"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.
I should be much obliged to any of your readers who would favour me with
an explanation of the words "Bive" and "Chote." They were thus applied in
an inventory taken Kent.
"27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.
Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.
Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."