pewter
“and brass and all things that belong To house or housekeeping,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ii. 1.
347.
Pewter, as Steevens observes, would seem to have been too costly to be used in common
even in the reign of Elizabeth. From the Household Book of the Fifth Earl of Northumberland,
begun in 1512, it appears that vessels of pewter were hired by the year.