Document one
An inventory of goods and vestments at Holy Trinity
church,1552, taken by John Britte and Thomas Pellman, churchwardens
First one cross of silver and gilt weighing fifty ounces
Item one foot for the same cross of copper gilt
Item one pix (the vessel in which the Host is kept) of silver and gilt with pearl and
stone weighing 23 ½ ounces
Item one chalice with the cover of silver and gilt weighing 26 ½ ounces
Item one other chalice with the cover of silver and gilt weighing 16 ounces
Item on other chalice with the cover of silver and gilt weighing 13 ounces
Item on other chalice with the cover silver and gilt weighing 9 ½ ounces
Item on crismatory (the vessel in which Chrism - a mixture of oil and balsam - was
kept) of silver and gilt weighing 22 ½ ounces
Item two candlesticks of silver and gilt weighing 59 ounces
Item two censers of silver and gilt weighing 58 ounces
Item one ship (the vessel in which incense was kept) of silver and gilt with a spoon of
silver weighing 7 ½ ounces
Item one pax of silver and gilt weighing 15 ounces
Item one pax of ivory with a band of silver
Item one cope (a large semi-circular vestment worn by priests over the surplice) of
crimson velvet embroidered with gold with vestments for the deacon and subdeacon
with albes (an alb is a white priestly vestment worn at communion)
Item one cope of purple velvet embroidered with gold with three clasps and three crosses
Item two copes of blue velvet embroidered with gold
Item one cope of red damask embroidered with gold and silver
Item one cope of red velvet embroidered with gold, and one cope of white damask with
the vestment embroidered with gold, and also one cope of old silk of crane colour spangled
with gold all worn
Item one white vestment of coarse fustian
Item one old vestment embroidered all worn and of little value
Item two old tunicles called vestments of green cloth embroidered with rose silk
Item two old tunicles called vestments, one of blue silk another of green silk
Item thirteen corporaxes (communion cloths), and nine similar cloths, one of red satin
with a picture of the Trinity embroidered
Item one other of black velvet embroidered on both sides
Item one embroidered with a lion of gold
Item one other of crane coloured silk embroidered with gold
Item two of sarcenet embroidered with flowers of gold
Item one of crimson velvet spangled with gold, and one other of old red velvet
embroidered with gold
Item one of coarse blue silk spangled with gold
Item on old corporax of black worsted embroidered with coarse gold
Item four old copes of silk all worn and of little value
Item one old deacons vestment of white damask all worn and of small value
Item one hearse cloth embroidered with gold half red half black velvet
Item two hanging altar cloths, one for above another beneath, one of purple velvet and
the other of yellow and green damask, with two curtains of green sarcenet
Item twenty-one altar cloths of diaper good and bad, and 8 of plain cloth good and bad
Item fourteen towels good and bad, and on course towel of plain cloth
Item one canopy cloth of yellow sarcenet fringed with red silk and gold used for the
sacrament, and one other of old brown silk for the sacrament
Item four old albs (vestments) of plain cloth, and six small cushions
Item five surplices (vestments) and two rochets (vestments) of linen cloth, two Bibles,
and a paraphrase of Erasmus
Item on desk of latten (a mixed metal of yellow colour resembling brass) called the
Eagle, and an pair of organes
Item four bells in the steeple, on small bell called the Dollyng bell
Item on hand bell of brass for burials
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