MRP: C5/485/75
C5/485/75
Abstract
The technical vocabulary used to itemise the timber in this yard is extensive.
Timber is described as "battens"m "baulks", "beames", "boards", "dales", "lathes", "sparrs," "stawes"
Dales are prefixed ?cawring, coarse, cutt, halfe, ?launick, ordinary, plain, rack, white
Boards are prefixed oaken and XXXX boards
Sparrs are prefixed boome, middle, and mill sparrs
Balkes are prefixed double, oaken, and white balkes
Boards are prefixed barrel, oaken, and XXX boards
Stawes are prefixed barrel stawes
Quantities mentioned are dozens, quarters, fathoms, pieces
Transcription
f. 4
LH side of page
//An Accompt of the Goods that was Appraised//
//at M:r Thomas Gaskins yard the 25:th//
//of ffebruary: 1678//
//?Cowering dales at//
//Coarse dales over the same: ?pid//
//Coarse dales at 3:li-5:s p C:d//
//Oaken baulks XX ?IInterest;//
//Long double XXfers//
//?Barlings 4:6 peece//
//Oaken baulks upon the wharfe//
//Beame of a ould ship: Oake//
//Some lumbar and a pump//
//Long saXXX ?EaXorr 2:?9:s p peece//
//??Rack dales 55 p C:d//
//??Cawring dales; at 2:li p C//
//peece Round wood 5 p Dozen//
//halfe dales at//
//oaken Baulke//
//Middle sparrs at 35;?s p C//
//Slit dales at 6 p C//
//XXXX: Cutt dales 5:li p C//
//Dozen ?pann tile Lathes 16:d p dozen//
//Oaken Boards 16 p peece//
//Broad Dales at 15 p peece//
//Slitt dales at 11:d p peece//
//halfe Dales slitt 5:d p peece//
//Dozen ½ Battens at 3:d p peece//
//packs of XXost 5 in each pack ?7:s: 6:d pack//
//weight of Twise ?layd Reape 15 p hund//
//Black ?& ould Roape ?& ?slate//
//?Roules X scrue ?& Male at//
//ffathome of peeces at//
//?Dram halfe Dales 58:?s p C:d//
/ould quarters at 6:d p peece//
//Long ?sound dosbalkes 3:li ?10:s//
//Mills sparrs 35:s p C:d//
//Tonn ?all white balkes ?9:li p C:d//
//ffathom of ??Trmmells att//
//ffathom of drye Barrell Boards at//
//short ?wheete dales at 3:li - 7:s - 6:d p C:is//[1]
//halfe Dales 35:?s p C:d//
//Course Dales at 3:li p C:d//
//Boome sparrs at 5:li - 10:s p C:d//
//Oaken Baulke at//
//Baulkes at 7:li p C:d//
//halfe Dales at 2:?s p C:d//
//Rack dales 2 peeces at 50:?s p C:d//
//?Double Baulkes at 8?li p C:d//
//Double ?Balkeins 15:li p C:d//
//?LoXXX & 5:? Lath 20:?s p Loade//
//XXXXX halfe Dales at 5:li - 15:s p C:d//
//Co?wringe Dales 2:li - 10:s p C:d//
f. 4
RH side of page
//fathome of Barrell stawes ?46:X at 30:X p//
//Greate baulkes 3:s: 6:d p peece//
//fathom Lath wood 2:li p Xath//
//Loade 2 Bundle Laths at//
//Burlings 2:?s: 8:d p peece is//[2]
//Double XXXXX 9:?£ p C:d//
//ordinary Dale 5:?s p C:d//
//Five Baulkes 7:li p C:d//
//Rack-Dales 3:li p C:d//[3]
//plaine Dales//
//halfe Dales 2:li 5:s p hund//
//a parcell of Lumber//
//Rack in 2 piles 3:li p C:d//
//?Launick dales 2:li - 10:s p C:d//
Commentary
- ↑ See following usage: "New Brunswick spruce deals are held back for the chance of better demand when the cheap stock of Baltic white deals has run out, and before fresh supplies can arrive." ('The Timber Trade' in The Architect, March 19, 1870, vol. 3 (London, 1870), p. 142
- ↑ Possible meaning. "Burlings: Pieces of dirty wool" (James Orchard Halliwell, A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century, vol. 1: A-I, 3rd ed. (London, 1855), p. 220)
- ↑ See usage as follows: "Were the rack deals imported from Norway superior in your opinion to American pine ? — No ; inferior for almost all purposes. ('Minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee on timber duties', in H.M.S.O., House of Commons papers (London, 1835), p. 315)
