From a comparison of these parsonages with the usual plan and arrangement of the houses of laymen of the fourteenth century, may be made the important deduction that the houses of the parochial clergy had no ecclesiastical peculiarities of arrangement; they were not little monasteries or great recluse houses, they were like the houses of the laity; and this agrees with the conclusions to which we have arrived already by other roads, that the secular clergy lived in very much the same style as laymen of a similar degree of wealth and social standing. The poor clerk lived in a single chamber of a citizen's house; the town priest had a house like those of the citizens; the country rector or vicar a house like the manor houses of the smaller gentry. As to the furniture of the parsonage, the wills of the clergy supply us with ample authorities. We will select one of about the date of the Kelvedon parsonage house which we have been studying, to help us to conjecturally furnish the house which we have conjecturally built. Here is an inventory of the goods of Adam de Stanton, a chaplain, date 1370 A.D., taken from Mr. Tymms's collection of Bury wills. "Imprimis, in money vi{s.} viii{d.} and i seal of silver worth ijs." The money will seem a fair sum to have in hand when we consider the greater value of money then and especially the comparative scarcity of actual coin. The seal was probably his official seal as chaplain of an endowed chantry; we have extant examples of such seals of the beneficed clergy. "Item, iij brass pots and i posnet worth xj{s.} vj{d.} Item, in plate, xxij{d.} Item, a round pot with a laver, j{s.} vj{d.,}" probably an ewer and basin for washing the hands, like those still used in Germany, &c. "Item, in iron instruments, vj{s.} viiij{d.} and vj{d.,}" perhaps fire-dogs and poker, spit, and pothook. "Item, in pewter vessels, iiij{s.} ij{d.,}" probably plates, dishes, and spoons. "Item, of wooden utensils," which, from comparison with other inventories of about the same period, we suppose may be boards and trestles for tables, and benches, and a chair, and perhaps may include trenchers and bowls. "Item, i portiforum, x{s.,}" a book of church service so called, which must have been a handsome one to be worth ten shillings, perhaps it was illuminated. "Item, j book de Lege and j Par Statutorum, and j Book of Romances.[313] Item, j girdle with purse and knife, v{s.}" on which we have already commented in our last chapter. "Item, j pair of knives for the table, xij{d.} Item, j saddle with bridle and spurs, iij{s.} Item, of linen and woollen garments, xxviij{s.} and xij{d.} Item, of chests and caskets, vj{s.} ij{d.,}" Chests and caskets then served for cupboards and drawers.[314]