The Inventory of John Hooke

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The John Hooke Tragedy

Introduction
The Scientist, The Grocer, The Governor and Grace. Full commentary
Hooke's Diary Extracts from Robert Hooke's diary 1672-1680
Newport Corporation Documents relating to the suicide of John Hooke.
Hooke Family Tree
John Hooke Timeline
Hooke Family Home
Freshwater area in the 17th century
Hooke and Geology
Freshwater Parish
Robert Hooke Timeline
Sir Robert Holmes Timeline
Character Glossary

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The Inventory of John Hooke, Clerk, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

Source: Hampshire Record Office. 1648 B/09/2
All monetary values given in £ - s - d.
In the inventory, "It" is used as a contraction of the latin word "Item", meaning 'also, likewise'.

An Inventorie taken the ix^th day of November, 1648 of all and singular the goods and chattelles of John Hooke late of ffreshwater in the Isle of wight and County of South Clerk and are praysed by M^r Cardell Goodman M^r Robert Urrey, and, M^r Nickles Hockley, Gent and Thomas Rayner Youman
The Study
Inprimis in readie Money	cv - o - o
It in Bands	[torn] - 4 - 4
It his Bookes and wearing apparrell	[torn] - o - o
The Parler
It a Table Bord and six stooles	[torn] - v - o
It a cuberd	i - o - [torn]
It 3 chayers	o - vi - o
It 4 littell stooles	o - ii - o
It one forme	o - i - o
It the wainschote and benches	o - xvi - o
It 6 cushens	o - iii - o
It one pare of Gold waites	o - ii - o
It one pare of Dogs a pare of tongs a fier shouell & a pare of Belowes	o - vi - o
It two smothing steeles	o - i - o
The Haul
It a table and a forme & benches & shelues	o - viii - o
It a cuberd and a chayer	o - xii - o
It 5 pare of hangers and one pare of andirons 1 fender, one gridiron one trivet 4 Iron wedges two spittes one frying pan two pare of pothookes	o - xii - o
It one beame and one pare of skalles	o - ii - o
The Buterie
It all the Brasse	vi - x - o
It all the Pewter	v - x - o
It all the vessilles and shelues and all other lumbery	i - iiii - o
The Kitchen
It a furnace & a kittell	i - x - o
It two washstones	o - x - o
It a querne and a trow [trough]	o - x - o
It for other lumbery	i - o - o
without doores
It the Wood	i - o - o
The loft over the Parler
It all the pilowliares and sheetes	x - o - o
It the table linin	iii - o - o
It one bedstead & curtaynes & rugge & one pare of blankets two feather Bolsters and a feather Bed and two pillowes	vi - o - o
It 3 chests one trunck & a littell round table & a wicker chayer & a carpet	i - x - o
It one pare of [torn]	[torn] - i - o
It 4 Silver spoones	[torn] - o - o
It one warming panne	[torn] - v - o
The loft over the Haul
It 2 beds 2 bedsteads & furnituer therto belonging	x - x - o
It 3 chests a trunck and a chayer	i - o - o
The loft over the Butterie
It the Bed & bedding	iiii- o - o
It a chest box and other lumbery	o - x - o
Suma totalis CCCCLxxxiiii - v - x
Cardell Goodman Robert Urry Nich Hockley