An Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Burnes Late of the City of Lichfield Gent: deceased, taken by us Philip Fenton Symon Ashford and Robert Falkener the eleventh day of August 1647 [manuscript], 1647 August 11.
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An Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Burnes Late of the City of Lichfield Gent: deceased, taken by us Philip Fenton Symon Ashford and Robert Falkener the eleventh day of August 1647 [manuscript], 1647 August 11.
Created/published
England, 1647.
Description
1 item ; 136 x 14 cm
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Genre/form
Inventories.
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Manuscripts (documents)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
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FAST ACC 271923 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY. BURNES, John. An Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Burnes Late of the City of Lichfield Gent: deceased, taken by us Philip Fenton Symon Ashford and Robert Falkener the eleventh day of August 1647. 174 lines ms. on three vellum membranes sewn together & rolled; a few natural flaws, browned, slightly soiled, some edges fraying, natural hole (4 cm x 1.5 cm) in first membrane. 136 x 13.5cm. The inventory of the household of John Burnes of Aldershaw and Lichfield, 'a prominent mercer, very active for Parliament during the Civil War, and on the county Commission of the Peace under Cromwell'. His daughter married the merchant and politician Thomas Minors, 1609-1677. The total value of the long inventory is the considerable sum of £678.11.09, £403 of which appears to be debt owed to him with a further £74 contained in his shop. The large number of items listed come from rooms including 'In the Hall'; 'greate Chamber; 'Chamber of the Shoppe; 'little Chamber; floore Chamber; 'little Parlour; 'kytchen'; 'Worke lofte'; 'Yard'; 'Kilne House'; 'Cellar'. Items include: 'One Blacke Nagge and one Gray Mare'; 'Six oxen whereof one is lame'; 'One longe table and a fframe one pound table'; 'Two Joyned Chayres'; 'One Carpett, 'Two small feather bedds; 'One Rugge and Blankett and three Boulsters'; 'Two Bybles and three small Bookes'. A unique document offering insight into the emerging middle class of the mid-seventeenth century."|Ordered from Jarndyce, D9352, 2019-10-02, E-LIST 3 Books Pamphlets 1641-1817, item 16.