Unsolved... 1674 Inventory of Alice Cruse of Brushford, Somerset - Part II 1. It one standing Bedsteed one Bed=ty? [modern = tie?] 2. 2 feather boulsters 2 blanketts and 3. 2 coversetts iij o o 4. It one silver spoone o vj viij 5. It 2 jybbs one fate one Tub x 2 pailes o xv o [modern=jibs] 6. It 2 candlestickes one filing Iron 7. one spitt and one Tub o v o 7. It tressle tymber and other things 8. forgot and out of mynd o ij vj 9. sum tot xij vij o [suma totalis] 10. Richard Bishop 11. George Goodring _________________________________________________________________ Check out the new and improved services from Windows Live. Learn more! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/

Hi I read it as below :- 1. It[em[ one standing Bedsteed one Bed=ty 2. 2 feather boulsters 2 blanketts and iij - o - o 3. 2 coverletts 4. It[em] one silver spoone o - vj - viij 5. It[em] [? 2 sybbs] one fate one Tub & 2 pailes o - xv - o 6. It[em] 2 candlestickes one stiling Iron 7. one spitt and one Tub o - v - o 8. It[em] vessle Tymber and other things 9. forgott and out of mynd o - ij - vj 10. Sum[ma] tot[alis] xij - vij - o 11. Richard Bishop 12. George Gooding I am still uncertain of the first letter of the first item in Line 5 as to whether its an S or I (J) ...... i take the sybbs to be sieves and if its an I (J) then I take it to be jibs ...... All the best Martyn On 04/02/2009, aj smith <ajf12345@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Unsolved... 1674 Inventory of Alice Cruse of Brushford, Somerset - Part > II 1. It one standing Bedsteed one Bed=ty? [modern = > tie?] 2. 2 feather boulsters 2 blanketts and 3. 2 > coversetts iij o o 4. It one silver spoone o vj viij 5. It 2 > jybbs one fate one Tub x 2 pailes o xv o [modern=jibs] 6. It 2 > candlestickes one filing Iron 7. one spitt and one Tub o v o 7. It > tressle tymber and other things 8. forgot and out of > mynd o ij vj 9. sum > tot xij vij o [suma totalis] > 10. Richard Bishop 11. George Goodring > _________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new and improved services from Windows Live. Learn more! > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/132630768/direct/01/ > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >