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• - David Quidnunc on Mon 17 Feb 2003, 05:07pm. Flag this

  Lease rates in rural England
  1663
  From the Portsmouth area
  http://www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/copiholders.htm

  Part of the website for the “1642 Living History Village”

• - David Quidnunc on Wed 24 Dec 2003, 03:58am

  STOCK & GOODS IN A “LESS THAN MODEST HOUSEHOLD”

  “My Goods and Money at August 1658 (Will Blundell)

  — 9 horses: £37
  — 8 oxen and steers feeding: £40
  — 2 bulls: £8
  — 9 heifers: £30
  — 113 sheep and lambs: £26
  — malt: £6
  — groats and oat meal: £1.15s
  — bed frames, twenty five: £11
  — trunks, chests, boxes, desks and presses: £11
  — tables, chairs, forms and cupboards: £19
  — 1 lead cistern: £4
  — 16 featherbeds, sixteen: £48
  — 6 chaff beds: £1.4s
  — bolsters and pillows, blankets and coverings curtains, cushions: £51
  — linens for the housewife: £48
  — jewels, a watch and odd knacks: £9.15s

  “I have so far paid my debts that the value of my goods exceeds them by £64.14s not reckoning new corn and hay. But reckoning new corn and hay, I am worth £208.14s.4d.”

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/67.shtml?question=67

• - Paul Chapin on Wed 24 Dec 2003, 04:39am. Flag this

  How would a “less than modest” household have 25 bed frames, with bedding for 22?

• - David Quidnunc on Wed 24 Dec 2003, 06:58am. Flag this

  Gotta be a Brit thing. I’ll never understand ‘em.

• - Mary on Mon 29 Dec 2003, 08:55am. Flag this

  Perhaps 3 bedframes are for chance visitors or travellers who are expected to bring their own bedrolls with them? Or, maybe, you just fill an extra few sacks with straw when unexpected bods arrive.

• - vincent on Mon 29 Dec 2003, 10:29pm. Flag this

  16 feather beds used, worth 3 quid a piece. In those days one had many extended family to run a place with that number of horses and livestock. Have need of many “off” spring and milking maids and lads to plough the fields and feed the other members of family who may or may not be pulling their weight. The 6 chaff beds were for the ladds rubbing down the 9 horses and keeping the sheep from mowing the flowers.
  note the watch .

• - vincent on Fri 9 Jan 2004, 04:40am. Flag this

  from SP price of work in silver
  bible which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to 1l. 3s. 6d.
  Friday 2 November 1660

• - Pedro. on Fri 31 Dec 2004, 02:33pm

  From Liza Picard’s Restoration London..

  “He (Sam, 13th Jly 60) had, unknowingly, an indirect contact with the most prominent woman artist of the time…he had to pay £9 to a Mr. Beale whose wife Mary became the family breadwinner in 1670, charging £10 for a three-quarter portrait in oils, £5 for a head and shoulders.”

• - vicenzo on Mon 14 Feb 2005, 04:08am. Flag this

  taxes on inports along with strange weights:Link to above quote: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mIrOUDRJh6sJ:www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History

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