Description:

Documents:
1.Will dated 2 January [year missing but probably 1622]
Beneficiaries:

To the cathedral church of St Davids , 6d.
To his 6 daughters, Mary, Johan, Anne, Margaret, Jane and Elizabeth [from here the full meaning is unclear due to the missing corner of the document however it seems he leaves the lands messuages and tenements etc in Clodock purchased from his brother Robert Parry and another Parry, first name missing, to his son, Rice. The income from this estate to be used by his wife for the upkeep and education of his daughters and presumably son Rice until Rice is 21] Then, within 3 years of Rice's 21^st birthday he is to pay £160 to the 6 daughters to be distributed £120 between the three eldest, Mary, Johan and Anne with £40 between the three youngest. If any of them dies before the payout then their portion is distributed equally between the survivors. If his wife remarries before the £160 is paid then John Rogers, his brother in law is to take over the 'governance' of his daughters with the profits of the estate.
To sister, Katheryne, one cow and to sister, Sible, one cow.
Towards the repairing of the chapel of St Peter in Longtown, 10/-.
To Anne, niece, all the land and tenement in Longtown purchased from Thomas John Harry David for her lifetime and on her death it is to revert to son Rice who is then to pay £20 to the 3 youngest daughters.
To son, James, 'one of my best kine'.
Residual legatee is his wife [unnamed].

Executrix: wife.

Marked by testator

Witnesses: Morgan Delahay, clerk, William Symons, James Thomas, George Turner, Widow Turner.

2. Inventory: dated 21 January 1622 ; value £187 5 2d. Assessors: Phillip Prichard and Lewis Richard, gent .

Observations :

The will is very difficult to read as a large section of the top right hand corner has been torn off and some of the remaining text is very faded in places.
Connect with mfs_lon_0301 the bond and documents for Rice Parry, gent, his son,who died in 1640.
There is a list of both debts owed and owing which is reproduced  below:

Debts owing by the testat^r   the day of his death
by specialty and otherwise
To Thomas Edwards                                    xliij^li                           £43
To Wm Simons                                             iiij^li                               £4 
To Phe [Phillip] John Lewis                        x^li                                 £10 
To Alice Thomas Da[avid?]                          xij ^li                            £12
To the children of Richard Thomas       xxviiij ^li       xvj ^s                £29   16s
To Richard Gundy                                         xv^li                               £15
Funeral expenses                                         v^li                                £5 
                                                              sum Cxviij ^li         xvj ^s [£118   16s]


Debts due to the testat^r the day of his death
Imprimis by James Parry                             xl ^li                               £40
By wm Simons                                              xlij ^li                               £42
                                                              sum lxxxij ^li [£82]

[Signed] per mr Morgan Delahay

debts being paid there remayneth
viij ^li    ix ^s    ij ^d [£8  9  2d]  towards paym^t  of legacies and satisfying of heriots

[Signed] per mr p[er]fat Morgan D.

The inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling :
                                                Inventory                                             
                                                                                                                 £     s     d
             Imprimis ten kine                                         x^li                         10
            Ite two oxen                                                  iij^li                           3
            Ite  four bullocks                                          iiij^li                         4
            Ite seven young beast                                 iij^li   x^s                   3    10
            Ite five calves                                                      xv^s   viij^d                 15      8   
            Item one Mare                                                     xx^s                    1
            Ite one sucking colt                                             vj^s    viij^d                   6      8
            Ite one other young Mare                                xxvj^s    viij^d          1       6      8
            Ite eleven acres of corn growing                ij^li                         2
            Item all corn in the Barn                               v^li                         5
            Item four brass pots                                           xx^s                  1
            Item two brass pans                                          xx^s                  1
            Item ten platters                                                    v^s                           5
            Item four candlesticks                                          ij^s                           2
            Ite three feather beds                                        xxx^s                 1     10
            Ite thirteen pairs of hurden sheets                  xiij^s                        13
            Ite six pairs of flaxen sheets                                ix^s                          9
            Ite two Iron broches                                               j^s     vj^d                  1     6
            Ite two andirons and two gobbards                   ij^s     vj^d                  2     6
             Item all table boards all forms
                 all stools and chairs                                        x^s                         10
            Ite one press and one cupboard                      xiij^s    iiij^d               13    4
            Ite two bedsteads                                                  x^s                         10
            Ite  three coffers                                                     iij^s                          3

            Ite four coverlets                                                  xxvi^s    viij^d        1     6    8
            Ite four blankets                                                      vj^s     viii^d               6    8
            Ite four stands                                                          ij^s                        2
            Ite one tub and other wooden vessels               vj^s     viij^d              6     8
            Ite four swine                                                          iiij^s                        4
            Ite all gear pertaining to the oxen                        iiij^s                       4
            Item in money due upon James Parry
            Item upon Wm Symonds                                 xlij^li                 42
                                                                                                Phillip Prichard[signature]               
                                                                                                Lewis Richard gent [signature]
            more goods prized by the p[er]sons aforesaid
            the day & yeare aforesaid
            Imprimis one dripping pan                                          vj^d                        6
            Itm one gridiron                                                             iiij^d                       4
            Itm the Dsts [deceased's] garments                 xx^s                  1                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sum total                              87^li             5^s               ij

.
[The actual total should be £83 9 2d]

Why there is the signatures of two persons inserted into the inventory is unclear. It is also unclear why Williams Symonds debt of £42 appears again in the