Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

ANW 23/17/30

Archive:

NRO

Date:

25 November 1724

Testator:

William Middleton

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Innholder

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Innholder

Place:

King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

William Clawson

Gender:

male

Transcribed Text:

Possibly Lawson, with a basic mark

Little Parlour

Entry:

5 old leather chairs, 2 old tables 7s 6d

Kitchen

Entry:

1 fire cradle, 1 purr and tongs, cob-irons, pulleys and weights £1 10s

Entry:

2 little tables, 7 chamber pots, 10 iron candlesticks, 5 old rush-bottomed chairs, 1 stool, 1 spit, 1 tin cover, 1 warming pan 10s

Entry:

15 pewter dishes, 1 pewter salver, 24 pewter plates £2

Entry:

9 pewter pots 4s 6d

Great Parlour

Entry:

2 small tables, 5 leather chairs, 6 pictures, 1 old bed and bedstead £1 1s

Gallery

Entry:

1 old bedstead, 1 chest, 1 bed and bedstead, 1 chair 15s

Little Chamber

Entry:

1 bed and furniture, 4 chairs, 1 chest of drawers £2

Red Chamber

Entry:

1 red bed and furniture £1 10s

Entry:

3 bedsteads, 1 bed, 2 chairs, 1 table £2 10s

Best Chamber

Entry:

3 beds, 7 cane chairs, 1 black chair, 1 table, 1 chest of drawers, 1 looking glass, 2 pair window curtains, 1 glass [lantern?] £15

Garret

Entry:

Cock pens, 1 table, 1 old desk 10s 6d

Wash House

Entry:

1 copper, 1 wash keeler 15s

Hay Chamber

Entry:

1 parcel hay £3

Room

Entry:

Linen 10s

Entry:

Lumber 5s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

10s

Total Inventory Value:

£32 18s 6d

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