Probate inventory, apparently relating to a member of the Holden family of Erdington, Warwickshire, 1573-74 (D543/C/32/2, Staffordshire Record Office)
Nominated by Dr Nat Alcock, University of Warwick
Its fascination lies in the extraordinary details it gives.
It ranges from the luxurious:
a hanging for the 'high dais' in the hall; painted cloths with images of the Sultan and the Grand Turk; a whole series of coffers with itemised contents - among them a red chest bound with iron, itself including a little coffer of green velvet, and a 'candle coffer' with candles;
to the mundane:
a tray of wood and 'in the garden hangynge uppon the hedge to drye': 7 sheets, a table cloth and a waistcoat.
The extract provided below covers two rooms in a substantial house : "the hawle" and "the parler where he dyd lye".
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In the Hawle |
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Inprimis a hanginge of paynted clothe upon the highe deysse; ij standinge table bordes & one Rerydup [reredos?]; a cobbord with a square bord ij turnyd geres; ij coshyns; a redde banker an olde drye fatte; a paynted clothe with ij images of the Soden [or Siden =Sultan?] & greate Turke. |
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In the parler where he dyd lye |
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Item certen paynted clothes hangyd abowte the parloure; twoe scochyns; two vernacle tables; ij trestles & one table bord; a beddestedde, two fetherbeddes, one bollster & iiij pyllowes; ij white blankettes & one redde blankette; a joyned chere; ij coshyns, a greate & a smalle; a cubborde & a carpet.
Item another fetherbedde, a mattres, a bollster, a payre of rugge blankettes; a dornex carpet; one playne cheste; a tester of a bedde of tawneye velvet with a fryndge of blake and yellowe silke and curtayne of grene & redde saye; certen olde vestymentes & olde churche stuffe; an olde tester of a bedde of blake & tawneye damaske with letter uppon it A H [? apparently the letters referred to] & the valannces of the same; foure coshyns of silke, velvet & golde late imbrotheryd & some cutte; a little blacke coffer, etc. Appraysed at |
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Item a redde cheste bounde with iron, wherein was v payre of sleves, videlicet one of blake satten, one of presete velvet, ij payre of tawneye satten garded with vellvet & one of tawneye damaske; a litle coffer tsandynge in the sayd coffer of grene velvet & within the same iiijor payre of sleves dyvers smalle lynnens; a partlet & other smalle tryffelles; a litle yellowe carven covver & therein a hand carchyffe; xiiij peyces of slall lynnens; a litle fyne coffer bownde with tynne full of smalle fyne lynnens; a little coborde |
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Item in redye moneye |
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Item a counterpayne called the best counterpayne; ij andyrons; a payre of tonges; a fyre shovell & certen bokes |
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Item another coffer with apperell, videlicet a dowblet of blake satten; a jeyrken clothe garded with velvet; a blake damaske jeyrken; another damaske jeyrken furred with lambe and blake connye; a blacke satten jerkyn furred; a blake grograin jeyrken; an olde blacke clothe gowne furryd with lambe & facyd with blacke connye; an olde blake cote; an olde russet cote with soche other course apperell |
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