A Household Inventory, 1581 Author(s): Albert J. Schmidt Source: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 101, No. 5 (Oct. 31, 1957), pp. 459-480 Published by: American Philosophical Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/985201 Accessed: 26-07-2020 17:49 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms American Philosophical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society This content downloaded from 129.2.19.103 on Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:49:49 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms A HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY, 1581 ALBERT J. SCHMIDT Associate Professor of History, Coe College ONE of the most valuable sources for the died in May, 1581, he was about fifty-eight years biographer, Shakespearian scholar, and social old. Twice married,4 he had outlived both his historian of the sixteenth century is the house- spouses. He had by his first wife three children, hold inventory. The inventory was simply an two girls and a boy, all of whom were still under account of the goods, chattels, and lands found age at the time of his death.