Inventory of Sir Richard Worsley of Appuldurcombe

• Parcells: in display script

• virginalles n usually a keyed musical instrument with plural form refering to one instrument, but here possibly the keyboard(s) to an organ (?); virginalls; virginialls
• collayne n in phr collayne lute Cologne lute; a lute made or acquired in Cologne
• gitthorne n gittern; gyttorne

Record title: Inventory of Sir Richard Worsley of Appuldurcombe
Repository: Isle of Wight Record Office and Archive
Shelfmark: JER/WA/36/7
Repository location: Newport

Sir Richard Worsley lived at Appuldurcombe Manor in Godshill parish, in the south-eastern part of the Isle of Wight, having inherited it from his father, Sir James, in 1538. Worsley served as captain of the Isle of Wight in the 1540s, overseeing the construction of the castle at Yarmouth (VCH: Hampshire, vol 5, pp 170–7, 286–92, British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol5/pp286-292, accessed 22 April 2018). Richard's wife was the former Ursula St Barbe ('Simbarber') (d. 1602), who after Richard's death in 1565 married Sir Francis Walsingham (c 1532–90) and whom John Oglander characterized as fond of dancing (see Sir John Oglander's Notes and Accounts, 16th Century, f 29v).

1566; English; parchment; 26 membranes attached serially, written on one side only; 410–675mm x 290mm; unnumbered; roll has come apart at the foot of mb [15], otherwise good condition; kept in box labelled 'JER/WORSLEY | 36/7.'