company in 1628-29 gives us, among others, the following items of clothing for each emigrant:—­ 4 “peares of shoes.” 4 “peares of stockings.” 1 “peare Norwich gaiters.” 4 “shirts.” 2 “suits dublet and hose of leather lyn’d with oyld skyn leather, ye hose
     & dublett with hooks & eyes.”
1 “sute of Norden dussens or hampshire kersies lynd the hose with skins, dublets with lynen of gilford or gedlyman kerseys.” 4 bands. 2 handkerchiefs. 1 “wastecoat of greene cotton bound about with red tape.” 1 leather girdle. 1 “Monmouth cap.” 1 “black hatt lyned in the brows with lether.” 5 “Red knitt capps milf’d about 5d apiece.” 2 “peares of gloves.” 1 “Mandiliion lynd with cotton” [mantle or greatcoat]. 1 “peare of breeches and waistcoat.” 1 “leather sute of Dublett & breeches of oyled leather.” 1 “peare of leather breeches and drawers to weare with both there other sutes.”

In 1628 Josselyn put the average cost of clothing to emigrants to New
England at L4 each.  In 1629 good shoes cost the “Bay” colonists 2s/7d
per pair.  In his “Two Voyages to New England” previously referred to,
Josselyn gives an estimate (made about 1628) of the “outfit” in clothing
needed by a New England settler of his time.  He names as “Apparel for
one man—­and after this rate for more:—­”
          One Hatt
          One Monmouth Cap
          Three falling bands
          Three Shirts
          One Wastcoat
          One Suite of Frize (Frieze)
          One Suite of Cloth
          One Suite of Canvas
          Three Pairs of Irish Stockings
          Four Pairs of Shoes
          One Pair of Canvas Sheets
          Seven ells of coarse canvas, to make a bed at sea for two men,
               to be filled with straw
          One Coarse Rug at Sea

The Furniture of the Pilgrims has naturally been matter of much interest to their descendants and others for many years.  While it is doubtful if a single article now in existence can be positively identified and truthfully certified as having made the memorable voyage in the may-Flower (nearly everything having, of course, gone to decay with the wear and tear of more than two hundred and fifty years), this honorable origin is still assigned to many heirlooms, to some probably correctly.  Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes in his delightful lines, “On Lending a Punch Bowl,” humorously claims for his convivial silver vessel a place with the Pilgrims:—­

         “Along with all the furniture, to fill their new abodes,
          To judge by what is still on hand, at least a hundred loads.”

To a very few time-worn and venerated relics—­such as Brewster’s chair and one or more books, Myles Standish’s Plymouth sword, the Peregrine White cradle, Winslow’s pewter, and one or two of Bradford’s books—­a strong probability attaches that they were in veritate, as traditionally avowed, part of the may-FLOWER’S freight, but of even these the fact cannot be proven beyond the possibility of a doubt.