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Appleby History > Alan Roberts > The Tudor Parish

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

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
belongyng to howshold        }

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 

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 Spensar

ý     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

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

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

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