Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

ANW 23/22A/34

Archive:

NRO

Date:

15 December 1737

Testator:

William Wright

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Alehouse-keeper

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Alehouse-keeper

Place:

Caston, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

[illegible] Hicks

Gender:

male

Parlour

Entry:

2 chairs, 2 tables, 1 stool, 6 Delft plates, 1 basin, pictures £1 1s

Entry:

Knives and forks, glasses and cups 5s

Parlour Chamber

Entry:

2 beds as they stand, 6 chairs £3

Another Chamber

Entry:

2 combs barley 14s

Entry:

3 bushels wheat 9s

Entry:

4 chairs, 1 desk, 1 trunk 6s

Another Chamber

Entry:

2 beds and bedsteads £2 15s

Low Room

Entry:

1 long table, 4 chairs, 1 chest, 1 flour keeler 12s

Kitchen

Entry:

1 long table, 2 short tables, 3 shelves, 4 chairs £1 1s

Entry:

24 trenchers, 2 earthenware dishes, 1 iron pot, 2 pails, 1 keeler 10s

Entry:

1 dripping pan, 6 candlesticks, [illegible] £9 4s 6d

Entry:

33 pounds pewter 16s 6d

Entry:

56 pounds brass £1 4s

Entry:

Mugs 1s

Entry:

[illegible] £1 6s

Entry:

1 iron box, 2 healers 2s 6d

Entry:

42 pounds iron 7s

Entry:

Turnips 5s

Weaving Shop

Entry:

[illegible] in the weaving shop £4 3s

Room

Entry:

Lumber unaccounted for 5s

Entry:

Cash £3 6d

Entry:

Linen more than upon the beds 10s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

12s 6d (goods debts: possubly 12s 0d)

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

Total Inventory Value:

£23 10s

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