inventory of elizabeth beard

Description: Inventory of Elizabeth Beard widow of Rowner, buried April 22nd 1639.

Reference: Winchester County Record Office 1639A 18/2

R.Towner 4th October 1995.

The inventory taken of all the goods and chattles of Elizabeth Beard of Roughner widdow late deceased [a]praysed by James Searle, William Knight, Robert Brooker and

William Greene Aprill 14th 1639.

In the hall

Imprimis the greatest brass kettle and a candlestick 12s 0d

A copper kettle and a pewter candlestick 10s 0d

A small kettle a skillet and a brass candlestick 8s 0d

—- small kettle a skillett and candlestick 8s 0d

Three potts a payre of cottrells and pothooks and a saltsellar 15s 0d

Two tubs a kiver(?) a lea-ing glass a brush a whute(?) and

smoothing iron. 5s 6d

In the kitchen

Four flitches of bacon £1 0s 8d

A spill(?) a frying pan, two bushells, six dishes with other lumber 3s 6d

In the milkhouse

Five bowls two kivers(?) two tubbs a powdring tubb and other lumber 15s 0d

In the loft over the hall

Two truckle beds and bedsteddles and three coplers(?) £1 0s 0d

Two payres of flaxen sheets and a lonram(?) sheet and one table cloth £1 6s 0d

One pillowlie a christening cloth and other old linnen 7s 0d

Two pieces of new cloth with two double ——- 6s 4d

In the chamber over the kitchen

Four forbins(?), two bucketts, a tubb, a kiver(?) and other lumber 10s 0d

Wool, hops, a trivett with other lumber 11s 0d

Three bushells of barley, three bushells of peas and five bushells

of oats and one sack  £1 7s 0d

Two cushions 1s 0d

Three kine and five bullocks £13 0s 0d

Two calves £ 2 0s 0d

Two horses and two colts £ 3 0s 0d

Five hoggs £ 2 15s 0d

The poultry about the house 7s 0d

A stock of wheat £ 7 0s 0d

A stock of oates £ 3 0s 0d

A stock of hay 13s 0d

Six acres of wheat £ 6 0s 0d

Seven acres of oates £ 3 0s 0d

Five acres of peas £ 3 0s 0d

One acre of rye £ 1 0s 0d

Half an acre of rapele(??) and one acre of oates 14s 0d

An acre and a half of peas £ 1 0s 0d

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£48 19s 0d

£10 16s 0d

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£59 15s 0d

[signed] James Searle

William Knight, his mark

Robert Brooker

William Greene, his mark