John Farmer

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
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