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Inventory of Ewanrigg Hall Maryport 1585
INVENTORY OF EWANRIGG HALL NEAR MARYPORT, CUMBRIA, 1585
This inventory lists the property that Mr. Anthony Thwaytes Esquire owned when he lived at Ewanrig Hall in 1585. We are fortunate that the property has such detailed valuation and although the pounds can not be compared to current money, the valuation allows us to see how important the items were. Presumably the most highly valued items are the most important items.
An Inventory of all the goodes and cattell of Mr. Anthony Thwaytes Esquir(e) which he died possessed of prised by these sexe sworne men Christopher Blennerhassett, Gawuen Eaglesfield, Robert Sleddall, Chrietopher Crakeplace (?), Robert Robinson and Richard Smythe tayken at Uneridge the 22nd daye of October Anno Domimi 1585 Elizabeth (the) 27th (year) a foloweth hearafter.
Cattell (Cattle) | ||
Inprimis | 5 oxen price | £10 0s 0d |
Item | 12 Kye price and a bull | £17 13s 4d |
Item | thre stottes price | £2 0s 0d |
Item | 5 whyes price | £2 10s 0d |
Item | 12 calves price | £2 8s 0d |
Horses | ||
Item | one blacke horse price | £4 0s od |
Item | thre nagges price | £4 10s 0d |
Item | one old bay nagge etc, | 10s 0d |
Sheeppe (Sheep) | ||
Item | 5 old croke yowes (ewes) price | 8s 0d |
Item | sheppe in Thwaytes | |
Note in Latin “vide scedula unam libram” (This item probably refers to sheep out on the fell.) | ||
Swine (pigs) | ||
Item | one sewe (sow) with pigge price | 6s 8d |
Item | foure other swine price | £1 0s 0d |
Item | foure shottes price | 8s 0d |
Gease and Pullan (Geese and Poultry) | ||
Item | 23 gease price | 8s 0d |
Item | a coke (cock) and 3 mallertes | 1s0d |
Corne | ||
Item | one mowe (mowing) of haver and a halfe in the kylle with strow price | |
£6 0s 0d | ||
Item | foure mowes of haver in the hey laith with strow price | £26 13s 4d |
Item | a mowe of bidg (bigg) in the bidge laith with strow price | £9 12s 0d |
Item | a mowe of bidg in the kylle with strowe price | £3 0s 0d |
Item | (weatt) in the bidgg laith with strow price | £2 2s 8d |
Item | one mowe of pease in the laith and the pease in the hagg house | £6 13s 4d |
Item | wheat sawne (sown) on the ground | £2 15s 0d |
Item | 13 threve of hemppe (hemp) and 13 threve of lyne (line) | 8s 8d |
Haye (hay) | ||
Item | thre mowes of haye price | £8 0s 0d |
In the Hawll (Hall) | ||
Inprimis | ||
Item | two tables the one with a fraime (frame) | |
Item | a cubbart (cupboard) a counter(?) and two skembles | |
Item | 3 Buffates (buffets) 3 talleclothes (tablecloths) two of erryes (arras) worke and an old one 3 chaires | |
Item | an Iron Cradell with a prodder | |
Item | a Cubbart cloth 3 bowes with two quyvers (quivers) two broke skynne bagges and 3 other bagges with sex (six) shafe (sheaf) of arrowes | |
Item | a crosbow called a stone bowe | |
Item | a dagger and a long quue (?) intranis (?) | |
Price altogether is £4 6s 8d | ||
In the Buttrye (Pantry) | ||
Item | a great siver salt duble gilt | £2 13s 4d |
Item | a lesse silver salt duble gilt price | £1 0s 0d |
Item | sextene (sixteen) silver sponnes (spoons) price £4 0s 0d | |
Item | 6 chargers 6 platers 6 dublers 6 dishes 12 sawcers (saucers) 6 pottegers all nw price | £2 0s 0d |
Item | 4 chargers 7 platers 3 dublers 5 dishes 2 basonns (basins) and a podeger price | |
£1 4s 0d | ||
Item | 5 old platers 3 dishes and 3 sawcers | 9s 0d |
Item | a bason and an ewer price | 4s 0d |
Item | tenn peece of broken powder (pewter?) | 3s 4d |
Item | a meselen bayson (basin) price | |
Item | two great powder (pewter?) pottes | 1s 8d |
Item | two litle pottes 5 powder (pewter?) chamber pottes and two | |
candlestickes | 10s 0d | |
Item | 8 Latten Candlestickes price | 8s 0d |
Item | 2 Glasses price | 8d |
Item | 4 cannes price | 6d |
Item | a potte and a picher (pitcher) with (vergis?) | 1s 0d |
Item | sextenne (sixteen) barralles (barrels) for beare (beer) | 10s 0d |
Item | an almyrie a chist (chest) and bourdes (boards) | 6s 8d |
Item | two fattes and a candlechist (?) | 4s 0d |
In the Kechinge (Kitchen) | ||
Item | 6 brasse pottes and a possuat (possett?) 5 pannes | £2 0s 0d |
Item | 3 fyne crokes (crooks) two great Rackes (racks) | |
Item | an Iron Credall (cradle) with a prod Iron | |
Item | 5 speates (spits) two brule (?) irons two cressates a frying pann two paire of potte kylppes and a greater (grater) 3 paire of tanges (tongs) and a fleshe croke a girdle and a brandrath price altogether | £10 4s 6d |
In the Brewhouse | ||
Item | a great lead with a masse fatte and a gylle fatte price | £2 0s 0d |
Item | a litle lead with a fatte a knoppe and a litle almyrie price | 10s od |
Item | an arke a long chist (chest) with certaine drissing (?) bourdes | |
(boards) price | £1 0s 0d | |
Item | reven (riven) wood in the keching (kitchen) | 1s 4d |
Item | plugh (ploe) geare in the kechin | 2s 0d |
In the bakehouse | ||
Item | a wood trough and a stone trough with a bowting (?) tubbe price | |
In the larderhouse | ||
Item a | great fatte and a lesse fatte | |
Item | 3 hogsheades a barrell a kytte with a covering a tubb with a lydd (lid) and a litle butter kytte price | 15s 0d |
In the mylkehouse (dairy) | ||
Item | a Racken croke two mylke pannes | |
Item | 6 handles two great kyttes with covers | |
Item | 3 standes 3 cressates (cressetts) two geggans | |
Item | 3 creame pottes 6 butter cuppes and a safe two chease (cheese) rackes two meales (?) | |
Item | a cheasse (cheese) prisse (press) two skelves (?) a bourd a (?) and two kawdran bandes | 16s 0d |
In the Malthouse | ||
Item | a great arke price | 13s 4d |
Item | in malt price | 16s 0d |
Item | tenne old hodgseades with bourdes (boards) and other reven (riven) woodd | |
£1 0s 0d | ||
Item | a paire of great panyers | 6d |
In the Nursehouse | ||
Item | two beddes two formes | |
Item | 3 paire of wolle cardes and two spining wheales (wheels) price } | 6s 8d |
Item | a matteras (mattress) 3 blanketes | |
Item | 3 coverletes and a bowlster (bolster) | 6s 8d |
Item | 8 new seckes (sacks?) and 4 old ons (ones) | |
Item | one harden Windecloth and an old windecloth price altogether | 10s 0d |
In the butterye lofte | ||
Item | one bedd of wainescott with a fetherbedd and a matteras a paire of blanketes and two coverletes with a teaster off silke and hangings of say | £2 0s 0d |
Item | one chaire a chist and a buffat (buffet) price | 4s 0d |
Item | a table and two trisles (trestles) price | 2s 6d |
In the maides chamber | ||
Item | one bedd with two matterasses | |
Item | a blanket a coverlet and a bowlster | 8s 0d |
Item | a great chist price | 4s 0d |
In the lawe (low) chamber | ||
Item | a stand (?) bedd with a matteras a coverlet a happen and a bowlster price 5s 0d | |
In the person (parson?) lofte | ||
Item | a trussing bedd with a fether bedd a matteras two blanketes two coverletes and a bowlster with a teaster price | £1 13s 4d |
Item | in fedders price | 7s 0d |
Item | certaine plewheades (?) and other reven (riven) woodd (wood) price 3s 0d | |
In the law (low) tower | ||
Item | two trussing beedes price | 10s 0d |
Item | a whealebedd price | 2s 0d |
Item | two silke teasters (testers) price | £1 13s 4d |
Item | courtens (curtains) of say price | 16s 0d |
Item | 3 paire of blanketes | 12s 0d |
Item | 5 coverclothes price | £1 6s 8d |
Item | one matteras price | 4s 0d |
Item | two bedd coverings the one of errys (arras) worke the other of | |
greane (green) carsay price | £2 0s 0d | |
Item | 3 bowlsters and 3 pyllivers price | 10s 0d |
Item | 4 fedder (feather) beddes price | £2 0s 0d |
Item | lynne (linen) courtens (curtains) price | 5s 0d |
Item | 8 pyllay coverings price | 8s 0d |
Item | a prisser a cubbord with a frame | |
Item | two chistes a chaire and a litle bourd (board) | 12s 0d |
Shettes and napry of lynninge (sheets and napery of linen) | ||
Inprimis 3 dossen (dozen) and 4 bound napkens | 13s 4d | |
Item | 9 lynne (linen) bourdclothes price | £1 16s 6d |
Item | one harden bourdcloth price | 12d |
Item | two lynne towelles price | 2s 0d |
Item | a diper (diaper) towell price | 4s 0d |
Item | 3 paire of fyne lynne sheates one paire of 3 breades (breadths) | |
and two paire of two breades (and) a quarter brede (breadth) | £3 0s 0d | |
Item | 12 paire of courser sheattes of meyddle (?) and handed (?) price | £1 12s 0d |
In the Myddle Tower | ||
Item | two trussing beddes price | 13s 4d |
Item | two silke teasters price | £1 6s 8d |
Item | hangings of say price | £1 13s 4d |
Item | two matterasses price | 4s 0d |
Item | two fedder beddes price | £1 0s 0d |
Item | two paire of blanketes price | 8s 0d |
Item | fower coverclothes price | £1 6s 8d |
Item | two bedde coverings price | £3 6s 8d |
Item | two bowsters and two pyllivers | 8s 0d |
Item | a litle cubbart and a chaire price | 3s 0d |
In the Heigh Tower | ||
Item | a stand bedde 4 heare roppes (hair ropes?) and 4 paire of | |
swingles with an old broken speate (spit) and certaine alame | ||
wood for bowes | 3s 4d | |
His apparrell | ||
Imprinis a grograin gown price | £4 0s 0d | |
Item | a satten (satin) dublet price | £2 0s 0d |
Item | an other satten dublet etc | £1 0s 0d |
Item | a yerkin (jerkin) of silke grograin lyned with taffetie price | 13s 4d |
Item | a paire of velvet briches (breeches) | £2 0s 0d |
Item | a blacke puke cloke (cloak) price | £2 13s 4d |
Item | another cloke price | £1 6s 4d |
Item | a paire of silke grograin briches | 13s 4d |
Item | a fustian dublet price | 10s 0d |
Item | another fustian dublet | 6s 8d |
Item | an old cloke price | 3s 4d |
Item | two paire of yersay (jersey) stockings | 3s 4d |
Item | a pettycott of flannan (flannel?) etc | 1s 8d |
Item | two paire of boote (?) stockings | 1s 4d |
Item | 7 shearttes (shirts) and 7 bands – | |
Item | a velvett cappe price | 10s 0d |
Item | a taffytie hatt (?) price | 6s 8d |
Item | a blacke cappe price | 2s 0d |
Item | a cloke bagge price | 1s 0d |
Item | a paire of boottes (boots) price | 3s 4d |
Item | 6 steale (steel) cottes (coats) price | 31 0s 0d |
Item | 6 steale (steel) cappes and coverings | 10s 0d |
Item | an old cubbertcloth (cupboard cloth) and a hanging | 1s 0d |
Item | two glasse bottels wanded and a tynn (tin) bottell | 3s 0d |
Item | a great charger price | 5s 0d |
Item | thre litle (?) glasses price | 10d |
In husbandry geare | ||
Item | two paire of wheiles (wheels) with two paire of Raythes (?) and | |
two kouppes | £1 0s 0d | |
Item | one wheale carre (cart with wheels ?) price | 6s 8d |
Item | 6 plowes (ploughs) 4 traile carres etc and 3 paire of harras | |
(harrows?) price of all | 3s 4d | |
In Iron geare | ||
Item | 3 kowters 2 sockes 7 temes | |
Item | two plowe (brules?) gayvlocke (gavelock) | |
Item | 3 axes 2 hackes and a great axe | |
Item | a thystle and a rist (?) womble | |
Item | two speades (spades) and a persell (?) womble | |
Item | 4 shodd forkes 2 Iron forkes | £1 10s 0d |
Item | 2 old sythes (scythes) 8 sickles price | 2s 0d |
Item | 6 yokes with bowes price | 1s 4d |
Item | horse geare with a teame price | 2s 0d |
Item | 4 axell (axle) nayles (nails) price | 1s 4d |
Item | 4 otter (?) stanses (?) price | |
In the Stable | ||
Item | a stand bedde a matteras a blanket | 5s 0d |
Item | a coverlet a happen and a bowster etc | |
Item | 3 saddles bridles girdles stirropp (stirrup) Irons howsling (?) | |
clothes and saddle clothes price of all | 5s 0d | |
Item | a corne barrell price | 1s 0d |
In the byer | ||
Item | a stand bedde a coverlett and two happens price of all | 2s 0d |
Item | 2 paire of cleppes and 3 rakes | 6d |
Item | bourdes (boards) and barres (bars) of an (cale?) arke with two | |
troughes price | 2s od |
GLOSSARY: THE MEANING OF THE WORDS
TERM | ACTUAL | MEANING |
WORD | ||
Alame | elm | |
Almyrie | almery | cupboard |
Apparrell | clothing | |
Ark(e) | a chest for meal | |
Arras | tapestry work | |
Bands | collars or ruffs | |
Bigg | barley | |
Bourdclothes | tablecloths | |
Bowting | meaning uncertain-kneading tub or one used for raising the dough | |
Brandreth | a trivet used to support the girdle over the fire | |
Broke | broken | |
Candlechist | chest for storing candles | |
Carsay | kersey | woollen cloth |
Chargers | large dishes or flat plates | |
Cleppes | tongs | |
Cloke bagge | cloak bag | a bag for carrying clothes |
Cradell with a prodder | meaning uncertain– stand for a poker? | |
Cressates | cressetts | iron container sometimes used for burning oil or other substances to provide light |
Croke | crock | an old ewe |
Crooks and racks | ironwork over fire for hanging pans and basins etc | |
Dublers | large earthenware/wood/pewter dishes | |
Dublet | doublet | close fitting mens body garment with or without sleeves |
Fatte | vat or tub | |
Fleshe croke | hook for hanging meat to roast over fire | |
Fustian | Coarse cloth of wool and flax | |
Gavelock | iron crow bar | |
Geggans | geggins | small tub of equal diameter top and bottom. They have one stave longer than the other to act as a handle |
Girdle | griddle | circular iron plate with a bow handle on which cakes were baked |
Grograin | a coarse fabric of silk or silk and Wool c.f. grosgrain | |
Gylle fatte | guile fatte | wort tub – a tub for leavings eg of the brewing process |
Hackes | pick axes with two points | |
Hagg(s) | turf, turves (peats) | |
Happen | happin | thick woollen bedcover |
Harden (cloth) | a coarse cloth | |
Haver | oates | |
Heylaith | haybarn | |
Hogsheads | casks for beer and wine | |
Imprimis | first (latin) | |
Kawdran bandes | cauldron ? | |
Knoppe | small tub with two stave handles | |
Kouppes | possibly cowp or | small short fellside carts coop carts |
Kowters | coulters | iron blades fixed in front of shares in a plough |
Kye | kine | cow |
Kylle | kiln | |
Kylppes | hooks | |
Kytt | kitt | tub or pail sometimes with lid |
Latten | a brass like metal | |
Lead | a container for brewing beer | |
Lyne | flax | |
Mallertes | mallard ducks ? | |
Massefatte | tub for mashing malt | |
Meselen bayson | brass basin | |
Nag(ges) | horse(s) | |
Panyers | paniers | saddle bags |
Platers | plates | |
Possuat | possett | this usually refers to a drink made of hot milk and ale but in this context seems to refer to the mug or cup |
Pottegers | pottingers/porringers | basins for soup c.f. podeger |
Press | large shelved cupboards sometimes in the recees of a wall | |
Prisser | press (?) | |
Puke | a superior kind of woollen cloth | |
Pyllivers | pillow cases | |
Quivers | holders for arrows | |
Racken croke | hook and rack | |
Salt | salt cellar | |
Say | a fine cloth made of wool or silk and wool | |
Shodd | tipped edged or sheathed with metal | |
Shottes | shots | half grown swine |
Skelves | shelves ? | |
Skembles | skemmels | forms or long seats without a back |
Sockes | plough shares | |
Steale cottes | steel coats | steel jackets – armour |
Stone-bow | a kind of cross bow or catapult used for shooting stones | |
Stottes | stots | bullocks |
Swingles | swingletree | the wooden bar by which the traces etc are attached to the plough |
Teaster | tester | a canopy over the bed |
Temes | either a set of draught animals (ie horses oxen etc used to pull a cart) or a waggon with a horse or horses | |
Threve | sheave | |
Thystle | thistle tang? | Tongs for pulling up weeds |
Traile carres | carts or tubs which had to be pushed by manual labour and were not drawn by animals (a mining term) | |
Trussing bed | bed with a staw mattress ? | |
Vergis | verdigris (?) | green deposit which forms on copper or brass |
Wainescott | wood pannelled | |
Wanded | slender (?) | |
Whealebedd | bed on wheels | |
Why(es) | heifer(s) | |
Windecloth | winnowing cloth (?) | |
Wolle cardes | implements to disentagle wool and prepare it for spinning | |
Womble | wimble | tool such as gimlet augur or brace |
Yokes with bowes | equipment for yoking oxen to a cart or plough |