Held at: | National Library of |
Reference: | BR/1645/89 |
Source: | Photocopy of original documents |
Title: | Probate Collection; Will and documents for John Lewis Phillips, yeoman |
Place name: | Clodock |
Date: | 1645 |
Description:
Documents
1. Will: dated
Beneficiaries:
To the 'Cobedy[?] of St Davis' [Cathedral of St Davids], 12d .
To eldest son, Lewis Phillips, a ewe and a lamb. Also one oak lying in the parish of Bacton and half of another in the parish of Michaelchurch Escley.
To second son, Phillip, one ewe to be delivered within 3 years of death by wife Mary.
To wife, Mary, all the rest of his goods, cattle and chattels plus a lease for the term of her widowhood. Should she remarry she is to pay £6 to each of his two younger children, Anne and Thomas within 6 months of her wedding.
To Robert Pockok of Longtown, 3/4d.
[inserted as an afterthought] To sister, Blanch, 6/8d.
Executrix: wife, Mary.
Marked by testator.
Witnesses: Phillip Watkins, Phillip Gwillim, Rowland Lewis, William Lewis, Thomas Olbilling[?]
Date of probate:
2. Inventory: dated
Observations:
The will has a narrow hole vertically through the document but this does not impede the reading as no complete words are obliterated. The documents include a bond dated
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling
Inventory
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| £ | s | d |
Imprimis his wearing apparel | xs |
| 10 |
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Item one feather bed and bolster, 1 blanket, coverlid |
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It one chaff bed, 2 thrum[?] clothes 2 feather bolsters |
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It seven pairs of hurden sheets and one flaxen sheet | xs |
| 10 |
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It two little bedsteads | ijs |
| 2 |
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It one iron pot, 1 little brass pot, 1 brass kettle, two little |
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It one pewter platter, 1 tin candlestick, 1 pewter salt cellar |
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It one flaxen, table cloth, & 8 hurden napkins | ijs |
| 2 |
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It certain other implements of household stuff | vjd |
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| 6 |
It eight bushels of rye in the house & five bushels of barley | xs |
| 10 |
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It one acre of rye upon the ground | vjs viijd |
| 6 | 8 |
It five kine | vli | 5 |
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It one old mare & one yearling colt | xs |
| 10 |
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It six sheep | xijs |
| 12 |
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It three goats | vs |
| 5 |
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It two weaning pigs | js |
| 1 |
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It one hen | iijd |
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| 3 |
It one lease of Treyne [?] lands and tenements yet in being |
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It one verbal lease of one parcel of meadow grounds for a |
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Last all and singular forgotten goods | vjd |
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| 6 |
[ but comes to |
| £12 | 2 | 7d] |
Sume Tot xijli vjs ijd [ it seems the writer has transposed the shillings and pence]
Cecil Parry
William Lewis
Thomas Lewis
Wal: Phillipps..
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