Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1640/216

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection: Nuncupative will and documents for Anne Nicholls

Place name:

Clodock

Date:

1640

Description:


Documents
1.   Nuncupative willl:
  dated
21 January 1640 or thereabouts.
Beneficiaries:
'All goods cattell & chattels and moveables towards the discharging of my debts. And the overplus that will remain over and above the paying of my sayd debts my will is it shall be equally divided between my children'.

Executors: Daughter Margarett Nicholl and David Thomas William with William Price cl[erk] and James Nicholls overseers.

No mark or signature

Witnesses: David Hunt, Phe [Phillip] James Thomas, Thomas Prees and others.

  Date of Probate:
1 March 1640 .

2. Inventory: dated
27 January 1640 ; value £69  13  0d. Appraisers: William Gilbert, John Williams, David William Prees, James Nicholls and John Price.

 

 

Observations:

The documents include a bond dated 1 March 1640 with bounden David Thomas of Clodock and William James of Brecon town, yeoman in a surety of £200[?].
Her inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

                                                Inventory

 

 

    £

  s

   d

Imprimis 6 kine   priced

xviijli

  18

 

 

2 oxen

viijli

    8

 

 

2 three yr old bullocks

iijli vjs viijd

    3

    6

   8

4 three yr old heifers

vjli

    6

 

 

3 two yr old steers

iijli

    3

 

 

2 two yr old heifers

ijli

    2

 

 

one 2 yr old bulls

jli

    1

 

 

4 yearling calves

ijli

    2

 

 

one old mare

jli

    1

 

 

40 sheep

vjli xiijs viijd

    6

  13

   8

9 pigs

     xvs

 

  15

 

one great pan

jli   xijs

    1

  12

 

one lesser pan

jli   ijs

    1

    2

 

one brass pot

     vs

 

    5

 

one skillet

     ijs

 

    2

 

one feather bed  3 flock beds and all
  bedding thereunto appertaining and bedsteads


iiijli


    4

 

 

All other utensils and implements of household
  and husbandry


  jli


    1

 

 

All corn growing

vijli   xs

    7

  10

 

Hemp and flax

       xs

 

  10

 

the testatrix wearing apparel

jli   vjs   viijd

    1

    6

   8

All movables forgotten

      xs

 

  10

 

 

 

£69

  13

   0


 


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