Hi I never thought of sieves. That looks fine. Vessel timber could be salvaged from an old boat, or to go to build a new boat? Again, I never thought of that. I have seen trestle before but it was spelt differently:"One table one frame one dishboard with all forms cheires stooles bords trestles benches & such like" ... in a 1623 Will, in Cheshire. Regards Austin Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:47:14 +0000Subject: Re: [OEL] Unsolved - 1674 Inventory of Alice Cruse of Brushford, Somerset - Part IIFrom: mjcl111@googlemail.comTo: ajf12345@hotmail.com; OLD-ENGLISH@rootsweb.com; DEBBIEKENNETT@aol.com 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail, Messenger, Photos and more - all with the new Windows Live. Get started! http://www.download.live.com/