[John Baseley Tooke of Thompson, Norfolk.] Manuscript ‘Inventory and Valuation [by Samuel Elcock] of [...] the property [...] at his late Residence Southampton Row Bloomsbury Square London and at his late Chambers Mitre Court Buildings Temple.'

Biographical information relating to the deceased is to be found in Rev. George Crabbe, ‘Some Materials for a History of the Parish of Thompson in the County of Norfolk’ (Norwich, 1892): ‘John Baseley Tooke of Thompson, Esq., only son [of John Greene Basely [sic], sometime Mayor of Norwich’], an acting magistrate for Norf., assumed the additional surname of Tooke by royal lic. in Oct. 1802, pursuant to the will of Wm. Tooke, Esq., his great-uncle; b. 15th Mar. 1779; d. unmar. 12th Nov. 1841; bur. in Kensal Green Cemetery; lord of the manor of Thompson “nuper Collegii” and of Butters Hall.’ The Royal Court Guide for 1842 has him as: ‘Tooke, John B. esq. 2, Mitre court buildings, Temple’. The present item is 14pp, foolscap 8vo. On four leaves of Fellows Britannia 1841 laid paper. In fair condition, aged and worn, and folded into the customary packet. The covers carry a signed note ‘For Probate / Inventory and Valuation of Sundry Furniture and Effects - / Property of the late J. B. Tooke Esqe / Dated Decr. 3rd. 1841 / S. Elcock.’ Beside that note, in another hand: ‘J. B. Tooke Esqe / decd. / Inventory & Valuation of Furniture & other Effects in Chambers No 2 Mitre Court Buildings, Temple & at No 14 Southampton Row Russel [sic] Square’. The inventory is arranged by room: Drawing Room (‘Red Turkey Carpet 15.0 x 14.-’, ‘Sandelwood glove box ornamented with steel.’); Back Drawing Room (‘3 ft french bedstead, japand, with sacking bottom.- / Kidd Carpet 5 yds. by 4 yds.-’); Third Room (‘4 ft mahogany Bookcase with glazed doors and drawers below, Secretary drawer for writing &c Locks & Keys.’, ‘124 Volumes of various books bound and unbound.’, ‘A Superfine cloth cloak with fur collar.-’); Passage (‘Bronzed plaister figure with Lamp, globe and chimney & painted pedestal.’); Kitchen (‘A 3 leaved Clothes horse - small deal table with drawers’, ‘A Lemon squeezer’); Plate (‘A Cruet Stand plated with 6 Glasses & silver tops.’); Best Bed Room (‘4 f 6 post Bedstead with mahogany posts cornices and chintz furniture with fringed outside vallans.’); Back Room (‘3 f 6 french Bedstead japand with pole and chintz furniture lined blue.-’, ‘Bidet and mahogany pan’); Third Room (‘4 Leather Portmanteaus’); Servants Room (‘12 Doyleys’) (‘A Gold Watch by Barrand Chain and seals.’); Chambers (‘4 Wire blinds in mahogany frames’, ‘Oil cloth on floor of passage’); Cellar (‘22 Bottles of Sherry’, ‘1 Bottle Hollands’, ‘A brass warming pan’). At end: ‘The Articles comprised in the preceding Inventory are valued at the Sum of Four hundred thirty three pounds fourteen Shillings by / Samuel Elcock Licend. Apprern / (for Probate) / Dated December 3rd 1841.-’