Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 6/21

Archive:

NRO

Date:

9 May 1590

Testator:

Richard Burton

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Brewer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Brewer

Place:

Bromholm, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

William Whitby

Gender:

male

Chamber

Entry:

1 feather bed, 1 bolster, 1 covering, 2 pillows, 1 posted bedstead, 1 stained cloth tester 20s

Entry:

1 boarded bedstead, 1 flock bed, 1 coverlet, 1 bolster, 1 tester, certain other stained cloths 10s

Entry:

1 framed table, 2 old forms, 1 chair, 2 great chests, 1 little chest 6s 8d

Entry:

4 pair of coarse sheets, 2 pillow-beres, 2 short tablecloths 12s

Kitchen

Entry:

2 brass kettles, 1 skillet, 1 little brass pan, 2 latten candlesticks, 1 skimmer, 1 frying pan 12s

Entry:

2 pewter platters, 3 pewter dishes, 1 saucer, 1 spit 5s

Entry:

1 plank, 2 trestles, 1 form, 1 trammel, 1 fire pan, 1 pair of tongs, 1 gridiron, 1 pair of pot-hooks, 2 stools, other things 6s

Brewhouse

Entry:

36 kilderkins 27s

Entry:

3 small keelers 9d

Entry:

1 underback 5s

Entry:

Other trifles 16d

Chamber by the Brewhouse

Entry:

1 old boarded bedstead, 1 bolster, 1 covering, 5 old comb sacks 4s

Yard

Entry:

1 brewer's cart 13s 4d

Cattle

Entry:

1 old gelding 16s

Entry:

3 sow hogs, 5 shoats 40s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

6s 8d

Total Inventory Value:

£13 17s 3d

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