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"YOU may be dreaming, madam I cannot tell; but this knee of mine forbids me the grateful illusion. Ha! I too, I perceive, have nothing to walk in but bones! Not so unbecoming to a man, however! I trust to goodness they are not MY bones! every one aches worse than another, and this loose knee worst of all! The bed must have been damp and I too drunk to know it!" "Probably, my lord of Cokayne!"
For in the reign of Philip and Mary, Sir Thomas Cokayne of Derbyshire, the best housekeeper of his quality in the county, allowed his lady fifty pounds a year for maintaining the family, one pound a year wages to each servant, and two pounds to the steward; as I was told by a person of quality who had seen the original account of his economy.
Now this sum of fifty pound, added to the advantages of a large domain, might be equal to about five hundred pounds a year at present, or somewhat more than four-fifths. He was the eldest son of Francis Cokayne, or Cockaine, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. One of his sons, Edward, was the father of Thomas Cokayne, the lexicographer.
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