Description:

Documents:
1. Nuncupative Will; dated 10 April 1625 or thereabouts.
Beneficiaries:

To cathedral church of St Davids, 4d
To sister, Ann Stradling, 20/-
To niece, Elizabeth Stradling, 20/-
To sister Margaret Stradling, 20/-, a coverlet and sheet and a chest.
To Thomas William, son of William Powell of Clodock, 20/-.
To Margaret William, sister of Thomas William, 20/-.
To Thomas Prise, son of John Prise of Old Castle , 20/-.
To Elizabeth Prise, wife of John Harry of Comioy [Cwmyoy] and to their three children, John ap John, William ap John and Gwinifrid verch John, £5 to be equally divided between them.
To Mauld Prise, wife of Harry Thomas of St Margarets and their three children, John Harry, William Harry and Lewis Harry, £4 to be equally divided between them plus to Mauld, a feather bed, a flaxen sheet, a little brass pan a little frying pan and a little pewter candlestick.
To John Thomas, Edward Thomas and Mary Thomas, the three children of Thomas John Prise of Clodock, £3 to be equally divided between them.
Lastly she gave 40/- to whoever would take charge of her funeral and interment.

Executrix: none appointed,

Neither signed nor marked by testator

Witnesses: Mauld Prise, Margaret Stradling, and Margaret William Powell.

2. Inventory: nd; value £21 9 10d. Assessors not recorded. .

Observations:

The documents include a bond the date [damaged and part missing] August 1625 with bounden John Price, gent of Old Castle , county Monmouth in a surety of £40.
There is an endorsement in Latin legalese on the end of the will; the writing is difficult to decipher but two names can be discerned John Price and Morgan, which may refer to Morgan Delahay the vicar of Clodock at the time.
The inventory is short and reproduced below with modern spelling:

                                         Inventory
                                                                                                 £      s      d
In primis one coverlet priced  x^s                                               10
Ite one chest and one fine sheet priced vj^s viij^d                        6     8
ite one other sheet priced   ii j^s                                                    3
ite one little brass pan and one
   frying and one candlestick      iij^s vj^d                                        3     6
Ite one featherbed priced   xiij^s iiij^d                                          13     4 
Ite for wearing apparel priced   xiij^s iiij^d                                  13     4
Debts Due unto the testatrix
Inprimis upon Thomas Prise late of Clydocke
deceased by bond the sum    of xix^li                               19      0      0
                                                                                            £21      9   10d
                                                 xxi^li 9^s 10^d