Bishop West seems to have been fond of moaning. Not five years after the death of Bishop Stanley who had so lavishly restored the palace at Somersham, here we see his successor complaining about what a wretched state the place is in. Yet if the Bishop found the house not so much to his liking, it seems that the manor was still able to provide. Item two comes at the end of an inventory and simply represents those things he had not as yet got around to having counted (Bishops did not do their own counting). And if the woods and meadows were still a good source of income, the Bishop had something at least to be happy about.