Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

WS/1595

Archive:

CRO

Date:

19 May 1597

Testator:

Thomas Ball

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Shoemaker

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper (Inferred)

Place:

Chester, Cheshire, England

Appraisers

Name:

Mr Richard Pemberton

Gender:

male

Room

Entry:

Tallow £4 12s

Entry:

Train 14s

Entry:

1 lead, 1 brandreth, 1 chopping trough 10s

Entry:

2 hogsheads, 2 old barrels, 1 hatchet, 1 old board 2s

Entry:

Leather £15

Entry:

Old wood, 1 ladder, 1 spade... 1 pikel 16d

Entry:

Train in the hall £5 10s

Entry:

Cutting-boards, boot trees, cutting knives with lead, and other little implements in the shop 10s

Entry:

144 men's shoes £10 16s

Entry:

120 women's shoes £6

Entry:

36 children's shoes 21s

Entry:

3 pair of boots 12s

Entry:

Broken leather, 1 calf skin 2s

Entry:

2 seats, 1 whetstone, 1 bill 16d

Entry:

1 chest 2s

Entry:

1 standing bed, 2 stock beds, 1 blanket, 2 coverlets, 1 pair of sheets, 2 bolsters 30s

Entry:

1 old pair of bedstocks, 1 flock bed, 3 little bolsters, 1 coverlet, 1 blanket, 1 pair of sheets 10s

Entry:

8 pair of sheets 34s

Entry:

6 pillow-beres 6s

Entry:

2 tablecloths 6s

Entry:

1 drinking cloth 12d

Entry:

Table napkins 6s

Entry:

6 shirts 9s

Entry:

2 old chests, linen yarn 23s

Entry:

12 cushions 6s

Entry:

1 press 12s

Entry:

1 chest 16d

Entry:

2 pans 6s

Entry:

1 gown 30s

Entry:

1 other gown 10s

Entry:

1 other fine gown 4s

Entry:

1 clock 10s

Entry:

1 rapier the back breast and headpiece 13s

Entry:

1 white corslet furnished 20s

Entry:

1 musket furnished, 1 black bill, 1 poleaxe 15s

Entry:

1 cupboard 6s 8d

Entry:

Joined work with the benches 18s

Entry:

1 table with the frame and form 6s 8d

Entry:

2 little tables, 1 form, 4 shovels, the painted cloths 8s

Entry:

Glass in the chamber under the stairs upon the side towards Mr Bavand's 6s

Entry:

The glass in the upper window in the house 4s

Entry:

Painted cloths, pot-hooks, great tongs... 2 broches, other implements 10s

Entry:

1 chair, 1 table, 1 frame, 1 chair lying in pawn 9s

Entry:

1 pewter platter, 1 basin, 1 ewer £3

Entry:

2 pewter candlesticks 4s 6d

Entry:

Banqueting dishes 10s

Entry:

Pewter 6s

Entry:

2 brass pots 8s

Entry:

1 brass pan, 1 dripping pan 3s 6d

Entry:

1 chafing dish, 1 pestle and mortar 8s

Entry:

1 London quart, 3 other quarts, 1 pint 4s 6d

Entry:

Trenchers, pewter spoons 12d

Entry:

3 earthen pans, other earthen jugs 12d

Entry:

Train vessels 6s 6d

Entry:

1 old pair of bedstocks with the furniture 3s 4d

Entry:

Corn 50s

Entry:

Money 15s

Entry:

5 keeves

Entry:

3 heifers £4

Entry:

1 towel, 1 tablecloth 20d

Entry:

1 flitch of bacon 4s

Entry:

1 cow 30s

Entry:

Lent upon 6 silver spoons 22s 6d

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

Total Inventory Value:

£89 17s

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