Inventories
DN/INV 76C/68
NRO
10 October 1726
John Witham
male
Innholder
Alcohol Retailer: Innholder
Downham Market, Norfolk, England
Appraisers
Thomas Arbuthnot
male
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
of King's Lynn
Room
Money in his pocket and in the house £20
Kitchen
24 pewter dishes, 49 pewter plates, 1 pewtr salver, in all 143 pounds pewter at 8d per pound £4 15s 4d
5 pewter wine quarts, 7 pewter wine pints, 6 pewter beer pints, 3 pewter chamber pots, in all 41 pounds pewter at 6d per pound £1 6d
2 pewter chamber pots, 10 pewter wine pints, 1 pewter wine quart, 3 pewter half-pints, 1 pewter gill, 2 pewter half-gills, in all 30 pounds pewter at 6d per pound 15s
3 brass boilers, 3 brass kettles, 3 brass saucepans, wighing 54 pounds at 8d per pound £1 10s
1 brass pot, 1 brass pestle and mortar, 1 brass basting ladle, 1 brass fish bottom, 2 brass candlesticks, 1 brass slice, wighing 30 pounds at 6d per house 15s
1 brass stew pan, 1 tea-kettle 8s
1 coffee-pot, 1 copper pint pot 2s
2 brass candlesticks, snuffers and case, 2 dredging boxes 6s
1 warming pan 6s
1 iron plate frame 3s
8 pewter spoons 6d
2 tin covers, 30 patty poans, 1 broiling pan, 1 fish bottom, 1 candle-box, 1 tin 5s
13 iron candlesticks 1s 7d
6 tin candlesticks, 2 pewter candleesticks 2s 2d
2 dressers, 1 square table, 2 oval tables, 1 wooden screen with 5 leaves, 2 joined stools £1 8s ([pence hidden])
18 rush chairs, 1 elbow chair 6s (pence lost])
1 jack with all the implements £1 10s
1 fire range, cheeks, 1 fire iron, 3 spits £1 6s
1 pair of cob-irons 4s
1 fire pan, 1 sifter, 3 pokers, 2 horses, 1 chafing dish, 4 smoothing boxes, healers, 1 cleaver, 1 little iron, 2 hakes, 1 beef-fork, 2 hanging candlesticks, skewers - all iron, 1 salt box 18s 8d
Parlour
3 square tables, 1 oval table 14s
12 cane chairs, 4 leather chairs £2 9s
1 poker, 1 fire shovel, 1 iron horse, 1 iron fender, 1 iron grate 7s 6d
1 brass candlestick 1s
1 map, 13 pictures 4s 2d
Hall
3 oval tables, 1 square table, 1 joined stool 14s
5 rush bottom chairs, 4 leather chairs 2s
1 napkin press, 1 looking glass 4s
1 set of window curtains, 1 iron rod 1s 6d
Room called the Fox
2 square tables, 8 rush bottom chairs 5s 6d
Closet in the Room called the Fox
36 pint mugs 4s 6d
4 large stone bottles 2s
Little Parlour
1 corded bedstead with green and white drugget furniture £1 1s
1 feather bedm, 1 bolster, 4 pillows £1 4s
3 blankets, 1 green rug 11s
1 pallet bedstead with 1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 1 blanket, 1 coverlet 15s
1 oval table, 1 looking glass, 2 rush bottom chairs, spice drawers 9s
1 set of window curtains, 1 iron rod, 1 old trunk, 2 boxes 2s 6d
1 iron poker, 1 fire iron, 1 iron horse, 1 iron coal grate 5s 6d
White Chamber
1 corded bedstead with blue china furniture £1 14s
1 feather bed, 1 bolster £1 15s
3 blankets, 1 calico quilt £1
12 cane chairs £1 7s
1 large oval table 6s
1 chest of drawers, 4 sets of {cherguarded stuff?], window curtains and rods 14s
1 coffee mill, 1 tea tray, 1 parcel of china and earthenware, 8 old pictures 10s 6d
Painted Chamber
1 corded bedstead with single camblet [bossed?] barred furniture £17 18s
1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 2 pillows £2
2 blankets, 1 quilt 10s
1 bedstead with blue china furniture, part whereof lined with white calico £1 5s
1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 3 pillows £1 13s
2 blankets, 1 quilt 7s 6d
17 rush bottom chairs, 2 square stools, 1 close-stool with a pewter pan £1 2s 6d
2 sets of fustian window curtains and rods 3s
Rose Chamber
1 corded bedstead with serge furniture 12s
1 feather bed, 2 bolsters 16s
2 blankets, 1 green rug 4s
2 corded bedsteads with linsey-woolsey furniture 10s
1 feather bed, 2 bolsters 14s
2 old blankets, 1 rug 7s
7 chairs, 2 tables 5s 6d
1 set of window curtains, mock tapestry hangings 7s 6d
Dining Room
1 corded bedstead with green china furniture 18s
1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 3 pillows £1 14s
2 blankets, 1 calico quilt 9s
23 leather chairs 6s
1 large oval table, 2 square tables £1
14 small pictures 2s
Great Staircase
1 clock with a black case 18s
Little Chamber over the Rose
1 corded bedstead with linsey-woolsey furniture, 1 old feather bed, 1 bolster, 1 pillow, 2 old blankets, 1 old green rug £1 3s
2 rush chairs, 1 long chest 1s 6d
Garret where the Men Servants Lie
3 old beds as they stand £2
Garret where the Maids Lie
1 corded bedstead with blue and white drugget furniture, 1 feather bed, 3 bolsters, 1 blanket, 1 spotted rug £1 10s
Wine Cellar
53 gallons white wine £13 5s
10 bottles of white wine 10s
9 gallons decayed red wine £2 5s
27.5 gallons eager red £1 7s 6d
29 bottles bad red £1
26 bottles good red wine containing 5 gallons £1 5s 5d
65 empty bottles 8s
8 empty hogsheads £2
1 empty half-hogshead 3s 3d
1 anker 2s
Stillage 3s
3 brass cocks 1s 6d
Beer Cellar
6 hogsheads ale £12
68 gallons ale in a pipe £3 5s 6d
1 empty pipe 4s
16 empty hogsheads £1 12s
2 brass cocks 1s
1 large tunnell, 1 pail 1s 6d
18 drinking glasses, 1 decanter 6s
1 silver tankard, 6 spoons, in all 34 ounces silver at 5s per ounce £9 7s
Brewhouse
2 coppers, iron bars, 1 hake, 1 iron rake, 1 fire iron £8
1 mash-fat 10s
1 gyle-fat £1
Coolers and gutters, 1 under-deck 9s
4 tubs, 1 soo 10s
2 iron dripping pans 2s
5 keelers 5s
1 hogshead small beer 9s
3 empty hogsheads 6s
2 stillages, 1 brass cock 9s
2 pails 2s
1 hop-bag 1s
Turf House
10 empty wine hogsheads £2 10s
5 empty ankers 8s
1 bottle rack, 19 empty bottles 8s 3d
Corn Chamber
1 small parcel of oats £1
1 parcel of horse beans £10 10s
Stable
1 horse sadlle and bridle £2
Coal Yard
1 parcel of coals £7
Orchard
1 stock of new hay £20
Yard behind the Barn
Part of an old stock of hay £8
Billets and faggots of wood £1
Grass in the grounds £4
An Account of the Linen
19 pair sheet £3 6s 6d
23 pillow-beres 7s 8d
4 large tablecloths 12s
12 small tablecloths 2s
24 huckaback napkins 6s
12 towels 2s
6 bolster cases 2s
Old lumber, things omitted £1
Totals
£212 12s 1d (good and desperate debts)
£2
£415 5s 11d