Intoxicants and Early Modernity

Inventories

Reference:

DN/INV 8/96

Archive:

NRO

Date:

11 July 1591

Testator:

John Pye

Gender:

male

Occupation:

Brewer

Intoxicant-related Occupation(s):

Brewer

Transcribed Text:

Widow is Elizabeth

Place:

Cromer, Norfolk, England

Appraisers

Name:

Thomas Cannell

Gender:

male

Hall

Entry:

1 cupboard 6s 8d

Entry:

1 framed table, 1 table 6s 8d

Entry:

1 form, 3 chairs, 4 small stools 2s 6d

Entry:

6 cushions 2s 6d

Entry:

11 pewter platters 8s

Entry:

2 pewter pots 1s

Entry:

1 candlestick, 2 old pewter salts 1s

Entry:

1 iron black bill 6d

Entry:

1 pair of bellows, 1 pair of tongs, 2 iron hakes, 1 fire pan, 2 dog-irons, 1 iron bar 20d

Parlour

Entry:

2 forms, 1 chair, 1 table, 1 iron bar, 1 pewter pot, 1 little chest 3s

Buttery

Entry:

18 pieces of pewter 10s

Entry:

5 old saucers, 5 old porringers, 1 fruit dish 2s

Entry:

6 small silver spoons broken 20s

Entry:

1 table, 3 barrels, 2 ale stools, 1 cooler, 1 brass pot, 1 pair of slings 6s

Parlour Chamber

Entry:

2 old posted bedsteads, 1 trundle bedstead 6s 8d

Entry:

3 old coverlets, 1 blanket 5s

Entry:

2 bolsters, 6 old pillows 8s

Entry:

3 sear sheets 3s

Entry:

2 old flock beds, 3 mats, 1 table, 2 chests, 2 barrels 2s 6d

Buttery Chamber

Entry:

1 old posted bedstead, 2 blankets [sum illegible])

Hall Chamber

Entry:

1 bedstead with a painted tester 7s

Entry:

2 feather beds, 2 bolsters 30s

Entry:

4 pillows 16d

Entry:

3 coverlets, 3 blankets 10s

Entry:

1 cloth tester for a painted board 8d

Entry:

2 mats for beds 8d

Entry:

7 pair sear sheets 16s

Entry:

2 old tablecloths 4s

Entry:

2 chests 2s

Entry:

1 table, 4 joined stools, 1 bench 5s

Corn Chamber

Entry:

4 combs barley 30s

Entry:

5 old barrels, 1 old bushel 2s

Entry:

1 form 6d ([possibly 6s])

Entry:

4 sacks 2s

Stable

Entry:

1 collar, 2 pair of traces, 1 [cover?] saddle 2s

Millhouse

Entry:

1 horse-mill 20s

Entry:

1 pitchfork, 2 barrels 8d

Entry:

2 short ladders in the yard 6d

Entry:

5 hundredweight furze 12s

Entry:

0.5 hundredweight wood 8s

Entry:

1 old cart 24s

Backhouse

Entry:

1 kneading trough 12d

Entry:

1 moulding table 2d

Entry:

1 pitchfork, 1 mattock, 2 tubs, 1 ale stool, 1 [sadbuxxe?] 15d

Brewhouse

Entry:

1 brewing lead 20s

Entry:

1 mash-fat, 1 gyle-fat 30s

Entry:

1 cooler 5s

Entry:

1 small fat, 4 small coolers 20d

Kitchen

Entry:

2 brass pots 8s

Entry:

5 old brass kettles 8s

Entry:

1 skillet, 1 little pan, 1 frying pan 12d

Entry:

1 pewter chamber pot 4d

Entry:

5 milk bowls, 1 churn 18d

Entry:

3 spits, 2 cob-irons, 1 latch-pan 3s 6d

Entry:

1 gridiron, 1 pair of pot-hooks, 1 spade 16d

Entry:

1 old candlestick, 1 chafing dish, 1 grate 12d

Fields and Closes

Entry:

12 acres barley (but bad) £8

Entry:

5 acres rye £4

Entry:

1 acre pease 10s

Entry:

1 acre vetches 3s

Entry:

1 old gelding, 4 mares £3

Entry:

2 milch neat 53s 4d

Entry:

1 boar, 1 sow, 6 pigs 10s

Totals

Recoverable Debts:

Irrecoverable Debts:

Wearing Apparel:

Total Inventory Value:

£37 1s 6d

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