An inventory of household furniture,
working implements & other effects, being in the Poor's House of
Assington….taken this 3rd day of May, 1808
Governors Room
One rush bottom'd arm'd chair,
one low chair 1one large table, one smaller chair , one dresser, three
shelves, a clock, one large linen horse, a coal range, fire shovel,
poker & tongs, brass scales, one beam & a pair tin scales, 3
lb 15 oz brass weights, a warming pan, box iron and 2 heaters, 3 old
iron candle sticks and a copper tea kettle
Ward Room
18 spinning wheels & two reeIs, 3 tables, a low stool, 5 rush bottom`d
chairs, 2 small childrens chairs, 1 long stool, a coal range, coal sifter,
poker and tongs & two window shutters, 2 stools
Cellars
Six beer casks, three alestools, one wood funnel, one filter, two copper
boilers, one pail, copper scales & beam, 49 Ibs bloom weights, 3 pork
tubs, meat keeler, kneading trough & bleeding pan, 16 wood trenchers
, one flour kid, one hanging shelf & 4- others, two old sickles.
Backhouse
Brewing copper & irons, one mash tub, 4 smaller tubs, jet and mash
staff, a wilch & strainer, a washing copper & lid, 4 washing keelers
& 1 dish keeler, a lye tub & lye letch, 1 iron peel, 1 old frying
pan, a pair bellows, 1 alestool, two wash stools, '3 pails, hogs tool,
a mousetrap & wood bowl
Two chambers
4 beds ,4 bedsteads, 4 coverlids, 4 blankets, 4 sheets, one small chest,
1 linen basket, 2 chests, six new rush-bottom'd chairs & one arm'd
chair and an old one
Two Garrets
7 bedsteads, 6 beds, 6 coverlids, 6 blankets & 8 sheets, 1 old box
& a stool, 1 hoe, 4 weeding chisels & two weeding hooks
Governors Chamber
3 chests, one bedstead , 1 straw rnattrass, 2 shelves.
Yard
One beetle, six iron wedges, a hogstrough,a mattock & a wheel barrow.
owner... John Dyer
Occupier ....William Ward
Description.... Workhouse and garden
Rent charge....£0-2-7 payable to Vicar
SUMMARY:-
The inventory of Assington workhouse in 1808 shows that the 23 paupers
were provided with 18 spinning wheels, two reels and a loom to work on.
Note:- The inventory does not show enough beds for 23 inmates/paupers.
However, smallish parish workhouses
had on average one bed to four inmates. In some cases they would
sleep head to toe, in other cases in shifts.
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