Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 73/222

Archive:

NRO

Testator:

William Miller

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Grocer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Tobacco Retailer, Alcohol Retailer: Spirits

Place:

Diss, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

William Freeman

Gender:

male

Place:

Mendlesham, Suffolk, England

Occupation:

Grocer

Shop

Entry:

1 parcel candles, about 397 pounds £10 6s 9d

Entry:

1 parcdel writing paper £3 8s 6d

Entry:

1 parcel cards, about 72 £2 2s

Entry:

1 parcel spices, viz 15 ounces mace (18s 9d), 3 pounds nutmeg (£1 10s), 5 pounds 13 ounces cloves (£2 18s) £5 6s 9d

Entry:

1 parcel [Castile?] salt about 30 bushels, 1 small parcel [fine?] salt £8 3s 9d

Entry:

1 parcel white pepper £1 16s

Entry:

1 parcel packthread £1 19s 8d

Entry:

1 parcel weavers' brushes and shoe brushes £1 6d

Entry:

Masons' hammers, other hammers 11s 6d

Entry:

Several parcels sugar, currants, raisins, prunes, tobacco, other grocery wares in boxes and small quantities £14 14s 11d

Entry:

Several parcels horse-locks, door-locks, joints, gimmers, brads, sprigs, naails, coffin handles, scutcheons, drops, hinges, other iron and brass wares in the shop in small quantities £21 15s 7d

Entry:

1 mortar and pestle £1

Entry:

11 pair brass scales £2 4s

Entry:

Brass weights, lead weights £1 3s

Entry:

Measures 10s

Entry:

Salt £2

Entry:

Counters, boxes, neests of drawers, tubs, shelves in the shop £6

Warehouse Chamber

Entry:

1 parcel alum £5 10s

Entry:

1 parcel sugar £9 16s

Entry:

1 parcel white and brown paper £5 18s 6d

Entry:

1 parcel candle in a cask £1 5s

Entry:

1 box sugar candy £1 12s

Entry:

1 parcel all spice £4 10s

Entry:

1 firkin lead £1 10s

Entry:

1 parcel glass vial bottles 13s 4d

Entry:

1 parcel wick yarn, Cyprus cotton, candle snatchs cut £5 8s

Entry:

1 parcel read lead, idigo, figs, aniseeds, brimstone, glue, Jamaica pepper, nutgalls, gimlets, some hops, other small things £7 15s 5d

Large Warehouse

Entry:

Several casks tobacco £113 3s 8d

Entry:

1 parcel tobacco dust £1 6s

Entry:

1 tobacco engine £3 10s

Entry:

1 parcel tobacco pipes £1 9s 8d

Entry:

1 large iron beam and scales £1

Entry:

1 parcel cotton and rushes £2 16s

Entry:

1 parcel corks 4s

Entry:

casks and covers, tubs, keelers, sieves, tobacco dryer £2 10s

Entry:

1 cutting-knife, 1 dresser 7s

Warehouse next the Shop

Entry:

1 parcel nails, sprigs, brads of several sorts in several bags and tubs £27 15s 10d

Entry:

1 parcel door-catches £1 1s 6d

Entry:

1 parcel hobnails 14s

Entry:

1 parcel fire shovels, some old iron, 1 pair 'languels'[?], old locks 10s

Entry:

1 barrel alum £3 4s

Entry:

1 parcel pitch, some [alm-green?] £1 10s

Entry:

11 beam and scales, about 8 hundredweight lead weights £6

Entry:

1 parcel corks 15s

Entry:

1 parcel powder blue 12s

Entry:

Some nail bags, other odd things 6s 6d

Beer Cellar

Entry:

6 beer vessels, 1 powdering tub 12s

Entry:

3 beer vessels, 1 powdering tub, 1 old tub, 1 tunnel 13s

Entry:

1 half-firkin butter 12s

Garrets

Entry:

1 ned and 1 bedstead £2 5s

Entry:

1 large chest, 1 couch, other small things 10s

Entry:

3 chests, 1 square chest, 2 wash maunds, other small things 12s

Entry:

2 pair of brass scales, some books, other small things in his closet 5s

Shop at Thrandeston

Entry:

Grocery wares at Thrandeston shop £2

Candle House

Entry:

1 stage of 404 pounds candle £10 10s 5d

Entry:

1 iron copper as it hangs, irons £3 10s

Entry:

Rough tallow 15s

Entry:

Tallow tried up £37 19s

Entry:

Tallow trough and knives £1

Entry:

Tallow mould and tray 10s

Entry:

1 press as it stands with the iron screws and nut £3

Entry:

1 beam and scales 15s

Entry:

Candle-spits £1

Entry:

Candle stage keelers and tubs 17s 6d

Entry:

1 brass basin, 1 pair of brass scales, 2 ladles, 1 brass pan, other small itensils there £1 3s

Entry:

1 parcel London tallow stuff in the shop by the butchery £11 8s

Grocery Warehouse

Entry:

1 parcel currants £3 6s

Entry:

2 barrels raisins £8 16s

Entry:

1 basket Malaga fruit 12s

Entry:

Several parcels sugar £39 8s

Entry:

3 wire sieves, some cotton, other small things £1

Entry:

6 covers, 1 hammer, 1 keeler 10s

Brandy Cellar

Entry:

1 remnant vinegar 10s

Entry:

2 remnants molasses spirits £6 13s 8d

Entry:

1 remnant malt spirits £1 4s

Entry:

1 remnant wormwood water £2

Entry:

63 gallons oil £9 19s 6d

Entry:

1 remnant brandy £1 10s

Entry:

1 remnant cherry brandy, 1 remnant Spanish brandy £2

Entry:

1 gallon fine oil 12s

Entry:

1 cask clove water £2 17s 4d

Entry:

Common turpentine 10s 6d

Entry:

About 40 gallons aniseed water 13s 4d

Entry:

1 remnant clove water 4s

Entry:

1 remnant (about 0.5 hogshead) vinegar £1 10s

Entry:

1 remnant spirits £3 12s

Entry:

About 3 gallons oil 9s 6d

Entry:

1 gallon pot, 5 empty casks 16s

Entry:

5 half-ankers brandy £7 10s

Entry:

1 parcel soap £10 5s

Garret

Entry:

1 gross sedge brooms £1 16s

Entry:

1 parcel laths £1 1s

Entry:

1 parcel hops £2

Entry:

1 parcel birch brooms and candle broaches 3s

Entry:

1 parcel gunpowder and flory black £1 2s

Entry:

15 bee-skeps, some lyng brooms 16s 6d

Entry:

1 parcel candle rushes £2

Entry:

1 parcel old stone bottles, tubs, other lumber there £1

Corn Chamber

Entry:

1 parcel wheat, 1 mop, 1 saw £1 5s

Entry:

1 parcel sedge brooms 15s

Entry:

1 parcel cotton (£2), 1 parcel rushes (22s 6d) £3 2s 6d

Shop Chamber

Entry:

1 parcel candles £2 19s

Entry:

3 tubs, 1 parcel of boxes 7s

Entry:

1 parcel saltpetre 8s

Entry:

1 parcel aniseeds and caraway seeds £1 2s

Entry:

1 parcel sulphur £1 8s

Entry:

1 parcel cotton £1

Entry:

1 small parcel sugar, new raisins, prunes 17s 6d

Entry:

1 small parcel paper, some rushes and wick 8s

Entry:

5 old sacks 5s

Entry:

2 small tables, 1 great covered chair, 5 leather chairs 12s

Entry:

1 fire pan, 1 fire iron, 1 purr, 1 pair of bellows, 1 candlestick, 2 saddles, 1 bridle, 1 male pillion, 1 bushel, 1 salt scale, other lumber there £1

Stable

Entry:

1 mare now lame £5

Entry:

1 parcel hay £2

Entry:

1 old hutch, 1 saddle, other small things 2s 6d

Backhouse

Entry:

1 copper and cover and irons as it hangs £3

Entry:

1 cooler, 1 mash-fat, other tubs, keelers, brewing utensils £1 10s

Entry:

1 brass kettle, 1 old boiler 15s

Entry:

2 small boilers, 1 iron pot, 1 brass kettle, 3 saucepans £1 10s

Entry:

1 old sack, 2 pair of andirons, 4 pair of tongs, flesh-forks, 1 gridiron, 1 old chafing dish, 2 frying pans, 1 cleaver, other small things and lumber there £1 5s

Entry:

2 trays, 2 bowls, 2 pails 8s

Meal Chamber

Entry:

1 brass kettle 14s

Entry:

1 old cupboard, 1 meal poke, some bowls, sieves, tubs, 1 keeler, other old things 12s

Backhouse Chamber

Entry:

1 pair of andirons, 1 back-iron, 1 parcel old tubs, other lumber there 12s

Pantry

Entry:

1 parcel pewter £1 13s

Entry:

36 pewter plates £1 4s

Entry:

1 pie-plate, 1 cheese plate, some latten ware 12s

Entry:

1 little boiler, 3 skillets 8s

Entry:

1 old cupboard, 1 table, 3 old chairs, some earthenware pots, glasses, other small things £1

Little Parlour

Entry:

3 oval tables, 5 chairs, 1 couch £1 6s

Entry:

1 looking glass, 1 bird-cage, 1 fire iron, 1 purr, some pictures, other small things there 5s

Hall

Entry:

1 jack and weights, 3 spits, 1 boiler as it hang, irons £1 16s

Entry:

1 coal grate, 1 fire iron, 1 purr, other irons belonging to it 15s

Entry:

2 box-irons, 1 pewter stand, brass candlesticks, iron candlesticks, other small things before the fire 12s

Entry:

1 cowl with the earthenware on it, 1 oval table, 6 chairs £1 8s

Entry:

1 spice cupboard, 1 little table, 1 [book?] keep, 1 curtain and curtain rod, 1 pair of bellows, other small things 15s

Scullery

Entry:

2 pewter dishes, 19 pewter plates, 2 warming pans, 1 parcel trenchers, 1 small table, 2 boxes, 1 lantern, other small things £1 15s

Entry:

1 parcel books 5s

Dining Room

Entry:

2 oval tables, 1 small square table £1 15s

Entry:

1 great armed chair, 12 calves' leather chairs £1 5s

Entry:

1 looking glass, some pictures, , 1 map, 1 glass keep, other small things 17s 6d

Kitchen Chamber

Entry:

1 bed and 1 bedstead as it stand with curtains, valance, mat and line and other furniture thereto £6

Entry:

1 chest of drawers, 1 square table, 2 stands, 1 armed chair, 6 cane chairs £3

Entry:

1 close-stool and pail, 1 looking glass, 2 pair of andirons, 1 fire pan and tongs, 1 pair of bellows, other small things 12s

Entry:

1 chair, 1 box, 1 trunk, some books, glasses, other small things in the closet there 10s

Upper Chamber where Mr Miller Lay

Entry:

1 feather bed and 1 bedstead with curtains, valance etc as it stands £8

Entry:

1 chest of drawers, 1 little square table, 5 cane chairs, 1 sedge bottomed chair, 3 trunks, window curtains and rods, other small things £2

Mrs Elizabeth Miller's Chamber

Entry:

1 bed and 1 bedstead with curtains and valance as it stands £5

Entry:

1 square table, 6 chairs, 1 dressing glass 10s

Maid's Chamber

Entry:

1 bed and 1 bedstead as it stands £3

Entry:

1 chair, 1 stool, 2 andirons, 1 fire pan, tongs, other small things 3s

Upper Fore Chamber

Entry:

1 clothes press, 1 chest, 1 trunk, 3 chairs, window curtains and iron rods £1 10s

Room

Entry:

Ready money, in silver 94:8:6, in old gold 12:8:6, in money received since his death 8:7:6 £115 4s 6d

Entry:

Linen in the house £10

Entry:

1 parcel of plate, his watch and rings, other small things £27

Entry:

Wood and coals in the yards and houses £2

Entry:

1 parcel tar 10s

Entry:

1 parcel glass and stone bottles 10s

Entry:

1 parcel glass bottles and stone bottles 10s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

£4 (wearing apparel and riding accoutrements)

Total Inventory Value:

£735 7s 4d

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