Description:

Documents
1. Will dated 29 October 1651 .
[This will is in a poor state with large holes and folds in the original]
Beneficiaries:
To daughter, Constance Thomas, a black mare and 4 kine.
To Gwyn Thomas, son, 2 kine, 2 oxen and a 2 year old colt.
To Constance , one 2 year old heifer 'whereof the tail is cut short'.
To sons, Gwyn and Hugh, the bull and the heifer of 2 years old '(in the dividing thereof I hope there shall be no difference)'.    
To son, Hugh, 2 kine.
To his 4 grandchildren, Elizabeth the eldest, daughter of Gwyn, second, William, son of Lewis, third, John son of Gwyn and fourth, Thomas another son of Gwyn, 4 calves.
To Sible Gwyn, granddaughter, one cow.
To Gwyn Thomas, the bond due from Phillipp John Lewis with the [hole]
To daughter, Constance, the tithe bought of [hole] albieff [this will be Walbieff] out of which she is to pay Hugh, £6. Also to Constance , 19 sheep.
To Sinay, daughter of Gwyn Thomas, one young sow.
To  Gwyn and Hugh, a quarter of the fat bull shortly to be killed, to be divided between them.
To son, Hugh, 4 ?? yds of cloth now in the making, to make him a suit of clothes and 4 [fold] out of the hide of the said bull to buy him a pair of shoes.
[next few lines are unreadable]
To daughter Constance, 'half the house aforesaid (with the croft under the house where the beans are sown the last year)'.
To Hugh, 15 bushels of 'Cath'[?] the rest in the barn to Gwyn also to him the yellow bullock..
To Constance, the great pan, the great pot, the best bedstead with 2 feather beds with appurtenances and all wooden vessels except one barrel which Gwyn is to have and one 'sufficient barrel to Hugh'. 
To Gwyn and Hugh, 4 pewter platters, with the rest of the pewter to Constance together with the 'granndaed'[?]. Constance to repay Gwyn £4 which he had lent his father and she also to pay the debts.
To Gwyn the second pan and the bedstead in the minor solar.
To Hugh, the second pot and the bedstead in the next solar.
'I give the pound in the hand of Rowland Lewis to discharge the heriot if any there be otherwise to Hugh'
To Gwyn and Constance, 8 bushels of corn now growing, the rest to Hugh
Residual legatees Gwyn and Constance.
 
Executors: Constance and Gwyn jointly.

Marked by testator

Witnesses: Thomas Prichard, Lewis Prichard and Thomas Gregory.

Date of Probate: 28 November 1651 .
 

2. Inventory:   dated 26 November1651; valued at £54  6  8d.[but comes to £57  6  8d].  Appraisers: John William, Henry Jones, Abraham Powell and Thomas Gregory..

Observation

The documents include a bond dated 28 November 1651 with bounden Constance Thomas of Clodock, spinster and Gwyn Thomas of the same, yeoman in a surety of £200.

His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

                                                            Inventory

                                       £54  6  8d
            Apprizers
John William,   Henry Jones
Abraham Powell,   Thomas Gregory.