Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

INFRA/1687

Archive:

CRO

Date:

15 October 1687

Testator:

Robert Ray

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Brewer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Brewer

Place:

St Martin, Chester, Cheshire, England

Appraisers

Name:

Thomas Wrench

Gender:

male

Role:

Churchwarden

Room

Entry:

3 chairs 3s

Entry:

4 stools 1s

Entry:

1 bed, 2 bolsters, 2 blankets 14s

Entry:

Bedstocks 6d

Entry:

Curtains, valances 2s

Entry:

2 earthen basins 6d

Entry:

1 broken looking glass, 2 little bottles 6d

Entry:

4 pewter dishes 6s

Entry:

1 pewter salt, 2 pewter candlesticks, 1 porringer 2s

Entry:

1 little brass kettle, 2 skillets, 1 little iron pot 2s 6d

Entry:

5 ash chairs, 2 three-footed stools 1s

Entry:

1 large stool, 1 salt box 1s

Entry:

1 fire shovel, tongs, 1 crow, bellows 1s

Entry:

1 tinderbox 2d

Entry:

1 frying pan, 1 broche, pot-hooks, 1 fork, 1 cleaver, 1 brass spoon 1s 6d

Entry:

18 sorry trenchers 4d

Entry:

3 noggins 2d

Entry:

1 pail 1s

Entry:

3 pitchers, other earthen things 6d

Entry:

6 glass bottles 9d

Entry:

1 wheel, 1 cradle, 1 reel 1s 6d

Entry:

Chattel goods £3

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

10s

Total Inventory Value:

£4 10s 11d

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