236 NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 
Then follows a long list of heir-looms, referred to in the will, 
which is, in fact, an inventory of all the better furniture of the 
Manor House. The device of making almost all his chattels heir- 
looms, giving them in his life-time to one of his executors, and 
then resuming the use of them on loan, was a cunning device to 
out-wit his wife, and was probably suggested to John Fitzherbert 
by his astute lawyer brother, Sir Anthony. 
THE HEIRLOOMS OF NORBURY MANOR HOUSE. 
‘© These be they hirr lomes ordained and gyffen by me John Fitzherbert 
pertaining to the manor of Norbury and delivered to Ric Cooton oon of my 
executors that he may deliver them according to my will after my decesse and 
I have taken theym again to kepe during my lyff naturall. 
For THE HALL. 
Hanging of lynnyn cloth stayned or such odur as shall fortune to be there 
at the tyme of my decesse. 
A cupborde with the covering of the same. 
A long paynted borde with trestylles. 
Two table dormands* and bankes + there being. 
Three formes whereof two be fast in the earth. 
A chymnery $ and a fyre forke of yron. 
A cage and a byrde if there be any at that tyme. 
IN THE OVER PARLOURE. 
All the hangynges and the bankes as they be there used. 
A cupborde with the clothe to the same. 
A borde and two trestiles those most used. 
A coveringe to the same borde. 
Syxe the best cuffhyns.§ 
Two andyrons and a fyre chovel of yron. 
A payre of tables and the men. || 
A forme and too throwen  stoles. 
* Tables dormant were the fixed high tables of the hall, in contradistinction 
to the moveable ones of boards and trestles. The term is found in Chaucer. 
+ Bankesare lengths of wood cut square for any purpose ; here they signify 
the legs of the tables dormant. 
t Chymnery, t.e. fire-place, or moveable grate, sometimes placed upon the 
the open hearth. 
§ Cuffhyns, z.e. coffins, coffers, or chests. 
|| 4 payre of tables,was an expression used to signify a standing chess-board. 
‘| Throwen stoles, t.e. stools that were turned, differing from the ordinary 
rough cut stool or bench. 
