Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

1710] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
[Housekeeping]
For 3 fous oates to the cart horses
For 2 bolls 2 fous to the swine and
fouls preceeding 1 Aprill
For 9 bolls light oates to the foils
and other 3 horses preceeding
the 1st of Aprill at 5sh. per boll
For 3 fous peas to the mares at 15
sh. per boll ....
For 1 boll bear made in meall at
15sh. per boll
For a sow from Adam
Hutchison . .10
For a boll oats to feed
the abovesaid sow 0 12
For a fow of peas to the
sow and 1 peck . 0 3
For 10 forpers1 of peas reckon’d
1 furlit and a peck at 15 sh. per
boll given to the pigions
For 2 forpets peas to the house
For 1J fows peas to the mares at
15s
For £ fow bear meall from
Widow Wight
For limons and oranges at 2s. 6d
per duson
For 2 duson limons .
For brandy at 5sh. per pint
For a stone butter .
For 100 herins .
For salt pitter 8d. 4d.
For 6 bolls 4 fous and 3 fourtperts
came to the horse oats .
For half a stone of pouder 4d|
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 6 6
18 4
2 5 0
0 9 0
0 15 0
0 3 9
0 0 9
0 18
0 8 0
0 5 0
18 1
0 6 0
0 2 4
0 10
4 18
0 3 0
1 Forpet, forper, or fourtpert is stated by Jamieson to be the fourth part of a
peck, or in other words a lippy. Lady Grisell, however, makes it the fortieth
part of a boll, or equal to if of a lippy. This entry is arithmetically wrong.