Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

ANF 11/3/242

Archive:

NRO

Date:

7 October 1734

Testator:

Mr Edward Browne

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Grocer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Tobacco Retailer, Alcohol Retailer: Spirits

Place:

Diss, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

John Stanton

Gender:

male

Warehouse

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 1 hundredweight at 34s per hundredweight £1 14s

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 3 hundredweight 1 quarter at 42s per hundredweight £6 16s 6d

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 1 hundredweight 3 quarters 7 pounds at 48s per hundredweight £4 7s

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 1 quarter 25 pounds at 42s per hundredweight 19s 11d

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 1 hundredweight 2 quarters 21 pounds at 30s per hundredweight £2 10s 8d

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 4 hundredweight at 24s per hundredweight £6 16s

Entry:

1 cask sugar, 1 quarter at 28s per hundredweight 7s

Entry:

1 cask currants, 4 hundredweight 2 quarters at 40s per hundredweight £9

Entry:

1 cask raisins, 1 quarter at 32s per hundredweight 8s

Entry:

1 cask [Lijo?] raisins at 20s per hundredweight 5s

Entry:

1 cask tobacco, 1 hundredweight three quarters at 11d per pound £8 19s 8d

Entry:

1 cask tobacco, 3 quarters at 12d per pound £4 4s

Entry:

1 cask tobacco, 1 quarter 15 pounds at 11d per pound £1 19s 5d

Entry:

1 cask old Spanish tobacco, 1 quarter 12 pounds at 50s per hundredweight 17s 10d

Entry:

Roll tobacco at 12d per pound 12s

Entry:

1 hundredweight 2 quarters 21 pounds hand tobacco at 8.5d per pound £6 13s 11d

Entry:

1 parcel corks 10s

Entry:

2 dozen flag brooms 6s

Entry:

1 tobacco engine £2

Entry:

8 sieves 7s 6d

Entry:

1 dryer 2s 6d

Entry:

Lead weights, beam and scales £3

Entry:

22 bunches hart lath £2 5s

Entry:

22 bunches sap lath £1 2s

Candle House

Entry:

Kitchen stuff 9s

Entry:

Spits, mould, tray 12s

Backhouse

Entry:

1 copper £3

Kitchen

Entry:

1 coal-grate, 1 shovel, tongs, 1 poker, 1 fender 12s 6d

Entry:

1 hanging iron, 1 gridiron, 2 spits, 1 hake, 1 cowl 5s

Shop

Entry:

63 pounds powder loaves £2

Entry:

1 hundredweight 21 pounds refined loaves £3 4s

Entry:

9 bushels salt £2 5s

Entry:

0.5 pound [white?] candy 6d

Entry:

0.125 pound mace 2s

Entry:

16 pounds black pepper £1 1s

Entry:

0.25 pound worm-seed 1s

Entry:

1 pound cloves 9s

Entry:

1 pound almonds 6d

Entry:

0.5 pounds cinnamon 4s

Entry:

2.75 pounds nutmeg £1 3s 10d

Entry:

18 pounds race ginger 9s

Entry:

19 pounds pimento 12s 9d

Entry:

10 pounds aniseeds 3s 4d

Entry:

6 pounds beaten ginger 2s

Entry:

8 pounds caraway seeds 1s 6d

Entry:

12 pounds sulphur 4s

Entry:

4 gross Spanish pipes 4s

Entry:

2 groass large pipes 3s

Entry:

1 hundredweight drop-shot 15s

Entry:

10 pair weaver's brushes 8s 4d

Entry:

2 dozen dairy brushes 4s

Entry:

4 dozen dairy brushes 6s

Entry:

8 dusting brushes 2s 6d

Entry:

18 blacking brushes 1s

Entry:

6 pair of bellows 5s

Entry:

3 chafing dishes 4s

Entry:

4 gridirons 4s

Entry:

16 iron candlesticks 5s

Entry:

93 pounds candles £1 12s 11d

Entry:

2.75 pounds hog-wire 4s

Entry:

4 pounds bell-wire 7s

Entry:

12 hammers 5s

Entry:

2 pounds fine packthread 2s 6d

Entry:

4 pounds packthread and laid cord 2s 4d

Entry:

1 dozen bright padlocks 4s

Entry:

10 mousetraps 1s 6d

Entry:

23 stock locks 7s 6d

Entry:

13 fire shovel spoons wieghing 15 pounds 5s

Entry:

2.5 dozen box joints 4s

Entry:

13 dozen pair dove-tail joints £1 10s

Entry:

21 pair joints 10s

Entry:

2 spring locks 1s 6d

Entry:

15 box locks 5s

Entry:

1 dozen cupboard door locks 3s 6d

Entry:

12 dozen locks and padlocks 2s

Entry:

18 pair lacquered handles 6s

Entry:

12 pair small handles 2s 6d

Entry:

10 cabinet locks 2s 6d

Entry:

1.5 pounds hog-rings 6d

Entry:

5000 lacquered [bullens?] 7s 6d

Entry:

6000 tacks 5s

Entry:

8 hammers 2s 6d

Entry:

1 barrel drawer drops 2s 6d

Entry:

1 parcel black and red wax 2s 6d

Entry:

4 dozen ink powder 12s

Entry:

1.25 reams foolscap paper 15s

Entry:

5.5 reams writing paper £1 10s

Entry:

4 bundles white paper £1 8s

Entry:

2 bundles two-pound paper 8s

Entry:

1 ream paper 4s

Entry:

7 pair of scales and beams 12s

Entry:

6 pounds brass weights 3s

Entry:

Pewter measures 4s

Entry:

Shelves, drawers, counters, salt-bins £2 5s

Entry:

Red lead, white lead, ochre 5s

Warehouse Chamber

Entry:

18 hair brooms 18s

Entry:

1 parcel bluing 10s

Entry:

5 pounds indigo blue 5s

Entry:

3 dozen hour glasses 9s

Entry:

1 parcel [lillome?] 10s

Entry:

7 pounds [glene?] 2s 4d

Entry:

7 pounds rosin 1s

Entry:

14 pounds roll brimstone 2s 4d

Entry:

6 dozen lamp-black 5s

Entry:

5 bee-skeps 2s 6d

Entry:

35 pounds gunpowder £1

Entry:

14 pounds starch 2s 6d

Entry:

[Pattune?] corks 3s

Entry:

4000 sprigs 5s

Entry:

2 quarters nails 16s

Entry:

2 pounds cotton 2s 6d

Room

Entry:

1 parcel cheese 4s

Entry:

1 salt tilt 5s

Entry:

1 cloth press, 1 trunk 7s 6d

Cellar

Entry:

15.5 gallons foreign brandy £5 8s 6d

Entry:

28.5 gallons British brandy £2 17s

Entry:

21 gallons British brandy £2 12s 6d

Entry:

63 gallons British brandy £9 9s

Entry:

61 gallons gin £6 2s

Entry:

41 gallons aniseed water £2 14s 4d

Entry:

1 hogshead vinegar £2 10s

Entry:

Treacle, pitch 12s

Entry:

1 parcel oil £1 10s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

£3 (wearing clothes and linen)

Total Inventory Value:

£148 18s 10d

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