Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1640/217

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection; Will and documents for Rice Parry, gent

Place name:

Longtown

Date:

1640

Description:


Documents
1. Bond:
dated
7 May 1640
With bounden Catherine Parry of Longtown, widow and Samuel Prutherch of Llan....[?]
county of Brecon , cl[erk] in a surety of £200.

Date of probate: as bond.

2. Inventory:   dated
16 April 1640 ; value £67  8  4d. Appraisers Hugh Lewis, John Watkins, James Parry, Thomas Watkins, Watkin lluis, David Thomas, John Parry David.  

 

 

Observations:

This was obviously a wealthy and sophisticated gentleman with his silk bed curtains and a looking glass.
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.


 

  £

 s

d

Inprimis Two feather beds and standing bedsteads;
   two rugs, two feather bolsters, three pillows with their
   cases, one coverlet, 2 pairs of fine sheets, 6 pairs of
   coarse sheets, 3 silk curtains, a dozen and a half of
   table napkins, 3 table cloths, 4 coarse bed bed cases
  one coarse covering for a bed




7li xvjs 8d




   7




16




   8

Item  his wearing apparel

ijli

    2

 

 

Item  one 'pray' [priedieu?],  one cupboard, 2 chests, 3 coffers
   2 chairs, two forms, one desk, 2 long tables with
   one frame, one round table, half a dozen stools, one
   glass case and one looking glass
,  



iijli



   3

 

 

Item  one brass pan, 2 brass pots, 2 kettles, one posnet one
   iron chaffing dish, one frying pan, one pair of gobbards
   one brotch, one pair of tongs, one fire shovel, one tin
   dripping pan, one gridiron, 2 andirons, one brandiron
   one pot hooks, one flesh hook, one chopping knife. 



  ijli



   2

 

 

Item  one basin and ewer and all sorts of pewter

      xs

 

10

 

Item  all barrels and wooden vessels

      xs

 

10

 

Item  3 flitches of bacon, one quarter of beef and 5 small
   cheeses


     xij[s?]

 


12*

 

Item  in the house ready threshed, 6 bushels of wheat,
   of muncorn 6 bushels
   of oaten malt 25 bushels


iijli


   3

 

 

Item  of barley malt 5 bushels

      xij[s?]

 

12*

 

Item  of oats ready threshed in the house 30 bushels

      xxx[s?]

   1

10*

 

Item  in the barn of corn unthreshed 8 bushels

     xiij[s?]

 

13*

 

Item  of hard corn growing being 7 acres apprised

ijli   6s

   2

  6

 

Item  2 acres of oats sowed

        vjs

 

  6

 

Item  all implements of husbandry

      vjs 8d

 

  6

8

Item  4 oxen apprised

xijli

  12

 

 

Item  six kine

xli

  10

 

 

Item  one heifer of 3 years old

   xxxs

   1

10

 

Item  2 heifers of two years old & a young little bull

  ijli

   2

 

 

Item  four yearling calves

   xxvjs 8d

   1

  6

8

Item  5 ewes and lambs

    xvjs   8d

 

16

8

Item  of other sheep 22

    40s

   2

 

 

Item  one mare and yearling colt

  26s   8d

   1

  6

8

Item  six swine & three young pigs

   xxs

   1

 

 

Item  geese and other poultry

    ijs

 

   2

 

Item  Debts owing unto the intestate

xli

  10

 

 

 

comes to

£67

  8

4d


  Note. Figures marked '*' have been based on assumptions of the most likely as the original document seems to have been cut off closely on the right hand edge.

There are two figures at the bottom of the page one £70  7  2d and £53; neither give any indication they are intended as a total and the £53 is linked to a number of other scribbled and what look like figures, these may have been an attempt by the writer to add up a total.

Further there seems to be a note on the reverse of the coversheet but unfortunately the ink has been smudged making it indecipherable.

See also mfs_lon_0300 for his father's will.                                 


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