Stuart England

Probate inventory of a rural laborer

Nathaniel Manering, Thomas Yates, Maidstone Record Office, PRC 11/21, 23 January 1662

An inventory of the goods and chattels and cattle of Batholomew Burch, late of Shaddoxhurst in the county of Kent, deceased, taken and apprised by use whose names are hereunto subscribed the day and year above written:

Item in the hall: one table, one cupboard, one kneading trough, ten chairs, a pair of pothangers, a pair of tongs, a grid iron, a salt box
Item in the milk-house: five tongs, six bowls, three platters, a pair of scales
Item in the hall-chamber: one bed and bedstead, three bolsters, four blankets, one coverlet, one truckle bed, one linen treadle, one woollen treadle, four chests
Item in the drink-house: three tubs, two barrels, and other old lumber and a churn
Item: one hay-cutter, one hand-saw, and a mattock
Item: boards and shelves and old lumber
Item without doors: wood and hay and butts
Item: three cows
Item: one hog
Item: one birding-piece
Item: things unseen and forgotten