f 1 (4 September) (Household inventory)
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Item one greate standinge Instrumente with Organ pypes bellowes and virginalles with locke and keye to it
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Item one paire of virginalles white.
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f 8
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Item one payre of virginalles couered with blacke leather
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The greate Chamber
The Myddle
Chamber over the Gate
Mr Byrdes chamber nexte to that././
The Paget family was resident at Burton Manor.
‘Mister Byrdes chamber’ presumably refers to William Byrd, lutenist and composer (1539/40–1623), who is also mentioned on each day in guest-lists (not transcribed here) from Saturday, 6 August 1580 to Monday, 15 August inclusive. His name occurs sometimes at supper, sometimes at dinner, sometimes at both meals in the day. Byrd’s association with Lord Thomas Paget got him into trouble in 1583, when Paget fled to the continent.
Record title: Inventory of Burton Manor
Repository:
STRO
Shelfmark: D(W)1734/2/7/8
Repository location: Stafford
4 September 1580; English; paper; 17 leaves; 300mm x 200mm; ink foliation; stitched; no cover, titled in ink on front: 'An Inventorie taken the fourthe of September 1580....'