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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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