Thomas Austin of Grimston 1720 Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1720

September 19^th 1720

A True & Perfect Inventory of the Goods, Cattle and Chattles of Mr Thomas Austin, lately Deceased, of Grimston in the Parish of Rothly, in the County of Leicester

	£	s	d
Imprimis The Personal Apparel	02	00	00
In The House
For Pewter Dishes, Pewter Candle Sticks, Plates, a Pewter Bason and C… Cupp,
Three Tables, a Pewter Shelf, a Dresser, Six Chairs, a frying-Pan, a Fire-Iron,
Hooks, a Wrack Iron, Candle Sticks, one Lanthorn, & one Pair of Bellows	02	12	00
For things in the Parlour
A Bed & Beding, one Press, one Chess of Drawers, a Cupboard, 2 Tables, one
Coffer & 9 Chairs	01	05	00
For things in the Maid’s Parlour
For one Bed & Beding	00	10	00
The Value of what is in the Best Chamber
For the Bed, & all its Furniture, one Case of Drawers, Five Chairs, one Table,
One Looking-Glass and the Matt	05	01	00
For Linnen & Sheets	03	05	00
	14	13	00
The Value of the things in the Little Chamber
For one Table, one Bed, the Beding, Bedstead & Two Chairs	00	17	06
The Value of what is in the Cheese Chamber
For the Cheese, Cheese-Boards, for an Old Coffer & a Linnen Wheel	02	11	06
The Value of what is in the Servant’s Garret
For a Bed, Beding & Bedstead	00	08	00
The Value of what is contained in the Granary
For Three Sacks & four Sieves, for a Strike & 2 Skips	00	09	00
The Value of what is contained in the Dairy & Buttery
For Tubbs, Barrels, Butter, Bowls, Meal Sieves, a Churn & a Pestle	01	13	06
For things in the Brew-house
For a Copper, a Boyler, a Cheese-Press, Brass-Pans, Two Meal Kindles & one
Washing-Kindle, one Swilling Tubb, a Cheese-Tubb and Milking Pails	04	08	00
For things forgot & unseen	00	13	04
	11	00	10
The Value of things out of Doors
For 2 Horses	17	00	00
For 3 Horses	08	00	00
For Eleven Cows & a Calf	26	15	06
For 68 Sheep & Lambs	26	00	00
For Swine & Swine Troughs	06	04	06
For Harness for 6 Horses a Waggon 2 Carts, 2 Plows, 3 Harrows & Ladders	16	01	06
For Racks, Mangers, Standings, a Chaffhouse, Kurns, a Horse-Trough, a Fann,
Fold-Fleaks and a Hopper	03	04	00
For the Grass of both the Closses, for the Hay that stands there, & the Corn
that grew there	17	00	00
For Barley, Beans & Hay	85	12	06
For the Ground that is Dressed for Sowing	29	05	00
The Sum Total	235	03	00
The Contents of what is Contained in this Sheet of Paper
In the 1st page	14	13	00
In the 2d page	11	00	10
In the 3d page	235	03	00
The Summ Total	260	16	10

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Matt: Cant

Robert Wartnaby

Bond, bound John Stephens gent of Shoby and John Blankley yeoman of Ab Kettleby 13 September 1720, condition bound John Stephens, principal creditor and administrator of Thomas Austin late of Grimston intestate to produce an inventory and administer estate