Held at: | National Library of |
Reference: | BR/1643/138 |
Source: | Photocopy of original documents |
Title: | Probate Collection; Bond and documents for James Griffith Howell |
Place name: | Clodock |
Date: | 1643 |
Description:
Documents
1. Bond dated
With bounden Margaret Williams of [obscured] and David Maddy in a surety of £40.
Date of probate: as bond
2. Inventory: undated; untotalled but comes to £23 16 0d. Appraisers: David Madock, David Hownt [Hunt?], Allen Grifith and Walter Prosser.
Observations:
In photocopying, part of the first two lines of the bond have been obscured. The inventory is written in a very illiterate hand and it is unclear whether the £11 is indeed £11 or whether it should be read as £2.
Including the cover sheet, 3 sheets in all.
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling
Inventory
|
| £ | s | d |
Imprimis3 kine |
| 5 |
|
|
It six young beasts |
| 5 |
|
|
It for one mare and colt |
| 1 | 1 |
|
It for sixteen sheep | ijli 1s | 2 | 1 |
|
It for all his wearing apparel |
|
| 10 |
|
It for all the household stuff and poultry |
|
| 4 |
|
It for monies due by one Lewis Jenkins upon a bond |
| 11 |
|
|
[comes to |
| £23 | 16 | 0d] |
.
prised by fowre David Madock
David Hownt
Allen Grifith
Walter Prosser
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