Intoentorp of 1627. 



By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A. 



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time ago I had the good fortune to meet 

 with, in a bookseller's catalogue, an 

 inventory of " the goods and chatles of 

 William Edmonds alias Younge of Wood- 

 cotte in the parish of Handley in the 

 Countie of Dorset yeoman deceased taken 

 and praysed the f owerteenth day of January 

 by William Clarke John Coumbe and Henry 

 Thorne Anno Domini 1627." 



The Inventory is contained in a parchment roll about 45 

 inches long and six inches wide, indented at the top, i.e. cut 

 off from the original parchment in a wavy line, so that by 

 fitting it to the other piece it may be proved to be the original 

 and authentic document. Hence the term " indenture." 



The house which contained the goods and chattels would 

 -appear to have been that of a superior farmer, and better 

 furnished than the average, as far as my small experience of 

 inventories of that date goes. There were ten or eleven 

 rooms with furniture in them, besides possibly empty garrets, 

 which are described as follows : (1) Hall, (2) Roome within 



