Here is a Glossary of words used in the 16th and 17th centuries. This is just a small list and constantly added to.
Iron plate at the back of the fire, usually with raised ornamentation.
Single chair without arms.
Buildings and yard behind a house.
A side of bacon.
Cloth or carpet to cover a bench or seat.
Yeast.
Court at the back of a farmhouse with buildings in it and a yard.
1) Horn book for teaching the alphabet to children.
2) Implement for beating clothes when washing them.
2) Implement for beating clothes when washing them.
Articles of metal wrought by hammering.
Baker.
Christening robe or shawl.
A cloth to cover food or pick up hot objects &c.
Rabbit.
Bottle or keg that has eyeholes by which it can be suspended form the waist and so taken into the fields &c.
A fruit pastel, fruit which is boiled until it reduces to a thick jelly, this can keep for a year.
Bed covering
1) The first milk from a cow after calving.
2) A custard made of it.
2) A custard made of it.
A bench
Drinking vessels made of leather, coated with tar or pitch.
Jugs made of leather and coated in pitch, usually used for holding small beer/ ale.
Table top supported on trestles but not attached to them (removable pegs fix them.)
Skimmed milk.
A bodice close fitting laced garment for the upper body, doing job of corset.
Under bodice for under kirtle or outer garment to be with a skirt.
Sometimes stiffened with bone or bents (reeds).
Under bodice for under kirtle or outer garment to be with a skirt.
Sometimes stiffened with bone or bents (reeds).
Table cloth.
Wash tub.
A chest or coffer with a domed lid. A bin for meal, bread and also used for clothes.
A large wooden cupboard with doors, usually for storing food.
See Aumbry
Sausages.
Liver