Thomas Nowell of Roger Hey, Great Harwood, Husbandman
Inventory made 12th September 1670
Appraised by Thoms Cockshut, Thomas Feilden, William Hindle and John Feilden.
Total £153 5s 9d
Imprimis 4 Kine and l red calfe £12 10s 0d
Item two younge mares £5 0s 0d
Item 4 Sterkes £6 13s 4d
Item 2 twinters £4 12s 0d
Item a muckecart axletree and wheels a plough and chire [share?]
boards and shelfes standinge in the great barne £1 0s 0d
Item in the little barne 20 felyes £0 4s 0d
Item 3 s-ocke yoakes and a head yoake £0 5s 0d
Item a single swingletree 2 pair of holmes a cart saddle
2 wood iron rakes 2 holme backes a pair of sil holmes
3 pair of grips a harke a mucke crooke £0 9s 0d
Item arkes £0 1s 0d
Item all the hay in both barnes £4 0s 0d
Goods in the house
Item 15 pewder dublars pewder flagon a can a bottle and
candlesticks a salt sellar a boule all in pewder £2 3s 8d
Item two dozen of spoones £0 2s 6d
Item a gilt boule a gilt salt and two candlesticks £0 4s 6d
Item a – ockenomie dublar £0 5s 6d
Item in pan brasse mettle 45 weight £2 12s 6d
Item 2 brasses laddles 2 scimmers a chafeing dish morter
and pestel £0 5s 0d
Item pott mettle viz Two brasse potts £0 18s 1d
Item a stikeing knife a pair of chopping knifes and
a drippeing pan £0 4s 0d
Item a meat table a round table a tressel a forme £0 15s 0d
Item 3 cubbards and two salt pies £0 15s 0d
Item chaires and stooles £0 7s 0d
[missing] £0 14s 0d
Item in wooden vessels £3 0s 0d
Item one shelfe in milkehouse and 2 in the firehouse £0 1s 6d
Item in speaks and coupar timber £1 0s 0d
Item a heckle £1 1s 6d
Item a gunne £0 6s 8d
Item a bible and other bookes £0 5s 4d
Item 10 geese £0 6s 8d
Item 4 hens and a cocke £0 1s 8d
Item 2 pair of neaths £0 4s 0d
Item plough irons teams and other old iron £1 2s 0d
Item in shovles forks and spaids £0 7s 0d
Item in ropes £0 2s 0d
Item in scires [sieves?] and scutleles £0 1s 0d
Item fire irons tongs fire spitle fire shovle a pair tounges £ s d
Item a ….. Backe stone 2 toasting irons a spittle £ s d
and a pair of Rakes £1 5s 0d
Chamber over parlour £ s d
Item a saltine tubb £0 10s 0d
Item a pair of bed stockes and caddow and other coverlets £ s d
a blanket a chase bed a chase boulstar and a sheet £0 16s 0d
Item a piliou and a chist £0 4s 0d
Item in wool £0 2s 0d
Item a load saddle and wantey overley a helter a coal forke £ s d
and an old arke £0 11s 0d
Goods in the Parlar £ s d
Item one Arke £1 6s 8d
Item a chare table £0 7s 0d
Item a buffet stoole a little stoole and 2 chares £0 6s 0d
Item 2 tresses and a bakeing board £0 3s 0d
Item a Lanthearne a smoathing iron and 2 heaters £0 2s 0d
Item a bed a feather bed one boulster and a pillow a pilbare £ s d
of Blancets a caddow a coverlet curtens and ballance £4 0s 0d
Item a fire iron and pair of tonuges £0 2s 0d
In the loft over entrie £ s d
Item in taw and flax £0 13s 4d
……… er entrie £ s d
Item 2 chists £0 10s 0d
Item a boxe £0 4s 0d
Item a perke and nightendoole £0 1s 0d
Item a truckey bed 2 Coverings a pair of Blankets £ s d
a pair of sheets a chafe bed and a boulster £1 0s 0d
Item a stand bed a feather boulster a chafe boulster £ s d
a feather bed a pair of sheets a pair of Blankets £ s d
a caddow and a double coverlet £2 10s 0d
Item 3 silver £0 13s 4d
Item in linnen £2 0s 0d
Item 2 harrows with teeth £0 10s 0d
Item 9 lambs £1 10s 0d
Item the decedants apperrel his purse and his saddle £2 0s 0d
…. ……. Tenement for 21 years £70 0s 0d
Debts owing to the decedant £ s d
Imprimis by Thomas Waddington of feinsforth £4 2s 6d
Item by John Mercer of Lower towne £0 1s 0d
Item by Robert Bradeley of Chipp weelwright £0 1s 0d
Item by Captain Alexander Nowell £1 15s 0d
Item by Captain Robert Nowell £1 16s 0d
Item by Thomas Waddington £0 1s 9d
Item by Thomas Haworth for 2 pair neaths £0 5s 0d
Item by Richard Tompson £0 6s 8d
Item by Matthew Brigge £0 1s 8d
Item by John Smalley for wood £0 1s 0d
The total sum is £153 5s 9d
3 September 1670 Thomas Nowell was buried at St. Bartholomew’s, Great Harwood.
Transcription ©Barbara Youds from original held at Lancashire Archives