Subseries 4 - Goods Missing: Kitchen

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SJLM/2/3/4

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GB 1859 SJLM/2/3/4

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Goods Missing: Kitchen

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  • 1508-1509 (Creation)

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1 item, paper

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Goods lacking in the kitchen departments of Lady Margaret's household. This is a compilation of stock held by various officers and staff which is missing. There are separate entries throughout the only surviving roll of the Treasurer of the Household (1506-1507) which refer to such items, but there is no general list such as this one for that year.

The volume begins:
"Certain stuff of howsehold of the most Excellent Prynces Margarete Countesse of Richmond and Derby and moder unto oure soveraigne lorde the kynge tha now is Kynge Henry the Vii th. lakkynge in defaute of diverse officers as it appereth by the Boke of Brevement of the said household. that is to say as well for the last yere as this yere ended the viij th day of Janyuere the xxiiij th yere of our said sovereigne lord as hereafter foloweth."

Arranged under the following headings: bakehouse, pastry, pantre, buttery, sellars, wete larder, drye larder, chaundre [chandlery]

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Some of the items listed: mele, whete, manchette, trencherbrede, roswyne [rosolio], ale, claretwyne, white wyne, malmesseyy, romney [rumney - a sweet Greek wine], muscadell [muscatel], beff [beef], veles [veal], muloon [mutton], lambes, kydde [kid - young goat], porke, lyngs [sea burbot], haberdeyne [haberdine - salt cod], stokfysh, grete reasons [great or large raisons], sugar hole, sugar powder, smale reasons [small raisons], sugar valans, [sugar valentia - sugar almonds ?], peper, graynes, cloves, mace, nutmeggs, saunders [sanders], synamon [cinnamon], gynger, dats [dates], comfetts plates [comfits plates], comfetts bysketts [comfits baskets], dyvers confections, grene gyner, lymons [lemons] and succads, saffron, prunes, almonds, ryse [rice], licoryse, agnes sede, streynors [strainers], white sope [soap].

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D56.149

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  • Box: 127/DEEDS