HAUEING (in my 1st part) furnished the reader with Houses, castles, churches and such like; we shall in the next place set before you the way of Beareing household goods: for there are sundry household instruments as they are used in such affaires, so they are noe lesse used in Armory, which we shall leaue to observation.
Dishes and tableware Book III, Chapter 14, Section 1a
Salt
1. He beareth a salt, or a salt
seller (or a couered salt seller):
with salt issueing out of each side of
it.
This kind of auncient salt seller is of some drawne more Losenge like, not so round in the couer, and belly, as this figure so that if it were not for the salt issuing, it might as well be taken for a couered cup: as figure 89.
Salt cellar
2. He beareth a salt seller
with an open couer, or as
some terme it, a salt seller, with couer
set vpon stayes.
These kind of salts, which are thus open couered, are euer round from the seller place, where the salt is put: to the basis or foote, haueing garnishing both aboue and below, which make them seeme to be short pillars with chapiters vpon the heads of them.
Jug
3. He beareth a Jugge with
a Handle, and couered, or as
others call it a Jugge couered, supposeing it (as indeed it is) not without an
handle, yet it may be without a couer.
Some terme it a Jugge bottle, being round in the belly like a Bottle: and a Beere Jugge, or drinking Jugge because principally used for that end.
Chamber Pot
4. He beareth a chamber pot,
or a Bed pot.
This is by the Jolly crew when met togather ouer a cup of Ale; not for modesty sake, but that they may se their owne beastlynesse, in powering in, and casting out more then sufficeth nature, which if it went not suddenly downwards, would force its way vpwards, is called a Lookinge glasse; But there is nothing neuer so vsefull, but it may be abused, so is this when it is called by such persons a Rogue with one eare, and a pisse pot.
Flower Pot
5. He beareth a flower pot, or a
jugge with two eares, or a pott double
handled: adorned with
Leopards heads and fruitages.
These Kind of double eared bottles are much used to keepe flowers fresh in chambers, and windows, haueing water put into them.
Related text(s) Tickney ware
Cruet
6. He beareth a viall, or
viniger bottle, or a cruce.
Here I giue it the name, by which it was called in our forefathers dayes, viz a viall, being a Glasse bottle with a round foot, handle, and couer, of the same; haueing a crooked slender pipe on the side, by which either viniger, or oyle was powred out leasurely, or drop by drop, as it were. But in our dayes, it is generally called a cruett, or cruce.
Ewer
7. He beareth an ewer.
The Ewre is borne both couered (that is with a lid on the mouth of it) or sans couer; now the ewre in auncient tyme differed nothing in shape from a Jugge, saue it was of a purer mettle, viz. siluer or pewter; haueing a Gutter side on ye further side of the mouth, by which water might be powred out of it slowly and surely without scattering or flying broad. This is a vessell of much honor, and is used at all great feasts to wash withall, after eateng tyme is finished. Some make them Viall fashion, with a pipe, on the side, and round bellied set on a foote like a cup but much shorter: euery countrey hath its owne forme and shape. The Romans and Latines call it Guttus, which may be termed soe from its long neck or throat, an oyle glasse, a Laver, or a cruse, or such like things, which are soe made.
Cup ewer
8. He beareth a cup-ewer.
This is called so because it partakes of both being in forme like a cup and held like it, yet hath a guttered mouth as the ewer, by which the liquour in it is directly and euenly powred out. Some terme this, an open mouthed ewer, or an ewer, with handle like a cup.
Salt
9. He beareth a square salt
or dish stand with a spirall point fixt in
the midle of the top.
Capsula
10. He beareth a capsula.
of this I have spoken cha.12.n.1. 2. This being
something different from them, and that
which is now generally made.
Fontanel Box
11. In this quarter I present you with
3 houshold instruments
set here togather for
conveniency of rome, but of them in
particular.
First that in the fesse part betweene
the other two, is called a capsula lying
fessways sans couer. Some call it a Fontanel Box: this is an other sort of them,
of which I haue spoke before n: 10. and
Cha.12. n.1. 2.
Chopping knife
Image from proof plateThe second is in cheife which is called a chopping Knife, or a cookes chopper, or a spreading Knife. It is used to mince and cut flesh, and herbs small.
Skillet
Image from proof plateThe third is that in base, call by the name of a Ladle skellet, a skillet with an handle, or a sawce pan. Some terme it a pan or posnett.
Case of knives
12. He beareth a case of
Knives [with] Haftes. This is
the badge of the company of Sharpware men, such as make all sorts of edge
tooles, some terme them toole makers,
or Edge toole men.
Turks knives
13. In this quarter are three sorts of
Knives. [ Two only shown]
He beareth two Turks Knives. These are called Turks Knives because they turne vpward in the back towards the end, or point of the blade. Some terme then Duch cleevers or Hacking Knives, such as Buchers use, of which there is another kind of fashion. numb: 36.
Scotch bibby and Irish skeen
He beareth a Scotch Bibby.
These Bibby Knives
were in great use in King James ye
first his tyme, amongst the Scotch foote
Merchants, and were sold by them all
the Kingdome ouer, they were a sharp
pointed blade with a streight back, the
Hafte was two peeces of wood made
yellow and round, and so revitted in 3.4.
5. or 6. places to hold them on each side
a flat Iron halfe, that was joyned to the
blade.
There is an other kind of desperate Knife called an Irish Skeene of which se more ca.19. numb.20.
Related text(s) Knife parts
Coconut duster
14. He beareth a Round body
with a duster.
This I take to be a doubel cocus nut, with a siluer, gould, Copper, or pewter head, full of holes screwed thereon, to put either meale, bruised peper, or sugar therein, which is dusted out off the holes, as cookes or houskeepers haue occasion to use that thing which is put therein, so that it may in short be blazoned, a cocus nut shell duster, or peper box; or sugar box made of a cocus shell.
Pepper box
15. He beareth a siluer duster,
or peper box: If a nut cannot be had
cookes can make shift, with a round tin
box with holes on the top, to dust their
rost meates; if this be wanting they can
flower it with their hand, but the better
sort of people haue these boxes made of
richer mettles.
Dish
16. He beareth a dish.
This is a vessell or instrument, or what else you please to call it, much in use in all houses, and famileys; both for necessary use (as, puting of meate into them) to serue vp to tables; as also to adorne their countrey houses, and court cuberts: for they are not looked vpon to be of any great worth in personalls, that haue not many dishes and much pewter, Brasse, copper and tyn ware; set round about a Hall, Parlar, and Kitchen.
Related text(s) Dish parts Flagon parts
Dish
17. He beareth an ovall dish,
with a narrow brime. Some
terme it a Bason, because some part of
the concave of it appeareth vnder the
brime of the dish. Some call it a
platter, as in lib.2. cap.17. numb.8.
Crane rack
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In this quarter in the base, is the rack of an Engine, what else to terme it I know not, by the help of this Iron, roofes of houses, and Walls shrunk in the foundation, are raised and set vpright: some terme it a crane rack, or crane Iron:
Bason
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18. He beareth in this quarter three necessary houshold commodities; things much used, which are a bason, a potinger and a fire or grate Rack,
Pottinger
He beareth a two eared
pottinger;
this is an half round vessell
in the belly without a brime, some
haueing two eared, but most onely one
eare or handle or stouke as the countrey
terme is, by which it is carryed from
place to place: It hath it name from it
beareing or holding of potage, a
potinger: being of much use for that
liquour or Broth.
Hanging rack
Image from proof plateHe beareth an Hanging or Grate Rack, (of others a fire Rack). This is an instrument that is to be hung vpon a fire grate; in the Noches whereof, a broach with meate on it is turned gentlely before the fire, to roast.
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