Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AD3382
  • Title
    Claim for Damages. Robert Elmer of Hawnes (Plt) complains that Letitia and William Elmer, on 1 April 1617, by force of arms, broke into his house and close and damaged goods and cattle, and he claims £40 in compensation.
  • Date free text
    Michaelmas Term, 1617
  • Production date
    From: 1617 To: 1617
  • Scope and Content
    List of damaged articles. 1 doublet value 20/-. 1 pr breeches value 10/-. 1 hat value 3/-. 2 prs stockings value 5/-. 1 table value 3/- 1 cupboard value 5/-. 1 form value 2/-. 2 armchairs value 5/-. 1 bedstead value 5/-. 1 featherbed value 30/-. 1 coverlet value 3/-. 1 blanket value 3/-. 2 bolsters value 10/- 2 pillows value 5/-. 3 chests value 6/-. 2 barrells value 2/-. 1 salting tub value 3/-. 2 black (?) flitches of bacon value 10/-. 2 pots value 10/-. 4 bottles value 10/-. 2 pewters (?) value 2/-. 1 pestle and mortar value 3/-. 2 candelabra called latten candlesticks, value 12d 5 sheets value 25/-. 1 tablecloth value 5/-. 1 towel value 2/-. 1 cupboard cloth value 2/-. 1 quarter corn value 30/-. 1/2 quarter rye value 10/-. 4 quarters barley value £3. 12 measures peas value 20/-. 1 quarter oats value 10/-. 1/2 cartload hay value 10/-. 2 cartloads timber value 10/-. 2 milch cows worth £5. 2 two-year-old cattle (perhaps oxen) worth 40/-. 5 sheep worth 20/-. 4 cocks and 4 hens priced at 6/-. 1 boar worth 13/-. 5 young pigs value 10/-. 4 lambs value 20/- 1 pr harrows value 10/-. 1 'rew' or 'row' value 2/-. 2 seals (?) to value of 5/-. (soalas) 1 drag to value of 2/-. 1 grindstone value 3/-. 1 long cart value 30/-. 1 dung cart value 5/-. 1 plough value 5/-. 20 virgates panorum protorum (?) value 10/-.
  • Level of description
    item
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