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CONTENTS. No. 52.
S : A Warwickshire Inventory of 1559, 501 The Royal Arms in Metre, 502 Peele'a ' Authorship of ' Alphonsus. Emperor of Germany,' 503 Casanova in England, 505' Csesar's Revenge ' : Additional Note " Donkey's Years " = Very Long Time " Rosalie " = Bayonet -Popular Speech : " Relics," 506.
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-Jottings from the December Catalogues.
A WARWICKSHIRE INVENTORY
OF 1559
AMONG the records belonging to Holy 'Trinity Church, Coventry, is a large book: containing various documents pasted within its leaves by the late Thomas Sharp.
One of these is an inventory of the goods of one Thomas Cast el, taken in 1559. The Tiouse was evidently that of a well-to-do -citizen, containing a hall, two parlours, three chambers, a kitchen, and a buttery ; and the inx'entory shows the sort of furniture people had in Shakespearian England.
Some of the kitchen utensils and household goods are rather difficult to identify. " Four battelments and the hangings, 3s.," refers probably to some crenellated cornice from which the tapestry hung ; " four dep- porenchers brod beenge " is read by Mr. Oliver Baker of Stratford-on-Avon, to whom I am indebted for help in this inventory, as " foxir deep porringers being broad"; "four bell candlesticks ' means four candlesticks of bell shape. " Yerde dishes "earthenware dishes; " tornde "=turned with a lathe. A " lead " is a salting-trough ; " trappes " are -dishes or pans for baking. A " mays-fat "
is a mash- vat used in brewing, and a
" kemnel " or kimnel is a tub. A " cowl "
is a water-pail, often carried by means of a
cowl-stick. A " carpet " is a table-cover,
though there is in the hall no mention of a
table ; indeed, one of the peculiarities of the
inventory is the prominence given to the
" parlour by the buttery door," where
evidently meals were taken and not in the
hall, as the mention of the table proves.
The hall had degenerated into a washing
place. The combination of settle and chest
(see the first item) is common in Elizabethan
furniture. The " spruce " coffer was also
known as a Flanders chest ; and the
" medylyng " or " midylyng " (an i is
written over the e) pan is presumably a pan
of middle size. I am not quite sure of the
meaning of " cuvers " in the chief bed-
chamber. The word may be derived from
L. cupa=a cask, vat ; but cannot refer to
the coverings of wood and plaster which
conducted the smoke from the mediaeval
fire. " Chafurn " = saucepan ; " gaun " =
gallon. " Dobnet " or " dabnet " is not in
any of the dictionaries, and eludes inquiry.
A " pair of cobberds " are cob-irons, or fire-
dogs. A " crost shet " may refer to some
peculiarity of the weaving of the sheet ;
" fylet " = ? felt.
INVENTORY OP GOODS, 1559. Vestry MSS. A. I. f. 60.
Thys ys the Inuytory of Thomas Casteles goodes in Sent Myheles parysh, mayd in the yerc of our Lorde God a thowsand fyve hvndrythe f yftye and ix in the xij day of Sepfcerber.
The haull. Item, a greyt cobber with a setles vpon yt
vjs. viijd'. Item, the hanggeyngs of the haull and a form.
vs.
Item, a washyng bason and a hanggynge layer.
iijs. Item, a carpet . . . . . . . . xxd.
The parler at the buttrey dur. Item, a greyt tornde cheyr . . . . xijd.
Item, a cobberd . . . . . . . . xv.jd.
Item, a tabu 11 and a form .. .. \d.
Item, the hanggynges aboue yt . . viijd.
Item, a carpet, vi cowshyns . . iijs. iiijd.
The leytell parler. Item, a tabull, a benche, a form Item, the hanggynges .. ..
The chamber by the churcheard syed
[churchyard side].
Item, a fether bed, a peyre of blankeytes, a coverynge . . . . . . . . . . xvs.
Item, ij cvvers, a cobberd, ij grejtspnis rnfiVrs
and pelowes of fosteon [fustian] . . vijs. iiijd.
Item, a peyr of bedstydes and a form xijd.
Item, the tester and ij cortenes with the hang-
geynges of dammaske werke - .. XP.
xijd.
xvjd.
