Probate inventory of John Burnes [manuscript], 1670 April 20.
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Probate inventory of John Burnes [manuscript], 1670 April 20.
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Dealer's title: An inventary indented of all the goods . . . chattells and houshould stuffe which later were John Burnes of the parish of St. Maryes in Lichfield gent deceased – taken the xxth day of Aprill anno dm. 1670
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1 item on two sheets of parchment
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Great Britain -- England.
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X.d.772
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Manuscript, ink on two sheets of vellum, in English (20.5 x 55.5cm) [2] pages penned on rectos, the two sheets joined by a vellum tie at head, signed off at foot of second sheet by “James Allen, Tho. Minors, William Pole, Edmund Hector” and “Simon Rolleston” (1 August 1670), negligible wear along old folds, in a very good state of preservation. Penned in a legible and appealing hand on two long sheets of vellum, this document is a good example of an English household inventory of the second half of the seventeenth century. Dated 20 April 1670 it records “all the goods ... chattells and houshould stuffe which late were John Burnes of the parish of St. Maryes in Lichfield gent deceased.” John Burnes (d.1670) was a prominent mercer of the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire. The inventory records the household goods arranged under headings for each room: “... in the kitchin ... pewter and brasse rackes spitte and dripping pann ... in the staire head chamber ... one presse one longe table & 1 chest ... bedds with two boulsters and ffeatherbedde and ordinary curtaynes one presse 2 chestes of drawers and other boxes to put the childrens lynnen in.” Burnes’s “silver plate” is recorded as “two silver canns six spoones one cupp with a cover salts 1 plate one porringer one cupp with 2 eares.” Also included are the contents of his “brewing house” and “shopp,” listing the values of his various fabrics: “woolen cloth ... mercery wares ... gloves and hoods ... lynnen drapery ... silke wares ... bodyes and hose ... haberdash wares ...” Among the signatures on the second sheet penned by those who made the inventory is that of the Presbyterian merchant and politician Thomas Minors (1609-1677)." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9208, 2018-05-21, catalog 26, item 16. Adopted by Mary Jane Ruhl, Acquisitions Night 2019.
Folger accession
270701