Description

1. Will undated
First an expressed wish to be buried in the Parish Church of Clydock[Clodock]
Beneficiaries:
To the Cathedral Church of St Davids, 4d
To 'the curate of our Parish Church for my forgotten Tithes, 6d
from a debt of £30 due to the testator from John Thomas ap John, he gives £10 to his wife, Sibill and child instructing that of the £10 , £8 are to be 'put out to interest towards the maintenance of my child until he is tenne years ould and then to his proper use'
To his wife, 2 black kine and all his household stuff.
To Thomas ap Robert of Grismont [Grosmont?], 20/-
To Howell Jeffrey, 20/-
To brother, David Phillipp, 10/-
To John ap Hugh of Kileirwe[?]'s children five marks.
Towards the payment of debts, £4 7 0d.
To his wife, 30/-.
'5/- towards the repayring of the Bridge at Grismont'.
Towards repairing Clodock Church , 5/-
'I give in discharge of my burial one Redd cowe'.
To Walter Scudamore of [indecipherable] 20/-
To Catherine vehe [ferch] Johns, 2/-
To the eldest daughter of Grifith Powell of Hereford , 20/-
To Howell, son, 20/-

Executors: Howell Jeffrey and wife, Sibill with Thomas Scudamore appointed Overseer.

Signed by Testator

Witnesses: Tho: Scudamore, Ales [ Alice ?] Lewis, Ann Thomas Lewis

Date of Probate: 14 November 1617

2. Inventory: none surviving.

Observations:

There are no accompanying documents surviving from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
The use of "ferch" in Welsh, meaning "daughter of", is the female equivalent of "ap"