the mug or cup |
| Pottegers | pottingers/porringers | basins for soup c.f. podeger |
| Press | large shelved cupboards sometimes in the recees of a wall | |
| Prisser | press (?) | |
| Puke | a superior kind of woollen cloth | |
| Pyllivers | pillow cases | |
| Quivers | holders for arrows | |
| Racken croke | hook and rack | |
| Salt | salt cellar | |
| Say | a fine cloth made of wool or silk and wool | |
| Shodd | tipped edged or sheathed with metal | |
| Shottes | shots | half grown swine |
| Skelves | shelves ? | |
| Skembles | skemmels | forms or long seats without a back |
| Sockes | plough shares | |
| Steale cottes | steel coats | steel jackets – armour |
| Stone-bow | a kind of cross bow or catapult used for shooting stones | |
| Stottes | stots | bullocks |
| Swingles | swingletree | the wooden bar by which the traces etc are attached to the plough |
| Teaster | tester | a canopy over the bed |
| Temes | either a set of draught animals (ie horses oxen etc used to pull a cart) or a waggon with a horse or horses | |
| Threve | sheave | |
| Thystle | thistle tang? | Tongs for pulling up weeds |
| Traile carres | carts or tubs which had to be pushed by manual labour and were not drawn by animals (a mining term) | |
| Trussing bed | bed with a staw mattress ? | |
| Vergis | verdigris (?) | green deposit which forms on copper or brass |
| Wainescott | wood pannelled | |
| Wanded | slender (?) | |
| Whealebedd | bed on wheels | |
| Why(es) | heifer(s) | |
| Windecloth | winnowing cloth (?) | |
| Wolle cardes | implements to disentagle wool and prepare it for spinning | |
| Womble | wimble | tool such as gimlet augur or brace |
| Yokes with bowes | equipment for yoking oxen to a cart or plough | |
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