Inventory of Hugh Stutsbery, 1609/10

Herts RO A25/2129

This was transcribed from a printout of a microfilm and more may be legible in the original.

The true and p(er)fitt Inventary of all a[nd singular?] the goods debts and Chattells of Hugh [Stutsbery] late of Wynsloe in the Countye of Bucks [made and pray]sed the xx^th daye of [February?] Anno d(om)in(i) iuxta Cursum &c. 1609 by J[..........] Henry Wendover Will(ia)m Gyles and Nicholas [........]

Inprimis in the shopp two[?] pounds of peper	v s
It(e)m a q(ua)rter and a halfe of an ounce of saffron	ix d
It(e)m two ounces of Cloves & mace	xij d
It(e)m three ounces of nutmegs	x d
It(e)m vj ounces of sinamon	ij s viij d
It(e)m a pound & six ounces of ginger	xvj d
It(e)m three ounces & a halfe of m[...]eseeds	iij s iiij d
It(e)m halfe a pound of graynes	vj d
It(e)m vj ounces of Annice seed	iiij d
It(e)m three q(ua)rters of a pound of liquoris	iij d
It(e)m [.]aunders[?] p[....]	iij d
It(e)m venitricke[?]	xij d
It(e)m iiij ounces of turmericke	iiij d
It(e)m a pound and a q(ua)rter of sugar	xxij d
It(e)m vj ounces of white candie	x d
It(e)m x ounces of browne candie	xj d
It(e)m vij ounces of sp[....]the	ij s iiij d
It(e)m iij pound of baye berryes	xij d
It(e)m two pounds & a halfe of treackle	x d
It(e)m xvj pounds of white starch[?]	iij s vij d
It(e)m halfe a pound of st[... ..]one	v d
It(e)m xviij pounds of resin	iiij s iiij d
It(e)m xviij pounds of prunes [?]	ij s iiij d
It(e)m three dozens of Currants[?]	xij s ix d
It(e)m three pynts of pickell oyle	xxj d
It(e)m Browne paper	xj d
It(e)m xij pounds of Blockwood blewe	iiij s
It(e)m xvj pounds of brosill	x s
It(e)m xxxij pounds of tyrperine[?]	viij s
It(e)m vj pounds of Allom	xviij d
It(e)m xij pounds of [..]ye	xviij d
It(e)m xlvj pounds of Rizen	v s ix d
It(e)m xiiij pounds of [....]	iij s vj d
It(e)m xvij pounds of spanishe [raisins?]	xviij d
It(e)m a Runlett of vinegar	iij s iiij d
It(e)m viij pounds of waxe[?]	iij s iiij d
It(e)m five pounds of Brimstone	xv d
It(e)m Bad[?] Almonds[?]	vj d
It(e)m hempe	xvij s iij d
It(e)m [blank?]	vij s
It(e)m an aprone	xviij d
It(e)m oxe[?] loke[?]	iij d
It(e)m ver de grece	vj d
It(e)m Ratsbane	viij d
It(e)m mercury	vj d
It(e)m white paper	xv d
It(e)m playeinge cards	ij s vj d
It(e)m white thred	v s
It(e)m Coloured thred	xvj d
It(e)m sisters thred	ij s vj d
[p.2]
It(e)m an ounce of coloured silke	ij s
It(e)m fower groce of buttons	ij s
It(e)m Primers and little books	xviij d
It(e)m Coloured Candise [sic]	iiij s
It(e)m Incle Role	ij s
It(e)m two peeces of coloured incle	xviij d
It(e)m Filletinge	xij d
It(e)m dice	iij s iiij d
It(e)m twopeny brode silke	ij s iij d
It(e)m packthred turned boxes and [....]	xij d
[..]umbes	xij d
It(e)m five ounces of quicksilver	xv d
It(e)m gu(m)me	iij d
It(e)m shooeinge horn	vij d
It(e)m six painted forcers	iiij s
It(e)m fower Runletts	iiij s
It(e)m xviij Firkyns	iiij s vj d
It(e)m nayles	vj s viiij d
It(e)m Salt	viij s
It(e)m hony	x s
It(e)m glasse vialls & garden potts	xij d
It(e)m a nest of boxes	xviij d
It(e)m a pare of Skales & leaden weights	xij s
It(e)m old scales & brasse weights	iiij s
It(e)m iiij stone potts a pewter bottle a pynt pot and a quart	iiij s
It(e)m shelves a shopboard & an oatemeale box	iiij s
It(e)m Tallow	xxij s
It(e)m Candles	xviij s
It(e)m a bushell of oatmeale	iij s
It(e)m a pestle for a morter	xij d
It(e)m a skipp & salt measures	xij d
It(e)m in the hall a table a frame & a chaire	ix s
It(e)m ij smale cupbords & a smale chaire	v s
It(e)m a paire of bellowes & tongs fyer shovel two spits a paire of Andirons a gridiron a freinge pan	viij s
It(e)m a brasse pott iij kettles a skellett ij candlesticks and peeces of pewter	xxx s
It(e)m a tubb two barrels ij ru(n)letts a Cyver and lu(m)ber in ye barne[?]	x s
It(e)m a stye pigg	vij s
It(e)m two packsaddles a hacking sadle a well bucket and chayne	x s
It(e)m ij wheeles & two troughes	v s
It(e)m his owne apparel	liij s iiij d
It(e)m ij (h)undred of tyles	iij s
It(e)m ducks & henns	vj s iiij d
Su(m)ma totalis	xl li xiijs iiijd

[Presented by Thomas Bouler[?], administrator, 27 Feb 1609/10]

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Notes

Hugh Stutsbery was buried at Winslow on 3 Feb 1609/10. He may have continued the business of William Davies/Davers (d.1588) whose widow married Thomas Stutsbery, but now with more groceries and less haberdashery. He married Jane Heyborne (15 June 1590) and had a number of children who were under age at his death: the eldest was John (bap. 20 April 1591). The administrator may have been Thomas Bowden, who was active at the time.

In 1596 Hugh and three other "chapmen" from Berkshire and Suffolk were sued for debt by Edward Prescott, apparently their London supplier. Read more.

graynes: probably cardamom seeds (OED, s.v. grain, n.1 4a)

venitricke: fenugreek?

Blockwood blewe = blockwood blue, a blue dye made from logwood (Dictionary of Traded Goods, s.v.)

brosill: probably brazil, a red dye made from brazil-wood (OED, s.v. Brazil n.1, 2a)

tyrperine: turpentine?

Allom = alum, used in dyeing and as a medicine

Rizen: probably rice

ver de grece = verdigris

Ratsbane = arsenic

sisters thred: bleached thread (OED, s.v.)

Incle = inkle: linen tape (OED, s.v.)

Filletinge: a strip of woven material suitable for binding, esp. a sort of Holland tape (Dictionary of Traded Goods, s.v.)

forcer: a chest, coffer or casked (OED, s.v. forcer n.1)