Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 16/64

Archive:

NRO

Date:

23 May 1599

Testator:

Reginald Shuckforth

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Brewer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Brewer

Place:

Diss, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

Thomas Burton

Gender:

male

Room

Entry:

Ready money £4

Entry:

Silver spoons 16s

Entry:

2 stone pottles tipped with silver 10s

Parlour

Entry:

1 posted bedstead, 1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 2 pillows, 1 pair of blankets, coverlets 56s 8d

Entry:

1 trundle bedstead, 1 feather bed, 1 blanket, 1 coverlet 20s

Entry:

1 little table, 1 frame, 1 little joined frame 2s 6d

Entry:

1 cupboard 10s

Entry:

1 little coffer, 1 chair, 1 joined stool 6s 8d

Entry:

1 pair of virginals 20s

Entry:

1 joined table, 1 frame, 2 joined forms, 3 chairs, 2 cushions 10s

Entry:

1 black bill, 2 daggers, 1 sword, 1 furnished musket, 2 leather tankards

Entry:

2 old tables, trestles, 1 old cheese press, 1 old stool, 1 salting trough, 2 old cheese fats, 1 cheese board, 2 combs, 1 firkin, 1 pint, other trifling things of small value

Kitchen

Entry:

Brass pots, 1 pair of pot-hooks, brass kettles, 3 skillets, 3 chafing dishes, 1 chamber pot 46s 8d

Entry:

3 spits, 2 dripping pans 6s

Entry:

2 frying pans 20s

Entry:

1 pair of mustard quernes 20d

Entry:

1 pewter basin, 24 pewter platters, 6 pewter porringers, 5 small pewter porringers, 4 pewter dishes, 1 pewter baking pan, 4 pewter salts, 8 pewter candlesticks 33s 4d

Inner Chamber over the Parlour

Entry:

1 plank, 1 pair of trestles, 2 old coffers, 1 old bedstead, small bedding, corn, stained cloths 13s

Entry:

3 combs of rye 30s

Parlour Chamber

Entry:

1 plank, trestles 2s 6d

Entry:

1 pair of scales, 8 lead weights, 3 pitchforks, 5 iron wedges, 1 shovel, 1 long saw, other old trifling things 26s

Entry:

Hops £4

Chamber over the Backhouse

Entry:

1 old bedstead, 6 new half barrels, other old trifles 10s

Kitchen Chamber

Entry:

1 bedstead, 1 feather bed 16s

Entry:

Malt £16

Millhouse

Entry:

1 horse mill 33s 4d

Brewing House

Entry:

1 copper £3

Entry:

1 fat 20s

Entry:

1 mash-fat 20s

Entry:

1 old wort fat 5s

Entry:

1 cooler 6s 8d

Entry:

Half barrels, firkins, other utensils 50s

Linen in the House and Yards

Entry:

11 pair of sheets, tablecloths, pillow-beres, table napkins, 2 shirts 56s

Barn

Entry:

Rye, old ladders, 1 old bushel, other trifles 22s

Storehouse

Entry:

1 lathe, other trifles 12s 4d

Stable

Entry:

2 pair of cart trays, 4 horse collars, 3 spurs 6s 8d

Yard

Entry:

1 old shod cart, 1 plough, plough gear, 2 pair of harrows 20s

Entry:

1 grindstone 12d

Entry:

Timber 33s 3d

Entry:

1 new cart, 1 pair of wheels 40s

Entry:

1 sow, shoats, 9 suckling pigs £3 10s

Entry:

3 geldings, 1 mare £12

Entry:

1 cow, 5 bullocks £5 10s

Entry:

Barley 40s

Entry:

Hemp 10s

Entry:

Grass 20s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

£5

Wearing Apparel:

£3

Total Inventory Value:

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