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The Tudor Parish
by Alan Roberts
Part 1: Appleby Fields and Tenements
Part 2: Late Tudor Inhabitants
Part 3: Villagers at Home - Probate Inventories
Appleby Fields and Tenements in Tudor Times
Appleby's situation in a small valley half a mile from the highway between Ashby and Tamworth fulfils the two indispensable requirements for an agricultural settlement: a supply of fresh water and access to cultivable land. The first was provided by a small brook which flows between the church and the moat house before crossing the town meadow and draining into the Mease. An irregular block of long, narrow tenement crofts enclosed between two roughly parallel streets backed onto this natural drainage channel to form a classic ‘two-row settlement’ . The second was provided by the fertile Keuper marl which covers most of the parish providing excellent ground for both livestock and tillage.
The Tudor Tenants
The earliest record of the customary tenants of the manor in Tudor times is a list of admissions to the Great Court drawn up in May, 1546 in a stray court roll among the Paget papers which provides a partial list of the Appleby copyholders with the number of virgates held by each.
TENANTS OF GREAT APPLEBY MANOR IN 1546
Tenement |
Virgates |
William Molde |
2 |
George ? |
3 |
John Heere |
2 |
John Irpe [Erpe] |
1 |
Thomas Taylour |
1 |
Nicholas Pratt |
2 |
John Proudman |
3 |
Thomas Choysse |
1 |
Henry Robynson |
2 |
Thamas Powdton |
cottager |
The list of copyholders shows nineteen customary virgates, a quarter of the standard unit of land for the support of a medieval villein, shared between ten copyhold tenants together with the cottager, Thomas Powdton who probably had only grazing rights on the commons. Nearly all of these names except Thomas Powdton appear in the seventeenth-century registers and other sources, such as probate records, or hearth tax assessments after 1660, although not always as copyholders. Cicely Howell's Kibworth study has shown that it was quite common for tenement plots to change hands, be severed and/or amalgamated into larger holdings. John Heere (or Heire) who held two virgates on Paget's manor in 1546 was probably typical of the copyhold tenants in Appleby. A man of the same name appears in a list of 25 inhabitants taking the view of Frankpledge at Great Appleby on 15th April 1594. John's descendants retained their Appleby holding until the early Stuart period; Henry Heyre, identified as a husbandman, is cited in a 1604 Chancery dispute as lawful possession of a messuage with the remaining lease of arable lands for six years. But after 1629 the surname disappears from the register. The absence of any further reference to the family before John and Catherine Here registered the first of their four children in 1719, suggests that the original holding had been granted to another tenant.
Comparisons of field outlines on modern ordnance survey maps suggests that the customary tenants on Paget's manor may have occupied a sixty to eighty acre enclosed site between the main streets containing their tenement yards, gardens, orchards and small paddocks, with the open fields extending out beyond this area as at Wigston Magna. The medieval church and moat house representing spiritual and secular authority, are centrally placed, the church on a slight eminence, the moat house on lowlying ground making defensive use of the brook. In Elizabethan times there was a rectory on or near the site of the late Victorian almshouses opposite the church, and a large tithe barn alongside the eastern wall of the churchyard. The hallyard, alongside the moat house, was divided into four ‘closes’ one of which contained an orchard. Besides orchards and dovecotes which provided a supply of fresh fruit and meat for the household, the demesne comprised six yardlands of arable, three of ‘ley and meadow’ and five pasture closes, covering altogether 460 customary acres. A condition attached to a lease of 1628. that all ‘lease and grass ground’ belonging to the demesne was to be marked with a ‘greate Roman S’ on the baulks at the end of each ridge, suggests that some of the field strips were leased and others given over to pasture.
When William Paget granted the manor of Great Appleby to Eleanor Brereton in 1554 there were twelve houses, four tofts or unoccupied tenement plots, and six cottages. This, together with the lists of jurors in the manor court rolls from 1594, indicates that there may have been as many as twenty households in the village at this time. Preliminary field investigations have established the location of some of the sites mentioned in the early records. Although the findings are speculative, the surviving medieval building structures, field outlines and earthworks help to support the information provided in some of the early documents. Leases of the demesne, for example, refer to two water mills belonged to the lordship. One probably lay close to the moat house where there are traces of a sluiceway. The other, rebuilt in 1620, was at Measemeadow. Brick and rubble foundations in Dormer's Hall close are almost certainly the remains of the homestead occupied by a seventeenth-century family of that name while numerous marl pits in an adjacent enclosure are testimony to the attempts made to improve the heavy clay soils
The Hamlet of Little Appleby
Little Appleby is a secondary settlement or hamlet about a mile south of the church. The original settlement appears to have grown up at the crossroads where the fieldway between Appleby and Austrey intersected the highway from Atherstone to Burton-on-Trent. The late medieval settlement pattern has been largely obliterated by eighteenth-century alterations to the highway However, a line of cottages facing onto a small lane to the east of the new road provide a clue to the sixteenth-century layout, which conforms to a standard crossroad pattern on a north-south alignment, clearly shown on John Prior 1777 map of Leicestershire. In 1506 Edmund Appleby left twenty houses on his demesne at Little Appleby, which suggests that the settlement was as large as its parent village by then.
Sources and Notes
For an explanation of the settlement typology see: B.K. Roberts, 'Timeless Villages from Medieval England', in Man-Made the Land: Essays in English Historical Geography, eds. A.R.H. Baker and J.B. Harley (Newton Abbot, 1973), 46-58.
S.R.O. Paget Papers, Court Roll D(W) 1734/J2009; Paget held lands in Appleby and Austrey for 1/20th of a knight's fee in 1546: Jeayes, 'Burton Abbey Charters', SHC,1937, 187;
L.R.O. Bosworth School Rental (1650), DE 43/456; Appleby Hearth Tax Assessments E 179/134/332, E 179/251/9-18.
L.R.O. Appleby Court Rolls, DE 40/37/1.
P.R.O. Chancery Proceedings, Heyre v Wathew, 1604: C2/JAS i/w15-16.
Cf. for field layout at Wigston: W.G. Hoskins, 'The Fields of Wigston Magna', TLAS, xix (1936-7), 164-7.
A 1606 Appleby glebe terrier refers to ‘the parsonage ... lying between the Pooleyard on the north syde and the streete on the south syde’; The moat house and tithe barn are shown on a 1785 map of Bosworth School lands (DE 43/106); the other sites are discussed in, 'Notes for European Architectural Heritage Year' (1975), L.R.O. DE 176/11/1-3.
The hallyard closes are mentioned in a 1601 Plea of Trespass: HMC,Series 13, Tenth Annual_Report, Appendix IV (1885), 61.
Ref. to demesne, L.R.O. DE 43/55; 43/63-4; 43/104-8.
Customs relating to the marking of boundary baulks are discussed in E. Kerridge, Farmers of Old England, 49.
Cal.Pat.Rolls (Philip and Mary) 11, 135; L.R.O. Manor Court Rolls, SE 40/37/1; Rental c. 1650, DE 43/456.
For field outlines see in particular the 1882 '25 inch' O.S. Sheet, Leics. XXII, 15; References to the mill at Mease Meadow in Babyngton Deposition (1552), L.R.O. DE 42/528; A letter from the miller to Thomas Moore listing repairs in 1705: DE 43/106; A possible site for the mill adjacent to the moat in the 1785 map: DE 319
I am grateful to Mr Richard Dunmore, former churchwarden of Appleby, for the topographic information upon which this section is based. The traces of a well worn footpath due west from the church to the highway at Wigston(lit.Viking's tun) lend support to Mr Dunmore's suggestion of a Danish farmstead at this approach to the village. Cf. Witghiton close in will of John Wright, (L.R.O. wills, 1606/83); The line of earthen banks and ditches due west of the church may be the remains of Danish or Saxon fortifications, later used as archery butts (Cf. Butyard end in field name survey (DE 176/1112; DE 40/37/1); Crosemerle Pitt and Fishmarlpit in Sloane terrier (c.1450), and limestone in Richard Erpe's inventory (PR I/56/36); For marling: W.G. Hoskins, 'The Fields of Wigston Magna', TLAS, xix (1936-7), 169.
The Late Tudor Inhabitants of the Parish
In late Tudor times Appleby’s population probably never exceeded 400 inhabitants, even allowing for the influx of labourers and transients from other parishes. The Liber Cleri of 1603 which is regarded as an accurate count of those who attended church regularly recorded 225 communicants. The parish registers, probate records and other sources provide a fairly accurate record of the surnames of all of the families associated with the parish in this period.
Surname |
dates recorded |
occupations |
Aldret |
1560s -1640s |
husbandman |
Bassert |
1570s |
|
Bilson |
1570s |
|
Bull |
1570s -1720s |
|
Butler |
1560s -1580s |
husbandman |
Chaplin |
1560s -1600s |
|
Choice |
1560s -1660s |
spinster |
Cross |
1580s-1600s |
|
Erpe |
1570s -1680s |
yeomen/husbandmen/weaver |
Foster |
1570s- 1690s |
husbandman |
Frend |
1570s |
|
Frisby |
1570s |
|
Gent |
1570s |
husbandman |
Heifield |
1570s-1720s |
husbandman |
Heire/Ayre |
1550s-1720s |
labourer |
Holding/Holden |
1550s-1680s |
husbandman |
Hunt |
1570s-1640s |
|
Jordayne/Jorden |
1570s-1700s |
labourer |
Meverell |
1570s |
gentleman |
Mould |
1550s-1720s |
yeomen/husbandmen/parsons |
Parker |
1570s-1720s |
yeomen/husbandmen/carpenter |
Petcher | 1570s-1720s | yeomen/husbandmen |
Pemarton |
1570s-1600s |
|
Pratt |
1570s-1720s |
husbandman |
Proudman |
1570s-1720s |
yeomen/husbandmen/labourer |
Robinson |
1560s-1710s |
husbandman |
Shilton |
1570s-1720s |
tailor |
Spencer |
1570s-1720s |
yeoman/wheelwright |
Swayne |
1590s |
labourer |
Taverner |
1570s-1720s |
husbandman |
Taylor |
1570s-1690s |
husbandman |
Tomson |
1570s-1640s |
|
Walker |
1570s-1680s |
husbandman/yeoman |
Warren |
1550s |
husbandman/alehouse keeper |
Watson |
1570s-1710s |
|
Wilson |
1570s-1720s |
husbandman/tailor |
Wooley |
1570s-1580s |
|
Wright |
1560s-1720s |
husbandman |
Atkins |
1580s-1590s |
|
Backhouse |
1580s |
husbandman |
Bennet |
1580s |
|
Dedick |
1580s |
|
Durden |
1580s-1650s |
labourer |
Enser |
1580s-1590s |
|
Gilbart |
1580s |
husbandman |
Ours |
1580s-1670s |
|
Pegg |
1580s |
widow |
Smith |
1580s-1720s |
|
Swaine/Swene |
1580s-1710s |
labourer |
Wathew |
1580s-1710s |
yeomen/blacksmiths |
Allen |
1590s |
|
Baker |
1590s-1720s |
|
Bailey |
1590s-1660s |
|
Durrin |
1590s-1610s |
|
Hacket |
1590s-1600s |
|
Lakin/Lawkin |
1590s-1720s |
husbandman |
Mosely |
1590s-1720s |
husbandman/labourer |
Roberts |
1590s |
|
The Tudor Villagers at Home
Probate inventories provide a particularly intimate and personal view of villager's household goods and chattels, made even more immediate when the inventories are linked to individual inhabitants and events within the parish. Twenty nine of the 34 Tudor inventories from Appleby in the Leicestershire Record Office are from the reign of Elizabeth I. The remainder are from the reigns of Edward VI and "Bloody Mary". Most of these belong to husbandmen or yeomen, but there are some drawn up for widows and spinsters. The earliest inventory belongs to Robert Wilson, who was probably a yeoman or husbandmen - one of the established farmers in the parish who grew crops and kept livestock in the time of Edward VI. His contemporaries, William Walker and Roger Waren, had a similar range of household goods and farming implements and shared the same appraisers. These include men like John Petcher, William Wright, Robert Wilson and Oliver Shilton - surnames which crop up frequently in the probate records as appraisers or witnesses. John and Thomas Petcher who appear among the appraisers were undoubtedly connected to the plaintiff John Petcher cited in the archdeaconry court case relating to events which happened at the Atherstone fair in 1597. William Walker came from one of the prominent families in Appleby, as did Edward More who was almost certainly connected to the lords who purchased the manor of Little Appleby around 1600. The Walkers later appear as yeomen farmers occupying Walkers Hall, and indeed one of William's descendants was hauled before the archdeaconry court in a scandalous alehouse case from 1640. The inventory belonging to Roger Waren is of particular interest because there is a record of a certain Richard Warehorne being granted a licence to keep an alehouse in Appleby in 1579. Roger may well have been his father or kinsman and it is curious to see that he has what appear to be brewing equipment - a "great brass pot" and "mashing pot" - listed among his household goods.
Of the Elizabethan inventories that of John Cotterell of 1572 is a rare example of a servant's inventory - of particular interest because John had lands in the common fields and the lease of a house. The women's inventories include that of Elizabeth Mould, a yeoman's widow who died in 1564 leaving a great stock of farming equipment. Of particular interest however is the inventory of Alice Bates who died in the Winter of 1579 leaving a considerable wardrobe, including three red petticoats, medle gowns and a flaxen smock, handkerchiefs and a russett apron. The size of her wardrobe and the fine materials may indicate that Alice had an interest in fashionable clothes. The three yards of red cloth listed among her possessions suggest that she might have been a "spinster" who made her own clothes, or a milliner - though it is equally possible that she was a widow. The fact that her death is not recorded in the Appleby parish register, and the absence of any further records of Bates in Appleby prior to the 1750s, suggests either that she came from a neighbouring parish or that she was an itinerant.
The eight Tudor inventories which have been transcribed below can be said to represent a cross-section of the 'typical' Tudor villagers in Appleby. Their contents provide eloquent testimony to everyday domestic and farming life in the village in Tudor times.
Appleby Probate Inventories from Tudor Times
- Robert Wylson, 1548
- William Walker, 1548
- Roger Waren, 1553
- Thomas Holden, 1556
- William Wright, 1558
- Harry Mold, 1561
- Elizabeth Mould, 1564, widow
- John Walker, 1572
- John Cotterell, 1572, servant
- Edward More, 1576
- Edward Bilson, 1576
- Alice Bates, 1579
- Richard Mold, 1581
- John Moulde, 1581
1. Robert Wylson, 1548
The inventory of the gods of Robert Wylson deceased in the parish of Appulbie in the countie of Leicestershire praised the vìi day of June, second yere of the rene of King Edward the vi By the Grace of God of England, France & Irland Kinge & also of the church of England & Also of Irland supreme hed under God/ By Thomas French [?], Jhon Pechere, Henry Prout, Oliver Shylton
Imprimis vi kyne, towe boloks |
ìììi |
Item iii calves of a yere old |
xs |
Item ii, ìi mareys,ii felyes [fillies] |
xls |
Item xx shepe |
xls |
Item halfe a dozen swyne, iiii geysse |
vis vììì d |
Item a cartt, a plowe, ii harows & geyrys there to longynge |
xxs |
Item ii pannys, iii small potts & skyllett vi pewter dyshes |
xìis |
Item beddyng reinment & all in the chabere |
xixs |
Item a pere of tongs, a pere of gobberts & a pere of pott hokes & a spytt |
xiid |
Item a ……. a boord & a form |
iis |
Suma totalis |
xi xs. viiid |
2. William Walker, 1548
The Inventory of the goods of Wylliam Walkere of Lattly dessessyd mad the iii day of January in the fyrst yere of the renye of Kynge Edward the vi By the grace of Gode of England, France & Yrland Kynge & of the Church of England & of Yrland supreme hede, presyd by Jhon Petchere, Wylliam Wryght, Robert Wysson, Olyver Shylton
Imprimis thre kye & thre heffers |
iii£ |
Item iiii horses |
xls |
Item & olde mare & a colt |
iiiis |
Item v quarters of barle |
xxvs |
Item thre quarter of peys |
xiis |
Item ii cartes |
xiiis iiiid |
Item vii showlls |
viis |
Item a ploo & ii harows |
iiis ivd |
Item iii heines & a coke |
vid |
Item ii geys & a gonder |
ixd |
Item hows hold stuff in bras pewtere, bords & formys, beddynge & other stouffs |
xls |
Summa total |
x£ vs xd |
3. Roger Waren, 1553 [gentleman - alehouse keeper?]
The Inventorie of all the goods belonging to Roger Waren of Appulbie
At the tyme of hys death a gent as appraised
Item purse and apparel -xxiiiid
Item ii great harowes
Item iiii small harrowes
Item a culter
Item a great brass pott
Item a massy pott [mashing pot?]
Item ambrye [?]
Item a whain lode of boordes, trestyls, lomes & fatts
Item iiii pays of shetes
Item ii pelowe bolsters[?]
Item ii towels
Item table cloth of ……
Item a coffer a bedspread
Item a bolster, ii pylowes
Item a meteborde, ii ….. forkes
Item ii pykeforkes, a spade, a fire pocker
Item ii bagges, an Iron brooche
Item a payre of tonges & ii [?]dooris
Detts owinge upon Roger Waryn Laste of Appulbie ……xxs.
4. Thomas Holden, 1556
The Inventory of all such goods & cattells as Thomas Holden was appraised of at the tyme of his deth
Bedding |
|
Imprimis vii payre of shetes |
xxiiiis |
Item one fether bedde |
vs |
Item iii mattressse |
xs |
Item iiii blanketts |
viiis |
Item iii coverlettes |
xiis |
Item ii bed tyllangs |
xs |
Item v abynneys shets |
viis |
Item ii bolsters & ii pelwes |
xiiis |
The other howsehold stuffe |
|
Item iii pannys & ii potts |
xls |
Item viii peuter dyshes & one mashing basyn |
viis |
Item one chaffyng dyshe |
xvid |
Item ii sosers |
viiid |
Item a payer of cob Irons & a spytt |
iis |
Item one cubbord |
iiis |
Item ii coffers & one table with other suchimplementes |
xiiiis |
Item one plowe with plowe gere |
viiis |
Item ii syed carts with other gere |
xls |
Item vii horsys & mares |
vL |
Item v kyne with iiii young beasts [?] |
viiL viiis |
Item l [fifty] shepe |
viiL |
Item iii horrses & sowe |
xxs |
Item the hole crope of corne & hay |
xxL |
Sum totalis |
L [fifty] pounds |
Prased by Richard Mold, John Proudman, Wylliam Wryght & Richard Dasyn anno domini cciii lvi
5. John Walker, 1572
The Inventorye of all the goods of John Walker lately deceased, moveable & unmoveable, taken & apprysed by Richard Baker, Richard Sharpe, John Wylson & Thomas Ryght, the vi day of February in the xiiii yeare of the raygne of our soveraygne ladye Quene Elizabethe by the grace of God Quene of England, France, Ireland, defender of the fayth..
Imprimis in the hall |
|
a table a forme & a cheare |
iiis vid |
Item iiii puter dyshes |
iiis |
Item a candlesticke |
iiiid |
Item a brase pot |
vs |
Item a basen & a caldryn |
iis |
Item a Landiron, a pair of pothokes & a pare of tongges |
xviiid |
Item a broche & a pare of cobbards |
iis vid |
In the Paler [Parlor] |
|
Item ii beddes with clothes & hangynges and a cofer |
xxxs |
Item a hand mylne & a whycche |
xiis |
Item a trough, a old whycche, a lome & a peale |
vis |
Item v herses or mares & ii coltes |
vii£ |
Item v kyne & iiii calves |
vii£ |
Item xxx shepe |
iiii£ |
Item vi shottes |
xs |
Item a Iron bond carte, a pare of spare wheles and the geares |
xls |
Item a o... harrowe & ii small harrowes |
vis viiid |
Item x quarter of barley |
v£ |
Item halfe a quarter of Wheate & ii stryke of blendcorne |
xxvis viiid |
Item vi quarter of pease |
xls |
Item for tymber |
xxs |
Item iiii hyves |
vs viiid |
Item for hey |
xiiis iiiid |
Item for corne in the fyeld |
xls |
Item ii ploughes & theIrons |
vs |
Item iii pykeforkes, iiii shafhookes, a byll, a axe & a Iron Wegge } |
iiis viiid |
Item ii geese & a gander |
xviiid |
Item v hennes, a capen & iiii duckes |
iis vid |
Item ii sywer spores [?] |
iiiis |
Item dyshes, spones & other implementes |
iiiid |
Item money |
? |
Summa totalis |
xxxvi£ vs iid |
6. John Cotterell, 1572 [servant]
The trewe Inventorye of all the goodes and chattells latelye John Cotterell of Appleby deceased given & presed the nynth day of Januarye Anno domini 1572 by Richard Walker, Rychard Baker, Rychard Wryght and Rycharde Watthew inhabitants for that purpose as hereafter followeth
Imprimis Barlye and wheate prysed |
iii£ |
Item pease & hey with some otes in ye barne |
xls |
Imprimis Barlye and wheate prysed |
£iii |
Item pease & hay with some otes in ye barne |
xls |
Item seven bordes and two bedsydes |
xxd |
Item certayne tymber |
xiis |
Item syxe shepe |
xviis |
Item in redye monye |
xxd |
item one cheste |
xxd |
Item one roobe & a peare of hose |
iiiid |
Item fower landes in the feld sowen with wynter corne |
xvis |
Item the lease of the house |
iiii£ |
Summa totalis |
xi£ xxd |
|
|
Modern Spelling |
|
barley and wheat |
£3 0 0 |
pease and hay with some oats in the barn |
£2 0 0 |
seven boards and two bedsides |
1 8 |
certain timber |
12 0 |
six sheep |
17 0 |
in ready money |
1 8 |
one chest |
1 8 |
0ne robe and a pair of hose |
4 |
four lands in the field sown with Winter corn |
16 0 |
the lease of the house |
£4 0 0 |
Total |
£11 1 8 |
7. Edward More, 1576
The Inventorye of Edward More of Applebye made the xiii of June in the Yeare of Our Lord, 1576.
Imprimis his purse & his apparell |
xxs |
Item a borde & a forme & littel borde, tow charres, two amberyches, a soer with certaine panterd shelves } |
xxs |
Item vi brase pottes, vii paines |
iii£ |
Item .... peces of puter, vi porringers, iii candelstickes, iii sawecers } |
xxs |
Item iii matteresses, iiii boulsters, iii coverlets, iiii paire of flaxen shetes & six paire of carden shetes |
iiii£ |
Item iii bedstedes, iiii cofers with other certaine wodden warre } |
xxs |
Item a lede, iii lodes of colles with other yron stuffe in kitchin } |
xxxs |
Item tow horses |
vi£ |
Item horses |
vi£ vis viiid |
Item a horse, a mare & a yearrelinge |
viii£ |
Item a charbill & Chare garres |
xls |
Item a charte ploughe, timber & iiii harrowes, two charres tow coulters howeth & pailles with all the woodde in the yarde } |
lv£ |
Item ix ..... & a heffer |
xiii£ vis viiid |
Item ix swynes pikes |
iii£ |
Item all the pease in the yarde |
iiis |
Item a bacon flicke |
iiis iiiid |
Item lvi sheppe |
xv£ |
Item a quarter of otes, a quarter of pees, tow quarter of malte, a quarter of barley } |
ls |
Itemall the corne & grasse in the feilde |
xvi£ |
Some total |
£92 - 19s - 8d |
Praised by these men:
Robert More
Robert Simsonne
John a Parres
Wylliam More
Peter Lockes
John Morris
William Sheekes
8. Alice Bates, 1579
A true Inventory of all ye apparrell and goodes of Alice Bates diceased in ye towne of Applebie made the ix daye of January 1578 in the presence of William Robinson and Jhon Petcher who weare praisers of her goodes.
Imprimis 7 sheetes |
ixs |
Item a bord stott |
xiid |
Item a sawser |
iiiid |
Item a kercheefe |
viiid |
Item ii cofers |
iis iiiid |
Item a brass pot |
iis vid |
Item a brasse pan |
iis vid |
Item ii pewter platters |
iis |
Item a medle gown |
vis viiid |
Item an old pinke gown |
3s iiiid |
Item an old medle gowne |
iis vid |
Item an old medle frock |
iis |
Item a red peticote |
iiiis vid |
a nother |
iis vid |
a nother |
iis vid |
Item an old flaxen smocke |
vid |
a nother |
xiid |
a nother |
viiid |
Item ii handkercheefes |
xd |
Item a flaxen kercheefe |
xiid |
Item a paire of stenes |
viiid |
Item ii russett aporns |
xd |
Item ii linnen apornes |
vid |
Item a hat |
xvid |
Item a kercheefe |
viiid |
Item a corse |
iiiid |
Item ii neckercheefes |
xiid |
Item iii yardes of red cloth |
vis |
Item in her pursse |
xs |
Summa totalis |
iii viis viiid |
By us
Richard Mold
William Stanton
Jhon Spensarý Exequitors
9. Richarde Moulde, 1581
A trew Inventory of all the goods and Chattelles which were Richard Mouldes of Appleby deceased taken the xxiiiith of July, Anno Domini 1581 by Richard Baker, Thomas Petcher, Charles Walker, George Choyse & William Houlden
Item one pane, towe pottes, one kettell, on [frying?] dish, Tow candelstikes with other implemens 'praised } |
liiis iiiid |
Item iiii putter dishes, ii salte psed |
iiis |
Item one hundeate [?], i ax, one little oxen yoke with the Irne & with other oulde Irne } |
xs |
Item ii oulde tubbs & certen other oulde wooden ware |
iiis iiiid |
Item borde harrow tymber & carte tymber |
xs vid |
Item one fatt, one oulde tubb, one weltroughe |
vs |
Item ........... |
viiis |
Item ii lommes, 1 peale, i cheare, i cheste |
iiiis viiid |
Item ii Irene flakes |
iis iiiid |
Item all the tymber & other woode |
xxvis |
Item Carte & Carte whilles & plowes with the harrowes psd |
iiii£ vis |
Item all the corne & heay in the feilde |
xxii£ |
Item Item corne in the barn e & in the Chamber |
vi£ |
Item all kynde of naperie |
v£ |
Item iiii chestes |
xiis |
Item all household [provisions?] as bacon, butter & cheese |
xxs |
Item iiii fether beads, iiii matreses, ii coverletts, iiii blanketts, ii boulsters, ii pilowes & wyndeclothes 'praised } |
vi£ xviis viiid |
Item iiii bedsteads with the hangings |
xvis |
Item ii shelves, iii formes, ii stoules, i chear, yarne, hempe & flaxe & one Spinning Wheel, iiii Irne wedges } |
xvs viiid |
Item pease & oats, iiii pichforkes |
iis vid |
Item one soldiers bill psd. |
xiid |
Item one draye of Irne & a harrow & one bottell |
xiid |
Item v swyne |
xxs |
Item vi horses & mares |
vii£ |
Item v kne & iii yonge bease |
x£ |
Item xii oulder shepp & vi lambes |
xls |
Item one stone & a half of woole |
xvis |
Item v payer of Carte geeyers |
xs |
Item his apparell |
xs |
Item in his purse |
xxs |
Total for nynetenne pounds, three shillings & eighte pence.
©transcribed by Alan Roberts, November 2001