There is amongst the Records a small folio volume which opens with an undated inventory of the Company’s effects, most probably taken in 1710. Following are inventories spreading over thirty-three years until 1745.
There is much similarity in all of these, and we shall take one of them, that for the year 1728, as an example.
In 1711 there seem to have been two corporate seals, one of steel and another of silver; there was also “a mould with the Company’s arms by wch the Iron Backs were made”; this handsome mould is still preserved over the chimney-piece in the entrance lobby, and an old “iron back” cast from it is built into the wall of the courtyard opposite the entrance door.
A True & perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattels Plate Household Stuff & other things belonging to the Worshipfull Company of Barbers & Surgeons of London taken the 11th of September 1728 Mr January Farmer Master Mr James Fern Mr John Nicholls & Ambrose Dickins Esqr his Majesty’s Serjeant Surgeon, Wardens.
In the Parlour.
A chimney piece of Assistants Arms & three Sheilds over it.
Four Spanish tables & a footstep.
One great Russia leather Chair for ye Master.
30 other Russia chairs. One pair Bellows.
One Turkey workˀt carpett.
A brass hearth peice & shovell & tongs with brass heads.
A painted Sale Cloath to cover the hearth. One green bays carpett.
Mr Lisle’s picture. Mr Skinner’s picture.
King Henry ye 8ths picture. Sir John Frederick’s picture.
King Charles the Second’s picture.
Sir Charles Scarborough & Mr Alderman Arris’s pictures.
Four double glass sconces & two single ones.
Two candlesticks with wax candles. A Table of the masters names.[297]
Dr Tyson’s picture. Serjt Bernard’s picture.
Mr Johnson’s picture. Mr Inigo Jones’s picture.
A large steel engine with a wooden frame for ye Cos seal.
3 Cane Sashes for ye Windows.
3 most noble Window Curtains in fflorence Persian Silk.
Two Spanish Pictures. A fine clock.
A large gilt leather screen with 8 folds & the Companys arms painted upon it.
A wooden stand for ye Chamber pott. Six cushions.
In the Clark’s Cupboard in ye Parlour.
One Box for ye Poor. One Bell. Two Testaments.
One Hammer. 3 Standishes. One Balloting Box & Balls.
In the Beadle’s Custody.