Cullender
53. He beareth a cullander,
and a chaffeing dish,
two things vsefull for a
cooke, or to be in an house, wher there
is a considerable familey. The first is
made of Tyn or other mettle, hauing
the bottome full of small round holes:
in this Herbes or such like things are
washed, whose dirt and filth runs
through the holes, leaueing them pure
and cleane.
Chafing dish
A chaffeing dish is a kind of round
Iron, made hollow like a Bason, set
on feet, either 3 or 4 with an handle to
moue it from place to place; its office
is to hold hot coales of fire in, and to set
dish-meates theron, to keepe them
warme till the tyme of serueing them vp
to the table, or to heate a cold dish of
meate, on the table.
Warming pan
54. In this quarter are two pans one
for warmeing, the other for frying: the
first is termed a warming pan, whose
office it is, to receiue either hot coales,
or an Iron heater in to it, which being
shut closse with a couer for the purpose,
the maide warmes her masters Bed.
This is called the English warmeing pan, not a Scotch pan.
Frying pan
Image from proof plateA frying pan is to fry all sortes of meats that are to be fryed or stewed.
Ferris
55. He beareth a Ferris, or
steele to strike fire: surmounted
of an Hand broach and a Jack Broach
[and] the pulley.
These are three
necessary instruments for a Kitchin,
viz : first the ferris, and Tinder box, to
prepare the fire; of which I find the
owne borne in Armes, which is the
the ferris, or steele (as some call it).
Hand broach and pulley broach
Second a Broach or spitt, (but here
called an hand broach or spitt with an
hand, to distinguish it from the Jack
spitt or Pullas spitt) is an Instrument to
roaste meate vpon, and when a Jack is
wanting is turned by hand, which office
of the turner is termed a Turnspitt.
Third, a Jack or Pulley Broach, hath euer the same terme without alteration: haueing the pulley made fast at the end of it, for the Jack chaine or cord to turne in, thereby to turne it about before the fire.
Mortar and pestle
56. He beareth a Morter and
Pestell.
Mortar
57. Thus was the old way of drawing
the Morter.
And so I find three of them borne by the name of Bray. To Bray (that is to bruse beate or pounde) spices in a morter, causeth them to send forth a sweet fragrancy: but to Bray a foole in a Morter, yet nothing but foolishnesse will be found in him. Pro. 17. 22 [correctly Chapter 27].
Turnell
58. He beareth a Tub, or
Turnell with handles.
It is also termed a Netting or washing
Turnell, because in such, washer
women and laundresses use to wash
their linnens. If it were drawne
deeper, haueing handles thus, or Iron
stables made fast to the sides, then it is
termed a Runge, or Soe: which is a
kind of vessell that Tanners, Glouers,
and Beere-brewers use to carry water
in, being borne on a Way or pole
betweene two men, as cha:3. numb:44.
Mirror
Between these two squares 58. 59. on
the diuision score is fixed a square
Mirrour or seing glass, or Looking
Glass resting vpon it Stay, Haueing a
ring also on the top of the fram to hang
it by. These sorts of glasses are most
used by Lady's to look their faces in,
and to see how to dress their heads,
and set their top knotts on their fore
heads vpright, see c. 9. n. 62. 63. A
pyrobolick Mirrour, is such a Glass that
casts forth fire in a moment of tyme by
the suns heat.
Basket
59. He beareth a Basket, or
round Twiggen Basket, with two handle
in bend.
Cushion
60. He beareth a cushion
Garnished with flowers and branches
(or a Turkey worke cushion),
Bottomed, [with] button and tassells.
Cushion
61. He beareth a Loseng
cushion, or a cushion set Loseng ways.
This is according to the opinion of
some rather to be termed a pillow than
a cushion ; but in our dayes buttons
and tassells are not used to pillows,
what they were in our fore fathers dayes
let them that knows decleare.
Pillows
62. He beareth a pillow or boulster.
These are euer without buttons, which distinguishes them from cushions: Though Boswell called such pillows pa: 28 but then he draws them without bottomes. Gwilliams fo. 308. It was the old fashion to Lace or run the pillow longwayes throw with nett worke, for the greater adornment and beauty of it, so that this kind of pillow may be fittly termed a Laced or a needle worke pillow.
Dutch pillow
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In the base of this square is a kind of Dutch pillow, or a two cornered cushion.
Comb
63. He beareth a combe or
head combe: betweene a Bodkine,
and an othere rebated, or broken in the
halfe. These are Instruments
for the head, the one for a man and
both for a woman: of which by themselues.
The combe to be distinguished from
the single tooth coombe is often termed
a double tooth combe, and a head
combe, or a close and narrow tooth
combe.
it is a thing by which the haire of
the head is layd smooth and streight,
and kept from growing into Knotts and
Arslocks.
Bodkin
The Bodkin is a thing usefull for
women to bind vp their haire with and
aboute, they are usually made of siluer
and gold the inferiour haue them of
Brasse, but the meanest content them
selues with a scewer of sharp pointed
stick.
There are seuerall sorts of Bodkins as Bodkins with Haftes and are put in sheathes like kniues and worne in the pocketts of Attorneys, clerks, and such as use to fill their writtings; also Bodkins so called being instrumentall tooles belonging to seuerall trades, of a contrary makeing of these, of which you may se seuerall amongst their trades, all which haue an additionall terme of the trade to whom they belong. This being the Lady's bodkin is the only Bodkin without any other terme added to it : yet this is but the old fashion makeing of it.
Related text(s) Comb parts Comb types Comb makers terms Combs
Bodkin
64. In the cheife of this quarter, is a
Lady's Bodkin of the new mode, which
I haue set here to shew the difference
betw : the new fashion and the old.
Comb
This combe is called an Haire combe
(because it first readieth the haire by
its wide teeth) or a single tooth combe,
or Back combe, or Peruwick combe,
being principally used by Peruwick
makers.
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