Guide to Z.d.20

Z.d.20 is a manuscript account book, kept from 1612 March 25 to 1614 March 25. It contains weekly kitchen accounts, giving quantities and prices of all food and drink bought, with quarterly summaries. The householder was apparently a Lady, a friend of Lady Townshend and of Lord Stanhope, but her name is not mentioned.

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Format of Z.d.20

The accounts are done weekly and broken up into four (or sometimes five) columns:

Venit or Venit & Valet

Items delivered, including amount and value

Expense

Items used

Valet

Value of items used

Remanet

Items remaining

Template for FromThePage

Note: you may need to adjust the content of the column headers. Some pages, for instance, use Venit and Valet rather than just Venit, and the spelling of the column headers can vary as well. Some later pages split the first column into two, in which case the second template, with 5 columns, should be used.

Copy and paste the later lines as many times as you need, replacing the item/used/value/leftover text with what appears on the page, or deleting it (leaving a space between the pipe characters) for an empty cell.

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| Venit. | Expence. | Valet. | Remanet. |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| item | used | value | leftover |
| item | used | value | leftover |
| item | used | value | leftover |
| item | used | value | leftover |
| item | used | value | leftover |

| Venet. | Valet. | Expence. | Valet. | Remanet. |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| item | value | used | value | leftover |
| item | value | used | value | leftover |
| item | value | used | value | leftover |
| item | value | used | value | leftover |
| item | value | used | value | leftover |

Common abbreviations in Z.d.20

Useful reference sources:

• English units
• Forgotten British and Irish units
• Weights and Measures, from University of Nottingham
• Dictionary of traded goods

Abbreviation	Image	Meaning	How to transcribe
bar or ba or br		barrel	bar or ba or br
bu or bz		bushel	bu or bz
ca or c		casts	ca or c
Ch or Cha		Chatherne (of seacoals)	Ch or Cha
coo		coople, pair (of rabbits)	coo
C		cord (of wood)	<sup>C</sup>
dī		half (dimidium)	di<expan>m</expan>
don	see image 22	dozen	don
Io		Joint (as of meat)	Io
Lo		Load (of wood fuel)	Lo
li		pounds (can refer to weight or money)	<sup>li</sup>
ma		[unsure]	ma
nll or nl		null; none	nll or nl
pc or pcs [with -es graph]		peck(s)	pc or pc<expan>e</expan>s
peecs [with -es graph]		pieces	peec<expan>e</expan>s
qʳter		quarter	q<expan>ua</expan>rter
sa		sack (of coal)	sa
Sto		stone (weight)	Sto
tr		truss(es) (of hay and straw)	tr
vS		5 shillings (=1 Crown)	vS

Monetary amounts

Conversions

1 pound = 20 shillings

1 shilling = 12 pence

1 mark = 13 shillings, 4 pence (2/3 of a pound)

Note: a mark is not an actual coin, but an amount

Abbreviations

Note: abbreviations for money are never expanded in transcriptions

l or li	libri	pounds
s	solidus	shillings
d	denarius	pence
ob	obolus	half-penny
q or qua	quadrans	farthing