Note 15 — Chapter X
Reading edition
The following is the printed tariff of charges at these places. It is fixed by the Voged of the district:
skill.d.
“Bed with warm room24= 10 English.
” ” cold room16
Contor (i.e. large) cup of coffee8
Small cup of coffee4
Large cup of tea6
Small ditto3
Warm breakfast20
Warm dinner24
Bed for single folk2
Eggedosis (glass of egg-flip)10
Bottle of red wine48
N.B.—Servants nothing, but if a traveller stops in cold room for half an hour without taking any refreshment, he must pay 4 skill, or if in a warm one, 8 skill.”
It must be observed that the latter charges are never enforced, and that in some districts a bed is only 12 skill, and a cup of coffee 5 skill.