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Damages claims from Bywell

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Double page spread in 3 columns

Column 1

An inventory of goods belonging to Joseph and Ann Neal lost in the Late Flood
                                        £    S    D
One Feather bed                         3    0    0
 6  Do.   pillows                       0   15    0
2 Bolsters All very good                0   12    0
2 Oak bedsteads with headrest           1    0    0
1 Long Fir Table and form               0    5    0
A Square Wainscot Table                 0    8    0
2 Arm Chairs                            0   10    0
4 common  Do.                           0    8    0
A large Oak cupboard                    0   15    0
2 Dressers with Shelves                 1    5    0
A Closet                                0   11    0
3 Spinning Wheels                       0   19    0
1 back reel                             0    5    0
3 gallon casks one full
   of Ale newly brewed                  0   15    0
2 Washing Tubs                          0    5    0
2 Large baskets for Linen               0    2    0
2 small  Do.                            0    0   10
1 Horse to dry linen on                 0    5    0
 A gridiron                             0    1    0
An iron shovel                          0    1    6
One pair of fire {?} grate              0    4    0
A Girdle                                0    2    6
A Hanging Spit                          0    1    0
Beef forks                              0    0    8
2 flat irons                            0    4    0
1 pot one gettling                      0    8    6
1 meal sieve                            0    1    0
Seven dishes and twelve plates
of the best pewter                      1    9    6
                                       14   14    6

Column 2

          Brought over                 14   14    6
One tin Cullender and Bridging Box      0    1    4
One funnel and hair sieve               0    0    7
5 white stone dishes                    0    4    0
16  Do.   plates                        0    2    8
6 red and white China cups and saucers  0   12    0
6 blue and white Do. our best china     0    6    0
4 common  Do.                           0    0    6
6 tea spoons silver                     0   14    0
3 tea pots                              0    1    6
8 blue and white Basons                 0    1    8
1 small punch bowl                      0    1    0
A tea chest with 8 cannisters           0    7    6
1 white qt decanter 1 pint              0    0    9
1 Middle sized looking glass            0    8    0
1 Large English Bible                   0   12    0
 Do. Tillotson's Sermons Bound          0    2    0
Nelson's Devotions                      0    1    0
3 Common  Prayer Books                  0    4    6
2 Nen weeks {?} preparations            0    2    6
and several other books which
cannot at once be recollected
Eleven sheets most of which were
made with good Tno{?} cloth             2    10   0
5 pair of pillow-slips                  0     9   0
9 blanketts, 4 of which were old        1     3   0
2 good bed quilts, 1 green, 1 blue      1     1   0
2 old bed ticks, not good ones          0     4   0
3 old happings                          0     4   6
2 bed curtains, 1 green 1 blue          0    14   0
12 pounds of hard soap                  0     6   0
4 {?} of Jersey ready combed            0     6   0
¼ stone of good wool                    0     2   0
                                      £25    12   6

Column 3

                           Brought over               £25    12   6
3 lb of stocking yarn ready for knitting                0    6    0
2 pecks of wheat in a {?..?}                            0    7    3
4 small table cloths                                    0   18    0
4 Napkins Hugeback                                      0    4    0
7  towels of Russia Ton {?}                             0    7    0
31½ yds of linen cloth white bleached                   3    3    0
and made of lint at  10d and 12d per pd
22 yds of coarse ton cloth bleach'd                     1    2    0
9 yds  of fine ton cut into 3 shirts                    0   12    0
  not made, one shirt body found
One stone of Ton at 7Sh in a sack, cost 2sh the sack    0    9    0
in cash £2 7s                                           2    7    0
 A water skeel and dish                                 0    1    0
5 Fudder of Coals                                       0   11    8
3 dozen bottles                                         0    6    0

                    Wearing apparel
one black cloth waistcoat                               0   10    6
A pair of Buckskin Breeches                             0   15    0
A pair of Brown cloth  Do.                              0    6    0
5 good  shirts                                          1    5    0
1 long neckcloth                                        0    1    6
4 pair of white stockings                               0    10   0
6 pair woolen stockings                                 0    12   0
1 pair Boots                                            0    12   0
1 pair of shoes hers {?}                                0     5   6
5 gowns, 3 of which have been                           3     0   0
  found, but are dash'd to pieces
2 White cloth aprons                                    0     9   0
5 Checked   Do.                                         0    10   0
2 coarse ton Do.                                        0     1   6
                                                       44    19   5

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