More help with inventory please

[BridgetM]

This what I have so far:

Item a fedder (feather?) bed a  b____   ij sheets? a  h_____ & a coverlet    xiiis iiiid
Item ij p____ of bed stock with certain clothes in the cellar  jxs iiijd
Item in the pl____ one tryndle (trundle?) bed ij sheets a presser?  a pair of
____  ____  ij boards   vs
Item in one other chamber a bed        a board & ij ____
                                                             ij h______  & blanket & a sheet iij__ iiid
Item in the loft ij pair of bedstock & a board   iijs
Item a p__ of shear shear boards with other working gear   xiis  iiid
Item a c______  & a  _______  board    xxs
Item a  d_____  board a chair a  ____  with other  _____  vjs
Item ____   puder (pewter?) vessel a chafing  d____  & a frying pan  xjs iiijd

[slam]

Line 1:

looks like ‘borstr’ – I think it’s ‘bolster’ or a variant spelling of it: ‘happing’

From a certain dictionary, which shall be nameless:
HAP - 1. trans. To cover up or over.  1570 LEVINS Manip. 27/18 Happe, to cover.
They don’t actually quote the word ‘happing’ but I think it’s a likely formation, a warm covering.

2.  I think ‘pe’ is his abbreviation for ‘pare’

3.  ‘place’? : ‘presse’ (press, cupboard): ‘m------ s------‘ looks like ‘musterte stonnes’.  I thought it must be mustard spoons but then I though no, this is a fairly basic age, would they have dedicated mustard spoons?? So perhaps a local variant of OED’s ‘mustard-quern’, some kind of a mustard-grinding implement?

4.  I think it’s ‘forms’(benches) and yet more ‘happings’.

6. ‘p[ar]e’, pair.

7. cowntter? Counter, a table. Dunno : ‘cuppe bowrde’, cupboard? 

8. ‘dis[h]bowrde’, dishboard?  Not in OED, but if you can have a cup board....: ‘trysse’? possibly I’m misreading ‘trynck’ or trunk, but a ‘truss’ could mean a pack, things in a bundle: ‘stolls’, stools?

9.  After ‘chafing’ it looks like ‘dice’ which I think must be how they were saying ‘dish’  Numerous variant spellings of dish include(deep breath):  disc, dischs, diss, disch, -e, dise, dych, di sch, dissch, -e, dyssh, -e, disshe, dishe, dyssche, dysch, dysche, diszshe, dish.

[BridgetM]

Wow, Slam, you're amazing!!

[slam]

No but I like guessing games.   Though not all my guesses pan out.

[JenB]

Item ij p____ of bed stock with certain clothes in the cellar   jxs iiijd

I think the word is 'sollare' i.e. an upper room in the house, not cellar.
As slam suggested here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,476164.msg3357144.html#msg3357144

Jennifer

[BridgetM]

Thanks, Jennifer.  It makes much more sense to keep valuables in a loft, rather than in the cellar!

[BridgetM]

Does the missing word here look more like plare than place--though what a plare is, I don't know!

Item in the pl____ one tryndle (trundle?) bed 2 sheets a press a pair of mustard? stones  2 boards   5s.

[BridgetM]

From a certain dictionary, which shall be nameless:

Slam,
I think if I keep transcribing old wills I'm going to need a copy of the nameless dictionary.  Do you have the 20-something volume edition, which costs a small fortune!!--or is there a less expensive version that would be good enough for what I need it for?
Bridget

[Ermintrude46]

I think the missing room is p[ar]lare i.e. parlour.  The straight stroke through the letter p is a standard abbreviation for per or par at this time (see also p[ar]e for pair in the line above).  Am stuck on the "musterste stonne" tho'!
Ermy