Details

Subjects:

Fox, John, 16th century.
House furnishings -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Inheritance and succession -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Inheritance and succession.
House furnishings.
History.
Drayton (Oxfordshire, England) -- History.
Northamptonshire (England) -- History.
England.

Form/Genre:

Scrolls (information artifacts)
Estate inventories.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

English, with a few words in Latin.

Summary:

Inventory or list of goods of a manor house arranged by room, including the hall, a study, chambers with linens, a garrett, milkhouse, kitchen, buttery, and stable, with values given for each item and a total at the end. At the bottom of the roll is an inscription in another hand in Latin, dated 8 February 1593 (year given in document as 1592 since the new year then began March 1), concerning the probate of John Fox's will and mentioning his wife Mary. The third membrane is detached and must have been the outside of the roll, as it has written in another hand at the end of the verso, An inventory of all ye goods, chattles, and debts of John Ffoxs of Chacombe.

Notes:

Ms. roll.
Title from caption title.
Script: Written in a secretary hand.
Decoration: Larger calligraphic letters at the beginning of the roll and introducing the rooms listed on the first membrane.
Origin: Probably written at the manor house at Drayton (Gedge) in Oxfordshire, or in Chacombe, Northamptonshire, 17 January 1593 (year given in document as 1592, since the new year then began March 1).

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 10 (2011), no. 38.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Roll 1594

Contributor:

Warner, Henry, 16th century.
Hawten, John, 16th century.
Langley, William, 16th century.
Bagwell, Walter, 16th century.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

OCLC:

739120521

Web link:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page