THE TOWNSONS OF LYTH

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A true and perfect Inventory of the goods and chattels of Thomas Townson late of the Low in Lyth deceased as they were carefully prized by us John Knipe Thomas Atkinson John Leyfield and James Bell the thirteenth day of November 1700

(With will of Thomas Townson Lancashire Record Office Ref. WRW Thomas Townson 1700)

  £   s   d
His wearing apparel woollen and linen 02-15-00
Two calves 01-06-08
A young heifer 01-06-08
Another heifer 01-10-00
Another heifer 01-13-04
Another heifer 01-15-00
Another heifer 02-00-00
Two cows 05-05-00
A cow and calf 03-00-00
A horse a mare and a colt 02-16-08
Fifteen sheep 02-15-00
For hay  bigg (barley) and oats 11-10-00
For hemp 00-02-06
*A deal odd things in house saddles  girths etc 00-03-10
Peats and all turbary (turfs) 00-15-00
*Truss ropes  a chest and all wood in kitchen loft 00-08-06
Two hackney saddles  bridle and an old side saddle 00-02-06
*A kill and saler a load saddle and three wheels 00-02-04
All iron gear in kitchen loft and husbandry gear there 00-06-08
*A flesh tub  baskets  swills (flat baskets) and fork 00-03-06
A pair of racks 00-03-00
Bedding in maids chamber  a chest and bedstocks (bedsteads)  00-04-00
Chaff bed bedding and curtains in chamber adjoining 00-03-06
Girdle (iron plate for baking) and brandreth (iron trivet) 00-01-06
Sacks and two cloths 00-03-00
A measure  a chest and kneading tub 00-06-00
All the brass in the kitchen 01-04-00
All the wooden vessels there 00-07-00
Crook  a chafing dish and tongs 00-02-00
Odd things in the kitchen 00-00-06
Husbandry gear in the roof loft 00-04-00
Wool and dressed hemp and swill  01-03-00
Sickles  leys (scythes) and other odd things 00-02-00
Beds and bedding in the great loft 01-09-00
Sheets and table linen 01-08-00
Meal chest and meal that is in it 00-10-00
Saddle and pillion cloth 00-07-00
All apples and pears about the house 01-00-00
Chest and odd things  pots and bottles in the great loft 00-04-00
*Sacks and table and boards and other odd things 00-06-00
Stands and barrels 00-04-06
All the earthen pots in the buttery 00-04-06
Wooden vessels there 00-05-00
All the pewter 01-00-00
Wood vessels in bodystead of house and chairs and cushions 00-12-06
*Remainder of the iron gear saws and tongs and picks 00-08-06
Cheeses 00-03-06
*Salt and calk 00-02-00
Iron gear on the sconce (shelf) cupboard and other things 00-10-06
*A pair of wrap cloths  a basket and silver spoon 00-10-00
A gun 00-05-00
Poultry 00-06-08
Bracken 00-00-06
Manure 00-00-08
Garner (store) cupboards  bedstocks and tables 01-01-00
In ready money at his death 05-15-00
Upon specialty and without (loaned out) 20-00-00
Total                                                                                    80-15-06
In funeral expenses 06-04-02
*Very poor handwriting and these items had indecipherable or unknown words.  

 

A true and perfect Inventory of all the goods chattels debts rights and credits movable and immovable whatsoever of Agnes Townson of Law in Lyth in the county of Westmorland widow deceased apprized and made by George Biggs of Cragg and Thomas Wilson of Law both in Lyth county of Westmorland yeomen the sixth day of May 1715
(With will of Agnes Townson Lancashire Record Office Ref. WRW Agnes Townson 1715)

 

£   s   d
Ready money 00-04-10
Her wearing apparel in woollen and linen 01-18-00
More wearing apparel 00-16-06
Her goods as a box 00-01-06
Bottles and pots and a pair of sheets 00-06-00
Yarn and other little things in her drawer in kitchen chamber 00-00-06
2 wisketts (baskets) or swills and a pair of new cloth 00-01-04
A brass pot and 3 pans 00-14-06
A brass spoon and a warming pan 00-04-04
A pair of tongs a smoothing iron and 2 heaters 00-02-10
Shredding knife  a broiling iron  flesh forks 
 and a tin can etc in window  00-01-00
6 petty pans  a dredging box (flour sifter)  a pewter tankard 
a potinger and candlestick 00-01-03
3 pewter dishes 00-04-06
6 trenchers  a plate of wood  2 bowls  a pail and a tub 00-03-03
3 stands and pots  a pot hand basin and a basket 00-03-06
3 chairs  2 cushions  a stool and a cupboard 00-05-08
05-12-08
Debts owing to the said Agnes Townson deceased 17-16-11
TOTAL 23-09-07
Funeral expenses 07-05-05

 

 

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