In another extract given elsewhere, I find,—
"August 5, 1644. For bay salt to stop the barrells, 6d."
What does this mean?
"January 17, 1644. For four giggs and scourgesticks, 1s."
What are giggs and scourgesticks?
"November 10, 1646. For haulfe a pound of cakes and jumballs, 10d."
What are jumballs?
Can any of your readers tell me where this Livre des Acconts pour Chevalier Jean Francklyn en son [sic] Maison au Wilsden now is? When the extracts were published in the Archæologia, it was said to be in the possession of the late Sir John Chardin Musgrave, Bart. I have applied to the present Sir George Musgrave, and also to George Musgrave, Esq., of Gordon Square, and Bedfordshire, who is descended from Sir Christopher Musgrave, who married to his second wife a daughter of Sir George Francklyn; but neither can give me any tidings of this MS.
J. K.
Lord Rosehill's Marriage.—An American paper of August 22, 1768, has the following: