Contents of an inventory

[Allan F Sparrow]

Warming pan looks very plausible, though I still don't see the rest of the line.
Stirk is even in my one-volume dictionaries, though I'd never seen the word before - but starickers is not there. In the context, very possible!

[cicilysmith]

I think it's "moare wodenware"

[Mitch in Notts]

Thank you both for your help. Some of it is obvious when someone else sees it!

So we have:
for fire Irons in the house
for 2 Iron pots & brass
for clock and a warming pan & more woodenware
in the cellar for ale & brewing vessels
for 5 kine & 6 bullocks
for 5 stirks
for 10 horses and saddles and other gears.

So it is just the word 'in the chamber over the little parlour for per ergon' as it looks to me!
in the chamber over the little parlour for ****

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Mitch

[cicilysmith]

There is a word paragon which means a rich sort of upholstery, but surely the appraisers would be more likely to list chairs or furniture of some sort. I have gone through all the Words from Wills by Stuart A. Raymond beginning with p. Sorry, cicilysmith

[Mitch in Notts]

I've missed one:




for 6 year auld coafoass and 2 fealles
= for 6 year old ?????? and 2 foals

any ideas what manner of animal that is? (its not a cow nor a colt)

[cicilysmith]

The only other animal I can think of apart from a horse, (and we know he has ten horses) which has foals is a donkey/ass. The end of the word might be ass but I cannot imagine what the beginning would be. I don't think I have ever found a donkey in a will. I have tried looking at various Derbyshire dialect pages but have got nowhere, cs

[Mitch in Notts]

Thanks for looking Cicily - and it is the only animal on the page that is given a specific age - which you would have thought would make it a 'significant' animal. Below is the full inventory!

Thanks again,

Mitch

Inventory of Samuel WHEATCROFT 1718

A True Inventoy of all goodes and cattells(chattels) of Samuell WHEATCROFT late/
Deceased of Wesington in the prish of Chrich and in the county of Darbe/
Husbandman taken the 18 day of Desember in the year of our/
Lord God 1718 by us whose names are subscribed.
£ s d
Imprs - purss and aparrell 3 0 0
Itam - for fire iriness(irons) in the house 0 15 0
Itam - for 2 irin(iron) potes(pots) and brass 1 10 0
Itam - for puter(pewter) 1 11 6
Itam - for 1 clloack(clock) and a waranigng(warming) pan & moare
Wodenware 2 10 0
Itam - in the parllor(parlour) and bead(bed) and other goodes 1 10 0
Itam - in the pantroy for goodes 0 5 0
Itam - in the leatoll(little) parllore and bead 0 10 0
Itam - in the chamber over the house and bead and other goodes 1 10 4
Itam - in the chamber over the leatoll parllor for pormergon?? 1 9 6
Itam - in the sealloar(cellar) for alle(ale) and bruing(brewing) vesselles
2 0 0
Itam - in the bruheas(brewers) house for goodes 3 0 0
Itam - in the chamber over the bruheas house for goodes 1 1 3
Itam - in the moallt house for barlle(barley) and moallt 8 0 0
Itam - for 5 kine(cows or cattle) and 6 balleackes(bullocks) 30 4 6
Itam - for 5 starickoros(stirks) 7 10 6
Itam - for 6 year auld coaseass?? and 3 foealles(foals) 6 0 0
Itam - for 2 boulloackes(bullocks) and 2 heafearess(heifers) and a bull
10 1 6
Itam - for 2 Coullteass(colts) and a flealley(filly) 7 10 4
Itam - for 10 hoarses and sadleass(saddles) and for gtaearos(gears?) 30 0 0
Itam - for 6 swine 5 1 6
Itam - for 1 wagein(wagon) 1 cart 1 weane(wain) and for
plouessharoaross (ploughshears) 9 10 6
Itam - for yokeass(yokes) and leamineass(harnesses?) 1 10 0
Itam - for hea(hay) and cornee(corn) 40 0 0
Itam - for things not seean or forgeat 0 14 6
Total 175 16 5
Tho NIGHTINGALE
Edward WRIAHT(X)
William HARVEY

[cicilysmith]

I'm very impressed by the ten horses. I have never transcribed a will with so many horses. Was he a carrier? Have you tried asking Peter Patella who runs the website on Crich for suggestions?
Stuart A. Raymond says of gear "Equipment, especially horse or ploughing tackle, but sometimes used as a collective noun for a variety of different things, including livestock. " I have mainly found "other gear" in wills as referring to the rest of the horse's tack. cicilysmith

[Mitch in Notts]

Thanks for your help Cicily. This will is a significant advancement in the Wheatcroft family tree. I have previously been in touch with Peter as he also has links to the Wheatcrofts. I am going to forward him this will & transcription with the hope he will put it on his Crich site. I will let you know if we solve the mystery animal! Mitch

[cicilysmith]

I would love to know what it is, cicilysmith