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 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.

If there is text at the bottom of the page, after the table ends, hit return/enter twice, leaving an empty line after the last line of the table, before transcribing the that text.

| 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:

Abbreviation	Meaning	How to transcribe
bar or ba or br	barrel	bar or ba or br
bz	bushel	bz
ca or c	casts	ca or c
coo	coople, pair (of rabbits)	coo
dī	half (dimidium)	di<expan>m</expan>
Io	Joint (as of meat)	Io
^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
vS	5 shillings (=1 Crown)	vS