service after he hath made them rich with the prizes. I to London, and
there among other things did look over some pictures at Cade's for my
house, and did carry home a silver drudger

[The dredger was probably the drageoir of France; in low Latin,
dragerium, or drageria, in which comfits (dragdes) were kept.
Roquefort says, "The ladies wore a little spice-box, in shape like a
watch, to carry dragles, and it was called a drageoir." The custom
continued certainly till the middle of the last century. Old
Palsgrave, in his "Eclaircissement de la Langue Francaise," gives
"dradge" as spice, rendering it by the French word dragde. Chaucer
says, of his Doctor of Physic, "Full ready hadde he his Apothecaries
To send him dragges, and his lattuaries." The word sometimes may
have signified the pounded condiments in which our forefathers
delighted. It is worth notice, that "dragge" was applied to a grain
in the eastern counties, though not exclusively there, appearing to
denote mixed grain. Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is
mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an
excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire." The
dredger is still commonly used in our kitchen.--B.]

for my cupboard of plate, and did call for my silver chafing dishes, but
they are sent home, and the man would not be paid for them, saying that he
was paid for them already, and with much ado got him to tell me by Mr.
Wayth, but I would not accept of that, but will send him his money, not
knowing any courtesy I have yet done him to deserve it. So home, and with
my wife looked over our plate, and picked out L40 worth, I believe, to
change for more usefull plate, to our great content, and then we shall
have a very handsome cupboard of plate. So to dinner, and then to the
office, where we had a meeting extraordinary, about stating to the Duke