Inventory help, Thomas Bonne/Bonus cooper of Horsham

[Jill on the A272]

I have transcribed Thomas's will and was delighted to find there is also an inventory, though there are three words I'd like some help with please


Iron ????? one Iron mortar and pestle

link to original

[Jill on the A272]

one bason R????? one pair of garden sheers

[Jill on the A272]

In money at ??? & the Interest about

[keldon]

I’m wondering if the first two are: iron clever [cleaver] and bacon rack. It may be a poorly drawn c in both bacon and clever. In the 1^st image Is that ‘one slice’ in the line above? If so, the c seems the same? How do you read that one?
2^nd image upper and lower case both used for R in rack. There’s a rack of knives above it? The descender ‘of’ interfers with the k? There’s a similar k in knives.

Of course, I may be completely wrong.

[Jill on the A272]

Thank you, iron clever [cleaver] sounds good, and now you have pointed it out Rack is obvious though not sure if it is for bacon or a bason.

[keldon]

I've been looking at other inventories online and I've found bacon rack but not sure what a bason rack would be unless is a local name to Sussex. Or perhaps they meant basin rack?

[Jill on the A272]

Thank you, I thought basin rack but will look into bacon racks

[Jill on the A272]

I'm transcribing another inventory from 1640 which has a rack of bacon, which of course is a side of bacon so rather than a piece of equipment or furniture I think this must be the answer.