Michaelchurch Escley
Name | LHS reference | NLW reference | Inv Date | Date of death |
Jenkins, Johan, widow | sh_mic_0047 | BR/1673/132 | 11 Aug 1673 | 25 Jul 1673 |
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Imps Her wearing apparel |
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Item one feather bed four flock beds four bolsters |
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Item Three sheets one Case for a pillowbeer one |
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Item five pair of Coarse sheets one table Cloth and |
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Item two cauldrons one iron pot one furnace1 |
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Item six pewter dishes three saucers one salt seller |
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Item four bedsteads One wainscot cupboard four |
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Item four tableboards benches and planks one Chair |
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Item One kneading trind and brewing vessels of all sorts five |
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Item two dripping pans & one Chamber pot |
| 2 | 0 |
Item One Sow and pigs and Eight other small pigs | 1 | 6 | 0 |
Item Eight sheep and two lambs | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The total is | 10 | 2 | 7 |
[Actual total £10 12 7d]
[Spelling modernised]
John Watkins
Thomas Watkins }prizers
Thomas Price
1 furnace ??? what today we would call a 'copper', a vessel built-in over a small fire in which clothes and sheets were boiled on wash day. The vessel was secured by lead.
2 Cobards/gobards /cobirons ??? bar with hooks to support the spit over the hearth.
3 broache ??? another name for a spit
4 kinderkin/kilderkin ??? barrel to hold 18 gallons
5 can ??? cylindrical vessel or pail to old milk or water.
[Words from Wills - Stuart a. Raymond]
Ref: ldhsarchive_inv_mic_0047