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Offline Charlie Bucket

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Help with 1646 inventory please
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 07:25 GMT (UK) »
Hello

Any help deciphering any of the entries in the inventory (divided into two parts) would be much appreciated.
I can make out, I think, 7 logs of wood, 11 bushells of rye and one old mare...
 

Charlie
BURGESS (West Somerset)
TAKLE (West Somerset and Bristol)
QUICK (West Somerset)
STEAR/STEER (West Somerset)
KEEFE (Tipperary; Victoria, Australia; New Zealand)

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 23 January 24 12:56 GMT (UK) »
I've done most of the first image.  I suggest you check the dialect dictionary for the words which aren't clear: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Dialect_Dictionary

Being Durham it's likely there'll be dialect usages.

Inp(ri)mus eight oxen prized at
It(em) 10 kine praized at
It(em) 9 Calves
It(em) ploughgeere & wainegeere
    [waine = wagon]
................................

It(em) oat(es) thrashed & unthrashed
It(em) hay And strooe
              [probably straw]
It(em) strooe w(hi)ch is to be paid of ye other fane 50 [thraves / thranes]
It(em) wheate & Rye sowen upon ye ground
It(em) one old mare & 3 younge horses [o?e] oxe storke
It(em) 3 bedstead(es) one table & frame 1 old [Cwel?] & 3 fourmes


       this being at [shin?]

ADDED:

In relation to the last line, I see that further down he mentions a lease at shinklie.

In light of this, it appears the last line is either:  this being at shinklie or this being at shinkle
 

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 23 January 24 13:23 GMT (UK) »
First four from the second  part:

It(em) in the p(ar)lour one bedstead one featherbed w(i)th ye furnature belongeinge
It(em) one longe table w(i)th frame 3 buffettstoo?s one liv(er)ie coborde 3 chares
           one presser & 2 chest(es)
It(em) ye littel Ro?e aionging to ye p(ar)lour [?edstead] & the furnature
            belongeing one trinelbed & one [cheste?]
It(em) in ye hall 2 cobord(es) 2 tables 2 chares & 4 buffettstooles

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 23 January 24 14:16 GMT (UK) »
More from the second part.  This is all from me for tonight.

It(em) 2 mortors 1 pestole 4 brase laddles 2 dreping panes one frying pane
1 pare of bruling irones ye spette & ye Rack(es) 5 ?istions ye tonng(es) & pore
& fire shovle & the scom?er 1 shreding knife & on?are of snoffers praized at

It(em) all ye pu?der praized at

It(em) 4 cov(er)lides 2 carpinclothes 2 pare of blac?t(es) these in ye p(ar)laore

It(em) one pare of bedstokes in ye upp(er) rome & ye furneature belonging


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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 23 January 24 18:45 GMT (UK) »
That's great what you've done, horseleydown. I'm very grateful.
BURGESS (West Somerset)
TAKLE (West Somerset and Bristol)
QUICK (West Somerset)
STEAR/STEER (West Somerset)
KEEFE (Tipperary; Victoria, Australia; New Zealand)

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 23 January 24 21:36 GMT (UK) »
Continuing on from Horsleydown86:

It(em) 2 chares 2 chests & one table
It(em) all ye lineing praized at
It(em) his purse & his app(er)ill
It(em) 4 dozen of tranchers
It(em) all ye Brasse praized
It(em) ye seller skeeles tubes Barrells stands & ?seauenth other implements
It(em) one beding of clothes wth ye bedstead in the ..ller
It(em) ye Candletroughe & one old presser
It(em) 10 loode of malte praized at
It(em) 8 loode of bigg praized at
It(em) lease at moorehouse 14 yeares to Run worth £16 pe ann(um) valued at 8 yeares & 1/8 of a yeres purchase
It(em) one lease at shinklie 7 yeares to come; withe 10£ p(er) ann(um) valued at 5 yeares & 1/8 of ayeares (pu)rchase
It(em) one lease at wharrington 13 yeares to (c)ome worth 9£ p(er) ann(um) vallued at 7 yeares 3/4 and 1/8 of ayere purchase
It(em) one lease in parradise 6 yeare to co(m)e worth 1£ 10s p(er) ann(um) valued at 4 yeares & on(e) halfe yeare(es) purchase
It(em)  another leas at shinklie valued


Lucky fellow to have a lease in Paradise!
Anything in Hethersett, Norfolk
Buckenham and Variants in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Goodlad in Suffolk.
Palmer in Birmingham

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 24 January 24 02:13 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much.
The English Dialect Dictionary, which I've never come across before, has already been useful.
I found "bigg" in it, a type of barley but haven't looked up any other words from the inventory yet.
The dictionary has some wonderful words in it, unfortunately no longer used.
Lucky person indeed, a lease in Paradise.

Charlie
BURGESS (West Somerset)
TAKLE (West Somerset and Bristol)
QUICK (West Somerset)
STEAR/STEER (West Somerset)
KEEFE (Tipperary; Victoria, Australia; New Zealand)

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 24 January 24 03:14 GMT (UK) »
Some small suggestions for sunnylew's transcript:

In the entry for the first lease at shinklie I think it is:

...7 yeares to come; worthe 19li p(er) ann(um)...

More speculatively, I think it is:

...Barrells stand(es) & seave w(i)th other implement(es)

The next line may be:

...clothes w(i)th ye bedstead in the seller

There's at least one and a bit letters lost in the crease in this part of the document.

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Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 25 January 24 02:17 GMT (UK) »
Thank you both very much.

Charlie
BURGESS (West Somerset)
TAKLE (West Somerset and Bristol)
QUICK (West Somerset)
STEAR/STEER (West Somerset)
KEEFE (Tipperary; Victoria, Australia; New Zealand)