An extract from Lionel Cranfield’s Chelsea House Inventory of 1622 (after he’s made Earl of Middlesex). Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1228. He had a lot of plate including dishes ‘marked’ with his coat of arms. His inventory is included in a large volume about household expenditure and staff. It’s lined with red and written in italic hand – both of which would be highly unusual further down the social scale. Here are some extracts:
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The gallery
Matted one great chair watchet satten embrodred: ye frames guilded
Ii high stooles
One great chair
VI high backe chaires Carnation velvet laced with carnation silke and
VI high stooles gold lace
IIII lowe stooles
IIII grate pictors at lenght, The kings, Prince Charles, Lady Cranfield, Lady Cary
IIII halfe pictures my lords mother; mistress Osborne; sir martin; lady fearne
One of Cleopatra one round picture of –
One small picture of the passion
Ii small picturs in copper
One genealogie in collers of ye kinge environed with ye knightes of the garter garnished with crounes and banners and a George under
One round genealogie shewing ye issue from Edw the I environed with ye lords of ye priute councell garnished with crowns and banners and a cherubine under
One othere round genealogie of the king of Denmarke garnished with a crowne and a cherubine under
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My Lord and
Ladys Bedd
Chamber One old peace of hanging of salomon
ii old peeces handing of ye passion whereof one X yeardes longe
one peece of hangings of the sutt in ye dyning rome with salamander border
one couch of yellow damaske covered with
one French standing bed
with guilt knobbes
one great chaire
ii high stooles
ii lowe stooles
one feather bed
ii bolsters
one yellow damask counterpoint
iii blankets
ii fustian blankets
ii matreses
ii pillows
one turkie carpett v yeards quarter longe
iii small turkie carpets
one little table
one court cupborde
one paire of iron creepers
one paire of tonges
one fire shovel
one brasse pane to incloase ye fire
one paire of bellowes
one wooden frame for a basen
one great chest covered with guilt lether and bound with iron standing on a wodden frame
ii barre coullored peinted lynnen courteynes
ii narrowe lowe chestes covered with red lethere and bound with iron