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Document iii. INVENTORY OF George Smith's Property
  
  
  
  
  
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Document iii.
INVENTORY OF
George Smith's Property
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[Source: Bradford Smith, Captain John Smith: His Life and Legend
(Philadelphia, 1953), 343–345, printed from the original in the
Lincolnshire Archives, INV/87/250, Lincoln.]

The Inventorie indented of all the goods and chatteles of George
Smith husbandman late of Willughby decesed which be now remaining
and left unsould and not taken away by Dalles Smith in her
widoheade and Martin Johnson now her husband prased the xixth
day of februarie in the xxxixth yeare of her majesties reigne 1596

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2
by
John Sider Thomas Parish Ezechell Tiesdale Silo Clarke and Philip
Prestwick.

  • In the hall
  • Imprimis a table and a frame with vi buffitts stoules a binch sealing
    and a long sadle [settle] xxxii – ii
  • It on[e] coberde xxxii–viii
  • It fower chares on dishbinch with an ould arke x -
  • It on paire of landironds one Gallowtre tow croukes and tow houkes
    on paire of pothoukes one recond on paire of tongs one fier scomer
    one girdirand [gridiron] dripping panne one spit one paire of
    cobironds one branderith [trivet] vi -
  • It One counter one fale table a form vi–viii
  • It for all the painted clothes in the hall the parler viii -
  • In the parler
  • Im one coberd tow chists tow bed steads with one trus bed steade xx -
  • In the Larder
  • Im one paire of musterd quarnes tow formes with all the shelefes one
    plough beame with all the wod in the larder thre leather flackitts
    [flagons] one woden bottel one pith [or pitch] pann vii–x
  • In the first Chamber
  • Im one trusted bed steade with a matte and a corde a fether bede a
    mattriss a boulster tow blankitts and a painted tester a trundle bed
    a matt a cord and a flock bede with a boulster xxxiii–iiii

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  • In the second Chamber
  • Im xiii platers of puter eigttene dishes of puter one basson uer xl -
  • It tow puter candlestickes fower brasse candlestickes thre salts tow
    puter cups one tun and a boule of puter one puter basson and a
    chaffing dyshe xiii–iiii
  • It viii kittles and v pannes xl -
  • It thre brasse potts xiii–iiii
  • It one trusbed with a fether bed one coverlid and one covering with
    on pair of linning shettes with one boulster and pillow beare and
    hanging xxxiii–iiii
  • It one hutch [chest] fower shettes with a press xx -
  • It one feather bed a boulster a blanket a covering & tow pillowes xxiii -
  • It vii pillowes one ould covering one white coverlid and ix camises xxiii -
  • It thre woden bouls tow kettles boules fower earthen pottes ii dosen
    of dishes and on dosen of trenchers iiii -
  • It on pot of butte[r] that hathvi cakes ii -
  • It a little cofer with fower hardon [coarse flax cloth] sheetes and a
    pillow board vii -
  • It one covering x -
  • It five hardon shetes vi lining shetes xxvi -
  • It fower white lining cortens x -
  • It vii towels seaven pillow beares fower table napkins one paire of
    lining shettes and one paire of hardon shetes and a table cloth xxx -
  • It thre boults of new cloth whearof tow was hardon and the other
    course Linne xxxi–viii
  • Ite all the hempe and flax and the yarne with a little wole xl -
  • It one chist x -
  • It one table cloth and one shete iii -
  • It thre strike of malt xii -
  • It certane forkes and ould Irond iii -
  • It the copie of the house xx -
  • It one chist and ii paire of hose x -
  • It one chist and a boulte of cloth and ould silke cloth xx -
  • In the beast house
  • Im a borden bed steade a trundle bedstead with horse plougs and ox
    plougs ii brakes and a woden whele with the fleaks and hempe and
    all other wod in the shipen [cow house] xvi -
  • In the yard
  • Im five calfes £iii
  • It one coult tow foles i–iii–iiii
  • It one cople of oxen iii–vi–x

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  • It tow kye [cows] and tow ques [heifers] v -
  • It hay in the hay yarde vi -
  • It fower mairs vi–xiii–iiii
  • It tow helferaes and beaves on [i.e., in] them vii -
  • It corne in the barne vii -
  • It a wayne tow yokes one paire of horse trese one paire of laines
    [lines?] x -
  • It tow plowgs and one yoke one teame with one coulter and a share
    one paire of horse trese xi–viii
  • It tow fleakes [racks] thre wayne wheles one grind stone and all the
    tumbrils and wood in the yard and dikes and one turf hive xx

Summis lxxvii pounds xvi s & ii
Exhibited 24 February 1596/7 at Lincoln at full inventory

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1. This inventory was first discovered in modern times by Bradford Smith.

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2. Feb 19, 1596/1597.