“A cabinet, three presses, three kists, and a spicerie box, a dozen leam white plates, a blew and white leam plate, a little blew butter plate, a white leam porenger, and three gelly pots, two leam dishes, and two big timber capes, four tin congs, a new pewter basson, a pynt chopen, and mutchken stoups, two copper tankers, two pewter salts, a pewter mustard box, a white iron peper and suggar box, two white iron graters, a pot for starch, and a pewter spoon, thirteen candlesticks, five pair snuffers and snuf dishes conform, a brass mortar and pistol, a lantern, a timber box, a dozen knives and a dozen forks, and a carpet chair, two milk congs, a milk cirn, and kirn staff, a sisymilk, and creamen dish and a cheswel, a neprie basket, and two new pewter chamber pots.

“A Note of Plate.

“Three silver salvers, four salts, a large tanker, a big spoon, and thirteen littler spoons, two jugs, a sugar box, a mustard box, a peper box, and two little spoons.

“An Account of Bottles in the Salt Cellar.

“June the first 1708.

Of Sack, five dozen and one,51
Of Brandie, three dozen and three,33
Of Vinegar and Aquavitie, seven,07
Of Strong Ale, four dozen and four,44
Of other Ale, nine dozen,90
In the ale cellar, fifteen dozen and ten,1510
In the hamper, five dozen empty,50
In the wine cellar, nine with Inglish Ale,09
White Wine, ten,010
Of Brandy, three,03
With Brandy and Surop, two,02
With Claret, fifteen,13
With Mum, fifteen,13
Throw the house, nineteen,17
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There is in all, forty-nine dozen and two,492
And of mutchkin bottles twenty-five,21
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“Received ten dozen and one of chapen bottles full of claret. More received—eleven dozen and one of pynt bottles, whereof there was six broke in the home-coming. 1709, June the 4th, received from Elgin forty-three chopen bottles of claret.”

[43] Essays, vol. i. p. 30.

[44] There appears to have been a dreadful one just three years before ’45. See Stat. Account of various Highland parishes.

[45] Garnett’s Tour, vol. i. p. 121.