42 AN INVENTORY OF 1627. 



the Hall, (3) Buttery, (4) Kitchin, (5) Brewhouse, (6) Mill- 

 house, (7) Woollhouse, (8) Ghuest's Chamber, (9) Chamber 

 over the Hall, (10) The little Chamber, (11) At the Stayer 

 head. This last was probably only a landing, and some of 

 the others may have been outhouses. 



The Hall was handsomely furnished with two carpets, two 

 table boards, one chair, probably for the master, or possibly 

 the mistress, three forms, eight join stools, and 10 cushions. 

 The rest consisted of a pair of iron " andiers " (which are, I 

 presume, what we call andirons) and one copper candlestick 

 rather a poor light for supper if no more were used, but there 

 were plenty, three of pewter and five of brass, in the Buttery. 

 In the room within the hall were two table boards and a pair 

 of tables. I do not know whether it is so, but I presume that 

 table boards may be boards supported on moveable trestles, 

 and tables are so called when made as one piece of furniture. 

 There were in the house six bedsteads, of which only one, 

 that in the Guest's Chamber, had curtains, and three truckle- 

 beds, the Room within the Hall and the Woolhouse having 

 each one bedstead, but apparently no bedclothes, though 

 the others are well supplied with them, the two standing 

 bedsteads and the trucklebed in the Chamber over the Hall 

 boasting three feather beds, seven feather bolsters, seven 

 coverlids and five pairs of blankets, though only one pillow I 

 I think, however, that the pillows must have got mixed, as, 

 for the bedstead and trucklebed in the Little Chamber, there 

 are no less than six pillows. In addition to the ordinary 

 bedclothes the Guest Chamber bedstead has an Arras cover- 

 lid, I suppose of Arras tapestry, and a rug. This and the 

 Chamber over the Hall are carpeted. There are also three 

 beds for servants, which are enumerated amongst such 

 things as hurdles and flitches of bacon ; but where they were 

 placed I cannot tell, perhaps under the latter, or in some loft. 

 The linen is kept in two presses, one chest and one box at the 

 stairhead, and consists of 20 pairs of sheets, six pairs of 

 pillow-ties (probably pillow-cases with strings instead of 

 buttons), three cupboard cloths and one damask board cloth, 



