PROB 5/545 (Exhibits) Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Samuel Cromleholme inventory and accounts 1673.
Source : National Archives, Kew , London. (Administration = PROB 6/47 see also PROB 5/3567)
Notes : Samuel had died in July 1672 and his wife Mary had presumably moved out of the High Master’s dwelling in recently completed new St Paul’s school – the location of where the inventory was taken or the house containing the items listed is not known. There are some notes at the bottom of this section explaining some of the obscure words these footnotes are numbered (Roman Numerials [ ])
Transcribed RC July 2012
Exters 7th Oct 1673
A True and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of Samuel Cromleholme late of the parish of St Faith the Virgin London (while he lived Master of the free schoole of St Paul London) deceased taken and appraised by William Disbrough Srivener ? Appraised the seventh day of February 1672 (definitely 1672 !! ie before Samuel's death ?? = date error ?) follow viz
In the three Garrets
£ s d
In primis (first) three bedsteads 00 - 18 - 00
Item one meat barroll and a porke 00 – 02 – 00
Item a horse to dry cloathes 00 – 04 – 00
In the second story
Item one bedstead matt and cond rods and ….? 00 – 15 – 00
Item one old little table 00 – 01 – 00
Item two bedsteads two matts and conds and
toaster old 00 – 11 – 00
In the chamber over ye kitchen chamber
Item one bedstead rods matt and toaster old 00 – 10 – 00
In the little Dyning Roome
Item one dozen of Turkey [i] Leather chairs at
Five shillings a pair 03 - 00 – 00
Item one Glazed case with brass hooks 00 – 02 – 00
Item one Leather Carpoll ? 00 – 07 – 00
Item Andirons (support for spit) fire hoope
Shovel and tongs 00 – 19 - 00
Page 1
In the parlour
Item one Grate with brasses a fender shovel
and forke 00 – 13 – 04
Item one table with a drawer 00 – 05 – 00
Item three old Turkey worke stooles 00 – 04 – 00
Item one boll [ii]? 00 – 01 -00
Item one dozen and a halfe of cushions 01 – 01 – 00
In the kitchen chamber
Item one paire of little andirions 00 – 06 – 08
Item one chest of drawers 01 – 03 – 04
Item a bedstead with sarkcloth ? bottom 01 – 06 – 08
Item foure chairs 00 – 08 – 00
Item a Clocke ? and case 01 – 13 – 04
In the kithm (kitchen)
Item one hundred and twenty nine pounds
of pewter at nine pence a pound 04 – 16 – 09
Item one table 00 – 02 – 06
Item a napkin presse ? and frame 00 – 10 – 00
Item one grate a fender three spits one
gridiron fire shovel and other iron worke
belonging to the chimney 03 – 06 – 08
Item three old wooden chairs 00 – 01 – 00
Item Tinn ware 00 – 08 – 06
Item a spice boy ? 00 – 02 – 00
Item a sonminer ? a s ….? and two brass locks ? 00 – 04 – 00
Page 2
Item Five potts, one copper pott the rest brass 02 – 03 – 04
Item three kettles and a Bonch (bench) ? 00 – 13 – 04
Item one paire of brass candlesticks 00 – 16 – 08
Item two sauce ? panns 00 – 03 – 00
Item two frying panns 00 – 06 – 08
Item two trays two pye boards a wooden platter and dough tub 00 – 06 – 08
Item one piggin[iii] one ponte ? one
Pairing ? shovel and other lumber[iv] 00 – 03 – 04
Item one jacke[v] 01 – 00 – 00
Item one paire of Boys (boyler[vi] ?) hangings for
a chamber 01 – 00 – 00
Suma ………? £ xxx - xiij shillings - ix d ?
In the Cellar
Item The board[vii] barrels 00 – 05 – 00
Item the pounding tubb 00 – 02 – 06
Item the brewing …..? with two tubs
a table on a frame 01 – 06 – 08
Item Eleven dozen bottles glass and stone 01 – 09 – 08
Item the brewing tongs and ronges a
voyder[viii] basket and other lumber 00 – 06 – 08
Page 3
Item three chaldron[ix] of coles at thirty five
shillings a chaldron 05 – 05 – 00
In a chamber putt up together
Item one downd bed a bolster one feather bed
and bolster 08 – 00 – 00
Item one small flock[x] bed and three feather pillows 00 – 15 – 00
Item two ruggs two quilts two paire of blankets 04 – 01 – 00
Item one old cob[xi] & lid ? and old blanket and old
bolster 00 – 06 – 08
Item five chaires and stools 01 – 10 – 00
Item two close stools[xii] and two old joined stools 00 – 09 – 04
Item two old Spanish tables 00 – 06 – 08
Item ….. ? old pieces of striped stuffe ? 00 – 03 – 06
Item one bedstead and one halfe
headed bedsteade 00 – 13 – 06
Item two Roman mapps 00 – 13 – 04
Item foure pictures 00 – 08 – 00
Item three instruments of musicke (music) 00 – 13 – 04
Item six paires of flaxen[xiii] & 1 paine
Cotton sheets 2 paines Com…hott ?
7 paires of pillow boardes ? 6 ... apon table
clothes whereof two are .....?
3 flaxen table clothes flaxen cupboard cloth
2 dozen ..... flaxen napkins and 2 dozen course
.... ? napkins & 1 paire Holland sheet 10 - 04 - 00
Page 4
Item one Greene serge curtaines[xiv] and ballone.. ? 02 - 10 - 00
Item a .... colour serge curtaines and ballone and counterpaine 04 - 00 - 00
Item one paire of curtains and ballone of Kiddiemister stuff 00 - 13 - 04
Item two paire of Alablaster pictures and some small
Dutch earthen ware 00 - 15 - 00
Item two chest of drawers 01 - 10 - 00
Item two hundred and ninety onnros ? of plate at
4s 11d per onnro ? 71 - 05 - 10
Item A silver watch 02 - 00 - 00
Item Wearing apparrell 15 - 00 - 00
Item one stone table and frame 02 - 00 - 00
Item two looking glasses and one paire of
pockett pistolls 00 - 13 - 04
Item one glass light[xv] some slitt Deale boardes
and other lumber 01 - 00 - 00
Item a study of books priced by Mr Kotleby ?
a bookseller worth 100 - 00 - 00
Item in ready money 155 - 10 - 00
page 5
Debts oweing to the dec'd at his death and some received ? by his adminstratin
follow viz : Rec'd
Imprimis of Mr Crofts 06 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Pirkins 02 - 00 - 00
Item of George Henthow 22 - 12 - 06
Item of Mr Dodington 12 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Harboy 08 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Charnork 08 - 00 - 00
Item of Sir Richard Chiverton 05 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Qwin 04 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Halley[xvi] 03 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Wynn 06 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr Cooke 03 - 00 - 00
Item of Mr P..nox ? 08 - 00 - 00
(line under crossed through and illegible)
Item Rec'd of Sir Robert Parton? of his Lady in
part of a debt of Fifty pounds 05 - 00 - 00
Debts oweing to the dec'd upon Bond
Item - a Bond dated 9th March 1671 wherein Michael
Watts citizen and Haberdasher of London stands bond
to ye said dec'd in £100 for payment of £103 the tenth of
September following the death of the dec'd, the interest
being paid to the said Samuel Cromleholme until March
next before the dec'd death nd there was one at his death
for interest for 9 ? months forty shillings the
whole being ? 102 - 00 - 00
Page 6
Item - one other bond dated the thirteenth of May one
thousand six hundred sixty and nyne (1669) wherein
the said Michaell Watts and Richard Watts citizen and
Girdler[xvii] of London stand bound to the said Samuel
Cromleholme in the penall ? sum of two hundred pounds
for payment of the sum of one hundred and three pounds
the fifteenth day of November next onsuing the date of
the said bond of which there was due to the dec'd at
his death. 101 - 00 - 00
Item - one other bond dated the 21st of May 1670
wherein Sir John Srodawirk Knt ? and Nathaniel
Horne? merchants stand bound in the ponall ? sum
£400 to the said Samuel Cromleholme for payment
£205 ? the 22nd of November next following the
Interest being received by the said Samuel until the
two and twentieth of May next before his death
he dying the 24th of July 1672 so at his death there
was about two months interest 201 - 16 - 06
page 7
Item Richard Bury [xviii] deceased was whilst he lived ingaged
to pay two hundred pounds unto the said Samuel Cromleholme
deceased upon some conditions contained in covenant made to
the purpose for the performance whereof some lands lying in the
County of Lymericke in the Kingdom of Ireland ..... ? by his will
the said Richard Bury debised ? to some trustees for payment of the
same but the sume not sufficient to pay the principall but to only pay
the interest and that comonly paid some months after the former died
of which monies there was for interest twelve pounds and two months
interest more, amounting to forty shillings of which hath beene received
since the dec'd death twelve pounds and there remains due a years interest
and in May 1673 with which twelve pounds the chargeth herselfe ? 12 - 00 - 00
Sum total of Inventory £949 - 14s - 11d [xix]
(signed) Mary Cromleholme 7th Oct 1673
Two lines of Latin script follow in a different hand (not transcribed) but presumed to be confirming the document. page 8
On the last page : (appears to be on different paper and not page numbered)
Debts owing to the dec'd Samuel Cromleholme with which the Adminstrator will charge herselfe if she can and when she shall toll and recover the sume
Item owing by Sir Robert Paston being the remainder of a
debt of fifty pounds before ..... ed ? 45 - 00 - 00
Item owing by Mr S James[xx] 20 - 00 - 00
Item the adminstrator doth declare that the said Samuel Cromleholme did in his life tyme pass his word and was engaged with one Hostry to pay £100 which was the proper debt of the said Hostry but the said Hostry not being able to pay the sume the said Samuel Cromleholme paid the said debt of 300 which ought to have beene repaid him again by the said Hostry. But he the said Hostry going insolvent the sume nor nay part thereof was ... paid to the said Samuel and there is little or no hope at all of recovering ? the sume or any part thereof.
page 9
End.
[Photographed at National Archives & transcribed by Richard Crumbleholme , Winterbourne Steepleton , Dorset July 2012]
Notes :
[i] Turkey – woolen material woven in the same way as a Turkish carpet
[ii] boll - a grain measure of 2 to 6 bushels or 140lbs
[iii] piggin – small wooden vessel or pail with one long stave to serve as a handle
[iv] lumber – disused articles of furniture (odds and ends)
[v] jacke – device for turning a spit.
[vi] boyler - cooking vessel of iron, tin or cooper - an early form of saucepan or kettle
[vii] board - a flat wooden surface such as a table top (supports usually noted separately)
[viii] voyder - basket used to clear the table of dirty dishes and broken food
[ix] chaldron - measure of a volume of coal equal to 25.5 cwt (36 bushels)
[x] flock bed – bed stuffed with wool & bits of cloth etc
[xi] cob & lid - wicker basket with lid to carry on the arm
[xii] close stool – commode with a pan
[xiii] flaxen - cloth made from flax of various quality - common cloth called brown the best called Holland
[xiv] Probably bed curtains as window curtains were not used until C18th.
[xv] light - probably a pane of glass from a leaded window.
[xvi] Halley - this could be Edmund Halley (the comet named after) - he had been one of Samuel's pupils.
[xvii] A girdle - a chain made of precious metals and worn around the waist with an end hanging almost to the ground.
[xviii] Richard Bury - Samuel's father in law. As a leading puritan in Dorset, he had gained lands in Ireland under Cromwell.
[xix] Money - It is difficult to equate C17th money values with the present day (2012) but a conservative rate appears to be that £100 = £11,000 which gives the total sum over £1 million in present value.
[xx] This name together with Hostry ? in the last item, do not appear to be recorded in the previous pages. Mary Cromleholme may have written this later and perhaps when additional debts came to light.