Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1650/79

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection; Will and documents for Thomas Lewis

Place name:

Clodock

Date:

1650

Description:


Documents
1. Will dated 7 March 1650 .
Beneficiaries:
To the cathedral church of St Davids , 6d.
To the 'reparacon' of Clodock church, 2d.
To daughter, Mary Lewis, five kine, one yearling heifer, a yearling bull, his mare and colt.
Mary is to pay all his 'proper debts' both with and without specialties.
To daughter, Elizabeth , 2/6d.
Also to Mary all household stuff and all the rest of his goods, cattle and chattels together with 7 Nobles1 [£2  6  8d] which are in the hands of Walter Price and 'due unto me long since'.-

Executrix: daughter, Mary Lewis.

Marked by testator

Witnesses: Lewis Gilbert, Walter Jenkins and Thomas Gregory, cl[erk].

Date of Probate: 7 June 1650 .
 

2. Inventory:   dated 23 May 1650 ; not summed but comes to £12  9  8d.  Appraisers: Lewis Gilbert, Thomas John, Walter Jenkins and Roger Jenkins.

 

 

Observation

Interestingly the rubric on the inventory gives the date of the death of Thomas Lewis as 15 May 1650 . The documents include a bond dated     June 1650 [a fold in the original document obscuring the actual day] with bounden Mary Lewis of Clodock, spinster and Fabian Phillipps of the same gent in a surety of £300.
 
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

                                                            Inventory


 

   £

  s

  d

  First 5 kine

   6

13

  4

#     Two yearlings

 

13

  4

#    one calf to be reared

 

  3

 

#    one mare and a colt

   1

  6

  8

#    one cupboard

 

  1

  8

#    one bed with the appurtenances

 

10

 

#    another flockbed

 

  4

 

#    one table board

 

  1

 

#    Due Debt from Walter Price to Thomas Lewis

   2

  6

  8

#    all the rest of the household implements
    whatsoever herein not particularly mentioned

 


10

 

                                                             [comes to

£12

  9

  8d]

 
Valued and apprized this 23rd of May 1650
by us
            Lewis Gilbert
            Tho: John
            Walter Jenkins
            Roger Jenkins.

1 The Noble was an obsolete coin worth 6/8d.

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