Description:

Documents:
1.Will ] dated 17 March 1626 .
Beneficiaries:
To the parish church of Michaelchurch Escley , 5/-.
To Richard Awbrey, clerk, 12d for forgotten tithes.
To the parish church of Clodock , 6/8d.
To the poor of Michaelchurch Escley, 6/8d.
To the poor of Clodock, 6/8d/

To David Thomas, son, 5 bullocks now yoked, 8 kine, and 3 two year old heifers. Also the tenement two meadows and an orchard lying in Michaelchurch Escley which was purchased from Richard Jenkins.
' Whereas on[e] David Thomas Esq., deceased, my late uncle, by his last will and testament bequeathed me', £5 a year for 20 years to start to be paid two years after his death by his executor Lyson Thomas and a further legacy of £8, none of which has been paid; the £113 is left to son David.

To cousin, Mary Thomas daughter of Lyson Thomas, a two year old heifer

Nephew Thomas Gilbert, gent, owes the testator £207 by several bonds and as a surety has granted him a 100year lease on certain lands in Clodock. The testator's executor is directed 'with all convenient speed' after his death to get the £207 together to pay his debts by pursuing the bonds or sale of the lease.

To cousin, Mr David Thomas, the standing bedstead in he parlour.
To the children of William Harry Griffith [no names], 6 yearling sheep.
To brother, David Thomas Price's children viz: Lucas, Lewys and Syble, 3 yearling sheep.
To goddaughter, Jane daughter of Howell Powell, 2 yearling sheep.
To godson, James Thomas, 2 yearling sheep and to his brother Harry Thomas, 1 yearling sheep
To niece, Elizabeth Griffith, 1 yearling sheep and to Jone and Jonnett her sisters 1 yearling sheep each.
To godson, John Thomas Watkins, 2 yearling sheep.
To nephew, Watkin William Harry, one 2 year old bay mare colt.
Residual legatee, son , David Thomas.

Executor: Nephew, Watkin William Harry.

Marked by testator.

Witnesses: Lewys David, Jone Thomas, William Daveys.

Probate date: 30 May 1627.
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2. Inventory: dated 24 [month torn off but must be March] 1626; not totalled. Assessors Richard[?] Hunt, James Nicholls, Lewis Jenkins, Watkin William Lewis, John Jenkins JohnPowell.

Observations:

The will is immediately followed by a list of the debts of the testator given below:

Debts owing by the Testator
To William Harry DD[David] Prosser    xx^li      [£20]
To David William David                            x^li      [£10]
To Howell Watkin                                     ix^li       [£9] 
To Harry Griffith                                         xx^li     [£20]
To Jonnett Lewis, widow                      xxx^li     [£30]
To John Jenkins                                         v^li      [£5]
To Roger Jones                                        v^li      [£5]
To Harry Watkins, tucker                    iiij^li xvj^s   [£4   16s] 
To Lewis Rees Harry                         xvj^li x^s      [£16  10s] 
To Alce[Alice] Nicholas                      xl^li           [£40] 
To Jonnett Griffith                                xj^li          [£11]   
To Thomas David Maddocke           x^li           [£10] 

[total debts was £181 6s].

Debts due to the testator

Thomas Gilbert, gent by several bonds [missing due to hole but known to be ccvij^li [£207]
His inventory lists several other creditors.
There is a Bond dated 39 May 1627 with bounden;
Elizabth Verch William of Clodock, widow and William Harry of [Michaelchurch] Escklie, yeoman in a surety of £100.

There are two inventories the first is headed with the usual rubric of it being 'A true Inventorie of all the go [torn off] and chattels etc of John Thomas Price of the parish of Clodock ?Ǫ.prised the fower and twentieth day of [torn off but must be March] 1626.'
This is reproduced below with spelling modernised.
                         The first Inventory:
In primis his wearing apparel vl^s
Ite six oxen xviij^li iiij^s
ite thirteen kyne xxviij^li xiij^s
Ite three two year old heifers v^li
Ite four two year old bullocks viij^li
Ite on[e] mare three mare colts on[e] Nag colt x^li
Ite six yearling calves vj^li
Ite four and twenty couples of ewes and lambs vj^li
Ite ffive three year shieep xxv^s
Ite three and thirty yearling sheep vj^li xij^s
Ite six flitches of bacon xxxvij^s
Ite three quarters of beef xx^s
Ite two featherbeds xl^s
Ite three flock beds xx^s
Ite Eight and forty cheeses iiij^li xvj^s
Ite two brass pots t[w]o brass pans
on[e] kettle and on[e] posnet iiij^li x^s
Ite fifteen dishes of pewter

On[e] pewter pot and t[w]o candlesticks xxx^s
Ite two broches and cobarts[gobbards] iiij^s
Ite on[e] Bate [Vat?] two tubs seven trindes
Two milk vessels and seven pails xx^s
Ite on[e] cobert [cupboard] and eight coffers xxv^s
Ite two chests iij^s iiij^d
Ite three chaires iij^s
Ite twelve pair of sheets xl^s
Ite three pair of blankets xv^s
Ite two pillowes four bolsters and t[w]o pillowbeers   xx^s
Ite four pair of flaxen sheets
and four table clothes xxx^s
Ite two coverlets and t[w]o Rugs l^s
Ite three chesells [trestles?] iij^s
Ite on[e] trunk iij^s iiij^d
ite on[e] cheese ring and on[e] plank ij^s
Ite seven swine of all sorts xxviij^s
Ite four hens and on[e] cock xx^d
two geese and on[e] gander iij^s
Ite three table boards and benches xx^s
Ite within the barn & within the house
of wheat vl^s
Ite six bushels of barley xiiij^s
Ite Eight bushels of oats x^s
Ite ten bushels of barley malt xxv^s
ten bushels of oaten malt xvj^s viij^d
Ite six acres of wheat and rye growing [torn off]
Ite ten acres of oats growing [torn off]
Ite the Implements of husbandr [missing torn off]
Ite ten spoones  [missing torn off]
Ite six stondes [stands] and five barrels [missing torn off]

deaptes [debts] due to the testa[lost in a fold]
Thomas Gilbart, gent by several bonds CCvij^li
David Thomas Prees, Leyson David and
Phelip Thomas Powell Cxx^li
David Thomas Price xv^li [?][owing to a fold in the original this figure cannot be seen accurately]
David Thomas Price and
Lison David xiij^li
Mycaell Thomas gent xviij^li
Mycael Thomas gent xv^li
James Phelip and Thomas Phelip iij^li
Phelip Parry viij^li
William Bevan xj^li
Howell Williams ix^s
Howell Powell xv^s

The second Inventory is headed
'A true and perfect Inventory of all the goods cattells chattels and credits of John Thomas late of Clodock deceased and not administered by Watkin William Harry deceaseds executor named in the last will and testament of the said John Thomas Deceased'. There is neither date nor are any assessors named it is written in a different hand to the first inventory. Whilst many of the items listed are the same in both there are also many differences; it too is reproduced below but with modern spelling and with Arabic numerals for the values..
£ s d
Imp one yoke of oxen 6
10 kine 26 13 8
2 year old heifers 3 6 8
4 two year old bullocks 8
one mare and a mare colt 3
6 yearling calves 6[?]
6 sheep 24
3 flithchen of bacon 18
one quarter of beef 6
2 feather beds 40
3 flock beds 20
4 cheeses 10
2 brass pots and 2 brass pans
a kettle and a posnet of pewter 4 10
15 pewter dishes one pewter pot and 2 candlesticks 30
2 broches 4
one vat, 2 tubs, 7 trinds, 2 milk vessels and 7 pails 20
one cupboard and 8 coffers 35
2 chests 3 4
one cheese ring and a plank 2
3 chairs 4
22 pairs of sheets 40
3 pairs of blankets 15
2 pillows 4 bolsters and 2 pillowbeers 20
4 pairs of flaxen sheets and 4 tablecloths 30
2 [blank space] and 2 Ruffs [?rugs] 1[? -unclear]
one trunk 3 4
6 swine 20
2 geese and a gander 3
3 tableboards and benches 20
4 sawed boards 3
6 acres of wheat and rye growing 30
10 spoons 10
6 Stands and 2 barrels 12
more one cow. 2[?- unclear]

There is no total but beneath the inventory list is:
lxxx