10 Horn, “Social and Economic Aspects of Local Society in England and the Chesapeake,” 183, 185, 205, reports the following frequencies of roasting equipment (spits), by total wealth of inventoried estates, in the late 17th century:

Total Wealth

Gloucestershire

Maryland

Virginia

less than £10

29.7%

6.7%

0.0%

£10-£49

63.2

24.6

34.8

£50-£99

73.8

44.9

68.3

£100-£249

77.5

73.1

78.9

£250 and up

81.1

77.6

91.7

11 Carson, Colonial Virginia Cookery, 11.

12 Frederick P. Stieff, Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Maryland (New York, 1932), xiv.