Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 47A/76

Archive:

NRO

Testator:

Edward Horne

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Butcher

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper (Inferred)

Place:

Thetford, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

Christopher Ofield

Gender:

male

Transcribed Text:

basic mark

Room

Entry:

Ready money in the house £15

Entry:

1 silver cup, 1 pot tipped with silver £3

Parlour

Entry:

1 feather bed with its furniture £6

Entry:

1 trundle bedstead with its furniture, 1 flock bed with its furniture £1 13s 4d

Entry:

1 framed table, 1 form, 1 bed settle 18s

Entry:

1 carpet cloth 5s

Entry:

1 livery cupboard £1

Entry:

1 chest, 1 coffer, 2 boxes, 1 little desk 16s

Entry:

1 pair cob-irons, 1 pair tongs, 1 fire pan 12s

Entry:

14 pair sheets, 18 napkins, 3 board cloths, 8 pillow-beres £6 13s 4d

Hall

Entry:

1 framed table, 1 bench, 1 form £1 10s

Entry:

1 cupboard 13s 4d

Entry:

1 table chair, 1 great turned chair, 1 back chair 6s

Entry:

1 glass case, 1 pair tongs, 1 pair cob-irons 5s

Entry:

1 Bible, 1 prayer book 8s

Hall Chamber

Entry:

1 posted bedstead, 1 feather bed, furniture to the beds £5

Entry:

1 livery bedstead, 1 feather bed, furniture to the beds £3

Entry:

1 trundle bedstead [sum obscured on microfilm])

Entry:

1 bench, 2 [illegible] £1 ([s and d illegible])

Entry:

[illegible]

Entry:

[illegible]

Entry:

[illegible], 1 chair

Entry:

Cushion stools sum illegible)

Entry:

6 Turkey work cushions £1 ([shillings uncertain, pence lost])

Entry:

1 pair cob-irons, 1 pair tongs 3s

Entry:

1 trundle bedstead 3s 4d

Backhouse Chamber

Entry:

2 livery bedsteads, 1 feather bed, 1 flock bed, 1 trundle bedstead, the beds' furniture £2 13s 4d

Entry:

1 coffer, 1 close-stool, 3 little joined stools, 1 bench 5s

Kitchen

Entry:

1 table, 2 stools, 4 chairs, 1 cushion 6s

Entry:

Pewter platters, other pewter £1 6s 8d

Entry:

2 brass pots, 4 little kettles, other brass utensils £1 6s 8d

Entry:

1 pair iron coal grates, 1 iron pot, 1 frying pan, 2 hooks, 1 tramell, 1 fire pan, 1 pair tongs, 1 pair bellows, 2 spits 13s 4d

Entry:

1 copper, brewing vessels £2

Room

Corn Chamber

Entry:

6 bushels rye 12s

Stable

Entry:

3 [horse beats?] £10

Entry:

Harness for plough and cart £1

Entry:

1 cart-horse, 1 cart, 1 plough £3

Neathouse

Entry:

3 cows £7

Field

Entry:

8 acres rye in the grass £5 6s 8d

Entry:

5 acres sown with pease and tares £1 10s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

£1 10s (`)

Irrecoverable Debts:

£12 16s

Wearing Apparel:

£4

Total Inventory Value:

£119 9s 1d

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