INVENTORY OF ROBERT MARPLES. 25 



William Marples, eldest surviving son of Robert, lived at 

 Moorside, in the parish of Staveley, which adjoins Barlborough. 

 His son, Samuel Marples, married, on the nth June, 1696, 

 Margaret, daughter of Robert Wilson, of Ecclesall, near Sheffield, 

 and George Jobson Marples, Esquire, of Brinkcliffe Tower, 

 Ecclesall, and of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, is the heir- 

 at-law of and the seventh in direct descent from the above-men- 

 tioned Robert Marples, as appears by a pedigree of the family 

 entered at the Heralds' College. 



Marples is generally written Mapples or Maples in documents 

 earlier than the 17th century. At this period the letter a was 

 universally sounded as the a in father now is, and in the 

 Barlborough registers the name is written indifferently Marples, 

 Mapples, or Marpulls. 



A True and perfect Inventorie of all the goodes and chatles 

 of Robert Marples, late of Barlbrough, in the countie of Darbie, 

 deceased, praised the sixtenth day of September, a.n/10 regni regis 

 Caroli secundi Angliae, &c. vicesim^ octavo awioqite domi/ii 1676 

 by us whose names are hereunto subscribed. 



£ s. d. 



Imprimis his purse and apparell ... ... 6 06 8 



Goodes in the house* 



Itm one landiront and Gallowbalke,^ one Recon- | 



hooke,§ a paire of tonges, one fierpan, two /* o 10 o 

 toosteing Irons, and one longe plate... ) 



* The hall, or house-place. In farm-houses, to this day, the principal 

 "living-room," situated between the parlour and the kitchen, is called the 

 "house." It is here analogous to the modern dining-room. The entrance 

 both to the greater and to the lesser manor house of this period was through 

 this room. 



t Generally called andiron, but this is the older and better form, being derived 

 from the French randier. The andiron consisted " of an iron bar, sustained 

 horizontally at one end by an upright pillar or support, usually ornamented or 

 artistically shaped, at the oiher by a short foot ; a pair of these, also called 

 'jire-dogsj being placed one at each side of the hearth, or fire-place, with the 

 ornamental ends to the front, to support burning wood." — Murtayi's Diet. 



% The iron bar in the chimney from which the reckan-hook was hung. 



§ A crook, or hook, for suspending a posnet or other vessel over a fire. The 

 Cath. Angl. has a rekande. It is derived from the Icel. rekendr, a chain. 

 See Notes and Queries, 6th S. xi., 157. 



