Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 34/2

Archive:

NRO

Date:

1628

Testator:

John Sporle

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Brewer

Place:

Norwich, Norfolk, England

Parlour Chamber

Entry:

8 combs of oats 40s

Entry:

5 combs of malt 40s

Entry:

Store cheese £3

Entry:

Hemp 6s 8d

Entry:

Hops, 1 plank, trestles, small lumber 10s

Hall Chamber

Entry:

1 spinning wheel, 2 mauds, 1 fan, 1 bushel, 1 chair 6s

Entry:

1 corn scuppet, 2 coffers 2s

Buttery Chamber

Entry:

2 coffers, 1 iron chain, 1 saddle, 1 bridle 10s

Entry:

4 irons, 1 coverlet, 1 sack 3s

Entry:

4 down pillows 8s

Entry:

6 iron wedges, 2 hammers, 1 pair of pincers, 1 broch, 1 knife 5s

Entry:

2 hatchets, 2 hookes, 1 cleaver, 1 axe 3s

Entry:

2 combs 2s 6d

Entry:

1 bird net 3s 4d

Buttery

Entry:

2 brass pots, 5 kettles, 1 skillet, 1 skimmer, 1 frying pan 44s

Entry:

2 dripping pans, 1 spit, 1 roasting iron 10s

Entry:

1 cool cupboard, 1 candlestick, 1 chafing dish 6s

Entry:

12 trenchers, dishes 16d

Entry:

6 pieces of pewter, 2 snuffers, 2 pewter pots, 1 salt 10s

Entry:

12 silver spoons £3

Entry:

13 beer vessels 12s

Stable

Entry:

1 scuppet, 1 shovel, 1 mattock 2s 6d

Entry:

1 iron crow 3s 4d

Backhouse

Entry:

1 hog stool, 1 beer stool 18d

Entry:

2 platters 6d

Entry:

1 pair mustard querns 12d

Entry:

1 salting tray, 2 brewing tubs 10s

Entry:

Iron 4s

Entry:

2 sconces, 1 press of the manner of a stool

Entry:

1 verjuice tray, 1 great earthen pot, 2 pails 2s 6d

Dairy

Entry:

1 copper cauldron, 1 great brass kettle, 1 small brass cauldron 40s

Entry:

1 chafer, 1 salt, 1 tray 8s

Entry:

11 cheese fats, 3 breads 12s

Entry:

2 churns 8s

Entry:

32 milk bowls, 1 keeler 10s

Entry:

1 bolting hutch, 1 tub, 1 cheese board 6s

Dairy Chamber

Entry:

8 new cheeses 4s

Entry:

64 pounds in lead weights 9s

Entry:

2 cheese boards, 1 scuppet, small lumber 2s

Entry:

300 boards 10s

Entry:

3 table planks 2s 6d

Entry:

1 skep, 1 tub 1s

Room

Entry:

Ready money £65 16s 4d

Entry:

1 pair sheets, 11 table napkins, 3 pillow-beres, 5 fine shirts 50s

Entry:

1 bread grate 6d

Barn

Entry:

3 harrows, 3 pitchforks 8s

Entry:

Straw, tiles, 1 ladder 16s 8d

Entry:

1 horse mill 50s

Entry:

1 tumbrel 40s

Entry:

1 hog 13s 4d

Entry:

2 milch cows £8

Entry:

2 milch cows £7

Entry:

4 milch cows £12

Entry:

2 cows at pasture £5

Entry:

1 heifer, 1 weaning calf 40s

Entry:

1 horse beast 40s

Entry:

Wood rafts, hop-poles, 1 shed 40s

Entry:

2.5 acres of wheat on the ground £3 15s

Entry:

2 acres of oats and pease 30s

Entry:

Hemp, 1 flasket 5s

Entry:

1 grindstone 18d

Entry:

Boards 18d

Entry:

Old lumber 18d

At Robert Mentel's House

Entry:

1 framed table, 2 framed forms, 2 old coffers 15s

Entry:

1 cheese press, 1 salt box 7s

Entry:

1 chair, 4 planks, 1 block 2s 6d

Entry:

1 weight, pot-hooks 6d

Entry:

1 pressing iron 6d

Entry:

1 meat keep 6s

Entry:

1 debt 18s

Entry:

1 brewing stool 4d

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

£10

Irrecoverable Debts:

£10

Wearing Apparel:

£3

Total Inventory Value:

£198 10s 4d

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