Footnote 251:
Manchet, white bread.
Footnote 252:
Cheat-bread, of whole meal.
Footnote 253:
A cake or lump, perhaps shaped especially to serve as a night-light.
Footnote 254:
Probably, crust of soot.
Footnote 255:
Scotch, fastens, secures.
Footnote 256:
A spike on which a candle was thrust instead of being placed in a socket.
Footnote 257:
See note.
Footnote 258:
Of the Steward.
Footnote 259:
See note.
Footnote 260:
Of the Controller.
Footnote 261:
So much received.
Footnote 262:
So much spent.
Footnote 263:
Unaccountable, i.e. not responsible to a higher officer(?)
Footnote 264:
Of the Surveyor. See note.
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