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 | |