These are just a couple of the entries in a 16th-century inventory that lists several hundred household items in the possession of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle.

The summer of 1575 was the setting for Elizabethan England's most talked-about party and the inventory has been printed in full for the first time in the English Heritage Historical Review, published this month.

The inventory was compiled in about 1578, three years after Elizabeth and her court were entertained for nearly three weeks by the Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle with an extensive range of revels that included music, masques, morris dancing, bearbaiting, hunting, lavish banquets and extravagant firework displays.

Longer and more detailed than most household inventories that have survived from this era, the manuscript describes the contents of one of the greatest medieval and Elizabethan houses at its apogee.

It specifies weights, dimensions, materials, colour, decorative motifs and subject matter in objects that include plate, hangings, beds and beddings, carpets, curtains, chairs and stools, pictures, chessboards, weapons and musical instruments. There are nearly a hundred entries under ‘Beddinge & c’ alone.

It is clear from the inventory that the earl's initials and coat of arms, together with his motto Droit et Loyal and the Dudley bear and ragged staff, were emblazoned on objects ranging from chairs to table linen to bed linen, thus echoing Leicester's grand building schemes at the castle, especially his preference for integrating self-referential emblems into the fabric of the castle itself

The initials R L and the Dudley ragged staff may still be seen on both the internal and external masonry.

The inventory records the presence of an unusually large picture collection for England at this time, consisting of some 50 paintings and more than 20 maps.

Dr Elizabeth Goldring, an expert on Elizabethan court culture at Warwick University and consultant to English Heritage, has transcribed, edited and annotated the inventory in full.

While studying the manuscript she discovered that four paintings of Leicester and Elizabeth listed in the inventory had been specially commissioned for the 1575 festivities and that these inventory entries correspond to four extant images: paintings of Leicester and Elizabeth by an anonymous artist or artists (now in the National Portrait Gallery and the Reading Museum, respectively); and paintings of Leicester and Elizabeth by the Italian mannerist Federico Zuccaro, which do not survive but are known from Zuccaro's preliminary drawings (now in the British Museum).