This 17th-century list includes items like “greenfish” and a “fireshovel.”
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archaeologist who are helping restore a historical rural area home in Kent , England have discovered a 17th - 100 shopping list hide under its floorboards .
Written in 1633 , the note was uncovered during a multimillion clam renovation of the famedKnole House . Constructed in the late 15th century and surrounded by 1,000 demesne of forest , it is one of England ’s large house .
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Written by one Robert Draper to a Mr. Bilby , the shopping lean include pewter spoon , a frying cooking pan , and “ greenfish , ” which is now known as unseasoned cod . It also ask Mr. Bilby to institutionalize a “ fireshovel ” and “ lights ” to Copt Hall , which is 36 naut mi away on the other side of London .
concord to the UK ’s National Trust , Draper must have been a high - ranking servant because the list was “ beautifully written . ”
UK National TrustThe archaeology squad working intemperately at Knole House .
UK National TrustThe archaeology team working hard at Knole House.
The restorer found two other likewise aged note near to where they found the shopping list . One was likewise hidden away under the attic floorboards , while the squad found another thrust into a ceiling cavum .
“ It ’s highly rare to unveil letter dating back to the seventeenth century , let alone those that give us an brainwave into the direction of the households of the flush , and the move of items from one place to another , ” Nathalie Cohen , the regional archaeologist for the National Trust , toldKent Live .
The Knole letters ’ adept precondition “ makes this a particularly exciting discovery , ” she added .
The full text of the shopping list reads :
“ Mr Bilby , I pray p[ro]vide to be sent too morrow in ye Cart some Greenfish , The Lights from my Lady Cranfeild[es ] Cham[ber ] 2 XII of Pewter spoon[es ] : one greate fireshovell for ye nursery ; and ye o[t]hers which were sent to be exchanged for some of a dependable manner , a new frying pan together with a note of ye prises of such Commoditie for ye eternal sleep .
Your loving friend
Robert Draper
Octobre 1633
Copthall ”
Next , check out the newfangled discovery that have slough brightness level on thelost land of the Dark Ages .
