Inprimis he did give and bequeath unto his dearly beloved wife Joane Culmer his best silver Tankard
and in case his said wife should marry again then he willed the said silver Tankard should imediately after her
said marriage be given to his four daughters Elizabeth Margaret Mary and Johanna to be equally divided between them
Item it was his will and desire and he did order and appoint that his said wife Joane should have and enjoy the use possession and living in the
house in his owne occupation wherein he then lived situate in Deale aforesaid so long as his said wife continued a widow
and in case she should marry again then imediately after her said marriage she should leave the same and it to be
let out and the rent thereof to be equally divided between them his said wife and children
Item he did give and bequeath unto his said daughter Elizabeth his second silver Tankard with his arms upon it, with the gold chaine and moddace
Item he did give and bequeath unto his daughter Margaret a silver case
Item he did give and bequeath unto his daughter Joanna tenne pounds
Item he did give and bequeath unto his uncle Joseph Culmer his two ordinary suites of clothes with his Cloake then at London and his new
paire of shooes
Item he did give and bequeath unto his uncle George Culmer his Cloake then at home with a spott in it
Item he did give and bequeath unto Mr. Elnathan Hannam aforesaid his Cane with a silver head then in his Closett
Item he did give and bequeath unto John Wynmouth his Cloath coate with silver button
Item he did give and bequeath unto his kinsman Thomas Jackson his plush Capp
Item all the rest and residue of his estate he willed should be equally divided between his said wife and his said daughters Elizabeth Margt. Mary and Joanna and he willed his said daughter Elizabeth should have and receive her part or portion of his estate at her age of eighteen years or day of marriage which should first happen, and that the rest of his said daughters should likewise receive and take their said parts and portions of his estate att their severall ages of eighteen yeares or dayes of marriage which should first happen,
and in case any of his said daughters should dye before the said severall ages of eighteen yeares or daies of marriage then he willed the part and portion of his said estate of her or them so dyeing should be equally divided between the surviving daughters
Item he did appoint his said uncle George Culmer and his uncle John Jenkins overseers of this his will
In witness whereof we the said witnesses have hereunto sett our hands and seales this two and twentieth day of September Anno Dni 1671 and in the
said three and twentieth year of the raigne of our sd soveraigne Ld. King Charles the second of England
Elnath: Hannam - the marke of the said Martha Jackson - the mark of the said Jane Savage
Probate of the will is in Latin: proved on 28 October 1671.
A True and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods and chattells rights and credits which were of John Culmer late of Deale in the County of Kent Pilott deceased, taken and appraised this Eighth day of December Anno Dini 1671 And in the three and twentieth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second of England &c. by us Henry Knight, John Clarke, Valentine Bowles and Henry ..ain of Deale aforesaid gent whose names are hereunder written as followeth, vizt.
£. s. d.
Imprimis All his wearing Clothes woollen and linnen 20 00 00
Item in ready mony in the house 137 06 05
Item one Anchor of fifteene hundred weight and another of twelve hundred weight and an anchor Stock 30 00 00
Item two small Anchors 02 15 00
Item one small mast and one small Topmast 00 15 00
Item a parcell of Balls and Sparrs 02 00 00
Item a boate called Wheaker with the Masts, Sailes, Anchors, tables, one Shipp ? colours and
appurtennce [appurtenances] thereunto belonging 25 00 00
Item alaine? pall with the masts, sailes, Suchars?, tables, oares and appurtennce thereunto belonging 14 00 00
Item a small Ball boate with the Mastes, sailes and an anchor, tables, oares and all apputtenncs 05 00 00
Item a long boate and Norway yall 07 00 00
In the Rates? under the Woodhouse
Item ?? old Iron Sound Rustesome Ships Staves and Iron hoopes 01 07 09
Item two hundred weight of Cordage 01 15 00
Item other old Ropes and old Irons 01 04 07
In the Woodhouse
Item a thousand weight of Cordage 07 10 00
Item other old Ropes, old Blocks, old Iron and an old broken brasse gunn 02 10 00
Item Sixteene Fire carts and two Ash oares 01 09 00
Item tenne Sightt? deales and foure bundles of Pipe Staves 00 19 06
In the Yard
Item Six Fire carts 00 12 00
Item one hundred & a quarter of small Deale boards 11 07 06
In the Beer Cellar
Item Six hundred of Cordage 07 10 00
Item Celars, tubbs & the old Caste 00 10 09
Item one henn Coope 00 09 10
In the Cellar under the Hall
Item a peece of Cable of Fifty and foure fathoms 06 10 00
Item a holham? peece of hasar Roape 02 10 00
Item two third pte of another Roape 00 15 00
Item other old Roapes 02 00 00
Item three halfe hundred weights beame and Scales 01 05 10
Item twelve empty Casks 00 18 06
Item an old Buoy, Van? hookes & Blocks 00 02 06
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End of first page £287 18 06
In the Coale Cellar
Item eleaven Fi..r oares 00 16 06
Item a parcel of Roape 00 12 00
Item Coales and a Coale bushell 24 00 00
In the Garrett over the best Chamber
Item two Feather bedds, Foure Blanketts, two boulsters, two matts, Foure pillowes, five Bedstedds,
one Trundle bedd, one Flock Bedd, one Cotton bedd with (?) Curtaines & valence, two blanketts and ? Blankett 07 00 00
Item two Chests, three boxes and one Funn..? for a box 01 (4?) 09 06
In the Small Garrett next adjoineing
Item one Flock bedd, two Blanketts, Foure? Small Chests and one Trundle bedd 00 16 00
In the Small Back Garrett
Item a Small Table and two small Formes 00 09 00
In the Best Chamber over the Hall
Item one Beddstedd with Curtaines & valence, one Feather Bedd, one Feather Bester, two Blanketts
and one quilt and one Matt 17 00 00
Item a Redd silke quilt 10 00 00
Item one Cradle ... ilk ? 00 10 00
Item a Suite of Val... for Curtaines in Qushon, a Quarter cane for Chaires, Sheetes and pillow beares 06 00 00
Item three peeces of Fine East India stuff called Phinich ? 02 05 00
Item two halfe peeces of the same Stuffe 00 15 00
Item one peece of Redd Sattin Quilt 01 15 00
Item one Coursett of the said stuffe called Church 00 12 00
Item one peece of Redd satin 18 00 00
Item one peece of Striped Satin 01 02 00
Item five peeces of White Fleured Sattin 08 10 00
Item one peece of Ash coloured Sattin 00 16 00
Item two halfe peeces of other Stuffe 00 12 00
Item three peeces of Fine Calicoe 03 00 00
Item two peeces of Bread Calicoe 01 10 00
Item one peece of Long Calicoe 02 08 00
Item one halfe peece of Calicoe Lawn ? 00 12 00
Item halfe a peece of Calicoe 00 09 00
Item one peece of Fine Quality 00 18 00
Item one Table with a Carpett, Sic chaires, one Hallatt ? beddStedd, one quilt 04 06 00
Item eight Feather pillowes 02 00 00
Item one Case of Drawers and a small table 03 00 00
Item one paire of Brasse Andirons, Brasse Fire pann & Tongs, one paire of bellows, one small paire of
Fire Irons, one Iron back and a China Cloth 02 10 00
Item a Looking Glasse and an old picture 01 00 00
Item two hundred twenty three ounces of Inglishe plate 55 15 00
Item twenty one ounces of and a quarter of Spanish plate 05 00 00
Item a parcell of Cheyny dishes 04 00 00
Item five Damaske Table Clothes & two Dozen of Damaske napkins 05 10 00
Item Five ? Dieper Table Clothes & three dozen of Dieper napkins 03 00 00
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End of first column on second page £175 16 00
In the said Best Chamber over the Hall
Item one small table Cloth and sixteene napkins 00 15 00
Item two damaske table Clothes 01 ? 05 00
Item one table Cloth and one other dozen of Callicoe napkins 00 15 00
Item Fourteene towells 00 14 00
Item Foure Damaske napkins 00 05 00
Item one dozen of laid c...ke? napkins 01 04 00
Item Foure small table Clothes 00 04 00
Item Six ..tili... Pillowbeeres 00 06 00
Item Fifteene paire of Pillowbeeres 03 00 00
Item three Cupboard Clothes 00 10 00
Item one Silke quilt 02 09 ? 00
Item one Scarlett Blanckett with a Silver lace on it for a young Child 03 00 00
Item Foure other Childrens Blanketts 01 00 00
Item three paire of Fine Pillowbeeres 01 05 00
Item one side board table cloth 00 03 00
Item one Fine large Holland sheete 01 00 00
Item one Chusheon for a Cubboard shedd? 00 05 00
In the Kitchin Chamber
Item two beddstedds, two Feather bedds, two bolsters, Foure blanketss, two Ruggs, two paire of Curtaines
& valence, two Matts 08 00 00
Item one Chest, two Chaires and one Cubboard Cloth and Chest Cloth 02 00 00
Item one Iron back and foure old pictures 00 06 00
In the Hall
Item one small Sprighte ? Saile 00 09 00
Item one old thinn? Saile 00 05 00
Item Topp Gallant Saile 00 18 00
Item a large Sprighte ? Saile 01 05 06
Item another topp Gallant Saile 00 05 06
Item A Shipps Stay saile 01 10 00
Item an old Bonnest? Saile 00 04 06
Item a small Fa..? Saile 03 00 00
Item five peeces of new Canvas 00 06 00
Item one Sword, two old musketts, one Fowling peece, two pistolls 01 04 00
Item a paire of Stillyards & prize ? 00 16 00
Item a Clock 01 10 00
Item one table, one Form, twelve joynt [joined] Stooles, Fower small stooles and one Carpett 03 19 00
Item two Cubboards, one Close Bedstedd, one glasse case & Foureteene old Pictures 03 19 00
In the Study
Item a parcell of Sea Instruments and three Sea Compasses 00 15 08 ?
Item the table, deske, Carpett & Cabinett 00 08 00
In the Hall
Item one paire of Andirons, one paire of Fie Irons, one paire of Tongs, one Fire pann & one Fire Forke 00 16 00
In the Parlour
Item one ovall table, one fine board table, one Carpett, Foure joynt Stooles, eight Leather chaires,
Seaven Cushions 05 08 06
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End Second page £55 00 00
In the said Parlour
Item Glasses & Glasse Case 04 10 00
Item one Looking Glasse 02 00 00
Item Seaven Pictures 00 10 00
Item one Back, fire Ironss, one paire of Tongs & a fire pann & one old Chest 00 13 00
In the Kitchen
Item Seventy Foure pewter dishes, one Pewter ?? plate, Six Pewter Candlesticks, Fourteene large Earthen
Plates, tenne small draicher? plates, six pewter Sawcers, one Pewter Cisterne? 06 05 10
Item Fower Pewter Chamber Plates, Seaven Pewter draining potts 01 03 00
Item a parcell of old Pewter 00 16 00
Item a Pewter Still 00 12 00
Item Foure spitts, three Box Irons, two Iron ...?, one Jack, one paire of And Irons, one paire of Pot
hangers, three paire of pott hookes, two fire Frogges, one paire of Andirons, two Fire shovells, one paire
of Tongs, one Fire Forke, one Iron dripping pann, one Iron Bak, one Chafing dishe, two Iron knifs 03 02 02
Item a small table, Five old Chaires, one Joynt Stoole 00 07 00
Item a dresser & three old brushes & a Salt hop? 00 03 00
Item three Fire brushes 00 02 00
Item Seaven brasse dishes?, one of ? them with a Copper cover 02 00 06
Item Foure Brasse Skilletts, two brasse warming panns, one paire of brasse Skales, Foure brasse Stuanntey? 00 18 06
Item Five Copper kettles and a copper cover 01 10 00
Item two brasse potts, one Brasse mortar and two brasse Skilletts 01 00 00
Item two Iron potts, two Iron Kettles, two Frying panns 00 12 00
Item a Shank?, a cover? & 3 sowes ? 00 06 00
In the Closett in the Hall
Item two dozen of Standard? Glass bottles, a marble morter, a parcell of farble..? ware & other small things 01 00 06
Item the Spinning Wheele 00 04 00
In the two chambers backsides?
Item one Feather bedd, one feather bolster, two blanketts, one coverlett, one Bedd Stedd with Curtaines
& valence 05 10 00
Item one Chest, one paire of Andirons, a Chimny Cloth & a picture 00 14 00
Item Foure quilts 04 00 00
Item Foure Stooles & Foure Chaires 02 00 00
Item one other Featherbedd, one Feather bolsterm two blanketts, one coverlett, one Bedstedd curtaines
and valence 07 10 00
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End of Column One, Page Three £50 13 06
In the said two back Chambers (continued)
Item five Chests & one Table 02 06 00
Item two Pictures, two palle ? of Andirons & one looking glasse 01 01 06
Item tenne dozen of Napkins & eight table Clothes 05 14 00
Item twenty & one Towells 00 16 00
Item Eleaven paire of Fine Sheetes 11 00 00
Item twelve paire of Calicoe & A.tilly? Clothe Sheetes 10 10 00
Item twenty & one paire of home made sheetes 13 13 00
Item twenty Course napkins, six Couarse Towells, eight odd table Clothes, Sixteene? Course Towells,
eleavene pillowes, six Cubboard Clothes, one paire of old Sheetes 02 10 04?
Item three Cupboard Clothes & a suite of calicoe Curtaines 02 07 06
Item a white coverlett & an old white quilt? 01 00 00
Item a narrow Tinly? Carpett 00 12 00
Item a parcell of bookes and four plates and som(e) Cards 02 10 00
Item one sixteenth parte of a vessell called The Robert of Romans-gate [Ramsgate] of the burthen of
Seaventy Tunnes [tons] whereof Stephen Thomson is Master 32 00 00
Item one Eight parte of a vessell called the virtie of Romansgate of the burthen of Eighty tunns whereof
George Curling the Elder is Master 75 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the Patience of Romansgate of the burthen of Sixty tunnes
whereof George Curling the Younger is Master 20 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a Vessell called the Edward & Francis of Dover of the burthen of one hundred
tunnes whereof Jeffery Saffery James? is Master 23 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the Susan of Margate of the burthen of Sixty tunnes whereof
John Tomlins was late Master 18 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the two Sisters of Deale of the burthen of Fifty Tunns
whereof John Ketchnell? is Master 15 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the William and John of London the burthen of Eighty tunns,
whereof William Hobbs is Master 32 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the harelowe? of Broadstaires of the burthen of Sixty tunnes
whereof John Wagstall is Master 18 00 00
Item one Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the William and Edward of Margate of the burthen of Sixty
tunnes whereof Franncis Digges is Master 28 00 00
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End Third page £315 00 09
Item Sixteenth parte of a vessell called John and Elizabeth of London of the burthen of Seaventy tunnes
whereof Robert Young was late Master 30 00 00
Item Sixteenth parte of a vessell called the Love of Romangate of the burthen of eighty tunnes whereof
Francis? Thams? is Master 35 00 00
Item one Indenture of Lease made by & from the most Reverend Father in God William late Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury, to the said John Culmer bearing date the thirteenth day of November in the thirteenth yeare of the
Raigne [1661] of our Sovraigne Lord & King Charles the second of one messuage there devided into three dwellings
and two other tenements beinge Scituate in Lower Deale in Deale aforesaid then in the severall occupacons of
John Culmer, Richard Jorden, James Starr, Daniel Pouerave? & ......... Harlestead, and now in the occupacon
of the sevrall occupacons of the sevrall said [persons] named and ?? Capstone places in Lower Deale aforesaid
then in the tenure of the said John Culmer or his assignes for ever for one & twenty yeares from the making
thereof att thirteene shillings p annum whereof the messuage & tenement with the peltains? and appurtenccs
pte thereof late in the said John Culmer's occupacon, valued att 330 00 00
Item the three Capstone places and the Capstones other p[ar]te thereof then in the occupacon of the said
John Culmer 100 00 00
Item the back Stable back store houses & back yard late in the said John Culmer's occupacon adjoyneing to
the house now in Henry Shapling's occupacon, other parte thereof 25 00 00
Item the dwelling house with thapptenncs other parte thereof now in Henry Shapling's occupacon standing
on the Beach 90 00 00
Item the dwelling mess(uage) with thapptenncs other parte thereof (it was now late in Mr. Chatham Cannam's
& William Harpar's occpacon) wth the Cellar 120 00 00
Item a small shopp other pte thereof and a roome adjoyneing the said house last before menconed 20 00 00
Item one dwelling house with thappurtenncs other pte thereof now in the occupacon of George Middleton 35 00 00
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End of first column on Page Four £905 00 00
Item two other dwelling houses with thappurtennce other parte thereof now in the occupacon of Hasleweed 50 00 00
Item one other dwelling house with thappurtennce other parte thereof late in the occupacon of Henry Shapling
Scituate & being in the citty behind the house late in Mr. Culmer's occupacon 40 00 00
Item a Slaughter house other parte thereof being in the occupacon of the said Henry Shapling 12 00 00
Item In debts good and badd 385 03 02
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£487 03 02
First Page: 287 18 06
Second – " - 175 16 00
Third – " - 55 00 00
Fourth –" - 50 13 06
Fifth –" - 315 00 04
Sixth - " - 905 00 00
487 03 02
The totall Sume is: £2276 11 05
The totall Sume of this Inventory being contained in seaven Pages or Sides of Paper amounte to the Sume of Two thousand two hundred Seaventy
six pounds Eleaven shillings and Five pence taken and appraised by us:
Henry Knight; John Clarke; Val Bowles, Henn. ..ers?
Inventory transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 11th April 2023
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