Description:

Documents:
1.Will dated 26 January 1655 .
Beneficiaries: To her two sons James and John Rees Howell, all her goods cattle and chattels and the house and land wherein she dwells.

Executors: her two sons, James and John Rees Howell.

Marked by testator.

Witnesses: John Robert, David Watkin , Thomas Watkin and Howell Ychan .

Date of probate: 14 February 1662 .

2. Inventory: dated 13 February 1662 , value £23 2 8d. Appraisers: John [?] Watkine , Thomas John, Tho : Watkine and David Watkin

Observations:

Number of documents 3, including Bond dated 14 February 1662 with Bounden John Rees Howell of Clodock , yeoman and John Watkin of the same place in a surety of £100, appointing John Rees Howell as administrator for the estate.
This set of probate documents is of interest because it straddles the period between the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The testator mentions the Commonwealth in the preface to her will.