Description:

Documents
1. Will: dated 7 August 1646
Beneficiaries:
To the cathedral church of St Davids , 6d.
To John William Prichard of Michaelchurch Escley, all messuage, tenements etc in the parish of Clodock in consideration of which he is to pay all debts.
To wife, Elizabeth , £4 to be paid her within one year of his death if his goods and land 'extend that far'. She is also to have 'the best coverings of a bed'.
Rowland Powell is to have 'such goods of his as are pawned unto me and now in my possession, paieing to my executors 8/-'. The goods concerned were a coffer, a brass pot and a pair of iron cobbards [gobbards].
To John William Prichard, 'all goods, cattell and household stuff whatsoever'.
The executor is to return a coffer to nephew Phe[llip] Prosser [next line lost in a fold of the original]

Executor: John William Prichard.

Marked by testator.

Witnesses: Morgan Delahay cl[erk], Elizabeth Parry, Mathewe Howe.

Date of probate: nd.

2. Inventory: dated 17 August 1646 ; valued £43  8 4d [but comes to £43 10 4d]. Appraisers Morgan Delahay, vicar, Phe[or Tho:] Delahay, Walter Jenkins, Phe Powell

Observations:

Even including his land Watkin Lewis David's debts surpass his assets so presumably his wife did not get her meagre £4 legacy.

His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

This was originally totalled as £43 8 4d

'And owing upon the testator
His debts due by obligation and otherwise unto several persons £69 6 10d'

Aprizers Morgan Delahay, vicar
Phe [or Tho:] Delahay
Walter Jenkins
Phe[llip] Powell