The Inventory of Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G.

A modernised transcription of the probate inventory of Sir Thomas Lovell, K.G.

The original document (National Archives PROB 2/199) was a roll consisting of 9 pages which are now separate and in varying but generally poor condition - unfortunately several parts are now missing and/or illegible.

It appears that the document is also incomplete, abruptly ending in the middle of the section concerning Lovell's house at East Harling in Norfolk.

Notably the vast majority of Lovell's property is described in terms such as "sore broken" and "worn", so much so that it raises the question as to whether a deliberate effort was being made to under-value the estate.

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Contents:

In the Place at Enfield
In the Place [at Halywe]ll
Stuff at East Harling in Norfolk

This is the Inventory of all the goods, chattels and debts of Sir Thomas Lovell, Knight of the garter: Praised by John Seynteler and William Gefrey, Gentlemen and Praisers unto the most Reverend Fathers in God: Thomas Archbishop of York; Cardinal and Legate de Latere, and William, Archbishop of Canterbury; Primate of all England. The 16th day of August in the year of our Lord God 1524.


In the place at Enfield


First in the Parlour Between the Chapel and the Porter's Lodge

  • Inprimis 3 small remnants of old green saye - 7s
  • Item a long table with 2 trestles, wainscot - 3s 4d
  • Item a joined chair, wainscot, an old form and an old joined stool, wainscot - 2s 8d

Sum - 13s

In the Porter's Lodge

  • Item a little featherbed with bolster, old - 5s
  • Item 2 Norwich coverlets, old - 16d
  • Item a bedstead, a form, a little cupboard, old, and an old stool, joined oak - 2s

Sum 8s 4d

In the Old Lodge

  • Item 2 bedsteads and 2 featherbeds, small, with 2 old bolsters feebly stuffed - 10s [...]
  • Item an old coverlet of broken green verder - [...]
  • Item a covering of old tapestry, broken sore - [...]

Sum - 12[...]

In the Auditor's Chamber

  • Item a hanging of old red saye, broken - [...]
  • Item a bedstead and an old featherbed with 1 bolst[er] [...]
  • Item a pair of fustians, broken sore - [...]
  • Item a covering of old verder, sore worn - [...]
  • Item an old sperner of fustian with 3 old curt[ains] of green buckram, worn sore - [...]
  • Item an old table and old cupboard an old joined stool, wainscot, and a turned chair - [...]

Sum - 22s[...]

In the Next Chamber

  • Item a bedstead, a little featherbed with an old bolster and a mattress, old - 8s
  • Item a covering of old tapestry and an old Norwich coverlet, broken - 3s
  • Item a selor and tester of yelow and tawny buckram, broken sore - 12d

Sum - 12s

In the Chamber by the Larder

  • Item a featherbed, a bolster, old, 2 old fustians - 7s
  • Item an old covering of yelow tapestry, broken - 20d
  • Item a spern of old bustia and an old hanging of broken red saye, sore worn - 3s 4d
  • Item an old bedstead a stool and a little form - 16d

Sum - 13s 4d

In the Clerk of Kitchen's Chamber

  • Item a little featherbed, a bolster and a mattress - 7s
  • Item a pair [of] blankets and a coverlet of old verder - 2s 6d
  • Item a sperner of blue bustian and an old hanging, red saye, broken - 2s
  • Item a bedstead, an old press of oak, 2 old short tables, a turned chair and 2 forms, old - 3s

Sum - 14s 6d

In the Chamber Next the Counting House

  • Item an old hanging, red saye, broken - 8d
  • Item a featherbed a bolster and a pair blankets - 8s
  • Item a coverlet and tapestry, broken sore - [...]
  • Item a spern, buckram, blue and red paned - [...]
  • Item an old bedstead, a little table and a stool - 16d
  • Item a joined cupboard with ?almys in it - [...]

Sum - 19s[...]

In the Counting House

  • Item an old, square, large board covered with green saye - 6d
  • Item 2 long old chests with ?coferis in them - 8d

Sum - 14d

In my Lady Lovell's Chamber

  • Item a little bed of down of 6 [...] broad, old - [...]
  • Item a covering of old green verder - [...]
  • Item a selor and tester of blue and yelow cloth - 2 [...]
  • Item 3 pairs of old tapestry cont 36 sticks square, sore worn - [...]
  • Item an old trussing bed and a folding table - 2 [...]
  • Item an old Flanders chair covered with leather - 16 [...]

Sum - 40s 4[...]

In the Great Chamber Next

  • Item 5 old tapets of green verder with wild beasts, cont 100 sticks square at 8d, sore worn - 3 [...]
  • Item a large featherbed with bolster and an old covering, verder, large, worn sore - [...]
  • Item an old sperner of bawdkyn with curtains of old buckram, sore worn - 6s [...]
  • Item a small pair of tapestry cont 13 sticks square - 6s
  • Item an old window curtain of green saye - 8d
  • Item an English carpet of 3 yards long with falcon wings and a plain bedstead, old - 17s
  • Item 2 cushions of green verder, old and a Flanders old chair, sore worn - 2s
  • Item an old large folding table - 21d
  • Item a plain table with 2 trestles and an old plain cupboard of oak burdes [?i.e. boards] - 2s
  • Item a fire fork, a shovel and an old bill - 6d

Sum - £6 9s[...]

In the Dining Parlour

  • Item 5 tapets of green verder, sore worn cont 100 sticks square at 6d the stick - 50s
  • Item 5 tapets of great verder with beasts and imagery cont 100 sticks square at 8d - £3 6s [...]
  • Item 3 old curtains of green saye - 12d
  • Item an English carpet curse[?n] of 5 yards long - 40s
  • Item a new English carpet of 6 yards long - 8 [...]
  • Item 2 old cushions of green verder and 2 cushions, green say, stuffed with feathers - 2 [...]
  • Item 2 broken short carpets on the cupboards - 2 [...]
  • Item 3 old Flanders chairs and 2 plain chairs - [...]
  • Item a long table with 2 trestles, wainscot - 3s [...]
  • Item an old oyster board and 4 joined forms - 2s 8d
  • Item 2 plain cupboards and 3 joined stools - 3s
  • Item an old andiron and a fire fork - 16d

Sum - £16 13s

In the Great Parlour

  • Item 6 tapets of great verder, broken sore, cont 7 sticks square at 3d - 35s
  • Item a gean carpet of 3 yards long, broken - 6s 8d
  • Item a gean carpet cont 6 yards long, old - 30s
  • Item a counting board covered with green cloth - 12d
  • Item a short table with 2 trestles, old oak - 20d
  • Item 2 old plain cupboards of oak - 2s
  • Item a long table with 2 pair trestles, old - 2s
  • Item 3 old staked forms of oak - 16d

Sum £3 19s 8d

In the Hall

  • Item 6 small pieces of old green saye, broken - 6s 8d
  • Item 5 plank tables and 5 old forms - 6s 8d
  • Item a plain chair and a plain cupboard - 2s 8d
  • Item 7 midsummer lights of wax ?peg 21 lb the lb 7d - [...]s 3d

Sum - [£1 8s 3d]

In my Lord of Oxford's Chamber [...]

  • Item 5 tapets of old tapestry imagery sore worn, cont 72 sticks square at 6d - [36s]
  • Item a little featherbed, a bolster and a pair of old fustians, sore worn - 2[1s 10d]
  • Item an old covering of great verder, cont 20 sticks square, price - 20s
  • Item a selour and tester of satin of bridges, white and green and 3 curtens, sarsnet, white and green paned, old - 30s
  • Item 2 cushions of old green verder - 2d
  • Item a cushion of violet satin of bridges, old - 16d
  • Item a broken gean carpet of 2 yards long - 20d
  • Item a paylet featherbed, a bolster and an old coverlet of tapestry, sore worn - 10s
  • Item a trussing bedstead, wainscot, old - 3s 4d

Sum - £6 4s 4d

In the Chamber Next the Gate

  • Item 5 tapets of old verder tapestry, cont 66 yards square at 8d, sore worn - 44s
  • Item an old featherbed, bolster, a pair [of] fustians and a large covering of tapestry - 40s
  • Item a selor and tester of branched fustian and 3 curtains of taffeta, green and red - 18s
  • Item a cushion of old tawny satin of bridges, a carpet cushion and 2 cushions, verder - 4s
  • Item a paylet featherbed with a bolster and an old covering of tapestry, broken sore - 6s 8d
  • Item a cupboard and 2 old chairs, sore worn - 2s

Sum - [£5 14s 8d]

In the Chamber Over the Gate

  • Item 7 tapets of old imagery and verder work, cont 90 sticks square at 7d - 52s 6d
  • Item an old window curtain of green saye - 6d
  • Item an old bed of down and [?bolster] of 6 quarter broad - 28s
  • Item an old mattress, a pair of blankets and [an] old coveryng of satin of bridges, worn sore - 13s 3d
  • Item a sperner of old taffeta with 3 curtains, taffeta, white and red paned, sore worn - 20s
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - 5s
  • Item a carpet cushion and 3 verder cushions - 2s
  • Item a paylet featherbed a bolster and a coverlet - 8s
  • Item a plain standing bedstead and an old form - 16d
  • Item a joined stool, a joined single chair, 2 turned chairs and a plain cupboard, old - 3s 8d

Sum £6 14s 4d

In Master Carlton's Chamber

  • Item a hanging of old red saye, broken sore - 2s
  • Item an old mattress, a bed of down, old with bolster - 53s 4d
  • Item a pair fustians, a coverlet of verder and a sperner, buckram, sore worn - 26s 8d
  • Item a carpet cushion, a bedstead and a French old chair, old, price - 6s
  • Item a plain cupboard, a form, 2 joined stools and a little joined table, old - 3s [8d]
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - 3s 4d

Sum £4 15s

In the Inner Chamber

  • Item an old featherbed, a bolster, a Norwich coverlet, an old bedstead and an old form - 12s

Sum pr[ice]

In the Chamber in the Round Tower

  • Item a little featherbed, a bolster, a blanket, an old Norwich coverlet and [...], old - 7s

Sum pr[ice]

In the Chamber Over the Armory

  • Item 4 little featherbeds, 4 bolsters and 4 Norwich coverlets, old and worn - 30[d]
  • Item an old sperner, buckram, red and yelow - 3d

Sum - 33d

In the Chamber Next the Armory

  • Item a hanging of old red saye, broken sore - 8d
  • Item a little featherbed, a bolster and a pair [of] fustians - 8s
  • Item a coverlet of tapestry and a spern of bustian - 4s
  • Item a paylet mattress with bolster and 1 old coverlet - 12d

Sum - 13s 8d

In the Stony Stair chamber

  • Item a featherbed, a bolster and a pair [of] fustians - 9s
  • Item an old coverlet, verder, and a cushion, red saye - 5s
  • Item an old sperner of red satin of bridges and [...] ?curtain broken sore [...] - 2s
  • Item a paylet featherbed with bolster [...] bedsteads - 5s

Sum - 21s

In the Chamber Over the Pastry

  • Item a hanging of old ?red saye and a selor and tester of [...] saye, sore broken - 2s
  • Item a little featherbed with bolster a ?pair [of] wool blankets, a coverlet ?tapestry a ?bedstead - 8s

Sum 10s

In the Steward's Chamber

  • Item a hanging [of] ?old ?saye, a [...] a bolster and mattress and [...] old ?fustian - 12s
  • Item a sperner of old [...] and an old coverlet, verder, price - [...]
  • Item an old cushion, a bedstead and a mattress [...]

Sum - 29s 4d

In the Kitchen Chamber

  • Item an old mattress, a Norwich old coverlet and an old bedstead, sore worn - 16d

Sum pr[ice]

In the Green Chamber

  • Item 5 tapets of verder with the Nine Worthies, sore worn, cont 70 yards square at 13d - £3 10s
  • Item a mattress of wool, a bed of coarse down of 6 quart broad and a pair old fustians - 40s
  • Item a covering of verder cont 20 sticks square - 20s
  • Item a selor and tester, verder, with 3 curtains of blue taffeta, sore worn - 20s
  • Item a long old standing bedstead - 20d
  • Item an old long cushion of violet ?saten [of] ?bridges - 3s
  • Item a short Turkey carpet for ?the cupboard - 2s
  • Item a paylet featherbed with a bolster, old - 7s
  • Item an old coverlet ?with ?verder cont 21 ?sticks - 3s 4d

Sum £8 7s

In the Great Chamber Over the Buttery

  • Item 7 tapets of old verder, cont 88 sticks square, sore worn - 50s
  • Item an old great featherbed with a bolster - 26s 8d
  • Item a covering [of] old verder cont 30 sticks - 20s
  • Item a selour and tester of blue sarsnet, old, with 3 curtains of the same, sore worn - 30s
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - 2s 4d
  • Item a paylet featherbed with bolster and an old covering of tapestry, sore broken - 8s

Sum £6 17s

In the Little Closet Chamber

  • Item 3 remnants of old green saye, broken sore - 16d

Sum pr[ice]

In the Closet Over the Vice

  • Item 4 glasses of birrell, 2 standing cups of birrill, a glass of wax, 3 small brass ?pesintes a ?little [...] gridiron, 2 small ?spits, a ?pewter pot and a ?porenger of p[?ewter] - 3s 4d

Sum Pr[ice]

In the Queen's Chamber

  • Item 5 tapets of old green verder cont 76 sticks square at 10d - £3 3s 4d
  • Item a bed of down with bolster of [...]
  • Item a conterpoynt of cloth of old ?curse black & crushed velvet ?painted with [...] tester of the same stuff, and 3 curtains ?fire red and black paned, old worn - £6 [...]
  • Item 2 old carpet cushions stuffed with feathers - 16d
  • Item 2 old cushions of ?murrey velvet - 7s 8d
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - 2s 4d
  • Item an English carpet cont 5 yards long, old - 30s
  • Item a trussing bed of wainscot - 6s
  • Item 2 Flanders chairs, a joined stool and a plain cupboard of wainscot - 3s 4d
  • Item 8 pair[s] of flaxen sheets of 3 ?bredis - £10 3s 4d

Sum - £16 6s 4d

In the Queen's Privy Chamber

  • Item 5 tapets of curse verder, sore worn, cont 72 sticks square at 8d - 48s
  • Item an old trussing bedstead of wainscot - 5s
  • Item a selour and tester of old verder with 3 curtains of red sarsnet, sore worn - 40s
  • Item a large featherbed with a bolster and a large mattress, sore worn - 30s
  • Item a counterpoint of blue sarsnet cont 16 sticks - 26s 8d
  • Item a cushion of blue cloth of bawdkyn - 3s
  • Item a Turkey carpet of 2 yards long - 3s 4d
  • Item an English carpet, old, cont 5 yards long - 40s
  • Item 2 old cushions of yellow verder - 21d
  • Item a plain cupboard, 2 joined stools and a form - 2s
  • Item 2 counterpoint[s] of ?curse tapestry cont 60 sticks square ?price - 46s 8d

Sum - £12 6s [5d]

In the King's Dining Chamber

  • Item 9 tapets of green verder with wild beasts, broken sore, cont 8 sticks at vjd - 54s
  • Item a large old mattress stuffed with wool - 2s
  • Item an old bed of down with a bolster of ?viiij quart - 53s 4d
  • Item a coverlet of bawdkyn and a selour and tester of bawdkyn, old, with 3 old curtains of red taffeta, sore worn - £3
  • Item 2 cushions embroidered with needle work - 13s 4d
  • Item 9 carpet cushions stuffed with feathers - 18s
  • Item 3 carpetes of Turkey making, cont all 6 yards long, curse, price - 20s [...]
  • Item an English carpet cont 5 yards long - [...]
  • Item 2 Flanders chairs covered with leather - 4s
  • Item a joined chair and 4 short forms - 3s
  • Item a table with a pair [of] trestles, wainscot - 2s
  • Item a single cupboard and 2 stools, wainscot - 20d

Sum - £16 16d

In the King's Paylet Chamber

  • Item 7 tapets of sindall verder, old, cont 100 stickes square, sore worn, at 6d - 50s
  • Item an old plain bedstead with ?girthes - 16d
  • Item a mattress a featherbed with bolster and a pair [of] fustians, sore worn - 24s
  • Item an old counterpoint, red and green Turkey satin paned, sore stained and worn - 40s
  • Item an old sperner with the train of changeable sarsnet, sore worn, price - 30s
  • Item 2 cushions of blue and violet satin of bridges, sore worn, price - 8s
  • Item 3 old cushions, verder, and [a] carpet of saye - [...]
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - [...]
  • Item a joined form, a chair and an old stool - [...]
  • Item a paylet featherbed, a bolster and an old coverlet, verder, sore broken - [...]

Sum - [...]

In the King's Lodgings

  • Item 7 [?tapets] of [...] verder with [?beasts] cont 80 [sticks] square, sore worn at [...] - 53s 4d
  • Item a tr[?ussing] bedstead, wainscot, old - [...] s
  • Item an old mattress, a bed of down, broken and a pair of old fustians - [...]
  • Item an old counterpoint, red sarsnet, worn sore - [...]
  • Item a selor and tester of sendall with 3 old curtains, red and black paned - 20 [...]
  • Item 1 cushion of red satin of bridges, worn - 2s
  • Item a carpet cushion and a cushion of verder - 16s
  • Item a Flanders chair, a stool and a form, old - 3s
  • Item a plain cupboard, wainscot, old - 20d
  • Item an old gean carpet of 2 yards long - 2s

Sum - £16 12s 7d

In the Closet Next

  • Item 4 small remnants of old green saye - 6s 8d
  • Item an old gean carpet, a cushion, verder, and a cushion, green saye, and a form, old - 3s

Sum 9s 8d

In Master Lovell's Own Chamber

  • Item an old hanging, saye, red and green paned - 10s
  • Item 2 altar hangings of red single sarsnet and 2 small altar curtains of same - 4s
  • Item a cushion cloth of bawdkin, old - 2s
  • Item a cushion of green saye and a cushion, leather - 6d
  • Item a Flanders chair covered with leather - 2s 4d
  • Item 2 small joined forms, 2 stools, a latta [i.e. tin] candelstick, wainscot, and a little candelstick - 20d
  • Item a pair of small creepers, a fireshovel and a pair [of] tongs, old - 16d
  • Item an altar board with 1 ?almery in it - 20d

Sum - 23s 6d

In my Lord of Oxford's Closet

  • Item 1 tapet of old cur[...] cont 20 sticks square and an old ?clothe of red sindall - 8s
  • Item 2 old altar hangings of cloth of ?red bawdkin and an old altar board, wainscot - 3s 4d
  • Item 2 broken carpet cushions and a form - 16d

Sum - 12s 8d

In the First Chamber in the 3rd Story [...]

  • Item an old hanging of broken green saye with a border framed with falcon wings, worn - 3s 4d
  • Item a featherbed with bolster and 1 old blanket - 6s
  • Item an old covering of small verder of 20 sticks - 16s
  • Item an old sperner of taffeta, broken sore - 4s
  • Item an old gean carpet and a plain cupboard - 2s
  • Item an old form a stool and an old cushion - 16d

Sum 32s 8d

In the Chamber Next the Vice

  • Item 6 small remnants of old say, broken - 2s
  • Item a broken featherbed, a bolster and a broken coverlet of tapestry - 5s
  • Item an old sperner of red sarsnet, broken - 10s
  • Item an old broken gean carpet - 12d
  • Item a plain joined cupboard and 2 forms - 20d
  • Item 2 old standing bedsteads - 8d

Sum 19s 8d [sic]

In the Chamber Next the Wardrobe

  • Item an old featherbed with a bolster, a blanket, an old covering tapestry and an old bedstead - 6s 8d

Sum pr[ice]

In the Chamber Beyond the Wardrobe

  • [...] remnants of red saye, broken and an old bedstead - 2s 4d
  • Item an old featherbed with a bolster, sore worn - 6s
  • Item a covering of tapestry with images, old - 3s
  • Item a sperner of bustian with curtains, buckram - 4s
  • Item 2 cushions of tapestry with falcon wings - 16d
  • Item an old cupboard and 2 old joined stools - 12d
  • Item an old table with 2 trestles, broken - 8d

Sum - 18s 4d

In the Highest Chamber Over the Gate

  • Item an old hanging of red say, all broken - 12d
  • Item a little old featherbed with bolster and 1 blanket - 6s 8d
  • Item an old coverlet of broken verder - 3s 4d
  • Item a selour and tester black and yelow buckram, sore worn - 4s

Sum - 15s

In the Middle Chamber Next

  • Item an old hanging of broken green saye - 2s
  • Item an old table with 2 trestles, worn sore - 12d

Sum - 3s

In the Third Chamber Next

  • Item an old hanging of broken red saye - 8d
  • Item a featherbed with bolster old worn - 6s
  • Item a covering of yelow tapestry broken - 2s 8d

Sum - 9s 4d

In the Chapel

  • Item 2 altar hangings white cloth of bandkin - 10s
  • Item a super altare and 2 altar cloths, linen - 2s 4d
  • Item 2 altar hangings of green cloth of bawdkin - 13s 4d
  • Item a vestment of old branched fustian with the apparel - 2s
  • Item a vestment of red damask with the apparel - 7s
  • Item a vestment of blue satin of bridges, old - 6s 8d
  • Item 2 altar candelsticks, laten [i.e. copper alloy] - 12d
  • Item a crucifix with other diverse tablets, gilt - 16d
  • Item a coope of creuisen [?i.e. crushed] velvet with wings [em]broidered - 40s
  • Item a vestment of violet velvet [em]broidered with falcon wings, with the apparel - 20s
  • Item a vestment of white damask with the apparel, [em]broidered, old - 15s
  • Item a vestment of red satin of bridges embroidered with the apparel, worn - 7s
  • Item a vestment of old white damask - 4s
  • Item a vestment of green satin of bridges with the apparel, sore worn - 7s
  • Item a vestment of white bustian with the apparel, sore worn - 2s
  • Item 2 altar hangings of white Turkey and 2 old curtains of white sendall - 3s 4d
  • Item a vestment of bustian [em]broidered with flowers - 2s 4d
  • Item 2 curtains of red taffeta, sore worn - 8d
  • Item a pair of small organs and a desk - 53s 4d
  • Item 4 old long forms and 3 altar boards - 3s 4d
  • Item 2 old mass books printed and [hand] written - 10s
  • Item 2 old atyfeners [i.e. antiphons], large, in parchment written - £4
  • Item 3 old grails a legend and 4 old processioners imprinted in paper - 3s 4d
  • Item a large grail written in parchment - 30s
  • Item 3 little forms and a ?forene, wainscot - 3s
  • Item 8 old surplices, great and small - 2s 8d
  • Item a cope of violet velvet embroidered with falcon wings, price - 43s 4d
  • Item 3 corporas casis of velvet with corporax cloths in them and other ?tasils - 3s

Sum - £18 17s

In the Wardrobe

  • Item 2 tapets of green verder cont 44 sticks square and 2 old remnants of green saye - 13s 4d
  • Item 3 curtains of changeable sarsnet cont 9 yards square, price - 9s
  • Item a curtain of old red sarsnet and 2 old curtains of green sarsenet, sore worn - 6s 8d
  • Item a selour and tester of satin of bridges, paned red and green, and ?linen cloth in it and a counterpoint of [the] same stuff - 30s
  • Item a carpet [and] a cushion, old, stuffed with feathers - 8s [4d]
  • Item 8 old cushions of green verder stuffed with feathers and 1 cushion of green saye - 4s
  • Item 24 pillows of down, great and small, sore worn, at 16d the ?piece - 32s
  • Item 9 small ?narrow [...] of ?curse tapestry - 10s
  • Item 3 old tapets of curse tapestry, broken sore - 10s
  • Item 2 large selors and testers of curse verder, old, lined with ca[...] , sore worn - 40s
  • Item 99 coats of plate with sallets and splints belonging to them, per coat 5s - £24 15s
  • Item 4 yards of curse broad kendall at 2s - 8s
  • Item 2 yards of white kersey at 8d - 16d
  • Item 3 old hand bills at 6d - 18d
  • Item certain diverse playing coats - 20d
  • Item 2 short tables and a long table with 3 pair[s of] old trestles of oak - 3s 4d
  • Item 6 large old square chests of oak - 16s
  • Item 14 candelsticks, laten, great and small - 7s
  • Item 13 small chamber basins and 5 chamber pots of lay metal and 2 water chafers, brass - 10s
  • Item 40 old bows of yew at 8d - 26s 8d
  • Item 40 sheaves of arrows, broken sore, at 8d - 26s 8d
  • Item 5 old leather pots for lyneres - 20d
  • Item 2 fire shovels, a pair [of] tongs, 2 pair [of] old shears, a pound hammer and 2 bolts of yarn - 2s
  • Item 22 pair[s] of sheets of 2 ?bredis and of ?hollondcurse, sore worn at 2s - 44s
  • Item 17 pair[s] of cauas [?i.e. canvas] sheets, worn, at 16d - 22s 8d
  • Item 52 pair[s] of old broken sheets at 6d - 26s
  • Item 12 ?pelow beris of curse Hollond, old - 4s

Sum - £43 10d

In the Pantry and Buttery with Nap[?ery]

  • Item 3 old diaper table cloths of damask work cont 21 yards long at 12d - 21 [...]
  • Item 2 diaper towels old of damask work cont 14 yards long at 6d - 7s
  • Item a diaper table cloth of cros [...] cont 7 yards long at 6 [...] - 3s
  • Item a diaper ?tablecloth of cros ?diamon[...] cont ?8 ?yards long ?at 4 [...]
  • Item 9 plain table cloths, whole and broken - 9s
  • Item 2 plain [...] towels, old, worn - 12d
  • Item 4 plain G[...] ?towels worn sore - [...]
  • Item 3 plain cubboard cloths, old - [...]
  • Item an old basin and a ewer, pewter - [...]
  • Item 6 low square salts of pewter - ?11d
  • Item 4 old small and great candelsticks, laten - ?3s
  • Item 5 leather pots, old, worn sore - 10d
  • Item a kerning knife, a clipping knife and a meat knife, old, worn - ?16 [...]

Sum 52s 2d

In the Scullery

  • Item 5 garnishes of pewter vessels at 20s - £5
  • Item a brass pan of 4 gallons, set in a furness - 4s
  • Item 2 old broken chasen [?i.e. chafing] dishes, laten - 12d

Sum - £5 5s

In the Kitchen and Pastry House

  • Item a great boiling lead set in a furness, with the bottom brass, price - 26s 8d
  • Item a great cauldron with 2 Eris of 30 gallons of brass, price - 20s
  • Item a large flat pan of brass, price - 6s 8d
  • Item a lesser flat pan of brass with 2 Eris - 5s
  • Item 6 brass pans great and small - 12s
  • Item 3 small pans with Eris brass - 4s
  • Item 7 brass pots great and small - 40s
  • Item 3 freter chafers great and small - 5s
  • Item 2 pair of great racks, 22 spits great and small, 1 frying pan, 3 dripping pans, 5 great bars of iron ?1 trevet, a rake a fire shovel and 2 gridirons with other old iron - 20s
  • Item a colender, 2 skewers 2 old ladles of laten, an iron ladle, a dressing knife and 2 chopping knives, large, sore worn, price - 3s
  • Item 2 great stone morters with pestles of wood - 7s
  • Item a large brasen [?i.e. brass] morter with pestle of iron - 3s
  • Item a round basin of laten a, pele of iron, a filling ladle and a shredding knife - 2s
  • Item diverse old [...], broken and ?worn - 13s
  • Item tubs b[?owls] burdis basket and other old lumber about the kitchen and ?after scullery - [7s 8d]

Sum - £8 15s

In all the Servants' Chambers Without the Moat

  • Item 8 small old featherbeds, 2 bolsters [...]
  • Item 22 matresses, whole & broken at 16d - 30 [...]
  • Item 4 pair of old blankets at 16d - 10s 4d
  • Item 3 old selors and testers, canvas paytid [?i.e. painted] - 6s
  • Item 2 old hangings, saye, broken sore - 4s
  • Item 36 coverlets of Norwich making, per covelet 21d, sore worn - 45 [...]
  • Item 30 old standing bedsteads, plank boards, trestles, forms, presses and other old lumber - 8s
  • Item a great iron beam with 2 ?skalin large - 16s 8d
  • Item 400 of lead weights at 4s - 17s

Sum - £8 13s 8d

In the Brew House and Bake House

  • Item a great brewing lead with the pan of copper - 53s 4d
  • Item 1 great mashing tun and 2 other tuns and 2 little kelers, price all - 26s 8d
  • Item diverse hogsheads and other old tubs and lumber in the brewhouse - 4s 4d
  • Item a brass pan and a trevet of iron - 3s 4d
  • Item a kneeding trough, a moulding board, with diverse other necessarys in the bakehouse - 8s

Sum - £4 15s 8d

?Cattle's Corn and Other Store of Houshold

  • Item a bay gelding for Master Lovell [...]
  • Item 8 horses for yeomen [...]
  • Item 2 ?moylis for Master Lovell's [...]
  • Item a great sumpter horse and a geldyng, old p [...]
  • Item a great grey [?sumpter] horse p [...]
  • Item 7 old [...] 13 [...]
  • Item 6 asses, old, at [...]
  • Item 56 oxen, fit, and [...] at [...]
  • Item 2 young ste [...]
  • Item 20 melche by [...]
  • Item a young good b?ull [...]
  • Item 2,219 wether for [...] at [...]
  • Item 30 goats at 12d [...]
  • Item 22 kids at [...]
  • Item 4 sows and a boar at [...]
  • Item 2 long carts and 2 old do [...]
  • Item 60 quarts of wheat at 53s [...]
  • Item 30 quarts of mal?te at 4s [...]
  • Item 30 quarts of oats at 2s 2d - £3
  • Item 60 loads of hay at 6s - [...]
  • Item 120 loads of timber at 3s - £18
  • Item 400 of lyngis; per 100, £5 - £20
  • Item 250 coddis per 100 33s 4d - £4 3s 4d
  • Item 1 weigh of bay salt, price - 46s 8d
  • Item 100 m of ?brick; per m 3s - £20
  • Item in ?baven tallwood and long wood for fuel; 400 loads at 8d a load - £13 6s 8d
  • Item 90 dozen of coal wood at 2s per dozen - £9 [...]
  • Item 3 m lb of candle made ready at 1d - £12 10d
  • Item 7 weighs of tallow at 13s 4d - £4 10 [...]
  • Item 6 pair of swans, breeders; per pair 6s 8d - 40s
  • Item 14 young signets at 2s a pair - 28s
  • Item capons, geese and other poultry, price - £3
  • Item 3 couple of conies, breeders, old at 6d - 18d
  • Item capon cowpis cony clapers and diverse other old lumber about the place - 16s 8d
  • Item a wagon and a new chariot with all their aparell belonging to them - 54s 4d

Sum - £269 7s

His Aparell

  • Item a gown of black velvet furred with old martorus [?or martorns] back and wombis, price - £8 13s 4d
  • Item a gown of black velvet furred with matorus wombis, old, worn - £7
  • Item a gown of black velvet furred with old martorus, sore worn, price - £7
  • Item an old gown of black velvet furred with old ?boye before and furred [...] - £4
  • Item an old gown of black velvet furred with old black lamb, sore worn - [...]
  • Item a gown of black ?cloth [...] with sarsnet and satin of [...] sore worn - [...]
  • Item an old gown of black [...] sarsnet sore worn price [...]
  • Item a short riding ?gown [...] lined with old satyn of s[...]
  • Item an old gown of French [...] furred with old boye, sore worn [...]
  • Item a riding gown of black [...] with body sore worn [...]
  • Item an old tepet of vel[?vet]
  • Item an old cloak of scarlet ?on [...]
  • Item an old gown of black velvet ?furred [...] old booge, sore bare and worn - 50s
  • Item an old gown of black satin furred with old boge and lamb, sore worn - 40s
  • Item an old gown of russet cloth furred with marters, broken, wombis bare - 30s
  • Item an old gown of black clothe furred with old foynes backes worn sore - 50s
  • Item a gown of black velvet fasid before with black damask, old, worn - [...]
  • Item a gown of black velvet fasid before with black satin, old, worn sore - £4
  • Item an old jacket of black velvet furred with old martorus, sore broken - 14s 4d
  • Item an old coat of black satin furred with old black cony, sore worn - 16s 8d
  • Item a short riding gown of black velvet furred with old boge, worn sore - 40d
  • Item a pair of sleeves of black satin furred with black lamb, old - 6s ?8d
  • Item a pair of sleves of black sarsnet furred with black cony, worn - 6s 8d
  • Item an old jacket of black velvet furred with old lamb, sore worn - 20s
  • Item 2 tippets of black velvet furrid with martors and boge old - [...]
  • Item a Jacket of velvet furred with old martors sore broken and bare - 3s 4d
  • Item 2 old doublets of satin sore worn - 20s
  • Item a tippet of velvet lined with sarsnet - 3s 4d
  • Item 5 old black hats and 3 bonnets, old - 10s
  • Item 2 pair of fine hose, price - 4s [...]

Sum - £60 ?12d


In the Place [at Halywe]ll


In the Hall

  • Inprimis 2 long plank table [...] old thick trestles of p[...]
  • Item an old hanging of green s[...] 8[...]
  • Item 3 long plank forms and 2 ?short [...] plain forms of oak join[...] - 3s 4d
  • Item a great portal of wainscot, join[?ed] with do[...] - 14s 4d

Sum - 31s 4d

In the Parlour

  • Item 7 tapets of tapestry imagery, broken sore, cont 140 sticks square at 6d - £3 10s
  • Item a plain single cupboard of wainscot - 16d
  • Item 2 plain joined forms of oak - 12d
  • Item 2 window curtains of old green saye - 16d

Sum - £3 13s 8d

In the Chamber With the Bay Window of ?free Stone

  • Item 9 small tapets of curse tapestry imagery cont 80 sticks square, broken sore, at 4d - ?xixvjs ?viijd
  • Item an old small selor and tester of damask white and green with 3 curtains of ?single sarsnet ?white and green paned, worn sore - 52s 4d
  • Item a covering of tapestry with Saint George [...] cont 20 sticks ?square, sore ?worn [...] of [...] - 16s 8d
  • Item a featherbed with a bolster, old, and a mattress - 20s
  • Item ?6 ?cushions ?verder [...] ?imagery ?sore ?worn - 16s 8d
  • Item 5 carpet ?cushions [...] - ?10s
  • Item an old cushion of [...]
  • Item a pair ?fus[...] ?worn sore [...]
  • Item 3 pai[...]
  • Item j small ?cush[...]
  • Item 3 old ?large [...]
  • Item 3 small [...]
  • Item 10 old cur?se [...]

Sum - ?£9 ?8s ?8d

In the Great Chamber

  • Item 7 tapets, old curse tapestry, sore worn cont 120 sticks square at 6d - £3 [...]
  • Item a featherbed with a bolster of 8 q[ua]rt broad - [...]

Sum - £3 16[...]

In His Own Chamber

  • Item 4 tapets of broken verder with the Four Cardinal Virtues cont 80 sticks square at 10d - £3[6s 8d]
  • Item a featherbed with a bolster of 7 quart broad - 16s 8d

Sum - £4 3s 4d

In the Chamber Over the Hall

  • Item an old trussing bedstead of oak - 3s 4d
  • Item a selor and tester of broken sarsnet, red and blue with 3 curtains of the same, broken - 10s
  • Item an old featherbed with a bolster, price - 16s
  • Item a covering of curse tapestry, broken sore, cont 20 sticks square - 13s 4d

Sum - 42s 8d

In the Chamber Next the Highway

  • Item 7 small pieces of ?chequered tapestry, broken sore cont 70 sticks square at 3d - 17s 6d
  • Item an old trussing bedstead of oak, price - 4[...]
  • Item a selor and tester of buckram with the valances black satin of bridges with 3 curtains of old sarsnet, price - 16[...]
  • Item an old featherbed with ?a bolster of [...] ?broad - ?xijs
  • Item [...] old single cupboard of oak, price - [...]

Sum - [...]

In the Chamber Next the Ga[?rden]

  • Item [...] of ?curse tapestry [...]
  • Item a [...] of [...] ?snet[...]
  • Item [...] of ?oak [...]
  • Item 4 joined [...]
  • Item 3 Flanders chairs covered with leather [...]
  • Item a single oak [?cupboard] [...]
  • Item 7 cushions of [...] with [...] gold, old, stuffed [...]
  • Item 7 cush[...] ?tapestry [...], verder, stuffed with good feather [...] ?worn sore - [...]
  • Item 10 short gean carpets cont 23 yards long, all price - [...]
  • Item a long gean [?carpet] cont 5 1/2 yards long and 2 yards ?quart broad, price - [...]
  • Item an English carpet with Master Lovell's arms in it, cont 4 yards 3 quart long, price - [...]
  • Item 4 ?Ghentish carpets, old, cont 11 yardes long - [...]
  • Item 6 hangings of saye, red green and yellow cont 21 pieces [of] say ?sbr the gallery at 10s - £10 10s
  • Item 1 hanging of buckram, red and green - 20s
  • Item 4 Flanders chairs covered with red leather - 12s
  • Item a little counting board of Wainscot - 16d
  • Item 3 old window cloths of green cloth - 2s
  • Item an old paylet featherbed with a bolster - 13s 4d
  • Item a covering of green cloth and a blanket - 3s

Sum - £38 9s 4d

In the Little Chamber Next

  • Item an old hanging of green saye cont 2 pieces of saye in it, price - 18d
  • Item a selor and tester of sarsnet, red and russet with 3 curtains of sarsnet, broken sore - 28s
  • Item a trussing bedstead of wainscot - 8s
  • Item a featherbed with bolster of 6 quart broad - 26s 8d
  • Item a pair of fustians of 4 bredys - 8s
  • Item 4 pair of flaxen sheets at 2s 8d - 10s 4d
  • Item a covering of tapestry image cont 30 sticks square, old, worn sore - 26s 8d
  • Item 2 ?small old gean carpets, price - 13s 4d
  • Item 3 old ?small joined forms, wainscot - 18d
  • Item a square table upon a foot of wainscot - 2s 8d
  • Item a single cupboard and an old French chair - 3s 8d
  • Item an old mattress of wool, price - 2s 8d
  • Item a large book written in parchement ?with [...] ?with bo[...]
  • Item [...] ?book [...] in paper enprinted
  • Item [...] small price
  • Item a fire sho[vel] a forke
  • Item a [...]
  • Item a g[...]
  • Item 2 small [...]
  • Item a short [...] a joined stool [...]
  • Item 2 candelstick[...]
  • Item a goodly table [...] image of King Henry the [...]

Sum - £14 [...]

In the Highest Chamber Next the [...]

  • Item 7 tapets of fine tapestry imagery cont 170 sticks square at 20d the stick - £14 [3s 4d]
  • Item 2 gean carpets of 4 yards long, old - 17s
  • Item 2 Flanders chairs covered with leather - 6s
  • Item 2 small forms and 4 stools, wainscot - 3s
  • Item a table of fir with 2 trestles of wainscot - 6s
  • Item a single cupboard of wainscot - 16d

Sum - £15 16s 8d

In the Little Bed Chamber Next

  • Item an old hanging of green saye cont 38 yards square, price - 16s 8d
  • Item a selor and tester of old sarsnet, paned red and tawny, sore worn with 3 curtains of the same sarsnet, price - 40s
  • Item a trussing bedstead of wainscot - 8s
  • Item a bed of down with a bolster of 7 [...] broad - £5
  • Item a covering of fine verder with imagery cont 20 sticks square, price - 53s 4d
  • Item 2 gean short carpetes of 4 yards ?old long - 5s 8d
  • Item a square table with a foot of wainscot - 2s 8d
  • Item a flanders chair and a little form - 3s 4d
  • Item an old mattress stuffed with [...] - 2s 8d
  • Item a table with a pair of trestles, old, worn - [...]

Sum - [...] 4d

Kitchen Stuff at Halywell

  • Item ?in pewter ?bra[?ss] ?laten [...] and other kitchen ?stuff ?valued all at [...] - £4 10s [...]

Sum Pr[ice]


Stuff at East Harling in Norfolk


In the Chamber Ne[?xt] the S[...]

  • Inprimis a [?tr]ussing [?selor] ?and [?te]ste[?r] of black and white sendall a [?matr]as [...] bolster 3 curtains of red [...] chamber hangid with the s?ame [...] pair of trestles a coberde and a pl[...]

Sum [...]

In the Chapel Next

  • Item an altar cloth of ?hair the hangi[n]g of the altar and the chapel with 4 cloths painted of damask work, price all - 6s 8d

Sum Pr[ice]

In the Great Parlour

  • Item a standing bedsted, 2 plain forms, a ?great featherbed with a bolster, a selor and tester, a ?coverlet of red saye embroidered with letters, and the pl[...] hanged with the same saye, a cupboard, 3 [...], a pair trestles, 3 joined forms, 5 joined stools and a long setell, price all - £5 ?6s 8d

Sum Pr[ice]

In the Corner Chamber

  • Item a standing bedstead, a featherbed and bolser and the chamber hanged with black and green saye - 40s

Sum Pr[ice]

In Master Wroth's Chamber

  • Item a standing bedstead, a featherbed with a bolster, a ?sperner of red and black damask, 3 curtains of red and black sarsnet, the chamber hanged with black and red ?saye and a form [...] pl[...]- 3s 4d

Sum Pr[ice]

In the Chamber Against the ?Kitchen

  • Item a standing bedstead, a pla[...] form the chamber ?hanged with [...]

Sum pr[ice]

In the [...]

  • Item a trussing bed, a [...] a featherbed, a bolst[...] ?and ?violet ?sendall [...] of red [...] the ?chamber [...] a [...]

In the Closet and the [...]

  • Item a [...] of [...] of green and [...] hanged with red [...]

Sum [...]

In the Great Chamber Over the [...]

  • Item a standing bedstead, a [...] a ?great bed of ?denven with [...]

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