Help with an unusual symbol 1606

[goldie61]

I would be grateful for some help with an odd hieroglyph in this will.

Lines 2 and 3:
Itm ?taine sea coles priced
Itm ?taine manure or donge

The same symbol occurs another couple of times in this inventory too.
The only thing I can make any sense in context is it is a symbol for ‘cer’.
So ‘certaine sea coles’ etc.

Any ideas?

Also in line 5:
Itm glasse(?) in the windowes pryc(ed)

Pretty impressive if it really is glass in the windows!

Thanks very much

[horselydown86]

You are right with:  c(er)taine

It's the letter c with the same kind of upwards curling extension that we often see in (for example) ev(er)y.

I agree with glasse.   It's less valuable than his dung-heap, so maybe wasn't so rare by 1606?

[goldie61]

Thanks HD.
Perhaps he had a big pile of dung!!

It is the first time I've seen it itemised in an inventory though.
It was obviously worth noting.