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Animals:
   1592: cattle mentioned in the will of John Brown (1)
   1597: cattle mentioned in the will of Walter Burton
   1606: cattle mentioned in the probate inventory for Edward Bensted
   1606: coach horses mentioned in the will of Sir Robert Clark
   1611: a cow mentioned in the will of Richard Padge
   1627: a hog sty mentioned in the will of John Marshall
   1639: a horse mentioned in the will of Richard Benfield
   1640: sheep and lambs mentioned in the will of Thomas Matthews

Armor:
    1639: a horse, war saddle, and armor mentioned in the will of Richard Benfield

Arms:
   1603: ‘all my arms’ mentioned in the will of Thomas Pope
   1603: bows and arrows mentioned in the will of John Halsey
   1606: an arming sword mentioned in the will of Edward Bowtell
   1614: bows and arrows mentioned in the will of Francis Okey
   1617: a sword mentioned in the will of Thomas Brown
   1625: a sword and dagger mentioned in the will of Tobias Brewer
   1639: war saddle and armor mentioned in the will of Richard Benfield

Boats:
   1578: a boat mentioned in the will of Thomas Atkinson (1)
   1579: a boat, rod, and trappings mentioned in the will of Agnes Addinson
   1580: a barge mentioned in the will of Thomas Skinner
   1592: a boat and its trappings mentioned in the will of Thomas Edmundson
   1597: a barge, the queen's, Mr Dorrit, bargemaster, mentioned in the will of Gilbert Rocket
   1601: a barge, the queen's mentioned in the will of Thomas Iremonger
   1603: a barge, four oars, her furniture and ‘her Roade’ mentioned in the will of Edward Roberts
   1603: a barge, the king's, William Dorrit, bargemaster, mentioned in the will of John Wrench
   1603: a boat and equipment mentioned in the will of Roger Swain
   1603: a boat mentioned in the will of Thomas King
   1607: a lighter called the John mentioned in the will of Hugh Orchard
   1608: boats and oars mentioned in the will of Hugh Davis
   1615: a petty boat with nets, anchor and sails mentioned in the will of James Kirby
   1620: a boat, rod, and furnishings mentioned in the will of Joan Atkinson
   1625: a barge mentioned in the will of Richard Snelling
   1625: a boat, oars, cushions mentioned in the will of Tobias Brewer
   1627: a new Wherry with a set of oars mentioned in the will of John Kellock
   1634: a rod, a pair of sculls, and a grapnel mentioned in the will of Elizabeth Organ

Books:
   1568: unnamed books mentioned in the will of George Brown
   1579: the Statutes of Rastall mentioned in the will of William Brightman
   1582: unnamed books mentioned in the will of William Bird
   1596: Grafton's Chronicles, mentioned in the will of John Young
   1598: ‘all my printed books’, mentioned in the will of Thomas Short
   1600: ‘phisick bookes’, mentioned in the will of Otwell Wild
   1606: unnamed books mentioned in the probate inventory for Edward Bensted
   1608: a library of books mentioned in the will of John Payne 3)
   1608: unnamed books mentioned in the will of Richard Mellersh
   1614: testament and prayer book, mentioned in the will of Edward Ellis
   1618: unnamed books mentioned in the will of Edward Mason
   1619: Bible, mentioned in the will of Gilbert Katherens
   1632: a Bible mentioned in the will of Gregory Bastable
   1632: the works of King James mentioned in the will of Gregory Bastable
   1633: Law books mentioned in the will of Thomas Foster
   1635: Hebrew books mentioned in the will of Paul Micklethwaite
   1639: Acts and Monuments mentioned in the will of Richard Dowdswell
   1641: Bible, ‘great Church Bible’, mentioned in the will of Edward Goodman
   1643: unnamed books mentioned in the will of Francis Grove
   1644: Bible, mentioned in the will of James Cuthbert
   1664: all his books given to Pembroke College, Cambridge by Mark Frank; his will
   1664: works of Cornelius Lapide mentioned in the will of Mark Frank
   1665: Bibles and other books mentioned in the will of Sampson Carell
   1668: Kircher, Oedipus Ægyptiacus, mentioned in the will of Samuel Bolton
   1668: Kircher, Onomasticon Copticum, mentioned in the will of Samuel Bolton
   1668: Kircher, Prodromus Coptus, mentioned in the will of Samuel Bolton

Carroom  (see glossary)
   1629: one car and one carroom, mentioned in the will of Richard Cannon
   1630: two sets of two carrooms, mentioned in the will of Henry Williams (2)

Clothing
   1611: late wife's clothing, mentioned in the will of Richard Padge
   1603: wearing apparel, mentioned in the will of Thomas Pope
   1631: velour suit, mentioned in the will of William Knott

East India Bills
   1673: mentioned in the will of Stephen Watkin

Foodstuffs
   1586: grocery wares, cheese, butter, onions, salt, vinegar, mentioned in the will of Henry Gray

Furniture:
   1583: a chest, mentioned in the will of Robert Ellis
   1592: a press with locks and keys, mentioned in the will of Agnes Early
   1600: the ‘greate picture in my study’, mentioned in the will of Otwell Wild
   1605: a cupboard and jointstools mentioned in the will of Edward Addison
   1613: a Danish ship chest mentioned in the will of Simon Bird
   1614: bedstead and clothing, mentioned in the will of Edward Ellis
   1625: a chest mentioned iin the will of Margery Blake
   1627: a bedstead mentioned in the will of John Marshall
   1640: a chest mentioned in the will of Robert Wright
   1646: household furnishings mentioned in the will of Thomas Parker

Housewares
   1579: spoons with a maiden's head mentioned in the will of Thomas Etherege
   1586: glasses and pots mentioned in the will of Henry Gray
   1608: six silver spoons mentioned in the will of Edmund Snape
   1612: a ‘silver Beaker wch my husband made’ mentioned in the will of Sarah Limepit

Kiln
   1632: mentioned in the will of John Hurt

Lease
   1603: two thousand year lease mentioned in the will of John Wrench

Merchandise
   1579: ‘genyper’ [juniper?], mentioned in the will of Charles Sanders
   1586: candles, cords, glue, packthread, haberdashery wares, lumber, wood, coal, mentioned in the will of Henry Gray
   1622: twelve pounds of tobacco, mentioned in the will of Richard Sanders
   1623: two loads of soft tallow, mentioned in the will of Ralph Pace
   1640: sixteen yards of brown cloth, mentioned in the will of Robert Wright
   1640: three yards of white damask, mentioned in the will of Robert Wright
   1646: sea coal, mentioned in the will of John Hayman

Music:
   1625: a cither mentioned in the will of Tobias Brewer

Personal Items
   1581: engraved rings mentioned in the will of George Skevington
   1593: spectacles mentioned in the will of Lieven van den Put
   1603: gold and silver decorative letters mentioned in the will of John Wrench
   1603: a piece of red cloth from the king mentioned in the will of John Wrench
   1603: two silver dollars mentioned in the will of John Wrench
   1603: wedding ring mentioned in the will of Ralph Yardley
   1606: wedding ring mentioned in the will of Robert Face
   1608: a pair of spectacles mentioned in the will of John Payne 1)
   1611: his late wife's jewelry mentioned in the will of Richard Padge
   1619: a ring mentioned in the will of Simon Simms
   1636: a ring mentioned in the will of Thomas Waller
   1664: diamond rings mentioned in the will of Mark Frank

Tools
   1567: blacksmith's anvil and grindstone mentioned in the will of Thomas Tedder
   1567: cutler's iron vise mentioned in the will of Thomas Tedder
   1591: ‘all my tooles in the shopp’ mentioned in the will of William Hodges
   1591: cutler's vise and files mentioned in the will of John Addis
   1603: feltmaker's tools mentioned in the will of Robert Atkinson
   1603: hatchel see glossary) mentioned in the will of John Halsey
   1612: brewing equipment mentioned in the will of William Mayhew
   1614: leatherseller's tools mentioned in the will of Edward Ellis
   1627: pumps, jacks, and cisterns mentioned in the will of John Marshall
   1636: weaver's looms mentioned in the will of Robert Chambers
   1647: weights, scales, and other wares mentioned in the will of Ann Sherman

Waterworks:
   1603: waterworks and engines mentioned in the will of William Anderson

Wharves
   1594: wharves in St Olave Southwark, mentioned in the will of John Pigeon
   1601: wharves in Paris Garden mentioned in the will of Thomas Iremonger
   1612: woodwharf in St Saviour Close, mentioned in the will of Thomas Towne