Furnishings
Richard Lumpkin was one of the earliest innkeepers in Ipswich. In 1642 he filed an inventory with the Ipswich Deeds as follows:
In the Hall
One large table, one stoole, two formes 0-15-0
Three chaers and six cushions 4-0
In bookes 2-10-0
One pair of cob-irons, one fire pan, one gridiron, and two paire
Of trammels and one paire of bellows 10-0
One muskett, one fowling piece 1-10-0
In the Parlor
One table with six joined stools 1- 5-0
Three chairs and eight cushions 14-0
One bedstead, one trundle bed and curtins 1-10-0
One paire cob-irons, one firepan 0- 4-6
One chest 0- 4-0
One fether bed, two bowlsters, two pillows, two flock beds, five
Blanketts, one rug, one coverlett 8- 0-0
One warming pan with other implements 6-0
In the Chamber over the Parlor
One bedstead, one trundlebed 10-0
Two flock bedds, one fether bed, one fether bolster, four blanketts,
Two pillows, two coverletts 4- 0-0
Four chests, two boxes 1- 0-0
One table 3-0
One corslet 1-10-0
One fetherbed tike 1-10-0
In the Leanto
Seven brass kettles, one iron kettle 4-10-0
One small copper 1- 0-0
One iron pott, four posnetts, with other implements 1- 0-0
Ten pewter dishes, etc. 4- 0-0