William and Thomas Bent of Cosby

[horselydown86]

On further looking, I believe this has been mistranscribed and the 'Holl' isn't a location. I think it actually reads 'William Bent of Cosby, Holl in mynde' (Whole in Mind) etc etc

It could do.  We would need to see more of the text to comment, of course.

[Bookbox]

An example of a backwards c from 1594.

Thanks for that, but I'm not wholly convinced. If the apparent tail is attached to the R in the line below, as you suggest, I note that the initial letters R of Rog' and of Ryc' don't have such tails.

I do wonder if he wrote x and then attempted to erase it?

Perhaps the OP needs to roughly add up the inventory, just to get a 'ballpark' result?

[Taylor94]

This is the line 

[Taylor94]

Didn't mean to post 2 Copies.

[horselydown86]

Yes MrD, I agree with your reading:

...off cosby holl In mynd and w(i)^t(h) a p(er)fett...

To confirm the total of the inventory - as per Bookbox's suggestion - can you add the individual amounts (or post images of the amounts)?

[Taylor94]

An example of a backwards c from 1594.

Perhaps the OP needs to roughly add up the inventory, just to get a 'ballpark' result?

I would gladly add up the inventory but I unfortunately cannot read this number script.

[Taylor94]

Yes, Ill try and snip the amounts of Williams inventory.

[Taylor94]

This is the Full Inventory of William Bent 1539

[Taylor94]

Inventory Totals of Thomas Bent 1555