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Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
~~A total of eleven Paston inventories survive from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, adding greatly to our understanding of the breadth and quality of the Paston family collections; nine are published in this appendix. Together, they reveal why the family collections were universally praised by those...
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Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)
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Appendix 1: The Paston Inventories
A total of eleven Paston inventories survive from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, adding greatly to our understanding of the breadth and quality of the Paston family collections; nine are published in this appendix. Together, they reveal why the family collections were universally praised by those contemporaries who made their way to Oxnead Hall and witnessed the array of “rarities” that were on display in the time of Sir William Paston (1610–1663) and his son Robert, first Earl of Yarmouth (1631–1683). They are provided as an aid to future research, in expectation that new items from the Paston collections will be identified.
Other inventories have been discovered during the course of research, but these essentially repeat information in the key inventories provided here. Those previously published are identified in the list of inventories below. For reasons of space, the focus of our selection has been determined by those consistently referenced by authors in this book, whether previously published or newly discovered. The focus of this study is upon the family collections, rather than seeking to demonstrate evidence for the domestic life of the Paston properties. For this reason, for example, appendix 1.3—“An inventary of the goods in the best closett in the new buildings”—does not represent the entire inventory of the contents of Oxnead Hall but, rather, the astonishingly rich array of rarities in the “best closett” on the death of the first Earl of Yarmouth.
We are indebted to Jean Agnew for her discovery of those inventories previously unpublished, and for her transcriptions. We also thank Edward Town for his additional transcription of appendix 1.6.
 
Contents of Appendix 1
Oxnead Hall
1.1. “Inventory of Ornamental Plate, etc., formerly at Oxnead Hall”, pre-1673. Transcribed by John Adey Repton from a presumed lost original, which was only a partial survival at the time. (Repton notes that he only had access to “fols. 2–9”). Published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, January 1844, 23–24 and 150–52. Reprinted in Wenley, “Robert Paston”, 1991, appendix 1, 130–32.
1.2. “Curiosities, in Lady Paston’s Closet, at Oxnead–Hall temp. of Cha.2” (written in a later hand), pre-1673. A numbered list of thirty-five decorative arts objects, to which is added a numbered list of seven jewels. Now at Pembroke College, Cambridge, part of a bound volume of manuscripts, MS LC. 11. 230. Described and analysed by H. T. Riley in the 5th Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (appendix, 484); the gift of the Reverend Charles Parkin of Oxburgh, Norfolk. Published in Wenley, “Robert Paston”, 1991, appendix 2, 133.
1.3. “An inventary of the goods in the best closett in the new buildings”, taken from “A True and Perfect Inventary of all and singular the Goods Chattlls Rights and Creditts of the Right Honorable Robert Earle of Yarmouth deceased seen taken and appraised at his mansion house at Oxnett in Norfolke . . . by John Cooper and Charles Castill”, 28 October 1683, TNA PROB 32/33/39, 39–63.
1.4. “Apartments in Oxnead Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the RH. William Earl of Yarmouth, mentd in an Inventory of the Goods taken 10 Oct. 1687”, BL Add. MS 36988, fols. 254v–255. Eighteenth-century extracts from an unknown original. Published in Wenley, “Robert Paston”, 1991, appendix 4, 136–38.
1.5. “Mr [Roger] Crows Bill of Oxnead goods”/“Acct of Goods bought at Ld Yarmouth’s sale”/ “Capt [John] Buxton Bought . . .”, 15 October 1709, CUL Buxton 122/38–39.
Paston Hall
1.6. “The Schedule or Inventory of all and singuler the Goods and Chattells of the Right Honoble William Earle of Yarnmouth [sic] wch were seized & taken in Execucon at the Suit of John Gasquoyne Gent . . .”, 15 October 1703, TNA C111/119.
Lists of Jewellery
1.7. Inventory and valuation of jewellery, 30 July 1663, NRO BL/Y/1/4 (see cat. 106), published in Paston, Whirlpool of Misadventures, 2012, 40–42.
1.8. Lady Paston’s jewels, 1679, NRO 4013.
1.9. “A True Inventorye of the diamond rings and jewells of the Right Honorable the Earl of Yarmouth Deceased taken … by John Johnson and Christopher Rosse”, 16 November 1683. Fourth part of TNA PROB 32/33/39, 78–85 (followed by a lease of customs for wood).
Related Inventories (not here published)
Marsham v. Rippingall, 1703, TNA C6/449/34. This demonstrates that Oxnead was still fully furnished as a nobleman’s residence, and is very similar to appendix 1.4 above.
“A True and Perfect Inventory of all and Singular Goods Chattlls . . . John Cooper and Charles Castill”, 6 October 1683. First part of TNA PROB 32/33/39, 1–38.
“A true Inventary of the Goods of the Right Honorable the Earle of Yarmouth deceased taken at his house in the Pall Mall . . . by Giles Denny and Charles Castell”, 8 November 1683. Third part of TNA PROB 32/33/39, 64–77.
Appendix 1.1
“Inventory of Ornamental Plate, &c., formerly at Oxnead Hall”
Date:
Pre-1673.
Source:
John Adey Repton, transcription published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, January 1844, 23–24, 150–52.
Location:
Oxnead Hall.
Notes:
No room is named, but presumed to be the contents of the “best closet”. Locations given within the inventory are not always clear, and have been italicized in this version for ease of reading.
No monetary values are given in this inventory.
Items:
[REPTON 1844, 23]
One mother of pearle bottle, each side the fashion of a sw[an? with a] silver and gilt foote, and a silver and gilt statue upon the top.
One mother of pearle basin, with a silver gilt ledge on the ……, with a silver dish in it, with a foot gilt about the edge of the topp, engraven all over in the middle.
A mother of pearle ure.
A mother of pearle dish, all set in scollops, with silver and gilt foot, a cristall ball standing upright in the middle, carved.
A little mother of pearle cup, with a silver and gilt ledge, top, and foot.
Sixe mother of pearle dishes, which some of the shells stand upon.
A paire of coaker-shell cups with covers, in the midle of the covers agate-stones sett in enamell, with a gold knob of the top.
A paire of shell cups with covers, ivory feet and ledges.
A shell cup, set in a frame, and handle and cover of silver and gold, the foote, frame, and cover being garnished with severall kinds of cut stones.
A shell cup set in a carved and silver gilt frame and foot and cover, a peice of crystall in the midle of the cover, set with a silver and gilt knobb in the midle.
A greene shell-kan, set in a silver and gilt frame, with a cover.
A little shell cup with a silver and gilt frame.
2 shelles spoone-fashioned, with silver feet, and crinkle handles.
A blew jar with knobbs, silver and gilt top.
A cristall bottle sett in silver and gilt.
A cristall kan, with an enameld foote, ledge, and handle.
A long cristall glasse, with a cover engraven, a silver and gilt ledge on the foot.
A cristall cup 6-square, set in a silver and gilt frame, and enameld knob on the top.
A silver and gilt carved cup, a cristall foot and bottome, garnished about the sides and cover with several stones, with a statue upon it.
A cristall cup, with a silver and gilt foot and ledge, a crystal cover with a silver and gilt knob in the midle.
A cristall tankard, set in a carved and silver and gilt frame, with a cover and one handle.
A cristall tankard with a cristall cover, set in a silver and gilt frame with 2 handles, a flying horse on top.
A paire of cristall candlesticks.
A great cristall ball set upon an ebony pedestal, with 8 litle cristall balls round the edges.
An agate tanker set in a silver and gilt frame, with one handle, and cover.
Upon the creast over the doore, and so round.
A round cup of a darke colour set in silver and gilt.
A mother of pearle shell sett upon a figure, set in silver and gilt.
A red Indian cup blacke about ye edge.
A mother of pearle flower-pott set in silver and gilt.
A red Indian cup blacke about ye edge.
A shell upon a silver foott.
A speckle shell botle sett in silver.
A black Indian botle set in silver, with a chaine.
A rock, with branches of red corrall upon it.
A speckle shell cupp.
A red Indian shell, silver and gilt about the edge.
A jessimy tankard set in silver.
A mother of pearle shell set in silver, with a figure upon it.
A greenish flower-pott set in silver and gilt.
A black shell cup with a silver edge.
A white shell in a silver frame, tanker fashion.
A litle cup standing in a litle silver baskett.
[REPTON 1844, 24]
A browne botle, set in a silver frame, with a blackmoores head upon it.
A greene cup set in silver frame.
A mother of pearle ship shell engraven.
A browne cup set in silver and gilt.
A shell fashioned like a crane, silver and gilt.
A red Indian cup with a white rim, and cover upon it.
A knotted wood cup set in silver, with a cover upon it.
A black shell boule sett in silver.
A running horse, gilt.
A shell set upon a silver figure.
A shell cup with a silver frame.
A speckle shell cup in a silver and gilt frame, with 2 handles and cover.
A red Indian cup with a black rim.
A browne speckle cup, silver and gilt foot and rim.
A black cup with silver and gilt rim.
A greenish flower pott sett in silver and gilt.
A red Indian cup with a white rim, and cover upon it.
A stone pott, silver and gilt top and chaine.
A mother of pearle shell engraven, with a silver foot.
A speckle bottle with a silver and gilt top.
A white shell cup with 2 handles and cover.
A gilded horse.
A browne cup in a silver and gilt frame.
A red Indian bottle with an ivory foot and top.
In the corner.
A browne nodded cup, with a silver gilt rime and foot.
On that side of the creast, right againe the windowes.
An horse in a feeding posture, gilded.
A red speckle shell standing upon a silver foot.
A litle Indian cup turned downe.
A white shell cup with 2 handles.
A litle Indian boxe.
A red speckled shell with a silver and gilt foot.
A brazen figure of our Lady with our Saviour, and John Baptist.
A browne cup with an ivory frame, and 2 eares.
A reddish shell cup with an high topp, in a silver and gilt frame.
A litle browne cup in a silver frame.
A gippan of Portingall earth.
A speck shell standing vpon a griffin.
A mother of pearle flower pott, inlaid in a silver and gilt frame.
A boy gilded, with a socket for a candle in his hand.
A white egg pot, tanker fashion, in a silver and gilt frame.
A horse gilded, in a running posture.
A mother of pearle botle, set in silver and gilt.
A red Indian kan in a silver frame, handle and cover.
A great stone flower pott in silver and gilt frame, with 2 syrenes upon it.
A red Indian pott with a silver and gilt frame, cover and handle.
A mother of pearle botle, set in silver and gilt.
A gilded horse in a feeding posture.
A white egg pot, tanker fashion, in a silver and gilt frame.
A boy gilded, with a sockett for a candle in his hand.
A mother of pearle flower pott, inlaid in a silver and gilt frame.
A shell standing on a dolphin, silver and gilt, with a silver and gilt figure upon the top.
A gourd bottle, engraven, with a silver and gilt top.
A red Indian pott in a silver frame, handle and cover.
A great browne cup in a silver and gilt frame, the handles ye fashion of snakes.
A red Indian boxe.
A shell standing on a dolphin, silver and gilt, with a silver and gilt figure upon the top.
A red Indian botle with a silver frame.
A litle browne botle set in silver frame.
A browne tankard with an ivory handle.
A shell standing upon 3 dolphins.
A black cupp with an ivory rim and foot.
A gourd botle with a silver frame.
A red Indian kan with black edge about it.
A woodden cup with an ivory foot and top.
A browne shell, silver and gilt foot, in the fashion of a snake.
A shell, engraven, with the story of Atalanta, standing upon an eagle’s foot of silver.
In the corner
A gilded horse in a trotting posture.
On the left side of the chimney, on the creast
A mother of pearle flower pott, inlaid in a silver and gilt frame.
A shell cup, enameld.
A little red gourd.
A shell fashioned like a crane, silver and gilt.
A shell cup, enameld.
A litle red Indian cup.
A mother of pearle flower pott, inlaid in a silver and gilt frame.
[REPTON 1844, 150]
A browne cup with a cover and a silver frame.
On that of the creast, the right side of the chimney.
A gilded head upon a pedestall.
A figure enameld, upon a pedestall.
A red Indian cup with a cover and black rim.
A mother of pearle shell in a silver and gilt frame, upon a figure.
A gilded horse in a pacing posture.
A blew flower pott in a silver and gilt frame.
A gilded horse in a galloping posture.
A mother of pearle shell in a silver and gilt frame, upon a figure.
A red Indian cup with a cover and black rim.
A figure enameld upon a pedestall.
A gilded head upon a pedestall.
On that side right against the chimney.
Hanging 5 shelfs in scarlett ribbin, and trimd with scarlett ribbin.
On the i[1st] shelfe
A paire of crystall balls, standing upon silver feet, trimd with scarlet ribbin.
A round boxe gilt with a nagget* in ye midle of ye cover. [Repton notes: *An agate]
A litle shell boxe for amber, set and enameld.
A Cheiny pott,
2 shells of each side
Under the shelfe
An engraven shell of mother of pearle, with scarlet ribbin.
On the 2d shelfe.
A shell cup engraven, set in a silver and gilt frame, in ye midle of ye cover a green stone.
A paire of cristall botles.
An amber cup.
A christall ball.
Two gilt boxes with agat covers.
Under the 2d shelfe
A mother of pearle shell engraven, with scarlett ribbin.
On the 3d shelfe.
A christall cup engraven, set in a silver and gilt frame.
A paire of cristall botles with silver and gilt heads.
An agat cup with a silver and gilt frame.
A shell boxe with a gilt cover.
An agat boxe with a cover.
Under the shelfe
A mother of pearle shell engraven with 2 mere-maids, with scarlett ribbin.
On the 4th shelfe.
A shell cup engraven, with ivory handles, with a tortoise-shell foot and cover.
An agat dish.
A chymicall ball of glasse.
A silver boxe, enameld, for perfume.
A botle for perfume with 8 joints.
A stone dish with an handle.
A gilt boxe with an agat cover.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle shell, engraven, with scarlett ribbin.
On the 5th shelfe.
A cristall ball upon a silver foot, tied with scarlet ribbin.
A mother of pearle boxe, engraven, set in a silver frame.
A ball of glasse of severall colours.
A Cheiny pott with a cover.
2 christall ovals.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle shell with scarlet ribbin.
On that side over against the windowes
Hanging 7 shelfes in scarlett ribbin, and trimmed with scarlett ribbin.
On the 1st shelfe.
A shell cup, silver and gilt frame, foot and cover, an agat on ye cover.
A christall ball lying on scarlet ribbin.
An oval christall ball lying on scarlett ribbin.
A shell-spoone, silver and gilt frame, foot and handle.
2 agat balls.
On the 2d shelfe.
A mother of pearle cup, silver and gilt frame. 2 cristall balls carved upon agat pedestalls.
A white agat dish in fashion of a heart with a white rock in it.
An amber head upon an ebone pedestall.
An amber ball and pedestall.
On the 3d shelfe.
A shell cup engraven, set in a silver and gilt frame, a piece of cristall vpon ye cover.
A paire of cristall botles.
An ivory baskett with a branch of flowers in the midst of it.
An amber sand boxe, and an amber standish.
One litle carved stone.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle shell engraven, trimmd with scarlett ribbin.
On the 4th shelfe.
A shell cup with a silver and gilt foot and top, a red stone in the top.
A paire of christall botles,
An ivory baskett with a branch of flowers upon it.
A Portingall ring,
A topaz.
One litle carved stone.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle engraven, trimmd with scarlett ribbin.
[REPTON 1844, 151]
On the 5th shelfe.
A shell standing upon a silver and gilt foote, ye fashion of a snake.
An agat cup with a litle cristall ball in it.
An agat botle for perfumes, set in silver, with a litle silver chaine.
The modell of ye Duke of Florence diamond, lying upon agat pedestall.
A christall ball lying upon an agat pedestall.
A boxe engraven with the armes of the family upon the cover, a cristall ovall lying upon it.
On the 6th shelfe.
An ivory wheele standing in a porch with 4 pillars.
An agat botle for perfume, ye stople hanging in a chaine.
A silver botle for perfume, with 6 joints.
An agate cup.
A gilded boxe with a cristall cover engraven.
A gilded boxe with an agate cover.
On the 7th shelfe.
An ivory cup curiously carved and turned, with an high cover.
A mother of pearle spoone with silver and gilt handle.
A christall ball cut, lying upon scarlett ribbin.
A christall boxe with 3 stones in it.
A musk dish with a litle ivory stagg’s head in it.
A christall box set in silver and gilt.
A litle christall ball.
2 shelfes on the lefte side of the chimney, hanging, and trimmed with scarlett ribbin.
On the 1st shelfe.
A mother of pearle shell, ye fashion of a boat, standing upon a silver and gilt foot, upheld with 2 anchors, a peice of rocke in it.
An agate cabinett in a silver and gilt frame.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle shell engraven, trimed with scarlet ribbin.
On the 2d shelfe.
A mother of pearle shell, ye fashion of a boat, standing upon a silver and gilt foote upheld with 2 anchors, with 2 spoones in it, one christall and one amber.
An amber cabinett.
Under this shelfe
A mother of pearle shell, hanging with scarlett ribbin.
On the right side of the chimney
2 shelfes, hanging and trimd with scarlet ribbin.
On the 1st shelfe.
An agat cup on a silver and gilt foot, carved and enameld.
An agat botle 6-square for perfume, set in an enameld frame.
An agat botle for perfume 3-square engraven, in an enameld frame.
A christall boxe engraven, 8-square, set in silver and gilt, in it 5 stones.
A little cup, enameld.
A blew stone boxe, cutt, in silver and gilt frame.
On the 2d shelfe.
A gilt cup with a cristall pillar, a cristall knob on the cover, with 3 christall balls in it.
A cornelian botle for perfume.
An enameld botle for perfume.
A garnet cup, gilt with gold.
A christall flower-pot, enameld, and garnished with gold.
A christall boxe.
A perticular of the Pictures over against the doore.
A great picture of Magdalen, in a great carved frame.
3 letle pictures of each side, 6 in all.
Underneath a lim-picture with 2 ladies;
Of one side a litle ovall picture with birds
On the other side an ovall picture flowered with roses.
The next row is a fine limd picture with 4 figures,
Of each side that 2 limd pictures of 2 old men.
A christall looking glass set in silver and gilt, enameld, and wrought flowers.
2 agates-heads finely carved, with 16 cornelian heads round about them.
A fine limd picture of Andromeda chained to a rock. Of each side of it the pictures of Sir Robert Paston’s* and his ladies in limd, with gold cases. [Repton notes: *Sir Robert Paston here mentioned is apparently the same who was created Viscount Yarmouth in 1673, and Earl of Yarmouth in 1679, and died in 1682. The Inventory was, therefore, probably made before the first date. His wife was Rebecca, second daughter of Sir Jasper Clayton Knt. Of London]
A fine agat with 2 blackmoores heads cutt, with white turbetts†, set very finely in gold, enameld. [Repton notes:Turbans]
The King of France’s picture in gold and enameld.
Under Andromeda my ladies Paston eldest brother picture in liming,‡ done by Mr. Cooper. [Repton notes: ‡ i.e. my Lady Paston’s eldest brother, a Clayton. The same painting is afterwards referred to as “my Brother’s picture;” so the Inventory seems to have been taken by Sir Robert Paston himself. The artist was, no doubt, Samuel Cooper, the celebrated miniature painter.]
[REPTON 1844, 152]
Of each side of him 2 old men in liming, one of then in a gold case, the other in ebony.
Next 2 boxes of mother of pearle set in silver and gold, with chaines, and upon the lids of them the armes of the family.
2 limd heads of each side of the boxes.
Underneath my Brother’s picture, a purple stone of Sir Fran. Bacon making set in silver and gilt;
Under it an ovall picture in water colours.
A white agat head set in emerald, with a litle pearle at the end of it.
Under one shelfe.
Sir Robert Paston’s picture in waxe worke.
Underneath it, an enameld case with a white crosse.
On one side, an enameld picture with flowers in an ebony frame.
A christall picture on the other side, with flowers on one side, and a head on the other.
Under that a long chaine curiously linked.
Under the other shelfe.
A limd picture of an old man in an ebony frame.
One one side, a gold case enameld with flowers.
Under it, a gold case, heart fashion, enameld.
On the other side, a christall case with flowers in it.
Under that, a string of 50 amber beads on it.
Against the end of the chimney.
One stone picture a’top,
4 small pictures below, and one mother of pearle engraven.
The other end of the chimney.
Three litle pictures,
One stone picture,
One Indian steele looking glasse.
On the side of the chimney, St. Paul’s picture in a great frame.
3 litle pictures on each side of St. Paul.
Under it a stone picture with the armes of the family.
On that side of the closset over against the chimney.
The ladies Paston picture in an ovall frame in oyle colour, done by Mr. Lillie.* [Repton notes: *No doubt, Sir Peter Lely.]
Under that Mr. Paston’s† picture done in krions. [Repton notes:Mr. Paston, probably William the son and heir of Sir Robert, and afterwards the second Earl of Yarmouth. He married the Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, one of the natural daughters of King Charles the Second; but, having no issue, was the last of his ancient race.]
Under that a picture of flowers in water colours.
A picture done upon beuer of Lott and his 2 daughters.
My Ld Townsend’s‡ picture, done by Mr. Burrell. [Repton notes:Horatio, the first Lord Townshend, created a Baron in 1661, and a Viscount in 1682.]
At each corner 2 of the evangelists.
Under them 2 little pictures in water colours. Under my Lord Ld Townsend, 17 great agats, 8 litle agats, and 8 blood stones, set upon silver and gilt plate, with a carved frame of silver and gilt, set round with stones, a piece of pearle at the bottome, and 5 agats on the top.
On each side on ye top of this, 2 lim pictures in ebony frames.
Under one of ye pictures, a cristall case with flowers,
Under that an ivory head carved;
Under the other lim picture, a gold case enameld,
Under that, a christall in the fashion of a heart, with 2 pictures in it.
Sr John Clayton’s picture in an ovall frame, done by Wright.”
Appendix 1.2
“Curiosities, in Lady Paston’s Closet, at Oxnead—Hall temp. of Cha.2”
Date:
Pre-1673.
Source:
Part of a bound volume, Pembroke College Cambridge, MS LC. 11. 230.
Location:
Oxnead Hall.
Notes:
Described and analysed by H. T. Riley in the 5th Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (appendix, 484); the gift of the Reverend Charles Parkin of Oxburgh, Norfolk. Published in Wenley, “Robert Paston”, 1991, appendix 2, 133.
Two valuations are given in this inventory, for reasons that are unclear. Both are in “pistoles”, the name given to a variety of gold coins in circulation in the British Isles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Items:
Values
(in pistoles):
1 The 2 Birds wth snakes
80
60
2 The great graven shell wth An Atlas
90
80
3 A Siren and a plaine shell sett on a figure
70
60
4 The great Greene shell
100
80
5 The flower Pott
80
60
6 The Bottle wth the Moores Heade
80
60
7 The 2 Bottles wth 2 fgures of shells and chaines
80
60
9 The shell wth a whales Heade and Neptune
70
60
10 The shell supported wth a Grotesco another a Top
70
60
11 A Gravensh wth Boyes supported wth a watefowle
50
40
12 A shell supported wth an Eagles Claw
50
40
13 An Ostrich Egg sett in sill guilt wth a cover of sill
50
40
14 An Ostrich shell Tankard wise set in sill
30
25
15 2 shells supported wth Dolphins
40
35
16 2 shells one supported by a Gryphon ye other by a Bear
50
45
17 A shell supported by a plaine silver foote
20
15
18 A shell in sill supported by 3 Eagles Heads
20
15
19 A shell wth a guilt foot supd by Baccus
30
20
20 a mothe of pearl shell supd By a Boy on a Dolphin guilt
30
25
21 a small shell supd by a snayle
30
20
22 a Boate of Mother of pearle Boate
30
20
23 A specled Bottle supd wth a crotesco: 3 chaines Guilt
30
25
24 A graven shell wth wings and a serpent
20
18
25 A winged shell supd by a Tortoise
20
18
26 2 Tortoise shell Bottles in sill guilt
20
18
27 One Little specled Bottles in sill: guilt wth chaines
15
7
28 A specled shell Bottle sett in sill
20
0
29 3 cupps supd by 3 sill and guilt swans
20
0
30 2 mother of Pearl Bottles graven wth my Armes chains guilt
30
0
31 4 spoones
18
16
32 A white Corall rock
50
45
33 A Bason and Ewer of mother of Pearle
50
45
34 A chime clock
180
160
35 2 Rare Greene Eggs sett in sill guilt, flower pott wise, came from ye farthest part of Chyna
80
70
1 An orientall Emrald
200
2 A great Harde Topaz
100
3 An orientall fire stone
080
4 A lesser Harde Topaz
060
5 A Jack napes Heade
040
6 An Aqmarine orientl
035
7 An Amithist
025
Summ Totall
1369.li [written in a later hand]
Appendix 1.3
“An inventary of the goods in the best closett in the new buildings”
Date:
28 October 1683.
Source:
The National Archives, PROB 32/33/39, 39–63.
Location:
Oxnead Hall.
Notes:
This is the second part of the full inventory of the principal Paston family properties (Oxnead Hall and Pall Mall, London), dated 1683. It is the most complete listing of the “best closett”.
Items:
[39] Inprimis the hangings of blew damask with gould and silk fringe
Item one couch
Two quiltes
One blew dammask counterpen with gold and silver lace
One boulster
One quishing
Six dutch chaires with quishings trimed with gold and silver lace
Item five white sarcenett window curtens
Three curten rods
One old matt
Item one rich stone table inlaid and upon one blew dammask carpet
Item under the table
One pantheon
One blew gord bound with brass gilded
Item at the ends of the tables
A paire of black stands gilded and inlaid
Upon the stands a paire of coko cups bound with silver
Item one black trunke or cabinett garnished with
[40] agett gilded about the eges
Item one inlaid cabinett
Upon that cabinett one blew gord bound with brass and gilded
Under it four large shells
Upon it severall shells
Item in the chimney
One paire of steele andirons black and gilded
Shovel
Tongs
Crooke
Item in the chimneye
One greene gord standing upon three feete bound with brass and gilded
Two long jarrs
One round jarr
Two cups of the same
Seven dishes of mother of pearle
One brass dish inlaide with silver
A large collection of fine shells
[41] Item of eachside the chimney
Two tortor shell bottles with silver chaines
Item over the chimney
One ovall lookinglass
Item upon the mantell peece
One large mother of pearle cup ingraved with a griffin on the top and an imbost ?fout of silver gilded
Item one leser mother of perl shel plain with an imbost fout of silver gilded
Item one greene shell with a silver frame imbost and gilded with a Neptune on the top
Item one mother of pearle shell ingraved upon a silver frame gilded with a crotescoe hed upon itt
Item two ostriges eggs upon a silver frame gilded with three silver spoutes upon each egg
Item one cristall bottle with a snakes handle of [42] silver gilded
Item one mother of pearl bottle upon a silver frame gilded with a blackmore’s hed on the top of it
Item one glasse bottle with a silver frame gilded with a small cristall ball one the top of it
Item one cristall cup sett in silver gilded with a coat of armes on the top of itt
Item one cristall tankard sett in silver gilded with a sea horse on the top
Item one large coko cup sett in silver gilded with a cover
Item one other large coko cup sett in silver gilded with a cover and painted
Item two small coko cups set in silver with cristall on the top [43]
Item one coko cup small sett in silver frame gilded sett with stones
Item one silver *gilded* carved cup with a cristall foot and bottom garnished about the sides and cover with severall stones and a statue on the top
Item one cristall cup sett with silver gilded with a carved cristall top
Item one cristall pillow with an agett ball on the top broke
Item two *cristall* balles upon silver pedistolls
Item one horse of silver gilded
Item two shelles set like cranes upon brasse feete gilded
Item one stone tankarde sett in brass gilded
Item one large cristall ball [44] sett upon a pedistall of eboney with ten other small cristall balles
Item two coko cups with covers and agett tops
Item one blew flower pott sett in brasse
Item two cristall candlesticks
Item four cristall balles
Item one ewer and seven dishes of mother of pearle
Item one glasse ball of severall colours
Item twenty one small shelles of severall sortes
Item under the table
Five peeces of workes
Two marble balls
Severall shelles
Item one small ivory trunk
Item in the corner over the inlaid cabinet
Twenty small picktors in water colours
Item fiveteen small boxes of severall sortts some with gould and some with [45] silver, one of them sett rounde with small rubies
Item two mother of pearle boxes and chaines of brass
Item two mother of perle shelles one broke
Item one steele chaine gilded with gould
Item one small cristall glass in a gould frame
Item three small heds and King James his hed
Item two small hanging shelves of ivory gilded
Upon them two small bottles inameled in gould
Item two cristall boxes one of them broke
Item one agett box and one agett boottle sett in gould
Item one small agett cup inameled [46]
Item one silver and gilded cup with a cover and cristall top
Item upon the other shelfe
Two agett cups sett in silver and gilded
One small bottle inamaled
Item one small cornelian bottle
One small cristall bottle inamaled with gould
Eight small pearls
Item one blackmores hed in gleu?
Item one small carbunckle box with silver gilded one small shell sett in silver guilte
Item thirteen small picktors of severall sorts
Item one Magdalen in a rich gilded frame
Item one pendant with two great agett heds and eighteen small ones and fiveteen small diamonds
Item in a box under the couch
one coko shell cup set in a [47] silver top and bottom
Item one ivorey morter tipped with silver and an ivory pestle to itt
Item one small cabinett inlaid with mother of perle standing upon four brasse figures broke in severall places
Item one small case of glass and eboney
Item fivety five small shells and peeces of work
Five *marble* balles
One coko cup and cover
One woodden Standish
One jappan box
Item in the corner by the couch
One pictor of St Jerom
Item *one* coate of armes in stone
Item ten small picktors
Item two small hanging shelves and upon them two boteshells of mother of perle with two ankers to each bote, the bottom of the shells and ankers silver gilded
[48] Item one amber cabbinett broken
Seven small shelles
Item one small agett trunke
Item two mother of perle shells
Item one jappan burning glass
Item one old picktor in a black frame
Item eight picktors belonging to the family
Item three night peeces
Item one sheppard and sheppardesse
Item one Magdalen
Item my Lord Townsends picktor
Item the Lady Portors picktor
Item Sir Henry Hubberds picktor
Item one clock picktor
Item twenty seven other picktors
Item eight shelles seven of them mother of pearle
Item two heds whereof one silver gilded
Item one ovall plate of silver gilded and sett with severall sort of stones
Item one cristall pendall
[49] Item three small picktors in stone
Item one George sett with twenty one sparks of small diamonds
Item one agett bottle set in silver with a gilded chaine
Item twelve hanging shelves two of them of tortorshell
Item upon the two first hanging shelves
One small gould box with an agett upon the lid
Item one small silver box gilded
Item one small agett cup and a peece of cornelian
Item one cristall stone cut and one small shell
Item one silver bottle to fall downe with six drawers for perfumes
Item one small agett bottle with a small gould chaine
Item one fine ivorey spinning wheele in a frame
Item one peece of cristall glass
Item upon the third hanging shelfe
One silver tobacco box duble gilded
Two small agett pedistolls with two [50] cristall balles upon them, one of the pedistalls broke
Item one cornelian bottle sett in silver gilt
Three small cristall balles
One small agett cup
One shell
One shell like a cup sett in silver
One ivorey bucks hed tipped with silver gilded
One small peece of agett stone
Item upon the fourth shelfe
One coko cup set in silver with an agett top
One fine ivery cup with three roses upon the tope
Two small cristall bottles
Three peeces of cristall cut
One plain cristall
One small bloud stone
Item upon the fifth shelf
One coko cup set in silver gilded with a cristall top
One fine ivory cup with two roses upon the top
Two cristall bottles
One small amber ink pott [51]
One small peece of amber,
One shell
One bloodstone
Item on the sixth shelfe
One mother of pearle cup sett in silver gilded
Two agett pedistolls
Two cristall balls cut
One silver tobacco box gilded with an agett lid
One small amber sand box
One lesser boxe
One small cristall ball
Three shells
Item on the seventh shelfe
One small coco cup sett in silver gilded
One stone cup in the shape of a hart with a peece of a rocke in it
Two agett balles
Two small shelles,
One small agett botte broke
Item on the eight shelfe
One mother of pearl dish sett in silver gilt
One [52] shell sett in silver with a foot gilt
Two peeces of cristall
One cristall spoone
One amber spoon
Two shells
Item on the ninth shelfe
One shell sett in silver with a foot gilded
Two small agett bottles
One agett cup
One coko cup and lid
Six small shelles
Item on the tenth shelfe
One cristall cup sett in silver and gilded
One small agett cup with four stones in itt
Two cristall bottles with tops
One small shell with a silver lid
One small cristal box, the lid broken
One small bit of agett
Item on the eleaventh shelfe
One coko cup sett in silver gilded with an agett top
Two silver [53] boxes gilded with agett tops
Two cristall bottles
One amber cup broke
One cristall balls
Two shells
Item on the twelf shelfe
One silver tobacco box gilded
One small shell set in silver gilded and foot
One small box for sweets broke
One small dish
One small cristall ball cut
Three small shells
On the Cornish
Item one shell with a small silver top
One coko cup and cover tipped with ivorey
One coko cup carved tipped with ivorey
One coko cup carved tiped with ivorey
One greene shell tankard set in silver
One blew cup wrought with a mermayd upon it
One hollow shell
One great marbl ball
One mother of pearle shell cup with two winges on itt wrought and sett with small shelles
[54] Item one cristall ball with a silver foote
One coko cup and cover ingraved and sett all in silver and a silver foot
One small japan cup
One hors gilded on brass uupon a black pedistoll
One shell sett upon a hawks foot all silver
One shell cup upon a serpent brasse gilded
One wooden cup with a cover painted with an ivorye foot and top
One can with an agett upon the lid
One shell bottle and set in silver with a silver screwe on the top and silver foot
One coko cup and cover with an ivorey top and foot
One large shell upon a brasse foot gilded
One wooden can carved with an ivoreye top and bottom and handle
One coko bottle carved sett in silver with a silver top and bottom
One red [55] shell bottle set in silver a *silver* screw on the top and silver bottom
Two shell cups sett in silver gilt with a small figure at the top and a serpent handle
Item one large coko dishe set upon a brasse foot gilded, the cupp crackte
One red tankard set in silver with a small figure on the top with a silver lid foot and handle
One shell bottle painted with a silver top
Two mother of pearle bottles set in silver gilded with two eares top and bottom silver
Two candlesticks held up by a boye upon brasse carved and gilded
Two ostrige egg cups set in silver gilded with a silver lid foot and handle
One brasse horse gilded upon a wooden pedistoll
Two mother of pearle bottles sett in silver gilt with a chaine [56] top and foot all silver
One red shell bottle sett in brasse gilded
One marble flower pott set in brasse gilded with two figures richly carved at the top
One red tankard set in a silver with a silver lid and handle
One brass hors gilded upon a pedistol of wood
Two shell cups with silver feet gilded
One cup of portingall earth
One coko cup set in silver with two eares and a foot of silver
Item one coko bottle sett in brass richly carved and gilded
One brass figure and one coko cup in ivorey
One shell bottle sette in silver with a silver foot and screw
One shell cup with a silver foot
One brass hors gilded upon a wooden pedistoll
One small jappan box
One large wooden bowle set in brass gilt with a figure within it
One [57] coko tankard sett in brasse and richly gilded with a cristall on the top
One marble candlstick
One painted jug with a silver top and cover gilded
One brass horse gilded upon a pedistoll of wood
One red shell bottle with an ivorey top and bottom
One marble jug set in bras gilded with a chaine
One red coko cup set in ivorey
One ege flower pott set in silver gilded with two eares and a foot all silver
One browne bowle set in silver gilded
One red coko cup with a brown foot and top
One egge cup set in silver gilded with a silver cover and top
One shell cup with a silver foot gilt
One bras horse gilded
One coko cup with a silver foot and tipt
One ruf yellow shell cup with silver upon the top and silver foot cracked
One jappan cup set in ivorey
One mother of pearle flower pott sett in silver gilded with two [58] eares and a foot of silver
One coko cup set in silver gilded with a silver foot and handle
One red jack tipt with silver
One greene jack set in silver with a silver lid and handle
One coko bottle carved and set in silver with a silver hed on the top and silver foot
One jappan box in a silver frame
One black shell studded with silver
One ostrige egge tankard set in silver with a silver lid and bottom
One red cup with a browne lid and bottom
One egge flower pott set in silver gilded with two eares and a foote of silver
One mother of pearl shell set in silver with two silver shells on each side and silver foot
One marble candlestick
One blew cup wrought and set in brass gilded with a serpent and [59] a figure on the top of it
One shell bottle with a silver top and foot and chaine gilded
One figure in maskerad upon a blew pedistall
One peece of rock with three branches of corrall and severall stones
One red coko cup with a cover and a cristall on the top the foot broke
One jappan bottle bound with bras gilded and a chaine
One shell set in silver and a silver foot
One red coko cup top and bottom browne
One coko cup set in silver with a silver cover and bottom and two eares
One wooden bowle with a cover the foot set all in massey silver with four figures of boyes
Three coko cups tiped with silver gilded standing upon a stand [60] of jappan with a silver ring gilt
One brasse hed upon a pedistoll gilt
One red coko cup and cover with a cristall upon the top
Two shelles of mother of pearle set in silver richly gilded and adorned with severall figures of silver about them gilded
Two horses upon wooden pedistolls of brasse gilded
One blew glass bottle or flower pott set in brass richly gilded and carved
One figure in a maskerade upon a pedistoll
Item one black eboney cabinet inlaId with silver upon a frame
In the cabinet
Item four strings of agett and bloodstones
Thirteene strings of agett and bloudstones
A parcell of loose agetts and bloudstones and cornelian
One peece of pollished marble upon [61] a slate
Two strings more of agetts and bloudstones with copper heads mixt with them
A parcell of meadalls of silver
Two agetts
One bloudstone
One ottomdirsan? eye in ivorey
Two other peeces of ivorey carved
Three shell spoons set in silver
Foure ivorey figures upon a pedistall
Three heds in box
Eleaven copper heds gilt
Six blewe copper plates in *black* frames
A great quantity of agetts and cornelian and bloudstones redy for seals
One parcell of larger agetts with some halfes for knives
One other drawer with larger stones and balls
One other drawer with parcell of cristall of severall sorts
One other drawer with twelve and som peeces of cristall for picktors
One string of amber beds
One string of bloud stones . . . . . . xl li (£40)
[62]
Three intalliers
A parcell of flat agets and bloud stones
One other parsell of agetts
A parsell of round balles . . . . . . . xl li (£40)
In the cabinet in my Lord Pastons Chamber
Item one small jappan box
Six Turkish knives
One bloudstone seale
One peece of marble
One painted tobacco box
One box with a double silver cup in
One burning glass in a case
One small bloud stone tipped with silver
Four painted tobacco boxes more
Four brass mathematicall instruments
One readinge glass tiped with silver
Two pair of small buttons
Two cristall balles
One parcell of small cristall things
Nine agetts and cornelian <and cornelian> stones cut for seales
Two agetts uncarved
One [63] parcell of brass ornaments for a cabinett gilded
One jappan box
One coko shell
One steel dagger with some inventions on it
Eleven tobacco stoppers
Two tweezer cases gilded
Five knives gilt handles
Two ivory figures
One knife with an ivorey handle
Fiveteen eboney frames small . . . . x li (£10) for picktors
All these goods mentioned within this inventory are agreed upon by us whose names are heer underwritten at one thousand twenty eight pounds fourteen shillings, witness our hands at Oxnead Hall the twenty eight day of October 1683 John Cooper Charles Castill
Appendix 1.4
“Apartments in Oxnead Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the RH. William Earl of Yarmouth, mentd in an Inventory of the Goods taken 10 Oct. 1687”
Date:
10 October 1687.
Source:
British Library, Add. MS 36988, fols. 254v–255.
Notes:
These are eighteenth-century extracts from an unknown original. Published in Wenley, “Robert Paston”, 1991, appendix 4, 136–38. In this inventory, items are not listed for every room; the objects listed are only those termed “Remarkables”.
Items:
1. Farthest Friscateen Room Gilt Leather
2. Other Da
3. Great Dining Room
Tap’stry hanginsg in 7 pieces
9 Pictures viz.
K. Cha.II
Rt. E. Yarmo
Coun. Dow. Do
E. Lindsey
S.Wm.Paston
His mothr.
His wife Sr. Jnd Holland
Large Garld Fruitpiece
ye Chimney piece
Gilt Head over [ye Chimney piece]
2 standing statues
2 wooden gilt Heads.
4. Great Parlour
Tap’stry
4 pieces
5 large pictures
2 others
2 gilt Heads on pedestals
5. Little Parlour
Gilt Leathr
4 pictures
1 coat of arms in white marble
6. Withdrawing Room
10 midling &
40 small pictures
3 white marble Figures
2 small carved Heads
7. Nog Room
1 chimney piece
8. Room accdn. great staircase
Gilt Leathr
3 Large pictures
1 gilt Head
9. Hall.
1 Large Landscape over ye chimney
2 stands with gilt statues
6 pedestals with gilt Heads
1 antic standing on ye window
14 carved Heads
51 stags Heads & other fixt on ye walls
2 crocodiles, 2. creatures stuft hanging over ye Stone Table
10. Preserving Room
11. Stew Hall
12. Buttery
23 small pictures
1 Gilt Leathr Coush
13. Billiard Room
4 Large pictures
Billiard Table
2 Glass cases
14. Little Chamber beyd Billd Room
Green Cloth Hangings
15. passage to ye. Billd Room
3 Large, 4. Larger, & 9. small pictures;
sev. shells, Heads, & other things overhanging ye sd passage.
16. Chamber next. Do
Green Embroidd Hangings
17. Do in the Lobby.
18. 2d Chambr from ye Billd Room
Tapestry Hangings & Damask furniture
1 picture
19. 3d Room from Do
Tapestry Hangings–& red Cloth Bed
20. Court Yard.
6 new gilded Flowerpots
21. Venice Court
4 Do 2 grt stone Flrpots.
22. Garden
10 Do 12. blue & 20. white & blue Do
23. Butler’s Chamber
24. Cooks Chambr
25. Spice Room.
1 Copper decortion Pott & cover
26. New Alcove
5 pieces Tapestry Hangings
1 Indian Trunk Earl of Yarmo picture &
1 [picture] over ye Door
27. Lobby withn Do
28. Chambr withn new Alcove
Tapstry Hangings
1 picture over ye Door
29. Entry between sd Chambers.
3 small pictures
30. Chambr over ye chapel.
Tapestry Hangings
1 small picture
31. Lower Gallery.
9 Pedestals with gilt Heads
36 Large pictures
6 small Do in ye windows
2 gilded Boys with Candlesticks
32. Middle Chambr in sd Gallery
3 pictures
33. Lady Beck’s Chambr Do
Tapestry Hangings purple Cloth Bed
34. Gallery Leading to ye Fountain Chambr
11 pictures
35. Fountain Chambr
Large Looking Glass Tortoise Shell frame and silver’d plates.
Tapstry Hangings
1 Loose picture
Descriptn Vienna
Survey of Linz; map of united provinces
36. Chambr over Little parlour.
Tap’stry Hangings in
6 pieces
1 picture over ye door
37. Chambr over withdraw Room
38. 1st Chamr in apartmt over Billd Room
Tap’stry Hangs &
1 picture over ye door
39. 2d Chamr Do
40. 3d Chamr Do
41. Upper Gallery next Stair Case wch goes out of Courtyard in ye Groom’s Chamr
42. Next Chamr in sd Gallery where ye Footmen Lodge.
43. 3d Chamr in aforesd Gallery
44. 4th Do
45. Chamr next Glass Closet, in Do
46. 2d Chambr from Do
47. 3d Chamr Do
48. 1st Chamr in uppr Gallery, next the great Stairs
49. 2d Chamr in Do
50. Chamr over ye Chapel Do in aforesd Gallery
3 small pictures
3 Escutcheons
51. Chambr over ye old Alcove
Closet in sd Chamber
Crib ins. Do
52. Room at ye Top of ye great Stairs
2 stands to set statues on
Closet at Do
53. Mr Peckover’s Chamber
54. Chamber next Do
55. John Davy’s Chambr
56. Kitchen.
57. Chambr over ye Fountain Chamr
1 picture witht ye door in ye Gallery
58. Do over ye new Alcove
59. Do over ye Countss Yarmo Closet.
60. Old Wardrobe
61. Great Stair Case
19 pictures
2 marble Figures
5 Globes on Frames
1 Gilt Head
1 great branched candlestick.
62. Backstairs
8 pictures
63. New Wardrobe
4 white marble Figures.
64. Chaplain’s Chambr
4 pictures
65. Little Chambr next Do
2 Do
66. Shop.
67. Brewhouse;
68. Chambr over Do
69. Husbandmens Chamr
70. Chamr over Carpenter’s Shop
71. Room in passage Leading into ye Husbandmen’s yard
72. Porter’s Lodge
73. Laundry.
74. Chambr over Do
75. Dairy
76. Dairy Chambr
77. Housemaid’s Room
78. Linnen Closet
79. Chapel
1 Crimson velvet Cloth with Gold Fringe
Comunion Table
Crim. Velv. Cloth
1 Crim. Velv. Cushion–gold Tassels
1 Com. prayr. Bk. Velv. Closure, Ribbons & Gd Fringe
1 Foot Stool
1 Crim. Velv. Cloth with Gold Tr. in ye desk
1 Com. prayr Bk
1 Large Bible
1 Candlestick
1 foot stool
1 Crim. Velv. Cloth with G. Tr. in ye Pul
1 Velv. Cushion. Gold Tassels.
1 foot stool
3 Crim. Velv. Cushions with Tassels in ye seats below.
6 othr Crim. Velv. Cushions
1 Large fol. Com. prayr Bk.
1 Large Do Bible
6 old Folio Com. pr. Bks.
5 new Do
6 thick 4to Bibles
5 thin Do
6 8o Com. pr Bks
4 Enamd Sconces
1 grt. Brass Candlestick
1 Brazen sconce
8 Footstools
3 in ye servants seats below
Chapel Gallery
One persian silk & silver cloth
4 Crim. Velv. Chairs
2 Crim. Velv. Cushions, with Tassels
2 Enameld,
1 brass, sconces
1 Long Foot stool cover’d
Servant’s Gallery
1 great Chest
2 Forms.
Appendix 1.5
“Mr [Roger] Crows Bill of Oxnead goods”; “Acct of Goods bought at Ld Yarmouth’s sale”; “Capt Buxton Bought . . .”, 15 October 1709
Date:
15 October 1709.
Source:
Cambridge University Library, Buxton Box 122/39.
Location:
Oxnead Hall. Captain John Buxton bought the contents of the following rooms: the Great Dining Room, the Little Parlour, the Little Parlour Chamber, the Withdrawing Room to the Best Chamber, the Room under the Great Staircase, the Nog Room, the Wardrobe, the old Lady’s Chamber, and one picture hanging over the passage door.
Notes:
It is instructive to compare this bill of sale with the inventories. The complete contents of “The great Dining Roome”, as listed in the 1703 inventory, were valued at £125. The pictures listed in the room in 1687 were: “K. Charles II, the Earl of Yarmouth, Countess Dowager, Earl of Lindsey, Sir Wm Paston, his mother, his wife, Sir John Holland”, and a “large Garld Fruitpiece”.
Items:
Values:
(£=s=d)
7 ps fine Tapestry Hangings
5 Escutcheons
Nine pictures
One Chimney ps
Looking Glass & small ones
4 sconses
2 tables with velvett carpets
A Table wth drawers & 2 stands
Two tables wth 2 Cabinetts upon ym
2 pedestalls wth statues & 2 gild heads
A velvett couch
4 large velvett ch[ai]rs
12 small ditto
2 pr gilt andirons
2 pr tongs
One fire shovell
A pr of bellows
One large foot cloth
Wte Cheny curtains
4 large wrought ch[ai]rs
3 small ditto An Indian screen
95=00=00
The great Parler
2 large pictures out of the great Parler
03=00=00
The Lower Gallery & the Staire Case
42 pictures out of the Lower Gallery & the Staire
21=00=00
Case containe
18 pictures
5 marble balls
The little Parler
The gilt leathr Hangings
1 large picture
4 small ditto
A large table
2 smaller ditto wth Carpetts
1 large Rush Leather Ch[ai]r
16 cane ch[ai]rs
Pr andirons
1 iron back
A pr of tongs
Firepan
A pr of bellows
A book stand
A fire skreen
2 sconses
One Small ovall table
2 Cushions
14=00=00
The little Parl[ou]r Chamb[e]r
A bed as itt stands
5 arm’d ch[ai]rs
Table & stands
A cabinett
A looking glass
A chimney ps
5 ps tapestry
A trunck
Firepan
Tongs
A pr of bellows
The withdrawing Room to the best chamb[e]r
The Shagg Hangings
2 waght sconses
A looking glass
A table & stands
8 Dutch ch[ai]rs
An Indian trunck
3 wte silk Curtains
A pr andirons
A pr tongs
Fire shovel
An inlaid shell
70=00=00
The room under the great stair case
1 side table & carpett
An oist[e]r table
The Gilt hangings
2 large pictures
03=05=00
The Nog Room
A picture
2 old pictures
00=12=00
The Wardrobe
[a] large carpett
01=10=00
The chimney ps in the old Lady’s Chamber and a small picture over the passage door
0?=10=00
209=15
Verso
Acct of Goods bought at Ld Yarmouth’s sale
Octr 1709
Mr Crows Bill of Oxnead goods
Appendix 1.6
“The Schedule or Inventory of all and singuler the Goods and Chattells of the Right Honoble William Earle of Yarnmouth wch were seized & taken in Execucon at the Suit of John Gasquoyne Gent (whereof mencon is made in the Deed Poll or Bill of Sale whereunto this Schedule or Inventory is annexed) valued and appraised by Joseph Ellden Gent & John Wingfield—the fifteenth day of October In the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & Three at the Rates here in after menconed (All wch said Goods & Chattells at the tyme of the seizing & taking the same in Execucon were Standing & being at Paston Hall in the County of Norff. (vizt).”
Date:
15 October 1703.
Source:
The National Archives, C111/119.
Location:
Paston Hall.
Notes:
This inventory of Paston Hall is extracted from Vallance v. Welldon: Estates of the Earl of Yarmouth. Inventory of his goods seized for debt.
Items:
[fol. 2v]
Values:
(£ s d)
In the Dyneing Room
Impri’s ffour peeces of Tapestry of the history of Moses
Two setts of Norwch Stuffe Curtaines at
011 00 00
Item One large scriptore wth div’se Ornamts & Carvings
and heads of Ivory and Amber & a piece of Mosoick stonework in the Inside
005 00 00
Item one Table wth a Turkey Carpet over it
One old Strong Box wth a Turkey Carpet over it
One other little Table to set Glasses on, wth a Turkey Carpet likewise to set glasses on
006 00 00
Item A large Copper Cistern & two bullet Guns
003 00 00
One large Looking glass with a Walunttree frame
002 00 00
Three Pictures of old painting (one whereof is a Battle) over the Chymney
002 00 00
Two more Pictures, One of Sr William Paston’s in a gold fframe
the other of a Cock in water Colours in a black fframe
ffour little pictures over the Chymney in black frames
Over the Mantletree
Ten China Cupps
two China Mugs and a Cup
004 00 00
Two wrought Cushions
large Leather Chair
Eighteen Cane Chairs
a little hair Trunck
One large Turkey Carpet on the Ground
005 00 00
One iron fframe with a wicker Skreen
A pair of bellows
Tongs
ffire shovell
four Andirons
two ffanns
002 00 00
One Clock a black frame
div’se yards of green Stuffe printed
A little Cupboard wth glasses white plates wth a China Inckhorn & other things set there on
003 00 00
[Total]
043 00 00
Two pair of Silver Candlesticks
two pair of Snuffers
Six Silver Salvers four large two Smaller
Two Silver Muggs
A Sugar Caster
two little Silver pepper Boxes
a great Silver Spoon wth part Brasil handle
A large Silver Cup wth Eares
twelve Silver Spoons
twelve Silver chafted knives
Six Silver Salt Cellars
Twelve Silver hafted fforks
a Silver guilt Porringer
a Silver gilt Spoon belonging to it [the porringer]
054 00 00
Lynnen
Eight dozen Damask napkins
One dozen an half of Damask Table Cloaths & Siderboard Cloathes
ffour Dozen of Diaper Napkins
Six Table Cloathes & Sider board Cloaths of Diaper
Six pair of ffine Holland Sheets
Ten pair of Course
025 00 00
In the Bed Chamber
A large lofty red Damask Bedd
Quilts
Counterpanes
Ffeather bedds
Blanketts
Sheets & other things thereunto belonging
Redd Parragon Curtaines round it
025 00 00
A large Picture over the Chimney wth a Landskipp with dogs ffowle & Game and a [ . . .] in the midst
Diverse China & Japan Cupps
A Silver Tea pot
Two or three other Silver Cupps
012 10 00
A large [wrought] Elbow Chair
A Chest of Drawers of Walnut Tree
A large Lookinge glasse wth a fframe of Inlay’d wood
An inlay’d ffolding Table to the same cover’d wth Velvet
A Turkey Carpet under it wth an Indian or Japan Trunck
012 10 00
[Total]
129 00 00
[fol. 3v]
Ffour peeces of hangings, Two of them the history of Abraham and his Sons
a black varish’d Cupboard in the Corner wth China upon[?]
ten Cupps & boxes
a Spinet or Virginall wth a reddish gold couler’d Leather upon it
008 00 00
Two wrought Cushions
two dutch Chairs
ffour Cane chairs
four Squobb cane Chaires
A velvet Cushion fringed
002 10 00
Severall small Pictures in fframes & some out of fframes
Guilt Leather Skreen about the Bedd
four pair of Andirons
Shovells
bellows
Tongs & brushes & other things thereto belonging
005 00 00
A pair of Silver Candlesticks & Snuffers
Two Silver Chamber potts
A Silver chaffing Dish
011 00 00
ffour China Basons
a black Ebbony box to put hoods in
a Dutch or Indian ffolding Oval Table
001 10 00
Two Books of the Bible in folio
a great Book of the history of Moses by Sr
002 00 00
Roger L’Strange
Two India ffanns
Severall yards of green printed Stuffe
a pair of white Window Curtaines
001 10 00
A large Book in folio of Prints upon blew paper
A gilt leather Skreen
an Indian work Box
a Scriptore wth a Coronet upon it, the Inside of Cedar
003 00 00
In the little Clossets belonging to the Room
A little Strongbox
Div’se little Prints & some pictures
a little Looking glasse in a Silver fframe
severall little boxes
004 00 00
One warming pan of Copper
Sev’all Tinn boxes
glasses
a Persian Carpet
a Coffee Mill
a little Copper Boylers
001 10 00
In the Lady Charlotte Paston’s Room
ffour peeces of fforest work Tapestry
A large green Cloath Bedd, lin’d wth green silk worked wth silk & Cruel part green, part redd, in long stripes down the bed
Counterpane
ffeather bed
Sheets & Blankets as it Stands
012 00 00
[Total]
052 00 00
A black Ebony Looking Glasse, and fframe
a Table of Walnuttree & two Stands to the same
Six dutch like Chairs of Brown wood
a large Elbow Chaire lyn’d wth green Cloath & work’d in Stripes like the Bedd
two or three low Stools suitable to the Bedd
005 00 00
Over the Chymney
A Picture in a black fframe
a large black Trunk
A grate
fire shovell
Tongs
a pair of Bellows
Sev’all yards of green printed Stuffe,
Another Table under the Window
Walnuttree Cabinet
003 00 00
In the Garret over that Room
Two Bedds wth Curtaines
ffeather beds
Blanketts Ruggs & other things thereunto belonging
four or five old Chaires
007 00 00
In Mr Gurling’s Room
A dark colour’d Bedd wth Curtains
ffeather bed
Blankets
Sheets Ruggs & other things thereunto belonging
005 00 00
A Table under the window
green window Curtains
four Chairs
an old leather Trunk or two
a Coale grate
ffire shovel
Tongs & other things thereunto belonging
005 00 00
On the Staires
Eighteen pictures of the Cesars
Dutch prints in black fframes
three pictures or prints wthout fframes
a head of an old man over the dyneing Room door
a black Cupboard fixed to the Wall
Coffee potts
Tea potts
China Cupps & other things
005 00 00
In the Servants Dyneing Room
Six leather Chairs with brasse nayles
two old Elbow Chaires
an old Couch
003 00 00
Two pictures of King Charles the first and his Queen to the Knees
two lesser pictures of the same King and Queen
a picture of Birds over the Doore
a picture of Chymistry by Old Wike
a picture of the fflood in a black frame
a picture of Queen Elizabeth,
a picture of an Oyster barrell over the door goeing into the other
a picture of a Lady dressed in her Locks
014 00 00
[Total]
043 00 00
[fol. 4v]
In the Room next the Servants
Roome wainscoted & painted white
A large picture of Abraham and Sarah by hantrust
A ffine peece of our Saviour going to be crucified in a black frame
017 00 00
A large Indian or Japan Chest most full of China
Another large Oaken Chest lined wth green Cloth wherein are Silks, Muslyne, two Swords two Canes & other things
012 10 00
Two Suits of hangings, the One the history of Vespasian, the other Course one
Six Elbow Chairs wth Squobbs like them wth black fframes & cover’d wth a purple Broackade Silk, wth gold fflowers
005 00 00
The picture of the Virgin Mary in a black Ebony fframe done by a great Italian hand
A picture of a man gapeing in a gold fframe
003 00 00
A picture or Drawing of the Martyrdom of St Barbara in blew & white
002 00 00
A Turn up Scriptore of in lay’d wood
A large Carpet most upon the blew & redd wth ffishes on the Borders
three or four more Chests and boxes
four more pictures in black frames wth glasses before one
one in Oyl painting without a frame
013 00 00
A pair of Tongs
ffire Shovell
Andirons
black fframes to set China on and in a Closet
adjoying in Cupboards
Sev’all glasses potts boxes China Cups & other things
007 00 00
In the Kitchen & Larder
Eight dozen of Pewter plates,
Two dozen of great & Small pewter Dishes
a large Copper Boyler
a Copper Stew pan for ffish
a lesser Copper Stew pan
Three or ffower Spitts
a large iron Coal grate wth Barrs
two great irons to hold Spitts on
a Jack & Lyne
017 00 00
ffour Sawce panns
three Potts great & Small to boyle meat in
Two Gridirons
a ffrying pan
Culleder
Two Chopping Knives
005 00 00
[Total]
096 10 00
ffire Shovell
Tongs
ffire ffork
Wooden Tenchers, dishes & other things
Seives
Rowlers
a Mortur
Powdering Tubbs
pickles potts
Gally potts
earthen ware
001 00 00
In the Laboratory a ground Room looking upon the Court
Two large iron potts
a Couch wth a green Rugg
ffeather Bedd
a wooden Chest
Two large bell mettall Morturs
three hampers wth div’se old iron instruments
Glasses bottles of Aqua fortis, Spirit of Nitre & other things
004 10 00
One iron Grate for a blowing Chymney
a large Table
diverse potts, glasses Crucibles & iron tools & other things
A Copper Still
an Iron Still
two iron potts, one wth a head to distill Aqua fortis besides Thirty pounds
006 00 00
Two Closets belonging to the said Roome In one wth looks towards the South are divers Books
Books of Prints
some Drawings
little printed pictures
Thirty glasses
a Tun of Lead
a large box of Scales
two little Boxes of Scales wth weights in ‘em [?]
012 00 00
Two Copper Lamps
Six Ingotts
a little Box of iron Tools for a Gun
half a dozen Knives & Sizzars
Eight paper books
paper
Touch stones of Six China Basons
one glass bason
four China Cupps
Sev’rall iron Tools
one hundred printed books
005 00 00
In the other Closet looking to the North
One marble Grindstone & Ball of the same
sev’all Crucibles
about six pounds of Copper
diverse Gally potts,
iron wire
Sev’all iron Tools
Aqua fortis & other things
001 10 00
In the ffarm house
A Damask Bedd
Table
010 00 00
In the Groom’s Chamber over the Stable
Twelve hampers of Glasses
cruicbles
Spirit of Nitre
Aqua fortis
old iron Tools
glasses
old iron & lead & other things
006 00 00
[Total]
046 00 00
[fol. 5v]
In Mr Watt’s Roome
A Bedd wth Curtaines
Rugg
ffeather Bedd
Sheets, blancketts & other things thereunto belonging
a Table
Six Chairs
a deale Chest of drawers
ffire shovell
Tongs
Bellows
Grate
008 00 00
In the great old hall pantry & Cellars
A great iron pot for a Boyler
Pavement of freestone to pave the hall wth
Six leather Chairs
two pictures
Twenty ffive hogs heads
ffifty dozen of glasse bottles
Six half Tubbs
Sev’all Ale Stools
013 00 00
In the honoble Mr Wm Pastons Roome
A Norwch Stuffe Bedd & the Roome hunge wth the same
six stools
a Table
a Table Cloth
a large Trunk
a Grate
ffire Shovell
Tongs
Bellows
010 00 00
[Total]
047 00 00
In Servant’s Rooms not before menconed
ffive ffeather Bedds
Ruggs
Blanketts
Sheets & other things thereunto belonging
09 10 00
One large Coach
Harness for six horses & other things thereunto belonging
014 10 00
A pair of black horses for the Coach
a Rone Gelding wth a white Maine
a dark browne Gelding fifteen handhigh wth a light
brown Maine
020 00 00
044 00 00
043 00 00
129 00 00
052 00 00
043 00 00
096 00 00
046 00 00
047 00 00
501 00 00
Appraised the Day & year above menconed by
Jos: Elden
Wingfield
Appendix 1.7
Inventory and valuation of jewellery
Date:
30 July 1663.
Source:
Norfolk Record Office, BL/Y/1/4.
Location:
Oxnead Hall.
Notes:
See cat. 106. Published in Paston, Whirlpool of Misadventures, 2012, 40–42.
Items:
Values:
An onix stone ring set round with diamonds & rubyes
20–00–00
A blackmoore in a sardonix set round with diamonds.
10–00–00
A ring with a blackmoores head & turbett sett with eight diamonds
15–00–00
A sardonix ring with 6 diamonds, a white head
15–00–00
A sardonix ring with a torteese on it, at
04–00–00
An onix with an anticke face on it haire colour
05–00–00
An onix ring with 2 faces
05–00–00
A sardonix black & white set round with diamonds
15–00–00
A sad onix ring with a George on it
05–00–00
An onix ring with a woman & child in it
01–10–00
An onix ring with an asse & ox in it
02–10–00
An onix ring with 3 colours & 2 diamonds
07–00–00
An onix ring with a crest being a lyon
03–00–00
An onix at
01–00–00
A plaine gold ring with a white & black agate
01–00–00
A plaine gold ring with a black agate
01–00–00
A slight ring with a darke emerard
01–00–00
A munkey face with opall at
01–10–00
A soft topaz with a dragon in it
02–10–00
An emerald ring with a face in it
05–00–00
A free stone with diamonds round at
10–00–00
An emerauld ring with 6 rubyes at
10–00–00
A free stone at
01–10–00
An agate of 3 colours & 2 diamonds
07–00–00
28 rings about 15s a peice
21–00–00
A jacinth ring at
01–05–00
A doublett ring at
00–10–00
An opall ring 4 clawes
01–00–00
A cats eye ring at
00–10–00
[fol. 2]
Prized
A cornelian ring
00–10–00
An agate ring at
00–05–00
Eight gold rings at
07–15–00
A lockett with a white agate set round with emeralds
07–00–00
An agate lockett transparent
01–00–00
An agate head enamiled round with flowers
05–00–00
A plaine gold lockett with an agate
00–10–00
A white agate head lockett sett with emeralds & vermillions . . 05–00–00
A lockett with 6 opalls & a white stone
05–00–00
3 peices for a hatband with rubyes
08–00–00
3 peices for a hatband with small diamonds
10–00–00
3 pieces for a hatband enamiled turkeen
01–00–00
One white saphyr seale with the coate of armes of the family
A blue saphyr ring with the families armes in it
20–00–00
A diamond hatband
50–00–00
A diamond ring with 3 great stones and fower or more small stones
52–00–00
A ring with a very good jacinth
25–00–00
A broad saphyr ring with 2 table diamonds
10–00–00
A globe opall at
20–00–00
A saphyr
15–00–00
A white saphyr ring at
06–00–00
A Turkey stone with 2 diamonds
10–00–00
An egmereen
20–00–00
A ruby ring set round with rubyes & 2 diamonds
16–00–00
A Turkey stone ring at
02–10–00
A long ruby & 2 table diamonds
An egmereene ring
04–00–00
A grisolett ring at
05–00–00
[fol. 3]
Prized
An egmereene ring at
02–10–00
An opall with the sun set round with diamonds
10–00–00
A foule emerauld at
04–00–00
A spinnell ruby ring in forme of a heart
03–00–00
A table white saphyr ring
10–00–00
A garnett ring at
01–05–00
A white saphir set round with small diamonds
07–00–00
A little *ruby* ring at
00–10–00
A grisolett ring att
05–00–00
Another grisolett ring at
01–00–00
Eight white stone rings at 25s a peice
10–00–00
A garnett ring with 12 small dyamonds
04–00–00
A ring with 5 diamonds
07–00–00
A jacinth ring 8 square
03–00–00
A jacinth ring 4 square
01–00–00
An ametist ring
01–05–00
A cats eye ring with 2 rubyes
01–00–00
587–15–00
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Appendix 1.8
Lady Paston’s jewels
Date:
1679.
Source:
Norfolk Record Office, NRS 4013, 13F7.
Notes:
This list is extracted from a bundle of nine letters and papers and one deed relating to Robert Paston, first Earl of Yarmouth, including a list of Lady Paston’s jewels. Two valuations in the same hand are included for the majority of items, for reasons unknown, but perhaps denoting estimate and sale price. The left-hand column gives notes made by the inventorist.
Items:
Value 1:
Value 2:
A [ . . . ] Ring set with an onix & dymonds & rubyes
£12
£5
A blackamore in a sardonix set round with
£15
£8
dyamonds in a ring
A ring with a bucks head & 8 dyamonds
£12
£10
A agatt with 6 dymo. & a white [?]pearl
£8
£5
A sardonix with a tortoyse on it
£4
£2
An onix with a hair colour’d face
£1 10s
£1 10s
An onix or agatt with 2 faces
£1
£2
A sardonix set round with dyamonds
£6
£6
A sad onix with a George on it [ . . . ]
£1 10s
£2 [ . ..]
An onix with a Venus & Cupid
£1 10s
£1 10s
An onix with an ox or asse or 2 goats a [ . . . ]
£3
£2
An onix with 3 colours & 2 dyamonds
£3
£3
An onix with a crest
£2 10s
£1
An onix
£1
£1
+
A playne gould ring with a ?wt & b. agatt
£2
£1 10s
Wanting
A playne ring with a black agatt
15s
Wanting
A slight ring with a darke emerald
A munkey face ring with an opall
£3
£2 10s
Wanting
A soft topaz with a dragon in it
Wanting
An emerald ring with a face
A ?free stone with dyamonds round
£7
£4 10s
Wanting
An emerald ring with 6 rubyes
A free stone
£1
15s
An agatt of 3 colours 2 dyamo
£4 10s
£4 10s
Twenty eight rings sett with agatts &
£15
£15
slight stones
A jacinth ring
£2 10s
£2 10s
A doublett ruby ring
10s
£1
An opall ring 4 clawes
£1 10s
£1
Wanting
A catts eye ring
£2
A cornelion ring
10s
10s
An agatt ring
10s
10s
Eight gould rings
£8
A ring with a good jacinth
£8
£6
A white sapher
£10 £5
£4
An opall with the sun set round with dyam
£8
£8
A pale saphir fowle
£10
£6
An egmereene ring
An opall ring with 4 rose dyamonds & 2 rubyes
A little ruby ring
15s
£1
A ruby ring with a ruby & 2 table dya
£10
£10
An onix with 6 table dyamonds with armes
£10
£10
£141 50s
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(verso) “Copy of Sr Robert Pasto[n’s] Bill of Sale to Mr [Francis] Avery the foule schedule”
Second page
A dyamond with 3 [ . . . ] stones
£30
£25
A saphir with 2 table dyamonds
£7
£4
A spinell ruby or berill in forme of a heart
£1 10s
£1 10s
A spinell ruby ring table set about with
£8
table dy set with a [ . . . ]
A white saphir ring sett with little rose dyamonds
£3 10s
A ?fancy ring with 5 dyams.
£4 10s
A foule emerald in a ring
£1 10s
An orientall granett or berill in a ring
£2
A table jacinth in a white ring
£1
Another jacinth ring
£1
A ring with a purple ruby & 2 dyamonds
£3 10s
3
3 grisolett rings
£4 10s
A Turkish stone ring with 2 dyamonds
£3
A long white saphir cutt 8 ?square in a ring
£7
A griffin cutt on a short topaz
15s
A ring with a white stone & 2 small rubyes
£2 10s
2
2 stones in a ring supposed white saphire
£5
3 seales in rings at
£3
2 egmereenes in ringes at
£3
4
2 amatiste & 2 pibles in rings
£2
4
rings & a deaths head at
£2 10s
3 coats of armes 2 in saphirs
£5
5 playne rings about gold
£3
+
2 playne locketts of gold with agatts or blond stone
£1
+
A lockett with 6 opalls & a white stone
£2 10s
+
A lockett with a white stone sett round with emeraulds
£3
An agatt head inamelled round with flowers
£2 10s
+
A lockett with a white aggatt head & emeraulds & vermillions
£2 10s
187.15
141.5
259
(verso) “Two note of my Lady Yarmouthes jewells”
Appendix 1.9
“A True Inventorye of the diamond rings and jewells of the Right Honorable the Earl of Yarmouth Deceased taken the sixteenth day of November one thousand six hundred eighty three by John Johnson and Christopher Rosse.”
Date:
16 November 1683.
Source:
The National Archives, PROB 32/33/39, 78–87.
Location:
Oxnead Hall.
Notes:
This is the fourth part of the full inventory of the principal Paston properties (Oxnead Hall and Pall Mall, London), dated 1683.
The values are also given below in modern notation.
Items:
Values:
[78]
Inprimis a Caesars head in an aggott stone in a ring
set round with six rose diamonds
vi li
[£6]
Item a catshead stone in a ring set round with opals
iii li
[£3]
Item an onix stone in a ring
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item an onix with the family armes in’t and six table diamonds
x li
[£10]
Item a *ring with* a sardonyx and two rose diamonds
v li
[£5]
Item an aggott head in a ring
v li
[£5]
Item a double aggott head in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a blackmoores head in an onix and sixteen diamonds sett rounde the head in a ring
xv li
[£15]
[79]
Item an opall stone with the sunne in it
and eleven rose diamonds round it sett in a ring
x li
[£10]
Item a moores head and eight rose diamonds in a ring
xii li
[£12]
Item a ring with an onix and seven diamonds and seven rubies in a ring
x I
[£10]
Item a white head in an aggott and fourteen small diamonds round it in a ring
v li
[£5]
Item an onix with an elephant and a lyon cut in it sett in a ring
v li
[£5]
Item a mocus stone with eleven diamonds amd nine rubies sett in a ring
v li
[£5]
Item an onix with a demy lyon engraven for a crest sett in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a saphir stone with the famileys coat ingraven in it set in a ring
x li
[£10]
Item a large white saphir with the full coate, supporters and creaste in a seale
xv li
[£15]
[80]
Item a seale with a brown cristall
i li
[£1]
Item a ring with a four square ruby and two diamons in it
x li
[£10]
Item a cloudy turkoyes of the old rock with two diamons
iii li
[£3]
Item a ring with a virmilian in it
i li
[£1]
Item a ring with a blew saphir and two table diamonds
vii li
[£7]
*A ring with a pale blew saphir int*
viii li*
[£8]
Item an opall and foure diamonds and two rubyes in a ring
xv li
[£15]
*A ring with a ruby and two diamonds*
vii li*
[£7]
Item an emerald in a ring
iiii li
[£4]
Item a turquoyes stone ring
i li
[£1]
Item a ring with a grissolett
ii li
[£2]
Item a ring with an aquamoreen
x li
[£10]
Item a ring with an eight square jacinth
xii li
[£12]
Item a ring with a foure square aquamoreene
iii li
[£3]
Item a ring with a four square sapher
viii li
[£8]
[81]
Item a ring with an aggott and two rose diamonds
vi li
[£6]
Item a vermillion stone four square in a ring
iiii li
[£4]
Item a ring set round with nine diamonds and nine rubyes
iii li
[£3]
Item a ring with a vermillion and fourteen diamonds
vi li
[£6]
Item an amithist in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a ring with a supposed white sapher
ii li
[£2]
Item a cristall stone ring
x s
[10s]
Item orientall cats eye in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a ruby dublett in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item an eight square aquamoreen in a ring
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item a large foure square chrysolite in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item an eight square carthogenion amithist ring
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item a four square vermillion ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a four square jacinct ring
i li
[£1]
Item an eight square cristall ring
i li
[£1]
[82]
Item an other eight square cristall ring
ili
[£1]
Item a ring with a four square aquamoreene
ii li
[£2]
Item an eight square jacinct ring
iii li
[£3]
Item an eight square pibble in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item an eight square crisolite
ii li
[£2]
Item a white cats eye and two rubyes in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a large four square pibble in a ring
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item an aggott with a flying horse in it
i li
[£1]
Item a black aggott ring with an Anthony and Cleopater in it
iii li
[£3]
Item a cornelion in a ring with fiveteen opalls round it
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item an eight square cristall in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item an opall stone ring
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item an ovall cornelion in a ring
i li
[£1]
Item a fowle emerald with a standing figure in it
iii li
[£3]
[83]
Item a heart cristall in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item an agott in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item a ring with a cornelion seale head
x s
[10s]
Item a catseye stone ring
i li
[£1]
Item an aggott stone in a ring
i li
[£1]
Item on onix with a man on horseback ingraven in it to seale ii li
[£2]
Item a heart cornelion stone in a ring
i li
[£1]
Item a small 4 square ruby in a ring
i li
[£1]
Item three mourning rings 1 ore 4 drs
iiii li v
s [£4 4s]
Item an oval elitropian stone ring
x s
[10s]
Item a red stone with a dubble head in it
ii li
[£2]
Item a blew stone ring
x s
[10s]
Item a mocus stone ring
i li
[£1]
Item an aggott with a tortoss on it in a ring
ii li
[£2]
Item a ring with the Greshams armes 16 drs 12 grs
v li
[£5]
Item an aggott stone with severall coullers in it
xv s
[15s]
[84]
Item a death cut outwards and sett like a seale
i li
[£1]
Item an aggott ring
i li
[£1]
Item a cornelion in a ring
i li
[£1]
Item a speckled aggott ring
x s
[10s]
Item an aggott stone ring
x s
[10s]
Item a high sardonix ring with a white stroke in it
ii li
[£2]
Item an elitropean stone in a ring
x s
[10s]
Item a mocus stone ring
i li
[£1]
Item a cornelion stone ring and two aggott stone rings at i li a peece
iii li
[£3]
Item an onix stone ring with a figure in it
i li
[£1]
Item two aggott rings 10s a peece
i li
[£1]
Item three aggott rings at 10s a peece
i x s
[£1 10s]
Item an aggott ring and a heart cornelian 10s a peece
i li
[£1]
Item a pair gold buckles with thirty two diamonds and sixteen rubyes in them
viii li
[£8]
Item two pair of buttons with thirty six diamonds in them
xv li
[£16]
[85]
Item an aggott head sett rounde with seaventeen small emeralds
v li
[£5]
Item a large oval Minervas head *set* in a locket
x li
[£10]
Item an aggott head of a women in a locket
sett round with six emralds and six garnetts at
iii li
[£3]
Item a locket with six opalls and six small rubies
and a cristall in the midle
vi li
[£6]
Item two large aggott locketts at 15s a peece
i li x s
[£1 10s]
Item the gold and cristalls of two pickture cases
viii li
[£8]
Item a large eletropian stone in the forme of a heart
iii li
[£3]
Item 54 eletropian beades
v s
[5s]
Item 65 agott beades
v s
[5s]
Sum totall of this inventory
ccclxxi li x s
[371 10s]
[86]
Item a lease of the customs upon unwrought wood and other things granted from his Majestie to the said Earle of Yarmouth decd for a terme of yeares whereof about five yeares <and halfe> were to come at the time of the said earl’s death, the profitt whereof (above rent charges and deductions) being very uncertaine and depending upon severall contingences it cannot be partly vallued or appraised but the executors of the said earle doe conceive the said lease may be worth if the time to come be enjoyed the sume of ten thousand pounds
£10000
Suma totalis hujus inventory
£13786 13s
[signed] Re: Yarmouth
[signed, 2nd earl of] Yarmouth
[87]
vicesimo primo die mensis Novembris Anno Dni 1683
Praenobilis et honoranda faeminae Rebecca Comitissa Dotissa de Yarmouth et praenobilis et honorandus vir Willi[el]mus Comes de Yarmouth jurati fuerunt super veritate hujus inventy coram me Hen: Fauconbgh jnr
presente John Shorter notary public
Appendix 1: The Paston Inventories
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