Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 86/126

Archive:

NRO

Date:

30 April 1706

Testator:

Henry Smith

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Grocer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Alcohol Retailer: Spirits, Tobacco Retailer

Place:

Harleston, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

John Witherby

Gender:

male

Transcribed Text:

Appraiser for the trading stock and shop goods

Hall

Entry:

1 oval table, 1 little square table, 1 chest of drawers 12s

Entry:

1 great armed chair, 9 other chairs, 1 buffet stool, 1 glass keep 7s 6d

Entry:

1 hake, 1 pair of cob-irons, 1 fire pan, tongs, 1 gridiron, 1 brass skimmer, 1 bastinh spoon, 1 pair of bellows 5s

Entry:

1 jack, 2 spits, 3 brass chafing dishes, 2 box irons, 2 iron rims, 1 warming pan 16s

Entry:

1 small looking glass, 1 parcel of books, other small things 5s

Parlour

Entry:

1 oval table, 6 Russia leather chairs, 1 couch covered with red, 1 looking glass £2

Entry:

1 balance clock, 1 pair of small brass-headed andirons, 1 fire iron, some small earthenware, other things £1

Kitchen

Entry:

1 brass copper, 2 boilers, 3 small brass kettles, 3 small brass skillets, 1 brass baking pan, 1 frying pan £2 15s

Entry:

3 latten dripping pans, 8 beer vessels, 1 cooler, 3 tubs, 3 ale stools £1 7s

Entry:

1 hake, 1 coal range, 1 fire iron, 1 wash-bowl, 1 wash keeler, 2 pails, other odd things, lumber 15s

Closet in the Kitchen

Entry:

12 pewter dishes small and great, 18 pewter plates, 2 cheese plates, 3 porringers, 1 latten colander and cover, 2 brass candlesticks, 1 joined stool, some earthenware £2

Shop Chamber

Entry:

1 feather bed and bedstead with blue curtains and valance, 1 blue rug, other furniture as it stands £6

Entry:

1 chest of drawers, 8 cane chairs, 1 little square table and drawer, 1 looking glass £2 17s

Entry:

1 pair of large brass-headed andirons, 1 pair of small andirons with brass heads, 1 pair of bellows, 1 wicker voider, some other small things 12s

Hall Chamber

Entry:

1 feather bed and bed with 1 green rug, green curtains and valance, other furniture as it stands £3

Entry:

1 chest of drawers, 3 chairs covered with green, 3 stools covered with green £1

Entry:

1 close-stool and pan, 1 little leather trunk, 1 pair of cob-irons, 1 fire pan, tongs, 1 chest £1

Entry:

18 pair of sheets fine and coarse, 10 pair of pillow-beres £5

Entry:

12 tablecloths, 60 napkins, 24 towels £2

Little Passage Chamber

Entry:

1 bedstead, 2 feather beds with coverlets, blankets, etc as it stands £3

Entry:

1 clothes press, 2 leather trunks 15s

Kitchen Chamber

Entry:

1 old bedstead, 1 feather bed and furniture as it stand £2

Entry:

1 bolting-hutch, 1 chair, 1 stool 3s

Entry:

1 scrfeen, 2 wash-maunds, 1 old chair 4s

Entry:

12 old sacks 6s

Yard

Entry:

1 parcel coals, 1 parcel wood, 1 grindstone and ions, 1 hand-barrow £5 10s

Croos Chamber

Entry:

Part of 1 bag hops £7

Entry:

Part of 3 casks sugars £3 10s

Entry:

1 hundredweight nails £1 8s

Warehouse Chambers

Entry:

3 combs wheat £1 10s

Entry:

1 parcel glass bottles 12s

Entry:

1 parcel cotton wick £1 5s

Entry:

9 deal boards, 1 parcel deal boxes, old skips 9s

Entry:

15 pounds London cotton £1 5s

Entry:

1 ton salt £11

Entry:

1 large iron beam and scales 12s

Entry:

1 small beam and salt scale 2s 6d

Entry:

3 hundredweight of lead weights, 0.5 hundredweight iron weights £2 5s

Cellar

Entry:

2 remnants of molasses in the casks £3

Entry:

1 remnant of vinegar £2

Entry:

40 gallons strong waters £3

Entry:

1 parcel of cut tobacco in 3 casks £6

Entry:

1 barrel soap £4

Entry:

1 tobacco engine, tubs, sieves £2

Entry:

1 remnant of fine spirits £1

Entry:

1 remnant of old Spanish 10s

Entry:

1 pair of brass scales 6s

Entry:

2 ale stools, old boxes, skips, other lumber 5s

Shop

Entry:

1 parcel of sugar in several casks, leaf sugar £19

Entry:

1 parcel of currants and raisins £11 9s

Entry:

1 parcel of candle and cotton £1 8s

Entry:

1 parcel of salt and rosin 17s

Entry:

1 parcel of spice of all sorts £5 19s

Entry:

1 parcel of glue £1

Entry:

1 parcel of white paper and grey paper £3

Entry:

1 parcel of cards £1 5s

Entry:

1 parcel of shot £2

Entry:

Brass scales and weights in the shop, 1 iron beam and scales £1

Entry:

1 mortar and pestle 10s

Entry:

1 parcel of small wares and pewter pots belonging to the shop 13s

Entry:

1 shop counter, 3 nests of drawers, shop shelves, other small things, lumber in the shop £2

Entry:

1.5 hogsheads tobacco £38 9s

Entry:

1 parcel of millinery and haberdashery wares in the shop £51 9s

Room

Entry:

1 mare sold since his death £5

Entry:

3 acres wheat on the ground £3 5s

Entry:

Ready money in the house £56 4s

Entry:

1 silver tankard, 3 silver mugs, 7 silver spoons £7

Entry:

Lumber, things omitted 3s 4d

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

£5 (wearing apparel linen and woollen)

Total Inventory Value:

£315 2s 10d

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