Cone And Key
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English law
A women at fourteen or fifteen years of age m Inay take charge of her house and receive cone and ey; that is, keep the accounts and keys.
Cowell.
Said by Lord Coke to be cover and k Acye, meaning that at that agea woman knew what in her house should be Kept under lock and key.
2 Inst. 203.