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Offline londonscorpion

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Re: An inventory
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 12 December 18 10:21 GMT (UK) »
i've tried to look under the blot!

so I think

6. To goods in the Milk Room Chamber - One xxxxx bed as it stands.....

something like Couche?

The "as it stands" in reply 3 above, I think was a misread from the previous  line 5. Also I can't see an e at the end of "couche" so I would propose the following for line 6:

To goods in the Milk Room chamber – one couch Bed xxxxx (unreadable)

The word couch comes from the French "coucher" meaning to sleep, and makes some sense as French expressions were quite common at the time.

The following wiki article is quite interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin
Clark, Clarke, Batchelor, Diamond, Ruddick,
Yorkshire: Oaks, Denton, Sykes

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Re: An inventory
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 12 December 18 15:01 GMT (UK) »
Re reply #45 a couch bed my have been like a chaise longue or day bed.
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