INVENTORY OF JOHN RUFFIN'S GOODS 1662

John Ruffin died in 1662. aged 81. He was a yeoman, living at his copyhold farm opposite the church gate and next to the old 'Vine'. His lands totalled 60 acres. He married Joan Speen of Hillend ; she died in 1664.

BRO: D/A1 113/9

Inventory

£

In prim. his wearing apparell & money in his purse 5 : 0 : 0
It. in ye hall one table board one cupboards 3 stooles
a chaire some cushions with andirons fire shovel
& tongues
2 : 0 : 0
It. in his lodging chamber 2 featherbeds 3 bolsters
4 pillows 2 coverlids 3 pare of blankets with
curtains and valance a bedsteed trundle bed
2 chest 2 coffers a trunck a square table and
an odd blanket
13 : 0 : 0
It foure paire of hempen sheets 1 table cloath
12 napkins
3 :10 : 0
It. in Johns chamber one bedsteed a feather bed &
bolster a pillow a coverled 2 pare of blankets
one pare of sheets a chaire a coffer & a forme
6 :  5 : 0
It. in ye mans chamber 4 paire of sheets & 1 pillow beere
a flocke bed & bolster one heading with a blanket
& an old bedsteed
3 :  0 :
It. in ye Lower chamber 2 flocke bed & one bolster
one coverlid & blanket a bedstede a side table a little
carpet a peece of new cloath with some lumber
4 :10 :  0
It. in ye lower buttery two powdering troughs with
shovels wheels and other lumber
 2 :  0 :  0
It. in ye buttery 3 bigger kettels 2 little ones a brass
pan 3 pots two possets a brasse frying pan
a candlestick & chaffingdish
4 :  0 :  0
It. 13 pewter dishes 2 flagons 2 salts a candlestick
a chamber pot & spoones
2 :10 :  0
It. of wooden ware 6 barrels 2 cowles an illfat
a dow kiver 4 little kivers a churne searcher
shelves etc
3 :10 :  0
It. in the kitchin a fornace a malt mill 2 cowles
a trough a planke with old lumber
2 :  0 :  0
In ye little court 3 ladders a grindstone a cheese press
with an iron barre and wedges
2 :  0 :  0
It. in barley wheat white pease & malt 48 :  0 :  0
It. 2 long carts 2 dung carts with a lanne plows 12 :  0 :  0
It. 12 cow beasts & 2 calves 43 :  0 :  0
It. the hay 8 :  0 :  0
It. 3 horses & all the harnesses 15 :  0 :  0
It. 40 sheepe with wool & some hemp 12 :  0 :  0
It. ye corn sowd upon ye ground 40 :  0 :  0
It. 15 acres plod & ready to be sowd 12 :  0 :  0
It. in wood boards furze & other things not named 5 :  0 :  0
It. in ready money 20 :  0 :  0
It. store pigs and bacon in ye house 10 :  0 :  0
It.  in hurdles and cages 1 :  0 :  0

Sum

£275  :  5 :  0


A true inventory of all ye goods and chattels of John Ruffin late of
Comner deceased taken May the first 1662 by us whose names are
hereunto subscribed
Wm Perry Rd Stibbs his mark