The Inventory of the Goods and Catales of Richd. Master, Clerk, Parson of Aldington, being in his Parsonage on the 20th Day of April, in the 25th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII.
Plate
Silver spoons, twelve.
In the Hall Two tables and two forms. Item, a painted cloth hanging at the upper part of the hall. Item, a green banker hung on the bench in the hall. Item, a laver of laten.
In the Parlour
A hanging of old red and green saye.
Item, a banker of woven carpet of divers
colours.
Item, two cushions.
Item, one table, two forms, one cupboard,
one chair.
Item, two painted pictures and a picture
of the names of kings of England
pinned on the
said hanging.
In the Chamber on the North Side of
the said Parlour
A painted hanging.
Item, a bedstedyll with a feather bed,
one bolster, two pillows, one
blanket,
one roulett of
rough tapestry, a testner of green and red saye.
Item, two forms.
Item, one jack to set a basin on.
In the Chamber over the Parlour Two bedsteads. Item, another testner of painted cloth. Item, a painted cloth. Item, two forms.
At the Stairs’ Hed beside the
Parson’s Bedchamber
One table, two trestylls, four beehives.
In the Parson’s Lodging-chamber
A bedstedyll and a feather bed, two blankets,
one payr of sheets, one
coverlet of tapestry
lined with canvas, one bolster, one pillow with
a pillocote.
Item, one gown of violet cloth lined with
red saye.
Item, a gown of black cloth, furred with
lamb.
Item, two hoods of violet cloth, whereof
one is lined with green
sarsenet.
Item, one jerkyn of tawny camlet.
Item, a jerkyn of cloth furred with white.
Item, a jacket of cloth furred.
Item, a sheet to put in cloth.
Item, one press.
Item, a leather mail.
Item, one table, two forms, four chairs,
two trestylls.
Item, a tester of painted cloth.
Item, a pair of hangings of green saye,
with two pictures thereupon.
Item, one cupboard, two chests.
Item, a little flock bed, with a bolster
and a coverlet.
Item, one cushion, one mantell, one towel,
and, by estimation, a pound
of wax candles.
Item, Greek books covered with boards,
42.
Item, small books covered with boards,
33.
Item, books covered with leather and parchment,
38.
In the said Chest in the said Chamber Three pieces of red saye and green. Item, one tyke for a bolster, two tykes for pillows. Item, a typpett of cloth. Item, diaper napkins, 4, diaper towels, 2. Item, four pairs of sheets, and one shete, two tablecloths.
In the other Chest in the same Chamber
One typpett of sarsenett.
Item, two cotes belonging to the crosse
of Underbill, whereupon hang
thirty-three pieces
of money, rings, and other things, and three
crystal stones
closed in silver.


