AN INVENTORY of John Farmer the Elder 15 March 1725 H22/1445
An Inventory of the Goods Chattells and Creddits of John Farmer the Elder late of Pirton in the County of Hertford Yeoman dec[eas]ed taken and appraised by us whose names are here subscribed the seventeenth day of February Anno Domini 1725
| List of items in the house and barns being valued | £ | s | d |
| Imprimis in the kitchen one jack three spills one pott hangor, ten chairs one table a p[ai]r of bellows five shovels and tongues one warming pan – six pewter dishes one pewter cheese plate fifteen pewter plates and other things | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| It. in the Hall Two Oval Tables Seven Cane Chairs one Looking Glass, pr Hand Irons & three Mapps | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| It. upon the staircase one old clock | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| It. in the Best Chamber one feather bed and bedstead With printed Linnen Curtains and Vallans and five Chairs | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| It. in the Chamber over the Kitchen one feather Bed and Bedstead and Bedding with Curtains and Vallens – one truckle to Bed or Bedding two Coffers one Hanging press Two small tables & Dressing glass chest of Drawers & six chairs | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| It. the Linnen there | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| It. in the room over the Hall one Bed & Bedding Curtains and Vallens and Half Headed Bed & flock Bed one old chest Seven pieces of new Cloth & three chairs | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| It. in the Brewhouse one Small Brass Furness five Beer Casks two kettles one porridge pott & three skillits one frying pan and other odd things | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| It. The Dung and Straw in there | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| It. The Hay & Wood Role and Barrow there | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| It. Wheat and Barley and Bullimong | 91 | 0 | 0 |
| It. Household Goods at a farmhouse of S[ir] William Sanderson | 14 | 5 | 0 |
| It. Wheat Barley pease & the Grain in the Granary there | 88 | 8 | 0 |
| It. Two Hoggs & three Piggs there | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Cart Harness & plough Harness ploughs Harrows Whippletrees and draught rakes | 13 | 17 | 0 |
| It. Six Cows | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| It. Hay Oats & Barley in a yard call[e]d the Pidgeon Yard | 57 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm. Wheat on a hovel and in a Wheat House & Oats in the Granary, oats & fitches in a Barn & Grain & Straw in a Rick Yard in the farm called _________ | 136 | 4 | 0 |
| It. A Wagon & Carts, Chaff, Cavings, Poles, lath & wood | 26 | 16 | 0 |
| It. Culver dung, Hen dung, Hog Dung & Dung & Straw in | |||
| the yard there | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| It. In the Brewhouse there one copper & other lumber | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| It. In the Kitchen there one long Table, 4 stools & a Boyler | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Sacks, fanns(?) sieves, forks, rakes, scythes, Busheles Screens and other Implements of Husbandry | 6 | 19 | 6 |
| It. Hens and Ducks | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Eight horses | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| £569 | 13 | 6 | |
| Item Wheat upon the ground | 96 | 13 | 0 |
| It. Barley land till’d and compost | 48 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Edge grain Ploughs & Sown | 22 | 18 | 0 |
| It. Barley sold and Malted and Wheat sold | 35 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Sheep sold | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| It. Sheep and Hurdles | 28 | 10 | 0 |
| It. Debts good and dubious | 147 | 11 | 0 |
| It. Waring apparrile and Ready Cash | 45 | 12 | 0 |
| £454 | 4 | 0 | |
| Bro[ought] from the other side | £569 | 13 | 6 |
| Henry Hobbs | |||
| Edward Lacy | |||
| William Sheppard | 15 March 1725 | ||
