Description:

Documents:
1. Nuncupative Will dated 13 November 1625 .
Beneficiaries
To brother, William, his best horse, his red saddle and bridle and a cloak. One chest and all implements 'belonging to his oxen'
To wife, Catherine, all the household stuff.
To sister, Alce [Alice] one two year old heifer.
To Anne, his wife's sister, one yearling heifer and 2 sheep.
To reputed son, Thomas, 2 oxen and 4 bushels of rye.
To Elizabeth Clement, £5.
The testator confessed to be indebted to Thomas Harper's kinswoman in the sum of £3, to Mr Robert Parry of Dulas, £4 10s, to Mr Lewis Gilbert £3 10s, to Phillip Watkin in the sum of 42/- and to Elizabeth Clement, £12.
Lastly everything else was to be divided between his wife and his brother William Cook once his debts and funeral expenses had been settled.

Executor: none appointed.

Marked by testator

Witnesses p[re]sent at the publishing and declaring hereof Catherine Cook, William Cook, Richard Cook, Robert Gwillim, Edward ap David, John William, [missing name] George, and Elizabeth Clements with many others.

Date of Probate: 2 December 1625

2. Inventory: dated 20 November 1625 ; value £37 3 10d. Assessors: Robet Gwyllim, Thomas Prichard, George Sare, Griffith Harry.

Observations :

There are 2 copies of the will in this set of documents. One seems rather untidy and was probably written at the time of dictation whilst the other is more tidily written and better set out. Neither is an exact copy of the other. The first one seems to have been used by someone at a later date for jotting down a series of numbers in a clear space at the bottom right hand corner of the sheet, the sheet having been inverted. These numbers in Arabic numerals and in a different hand have no relation to anything in the will or the inventory where roman numerals are used throughout.
There is a bond dated 2 December 1625 with bounden, Catherine Cooke of Clodock widow and George Sare of Dore, yeoman in a surety of £100.

His inventory is reproduce below with modern spelling
:
                                   Inventory                                                                         £        s        d
Imprimis his wearing apparel vj^s viij^d                                                                    6        8                           
A fetherbed & a flockbed w^th coverings xxvj^s viij^d                                        1       6        8
A brass pott & ij panes a posnett x^s                                                                     10
ij paire od sheets pillowbeers ij tablecloths xij^s iiij^d                                         12        4 
Vats stonds payles & other trind vessels
Tables formes stooles all treed v^s                                                                         5
v pewter platters sault sellers candlestick iij^s iiij^d ij^s vj^d                                     2        6
a spit & cobbards a gred[grid] iron
ij p[ai]r of pothooks & hucke & brandiron ij^s                                                          2
at his mothers ij cubboords ij littlr tables
A little cheeste [chest] a bedstead x^s                                                                   10
An axe hattchett a mattocke Awgo
a hedgbylle a shovel & other like tools
[undecipherable] bill ij^s                                                                                             2
5 geese hens & other poltry v^s                                                                                2
xvj All the oxen and swine pyggs xxxiiij ^s iiij^d                                              1       10      4
plowes yoakes & other implements for husbandry iij^s iiij^d                                3      4
ij goates iiij^s                                                                                                                4
xlij sheepe x^li                                                                                                10
ij oxen vj^li                                                                                                         6
ij horses and a saddle & a packsaddle iij^li vj vj^s viii^d                               3
nyne Kyne at xxvj^s viij^d a yere xij^li                                                               12
iiij yearlings xl^s                                                                                                            2
iij[?] calf xxvj^s viij^d                                                                                             1       6       8
corne in the barne of all sorts iiij^li x^s                                                           4     10

xxxviijlⁱ iiij^s x^d