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A true and perfect inventory of the goods and chattells moveable and unmoveable of Mr. Francis Ridley of Little Crakhall in the County of York, lately deceased prised by Mr. Richard Tennant, Mr. George Fothergill, Robert Clapham and Christopher Richinson as followeth. [1683]

Inprimis his purse £4 - 0 - 0
   
Item two gold rings, a watch with a silver
case, a silver tobacco box, a silver spoon and a silver
seale and a [ringdial]
£6 - 10 -0
   
Item his apparell four coats, three doublets,
2 pair of breeches, a pair drawers, 3 pair of
stockings, 2 pair of shoes and 2 pair of slippers and
a pair of boots
£2 - 10 - 0
   
Item in the High Parlour one feather bed,
one chafe bed, a pair of blanckets, one pillow ,
2 curtains, two pair of sheets, 2 table cloaths,
5 napkins, [ ? ] pillobers, 6 crevats, 2 neckcloaths, 2 hatts
£3 - 10 - 0
Item one trunk , one box, one safe, one little table,
one skep for putting meale in, one tubb, one barrell,
one other barrell
£1 -8 - 0
   
Item in the Buttery 3 pewter dishes, 9 trenchers,
2 iron potts, 2 pans, one frying pan and saucepan,
one droping pan and cullender, a gallon can, 3 botles
of stone and a glass botle, and a ladle , four wood
dishes, one scimmer and dredging box
15s - 0d
   
Item in the Milkhouse 22 bowles 3 cheesfats
and a sinker, 2 [skeels] and a churn, one swill,
2 kettles, one dough trough
8s - 0d
two cream pots 16s - 0d
   
Item in the Forehouse one brass morth,
3 iron raks, one b...sling iron, a band iron, a pair
of tongues, a fier shovell,a beef fork, a pair of
bellows, a warming pan, one ax, two iron wedges,
a pair of harden sheets, one salt pan, 2 hand
saws, 2 candlesticks, 2 [?] dishes, 2 fleaks,
3 bowls, sack, one [ ? ], one litle ax
18s - 0d
   
Item in the Low Parlour 2 coverdoaths,
a bed, 2 boulsters
12s - 0d
   
Item 3 iron teams and a fork, an iron
gavelack and other
 
wain geer 14s - 0d
   
Item in the helm one new wain, one cart,
three plows ,one pair of ox harrows one pair of
horse harrows, 4 yoaks, [..........] 2 planks and a sledg
£7 - 1- 0
   
Item one gelding and 3 mares £10 - 0 - 0
Item four cowes and a bull £15 - 0 - 0
Item three and thirty sheep £14 - 0 - 0
Item six calves £5 - 0 - 0
Item [four] old [swine] £2 - 5 - 0
Item Corn in the barn and in the house and on the backside £28 - 0 - 0
fier wood on the backside 2s - 6d
Item one stack of hay eleven fathome £8 - 0 - 0
Item one stack of hay ten fathome £4 - 0 - 0
Item one stack of hay ten fathome £5 - 0 - 0
Item provision in the house with a kimling £1 - 0 - 0
Item four swine 16s - 0d
   
Debts owing to the said Francis Ridley 6s - 0d
George Kellay for corn £3 - 13 - 0
Christopher Richinson  
John Clark junior  
   
Debts owing by the deceased  
Imprimis to Dr.Peter Samwaies, Rector of Bedall £26 - 0 - 0
Item to Sutton Aglethorp Esquire £15 - 0 - 0


[ Executors were George Richardson of Bedale, yeoman, Thomas Bruse of Little Crakehall, yeoman, and George Carter of Bedale, yeoman. ]
[ Sole heir was Martha Ridley, his widow ]


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