Help requested - 1666 Inventory - brief text.

[SiGr]

Hi,

Please could someone help with the attached brief entry and my transcription attempt ?

The numbers are for £, shillings and pence.

Also, is the second valuation a 'ditto' of the £200 above or something different ?

Oweing at the East India         200 l [sic]  00      00

Books in the hands of Printers & book
sellers not yett not yett xxxx the xxxx of
xxxxxxed xx xx xoxxx         ['ditto' sign ?]  00      00

As always, thanks in advance for comments/suggestions.

Simon

[JenB]

I think the bottom line might possibly read ‘estimated to be worth’.

[horselydown86]

...sellers nott yett nott yett rec(eive)d to the val(ue) of

estimated to be worth    [in different hand]

PS:  Just saw JenB's post.

[SiGr]

Hi JenB and horselydown86,

Thank you both for your swift and helpful answers; greatly appreciated.

Would either of you have any thoughts on my question about the 'ditto' query ?

ATB

Simon

[Bookbox]

There is no 'ditto' there. The value of the books is £200, written as CC^li.

[SiGr]

Hi, Bookbox,

TVM for that. That's the first time I think I have seen Arabic and Roman numerals used together.

Whilst I am back online, I have two more requests - both on just a handful of words if anyone can help.

One seems to be the word 'fork' but it seems inappropriate in the context:

"It[em] the picture of the deceased and severall
other old pictures & an old Fork [?]".

The other is the last word in line four and pretty much all of the last line:

It[em] 2: paires of flaxen sheetes; six
paire of caurse Canvas sheetes-
2: dozen of lockram napkins; six
lockram towells, one dozen & nyne [?]
caurse towells; 3 paire of pillow
Bixxes, being all the deceased xx xxxx

As always, thanks in advance for any comments/suggestions.

ATB

Simon

[Bookbox]

... an old Jack.
I suspect there are a few possible meanings for Jack, but with no real context here, it's hard to identify.

... one dozen & Nyne (capital N)

... Beeres ... all the deceased(es) lynnen
(= pillow cases)

[SiGr]

Hi, Bookbox,

A big 'thank you'.

That was a lot of linen !

I'll now start exploring whatever a 'Jack' might have been.

The Inventory was for a writer so that might help me focus on definitions.

Thank you, once again.

ATB

Simon

[SiGr]

Well, there's more definitions for 'jack' than I imagined.

Credit to:

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=jack

I think the 1378 "short, padded, quilted jacket or tunic" is the most likely. The others are quite interesting but thankfully post-1666.

ATB

Simon