Wooden trenchers and wooden spoons were used instead of pewter or earthenware; and a yeoman who had half a dozen pewter dishes in his house was looked on as wealthy.
Wood or wattle gave way to stone or brick, the wooden trenchers were superseded at substantial tables by pewter, and with the pewter were sometimes seen articles of silver.
At this the revelers, wild with delight, beat on their trenchers and shouted, "Ay, let her!
There was not a man there who did not eat upon silver, and the King and the chief persons ate upon dishes and trenchers of gold.
In other families the children stood at a side-table and they would take their trenchers to the large table to receive the food to take back to their own table to eat.
There were also alchemy spoons, trenchers and dishes and a pipkin valued at one shilling and sixpence.
There are only three moderate-sized packages swinging overhead; there are only two layers of mats beneath; and the calabashes and trenchers are not so numerous, nor so tastefully stained and carved.
The Goodman asked a blessing and then heaped the trenchers high with what he called the bounty of the Lord.
Beside each of these trenchers she placed a napkin and a mug, and at the Captain's place, as a special honor, she set a beautiful tankard of wrought silver.
And then the Butlers of the House must place at the salt-celler, at every the said first three highest tables, a stock of trenchers and bread; and at the other tables, bread onely without trenchers.
It was wonderful to see how quickly the heaped up trenchers were cleared, and how soon the tall tankard of ale was emptied.
But thetrenchers were filled again, and so was the tall tankard, though only to be emptied once more.
The two smaller trenchers must have been used when company came--one for the bread, possibly; the other for pudding.
Wooden trenchers and wooden spoons were the earliest tableware in Virginia.
The Butler appointed for Christmass is to see the Tables covered, and furnished with Salt-cellars, Napkins, Bread, Trenchers and Spoones.
But a little lower sat Richard, and beside him Musa and Mary Kurkuas; and while they were busy over the trenchers talk flew fast, and these in brief were the stories they told one another.
I cannot be so happye, & if thou Beare but the least affectyon to my cause, Thy fortunes like thy trenchers wilbe chaungd To a sordyd foulenes that will loathe thy nature.
Theis two strange hungry Knights (Will) make the leanest trenchers that ever I waited on.
When supper was finished, Bertha washed the mugs and scraped the trenchers clean (water never touched those), putting them back in their places.
She drew one of the high stools between her aunt and herself, and put out upon it the two wooden trenchers and two tin mugs.
For many years college boys at Harvard ate out of wooden trenchers at the college mess-table.
Until the middle of this century poplar-wood trenchers and plates were used on the table in Vermont, and were really attractive dishes.
Wood furnished many articles for the table to the colonist, just as it did in later days on our Western frontiers, where trenchers of wood and plates of birch-bark were seen in every log-cabin.
So great a warrior and so prominent a man in the colony as Miles Standish used wooden trenchers at the table, as also did all the early governors.
I have seen a curious old table top, or table-board, which permitted diners seated at it to dispense withtrenchers or plates.
Old wooden trenchers and "Indian bowls" can be seen at the Memorial Hall in Deerfield.
From earliest days the Indians made and sold many bowls and trenchers of maple-wood knots.
They were replenished with both meat and drink; the trenchers readily accessible by means of cords; but the gourds containing arrack, suspended neck downward, were within easy reach where they swung.
We were alarmed at perceiving, that certain servitors were preparing to accompany us with trenchers of edibles.
For, from hand to hand the trenchers sailed; no sooner gaining one port, than dispatched over sea to another.
His supply of table linen was abundant, and the table-ware was pewter, with wooden trenchers and some earthenware.
De Bernicre in his account, adds to the list, by mentioning barrels of trenchers and spoons of wood destroyed by Capt.
He succeeded in knocking off the trunnions of three iron twenty-four pounders, burning their carriages, destroying a small quantity of flour, and several barrels of trenchers and wooden spoons.
The table furnishings of the New England planters consisted largely of wooden trenchers, and these trenchers were employed for many years.
Until almost our own time trenchers were made in Vermont of the white, clean, hard wood of the poplar-tree, and were sold and used in country homes.
Trenchers were of quite enough account to be left by name in early wills, even in those of wealthy colonists.
Old wooden trenchers may be seen in Deerfield Memorial Hall.
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