Hockerton - The Okerton Inventory

The following inventory of church goods was compiled in 1552, as a result of instruction by the Privy Council during the reign of Edward VI.

Okerton

This is the Inventorie off all the goodes
belongyng to the church off Okerton
presentyd by John Johnson John tayler
churchwardones John bronnell Thomas
Kytchyng Robert Wryght & John
Skort cl* the xix day off septembre
ao dni 1552 [anno domini]

Imprimis ii alt clothys [altar cloths]
Item one frontlet cloth off lynnen [frontal]
Item one corporas wt a caist [corporal with a case]
Item one chalice off sylu [silver]
Item ii candlestyk off latten [brass]
Item ii crowett off leade
Item iii towellt off play cloth [plain cloth]
Item one cope off tawney sattan [orange satin]
Item one westment off tawney dammack [damask?]
Item ii westment off croyles**
Item one cross off wood plated
Item one lanterne
Item iii bell in the steple
Item one great chyste [chest - the parish chest]
Item one surpless
Item a bible & a paraphreastes [Paraphrases of Erasmus]
Item one [difficult to decipher] [Homilies?]

John addames pson [John Addams, parson]
? Rushton
G. Pierpount Ja [James] Her... A. Nevyll
[the king’s Commissioners?]

*clericii = clerks
**croyles = crewel-work, embroidery with a design
worked in worsted on a ground of linen or cloth.

Hockerton St Nicholas

The Okerton Inventory