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