Inventories of the Townshend family
Below is a basic semi-diplomatic transcription of an inventory page from the Inventories of the Townshend family 1608-1617. This transcription was originally completed as part of the first Practical Paleography Series, sponsored by EMMO.
Transcription V.b.147, fol. 4v-5r
In the Cofer Chamber
Item iij Large peeces of darnex & the Chamber
hanged with panted Clothe.
Item a table with a frame ij formes & ij Ioynd stowles
Item one greate standerd with Lininge
Item ij presses for to putt Lininge in /
In the Lobie.
Item one livery beadstide matt & Cord a
fether bead and boulster iij blankettes
A rogge greene of yellowy Read a canope of Cadows
Item a Trundell beadstid matt & Corde a fether
bead & ij boulster iiij a pare of blankettes a dornex & a yelow Roge
Item a pallett bead & boulster for my Ladys Chamber
a pare of blanckettes & a dornex covering & the
Lobbye hanged Round with panted Clothe
Item ij downe pillowes
Item a Corse woole beade
In The Dornex Chamber
Item iij peces of dornex hanged a boughte the Chamber
Item ij greate standerdes bounde with Ierne
Item one flannders Cheste bard with Ierne
to Kensington Item one Iewell Cofer & one greate troucke
Item one square Cheste coverd with Lether
Item one greate ouke Cheare of fugered satten
Item one greate Counter table
Item a Close stowle couerd with Read clothe
with a pann & Chamber poote
+Item one Ioynd stowle a pare of Awnd Iernes
+Item a newe ierne trevett
Item a prease for my Ladys hatte & Rouffes
Item a Curtine of blewe gren with a Rode
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In Nickholas Owles his
Chamber
Item one Livery beadstid matt & Corde
Item one fether bead & boulster and
wolle bead a dornex covering ij pare
of blanckettes
Item one Longe table with a frame
Item ij Ioyned stowles j saye corten
Item the Chamber hanged with pantett cloth
In my lordes Chamber
Item iiij peeces of Gilte Lether
Item one downe bead & boulster ij downe
plillowes one woll bead a grene rogge &
ij pare of blanckettes matt & Corde
Item a felde beadstide with coope Cortenes
& vallance of grene brode clothe laste
with greene silcke lace & fringe & viij gilte Coopes
Item a Cheare & ij stowles sutable to the sacre
Item one Lowe table with a Cobert in it
Item a Corte Cobbertt
Item ij grene Carpettes of brode clothe with fringe
+Itemone owke Cheare of satten imbrodierd
Item a pare of Awnd Ierne fier shouell & tonges
+Item a grene windowe Corten of brode clothe
In The inwarde Chamber to my
Lordes Chamber
Item a spanish beadstid matte and Corde
Item a fether beade & boulster
Item a Rogge & a pare of blanckettes
Item a table with a frame & a Ioyned Stowles
Item a Close stowle & pann & Chamber poot
Item the Chamber hanged with panted clothe