The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-15

Ine WOrlde VaTyeth every day.
Esperance in riches /? Nay, not so
Riches sideth and soon will go.'
The hour for dinner was eleven O'Clock. and that
seven. or eight o'clock. They did not have the
tee coffee, but used beer instead At @ Breakfast St
there was white and brown bread, and a dysh 81
butter; pece of salt fish dysh Of buttered eggs
from the fact that the yearly order was ten TINS
two hogsheads of Gascoigne wyne-namely, three
tuns Of red wyne, five tuns Of carett and two tuns
teen shillings and fourpence the toun. There we're
some kinds Of fish ate in those days which would
hardly be considered luxuries at the present time;
such as sea gulls WIPES (or lapRings) stints red
shanks bitterns, curlews and 1arks.
On fast days (Which were much better observed
great oD baEed Of
dysh Of founders, dysh of fried smelts with sal
mon, sprotts, salt fish and five manchett, a potte
by weight, but we fnd an entry of sssx hundred
and s1xty-seven muttons for the years consump-
ton at twenty pence" Another entry Of Zone hun
dred and nine fatte beefes at thirteen shings and
fourpence to be bought at All Hallowtyde, for to
serve my hous from that TYNE to Michaelmas; and
ba eyne y beFg En At hngs
and put into my pastures to fede." The price Of
pigs was two ahilings apiece; veals we're about the
same price, and lambs varied from two to ten shil-
lngs. The price OF wheat is set down at Eve shil-
hngs and eightpencc, and malt four shillings the
quarter There is one entry Of tstwo thousand and
and another Of three ferkynges Of picked stur-
gsoRR st as ter 2 shi1[9gs a1 the Of
quarter, and vinegar four pence the gallon Nh.
Lady readers will be glad to be informed that
the Countess Of Northumber was not required
her household affairs; and well for her that she
lect 70 attend to the wants Of fs@iiy Of over over
dants, sa ladys gentlewoman, a cha1nberer, pages,
cup bearers, etc" Judging from the following
spen e o 81 r. rn be have
al Of them "a great noble trot2ynge hors for nv
Lord Percy to travel! upon in wynter; second Of
t9aee 70 gd9 9n 9Te Of tTns ro
when he cumes into townes." For his daily use
about home, he had tan !amblynge hors;' and,
ryde upon when he goet6 hunting or Rawking..''
" We are somewhat surprised to End that with the
Nge number Of persons provided for; TIE multi.
od n the toa p M the Year OF
amounted to only one thousand pounds sterling
It would certainly require More than ten times that
sum to keep up an establishment cf the same kind
IN England at the present day but il We carefully
compare the, value Of money in 1909 to what it is
in IS, 1866, We shall not be 50 much surprised:
one e Wh ths
another his secretary third the clerk of his for
egn expenses (who, it is said, always made up his
grammar. Others We're employed as priests and
alnoners and one called e the Gospeller;' was
Tor reading the Gospel in the chapel daiY. The
yearly pay Of these priests Was from two to five
pounds.
They had custom in regard 70 servants in those
times which would not be bad to.adopt in thenine-
teenth century-that of swearing them on enter
ing the service eeither by such Doth as is in
the Booke Of Ooths ya any such be, or els by such
an Doth as they shall deyme beste by their discre-
ton" Judging, too, from some Of the rules laid
down for the servants, they were not much more
intelligent than some Of the Hibernian walters Of
the present day. Here one or two Of the rules:
For prevention of errands, let all sauces be ready
at the door, for even mess Of mustard will take
q mans attendance from the table; but lest any
thing happen unexpectedly, let a boy stand within
the chamber door for erTands.
keeper, who must make choice Of his glasses and
cups for the company, and not I'LL them hand over
head. He must also know which be for beyre and
which for wyne, for it would be foul thing to mix
the two together. EaE$:
Let him which doth order the table be the last
hinde that should be taken away En-.
It is not probable that we Of thepresent day can
learn many valuable hints on domestic economy
from this quaint S Cd works bRt i wih certainly
what 9. curious thing housekeeping was "in ye
oldsn time" E::S: E: