Item genre: Arithmetic
Folger Library: MS X.d.177
Jests and poems, compiled c.1595, with later additions (c. 1595-c. 1660)
Elizabeth Clarke (scribe)

Item 4 (Accounts, Arithmetic), fols 4r rev.-7v

[On fol. 4r rev. are two accounts the first of which relates to the price of a pair of shoes for the scribe's brother, for which he paid the shoemaker at Bristol. The second item is an amount given to someone at the church at Babcary to pay Hugh Younge. These accounts were perhaps added after the main list of accounts on fols 6r-7v. Fol. 4v rev. contains mathematical calculations relating to money. Fol. 5 is badly torn and still joined along the top edge to another leaf. This attached leaf is not foliated. Perhaps the scribe tried to cut the pages apart but having torn them decided to start his accounts on fol. 6r instead. Fol. 5r is blank. A few letters are visible on fol. 5v (""is"", ""t"" and ""t""). Fols 6r-7v contain a list of accounts relating mostly to funeral arrangements. The heading, in which not all of the words are clear, on fol. 6r is ""A note wt I haue Lane forth since the ny[superceded by

"O"

] Lottishau's death being the xxix day of may"". Two churches are mentioned, St. Dunstan's and the Temple Church, both of which could be London locations. On the other hand three towns within 50 miles of each other are also mentioned, suggesting a Somerset origin for the accounts: Babcary and Bristol, as noted above (also in Bristol the scribe paid for the scrivener's bill at the Bear, presumably a pub or inn), and Frome , where the scribe paid the farrier's fee.]


(scribe)Hand B

[Fol. 5 is blank.]

Folger Library: MS V.a.511
Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, 1606 (1606-c.1750 )
Elizabeth Richardson ( Author, main scribe)

Item 13 (Arithmetic), fol. 57v

Sums totalling 112 pounds.

[ Fols. 58r-64r are blank.]