1707 Undecipherable Word

[david64]

Evening,

I have the below inventory with an undecipherable word. My transcription is:

Impr[im]is two oxen - 06:00:00
Three {unreadable} - 06:00:00
One other cow - 01:10x:00

As usual thanks to anyone who can spare a few seconds.

[Roger in Sussex]

I think the word is "kine", meaning cows. I don't understand why there should be another cow which is not included in "kine", though.

Roger

[jacqui123]

Hired Bullocks ?

[Roger in Sussex]

I have just thought that perhaps the 3 kine were each more valuable than the other cow and the barren cow, so listed separately.

Is the "other cow" valued at less than a third of the value of the 3 kine? I would expect the barren cow also to be less valuable.

Roger

[BridgetM]

Before I saw Roger's reply, I read the missing word as kine.

[mike175]

My interpretation, as a former cow keeper, for what it's worth

two Oxen (draught cattle for pulling ploughs, carts, etc)
three Kine (any type of cattle but in this context I suspect it may mean milking cows)
one other Cow (possibly an older cow, hence lower value)
one barren Cow (neither producing milk nor carrying a calf)
three Bullocks (castrated male cattle for beef)

Mike

[david64]

Thanks Roger, Jacqui, Bridget & Mike, I have gone with Kine. Thanks also Mike for a bit of background info on farming.

The full transcript is as follows:

Impr[im]is two oxen - 06:00:00

Three kine - 06:00:00

One other cow - 01:10x:00

One barren cow - 01:05:00

Three bullocks - 04:10x:00

Three calves - 01:00:00

Two mares - 04:00:00

Two swyne - 01:00:00

Five & twenty shep - 02:00:00

Corne & graine in the barnes & house & ground - 08:10:00

Implements of husbandry - 03:10x:00

In ye parlour one feather bed & bedstead, one curtaine, bolster & other i[m]pp[lemen]ts thereto belonging - 01:00:00

One cupboard - 00:02:06

One chest - 00:05:00

One brass kettle - 00:03:00

3 small pewter dishes - 00:02:00

In ye kitchen - One long table & forme & {unreadable} & one stoole - 00:06:08

One dripping pan - 00:02x:00

One iron pott & frying pan - 00:03:00

Severall sorts of linnens - 01:00:00

In ye brewhouse two stands 5 chese tub & {unreadable} 36 - 00:08:00

Three barrells - 00:06:00

Weaving apparrell & money in his pockett - 00:15:00

Debts due by spescialties - 37:00:00

Old lumber & things forgett - 00:05:00