Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

WCW

Archive:

LRO

Date:

5 November 1629

Testator:

Nicholas Cowper

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Innholder

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Innholder

Place:

Manchester, Lancashire, England

Appraisers

Name:

Richard Moreton

Gender:

male

Room

Entry:

55 pounds of pewter 45s 10d

Entry:

5.5 pounds of pewter 4s 7d

Entry:

3 flagons, 1 quart pot, 1 pint, 2 chamber pots 15s

Entry:

5 pewter candlesticks, 5 pewter salts 12s

Entry:

4 tin candlesticks, 2 apple irons, pewter spoons 2s

Entry:

6 brass candlesticks, 1 chafing dish 7s

Entry:

1 brass mortar, 1 pestle, 1 stone mortar 7s 6d

Entry:

8 wrought cushions 16s

Entry:

7 set cushions, 6 old cushions 12s

Entry:

Fruit dishes, small pictures 2s

Entry:

1 dripping pan 4s

Entry:

2 spits, 3 fire shovels, 3 pair of tongs, 1 fire iron, 1 toasting iron, 1 frying pan, 1 gridiron, other ironware 18s 6d

Entry:

1 pair of racks 5s

Entry:

1 smoothing iron, 1 toasting iron 1s

Entry:

1 cleaving knife, other knives 1s

Entry:

1 brush, 1 bristle brush 6d

Entry:

1 Bible, 1 testament, 3 psalms 10s

Entry:

1 sealed settle by the fire 5s

Entry:

1 screen voider 1s

Entry:

1 printed cloth on the mantle tree 1s

Entry:

1 chest in the parlour 6s

Entry:

1 feather bed, 1 bolster, pillows 40s

Entry:

1 chaff bed, 1 chaff bolster 3s

Entry:

1 pair of blankets, 1 green caddow 18s

Entry:

2 mats for covering the window 6d

Entry:

1 standing bed 30s

Entry:

1 table 10s

Entry:

1 trundle bed, 1 mat, 1 cord 6s

Entry:

1 feather bed, 1 chaff bed, 2 bolsters, other bedding 40s

Entry:

Bedding on the trundle bed 21s

Entry:

1 great chest 7s

Entry:

1 twiggen chair 3s

Entry:

2 salting tubs, 1 chest 10s

Entry:

1 form 6d

Entry:

1 rundlet of alegar 18d

Entry:

1 saddle, 1 bridle 6s

Entry:

12 pair of sheets £4

Entry:

4 pillow-beres 4s

Entry:

4 tablecloths 6s

Entry:

8 diaper napkins 4s

Entry:

14 odd napkins 4s 8d

Entry:

2 wiskets 4d

Entry:

Ale, beer £4

Entry:

Vessels to keep the drink in 30s

Entry:

2 gilt pots, glasses 10s

Entry:

3 beasts, 1 horse £9

Entry:

Wood, turf, 1 stone trough 10s

Entry:

1 cratch, 1 manger 4s

Entry:

1 load of hay 12s

Entry:

Coals 36s

Entry:

Geese, pullen 3s 4d

Entry:

7 stone troughs 3s 6d

Entry:

Swine, pigs £6 10s

Entry:

4 chairs 3s

Entry:

1 joined stool 1s 6d

Entry:

Other stools 3s 6d

Entry:

Coopery ware 8s

Entry:

1 furnace, 1 stone trough, 1 brewing kier, other things thereunto belonging £4

Entry:

Brass, 1 table, 1 fire iron, other implements 40s

Entry:

1 piece of sealing, 1 form 10s

Entry:

1 chest, 2 little tables 8s

Entry:

Iron bars for the chimney

Entry:

1 bed 20s

Entry:

1 little table, 1 form 2s

Entry:

1 trestle 4d

Entry:

1 standing bed 24s

Entry:

1 feather bed, 1 bolster 30s

Entry:

1 blanket, 1 caddow 20s

Entry:

Furniture of a little bed 20s

Entry:

4 forms 2s

Entry:

1 pair of bedstocks 2s

Entry:

13 silver spoons £4 5s

Entry:

Money in his purse 4s 13d

Entry:

Ready money 30s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

£3

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

£7 3s

Total Inventory Value:

£89 5s 8d

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