HINTON
1. JOHN-
In the inventory of his estate in 1622 John had in his buttery two "runletts" for storing small amounts of beer, and three more upstairs. He was a baker and had £15 worth of wheat and other grain in the garners, the bakehouse contained a furnace, a pan, a brake, two moulding boards and two troughs. Over the oven there was a hair cloth. It is remarkable to read of "an old whitch" in his shop, but this term meant a chest or coffer. The shop also contained an old cupboard, old iron, one table and shelves with the bread, its contents worth 13/4. John was one of the few in town who had a packsaddle. His will mentions land in Bicester fields, and his inventory specifies three lands of barley, one of pease, worth 20/. He owned 40/ worth of wood at Frandon, one mare, two nags and four sheep valued at £4 and other sheep worth 30/. In addition to brewing his own beer he spun his own woollen yarn. He also owned the only wheel plough mentioned in the eary inventories. John's hearth was equipped with a pair of andirons, a fire-shovel, tongs, a fire fork, and a pair of bellows, two pothangers were suspended over the fire, two gridirons were kept handy and there was a slice which may have been either a cooking implement or another fire shovel. Although dripping pans, spits and pothooks were stored in the room next to the long entry and buttery, the chopping stool was kept in the hall, which was also furnished with a trestle table, a form, a stool, two old chairs and two benches. A clock and wenscott stood by the wall and a halberd with some other weapons hung on the wall.(1)
St.
Edburg's Church- Bicester
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Halberd from the time of Henry VIII
Issue- all bpt. Bicester,
· 2II. ABIGAIL- bpt. 5 Oct. 1595,
m. 26 Nov. 1618 Chipping Norton,
· III. Rachel- bpt. 22 Mar. 1597
· IV. Ellen- bpt. 19 May 1600
· V. Caleb- bpt. 21 June 1601
· VI. Martha- bpt. 28 Jan. 1603
· VII. Anna- bpt. 4 May 1606
· VIII. John- bpt. 22 May 1608
· IX. Maria- bpt. 11 Sept. 1614
Ref:
(1) Bodleian Library MS- Wills for Oxfordshire- 30/4/4; quoted by G.H. Dannatt in Bicester in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Parish Registers- Chipping Norton,
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