Inventory of the goods and Chattles and Creditts of Henry Mayhew of Parham 1720

Taken and appraised by us the
day and year abovesaid ______
John Fields?
John [F..pr..od?]

On the Reverse

	Possible Translation from Latin	Google Retranslation into Latin
Exhibitum fuit humoi (huiusmodi?) Inventariid apud Wickham secundo die mensis Junij Ann. Dom. 1720 Jo (Johannes?) Franciscum Mayhew filisi nratem (naturatem?) et ?Stimune [?cummune] Administratorem cum Testamente Annesco dei defti (defuncti) ?jare? vero Inventario ?tamen? de Addend &esi &c	This Inventory was exhibited in Wickham on the second day of June AD 1720 before John and? Francis Mayhew natural sons and joint? executors of the Will of the deceased ?...? Inventory ?...? as appended &esi &c	Hoc Inventarium exhibitum est Wickham secundo die mensis Iunii A. D. 1720 coram Ioanne et Francisco Mayhew filiis et executoribus communibus cum testamento defuncti ....? Inventarium ....? ut apponi & esi fi &c

Glossary

Andirons	Fire-dogs, usually in pairs, to keep a log from rolling out of a fire
Bord cloth	Table cloth
Bushel	Measure of volume; 4 pecks
Chafing dish	Small table-top brazier for keeping food warm, from French chauffer, to heat [S_ElmhamInventory]
Cheese fatts	Cheese vats [W_NorthantsWills], or maybe the initial letter is a 'P' for Patts? meaning the wooden paddles for shaping a cheese
Crome	Used particularly in E Anglia for a three- or four-pronged fork with its tines bent at right angles to the (usually long) handle, to break soil, draw weeds from ditches, etc. [Crome, Greaves1866]
Ditchcrome	See Crome.
Dripping pan	Pan for collecting the fat from roast meat
Fatts	See Cheese fatts
Hoan	Sharpening stone; modern spelling 'hone'
Jack	a jack is a little frame to hold firewood above the ash, typically in the same form as in the game of jacks, but larger a roasting jack is a clockwork spit [RoastingJack] (perhaps the more likely meaning for Henry the Clockmaker)
Keeler	A stirring implement to prevent boiling [KentInvent]
Keep	a small closed cupboard, a safe [S_ElmhamInventory]
Lanthorn	the old spelling of lantern, being originally made of horn
Neat	Ox
Neats Lines	The straps or reins used to control draught oxen. Here's a video of driving oxen with lines [OxenLines]
Peck	Measure of volume; 16 dry pints
Peke	?a variant or misspelling of peck, given the context here of 'Meal peke'
Pillowbie	Pillowcase
Plow trais	Rope or leather straps connecting a beast to the plough [S_ElmhamInventory]
Powdering tub	A usually round wooden vessel for salting meat, such as beef or pork [BosburyInvent]
Roul	? (here a frosting roul)
Shave	Draw knife or spokeshave for shaving and smoothing wooden poles, spokes, legs etc,
Spiterake	?Cobirons - standing spit racks, usually in pairs, consisted of iron bars fitted with regularly spaced hooks to carry the spits over the fire. There were three types; one leaned against the back of the hearth; another had a rear leg for support, and a third stood upright, free-standing on a tripod foot. [W_NorthantsWills]
Trencher	Round or square flat, usually wooden plate (earlier trenchers were made from stale bread)
Turn	A lathe. A clockmaker's turn would usually be a small implement turned manually between two dead centres (static usually bronze pins with no bearing). The image is of a watchmaker's turn with a 7" bed. s A wood turn was probably larger, and less likely to have been turned manually.

References

The document itself:
"Probate Inventory for Henry Mayhew of Parham, clockmaker" (1720) SRO FE1/13/27.

[BosburyInvent] "Inventory Terms in Legal Documents" Bosbury History Resources; compiled by Barry Sharples (accessed 13 May 2024)

[Crome] "crome" Wiktionary (accessed 04 Apr 2022)

[Greaves1866] "Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft: A Handbook for Visitors and Residents; with Chapters on the Archaeology, Natural History, &c., of the District; a History, with Statistics, of the East Coast Herring Fishery, and an Etymological and Comparative Glossary of the Dialect of East Anglia" John Greaves Nall, Volume 2 (1866)

[KentInvent] "Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Inventories", Kent Archaeological Society (2017)

[OxenLines] "Driving Oxen With Lines", Mark Winslow, YouTube video (accessed 18 Mar 2022)

[RoastingJack] "Roasting Jack", Wikipedia (accessed 18 Mar 2022)

[S_ElmhamInventory] Probate Inventory of John Danby Yeoman, St. Michael of Elmham, Suffolk, taken 6 Nov 1742.
South Elmham and District Local History Group; Probate Inventories from Saint Michael, South Elmham (undated)
SRO FE1/27/86 (3)

[W_NorthantsWills] "Selected Wills of West Northamptonshire 1500-1700AD", Grenville W. Hatton (Feb 2003)

Bob Briscoe and Jonathan Cottrell
4 Apr 2022
Modified 13 May 2024 & 5 Jun 2024

			s	d
Imp'ls Five Cows, one Sow, Harrows, Forks Rakes ditchcrome, hand cart and Ladder		£18	.0	.6
In the Parlour One Bed as it stands, an Oval Table, five Chairs a chest one bedsted, an old Cubbord and glass keep, and Andirons, one Razor and a Hoan . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	05	.1	.0
In the Parlour Chamber One bed as it stands, Two chests, one Table a glass, Eight pairs of Sheets, one dozen of napkins, Two bord cloths seven pillowbies and a wash basket __	}	07	.11	.0
In the Hall Chamber one Bed as it stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		02	.0	.0
In the Hall One Clock, Two Cubbords, Two Tables, Eight Chairs, Three Stools, a jack, ____ a Spit, a Gun, Two Brass & four Iron Candlesticks, one Chafing dish and warming pan, Andirons Firepan Tongs, Gridiron, Smoothing Iron, Rack, Heaters, and other Irons, a Bible & old books	}	04	.12	.0
In the Dairy A Churn and powdering Tubb, five Bowles and Two Koolers Eight Pewter Dishes and Five plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	02	.15	.6
In the Buttery a meal Tubb, Three Skillets four new Vessells and four old Vessells Two dripping pans Two Platters, Two Cupps, five Dishes, Twelve Trenchers, a bowl & Keeler Five Sives and a Meal peke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	01	.18	.6
In the Bakehouse A Chees Press four Cheese fatts [or Patts?] a Kettle and two Pots, Two frying pans a Tubb, Two milk pails, Scales and weights, Bellows, Large Scales and a Copper . . . . . . . .	}	04	.11	.6
Irons in the Backhouse Seven Tubs, old Iron & Brass, a Vice, and new Iron, an Anvil, Bellows and three Hammers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	05	.11	.0
In the Butt'ry Chamber A pair of Coal grates, plow trais, Sives a wheel, Crucibles and old Brass, with old Lumber, a half bushell and peck, a Shovel Spade hook, hatchet Spiterake, Three neats Lines and Lanthorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	01	.7	.6
In the Shopp An Engine unfinished, one old Clock Fifteen new Bells, four Old Bells Ten Split Bells, Twenty seven files three Bench vices, five Screw plates, three turns, nine files three hand Vices a Clamp, and Some old files, Plyers & Dividers Saw frame and five hammers, Two pairs of Sheers, new and old brass, a saw and a shave a wood turn & Tools Broken files pr. a frosting [roul?], and three old watches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	}	15	.12	.6
The deceaseds wearing apparele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		04	.0	.0

Totall		£73	.1	.0