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one pewter cup 0 0 2 fower old sawsers 0 0 4 nine pewter spoons 0 0 4 two pewter dishes 0 0 8 two brasse candlesticks 0 1 0 one brasse chavendish 0 1 0 one little brasse candlestick 0 0 6 one little brasse cauldren 0 1 0 one little old brasse ketle 0 3 0 one old brasse Pann 0 1 0 twopayerofblankettsandtwocoverletts 3 1 0 six joynt stools 0 3 0 three feather beds two boulsters and one pillow 3 0 0 two old Dowlas sheets 0 4 0 one old Dowlas canvas sheet 0 1 0 one payer of cotten sheets 0 5 0 one payer of Dowlas sheetes 0 5 0 one payer of old valiants and two courtians 0 2 6 one iron grate 0 4 0 one payer of andirons 0 2 6 onefryenpan 0 0 4 onespitt 0 0 6 one payer of pott crockes 0 0 6 one old trunke 0 1 0 one chest 0 4 0 five coffers 0 5 0 three table boards and frames 0 15 0 one settle 0 4 0 two iron backes 0 2 0 severall old bookes 1 5 0 debts desperate 12 0 0 valued and praised by us 29 11 10 John Lucas Jo. Rosser (sic) I do not know the signficance of a 'Dowlas' sheet, which is presumably a reference to the place of origin. 'Debts desperate' seems to be a slip of the pen for 'debts sperate' which were good debts which one might hope to recover. And what were those old books valued at twenty five shillings? I can find no reference to any books at either Stouthall or Hills farm during the seventeenth century. Perhaps there were none: or if there were, then the family valuers may have treated them as unworthy of notice.