Held at:

National Library of Wales

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
7 November 1638
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:
9 July 1645 .

2. Inventory:   dated
17 March 1644 ; value £17  6    7d. Appraisers Cecil Parry[?], William Lewis, Thomas Lewis, Wal[ter] Phillipps.

 

 

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 9 July 1645 with bounden Mary Lewis of Clodock, widow and Thomas Jones of the same, gent in a surety of £40.
 
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling
                                   
                                                Inventory

 

 

  £

  s

    d

Imprimis his wearing apparel

   xs

 

10

 

Item    one feather bed and bolster, 1 blanket, coverlid
     2 pillows 7 1 pillow beer


xxs


  1

 

 

It    one chaff bed, 2 thrum[?] clothes 2 feather bolsters
     and 2 coverlids


vjs   viijd

 


  6


     8

It    seven pairs of hurden sheets and one flaxen sheet

   xs

 

10

 

It    two little bedsteads

   ijs

 

  2

 

It    one iron pot, 1 little brass pot,  1 brass kettle,  two little
     brass pans & 1 little brass posnet


   xs

 


10

 

It    one pewter platter, 1 tin candlestick, 1 pewter salt cellar
     & [indecipherable- a hole in document]


    vjs

 


  6

 

It    one flaxen,  table cloth, & 8 hurden napkins

    ijs

 

  2

 

It    certain other implements of household stuff

        vjd

 

 

    6

It    eight bushels of rye in the house & five bushels of barley

    xs

 

10

 

It    one acre of rye upon the ground

  vjs  viijd

 

  6

    8

It    five kine

vli

  5

 

 

It    one old mare & one yearling colt

    xs

 

10

 

It    six sheep

   xijs

 

12

 

It    three goats

    vs

 

  5

 

It    two weaning pigs

     js

 

  1

 

It    one hen

       iijd

 

 

    3

It one lease of Treyne [?] lands and tenements yet in being
     for the term of the natural life of Mrs  Mable Parry wife of
     Cyrill Parry gent by the grant of the said Cyrill and Mable
     the rent of 3li per annum




     xs

 




10

 

It one verbal lease of one parcel of meadow grounds for a
     term of the natural life of the said Mable Parry by the
     [indecipherable] of the before named Cirill & Mable   



  xx



  1

 

 

Last all and singular forgotten goods

       vjd

 

 

    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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