Probate Collection; Will and documents for Howell Gwillim Price, Michaelchurch Escley, 1578, Ewyas Lacy Study Group

Held at:	National Library of Wales
Reference:	BR/1577/436 vol1
Source:	Laser copy of original documents
Title:	Probate Collection; Will and documents for Howell Gwillim Price
Place name:	Michaelchurch Escley
Date:	1578

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1. Will: dated 8 March 1577 . [In the third person therefore likely nuncupative]
Beneficiaries:
To Maud verch Hoell, his eldest daughter, his feather bed on which he was lying, 4 kine, 2 oxen and 20 sheep.
To his son, Roger Hoell, 2 oxen, 2 kine, and a yearling calf.
To his daughter, Katherine verch Hoell, 2 oxen, 2 kine and 8 sheep.
To his daughter Anne verch Hoell, 2 oxen, 2 kine, and 8 sheep.
To his son Watkin Hoell, £5.
To Alice verch Hoell, his servant and to her two sons, £6 13 4d. And for Alice , 2 kine. .

Executor: His eldest son, Thomas Hoell.

No mark or signature by the testator on this copy.

Witnesses: Simond Baker, Anne verch John, Thomas Hoell, his son and Alice verch Hoell.

Debts owing to the testator 'the day of his death':

In primis Nicholas Whitier, gent for sheep to be paid at midsummer next 20/-
Ite Elice Hunt for a sheep 2/-
Ite Watkin Gwyn for a sheep 2/4d
Ite Phe Jenkins for sheep to be paid at May next 8/-
Ite James Winston of the Greenway for 4 sheep 9/4
Ite of Richard Moyther for 6 sheep to be paid at Mid summer next 13/4d
Ite of Watkin Tailor £2
Ite of Laurence Tailor of Ty Beaton for a sheep 2/-
Ite of Richard ap Hoell Lloyd for a sheep 2/-

Ite of Thomas Butcher for a sheep 12d
Ite of Edmund Hunt, John Carwardy of Madley [undecipherable] 13/4d
Ite of Richard ap Hoell Lloyd 26/-
[comes to £7 0 0d]

Debts owed:
In Primis to Richard Thomas ap Rees to be at May come 12 months £6
Ite to Thomas Lane £3 6 8d
Ite to David of the Slade 20/-
Ite to David D[avi]d ap John 14/-
Ite to Hoell D[avi]d ap John 5/-
Ite to John Tailor 4 bushels of whet[wheat] price 15/4d
Ite to Richard ap Hoell of Peterchurch 18d
Ite to Lluis Walker[?] 18d
Ite to John Lewys of the Hay, shoemaker 3/-
[comes to £12 7 0d.]

Date of Probate: 26 April 1578

2. Inventory: nd; not totalled [but come to £47 5 4d]. No appraisers listed.

Observations:

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His inventory is reproduced with modern spelling
Inventory

		£	s	d
In primis 2 feather beds, one flock bed, 3 bolsters, 2 pillows, 6 blankets, 3 coverlets, 4 flaxen sheets, 10 hurden sheets, one meat cloth and 4 napkins price	iij^li xv^s iiij^d	3	15	4
Itm in brass - two cauldrons, one pott, a skillet, one chafing dish, one posnet and 2 candlesticks	ix^s x^d		9	10
Itm in pewter - 11 pieces	viij^s		8
Itm one pan in 'pleadge [pledge] for	viij ^s		8
Itm 2 broches, one frying pan, a pair of pot hooks and a pair of gobbards	iij^s vj^d		3	6
Itm one great broche in pledge	v^s		5
Itm treen vessels, 2 vats, some stands, 4 pails, 3 trinds with dishes and trenchers	vij^s vj^d		7	6
Itm 3 coffers	iij^s		3
Itm one hutch in pledge for	v^s		5
Itm beef and bacon	vi^s viij^d		6	8
Itm his apparel	xxx^s	1	10
Itm 10 oxen	x^li	10
Itm 12 kine	xij^li	12
Itm 7 young 2 yr old beasts	xlvj^s viij^d	2	6	8
Itm 5 yearling beasts	xxv^s	1	5
Itm 1 calf	iij^s iiij^d		3	4
Itm 4 mares and a colt	xl^s	2
Itm 40 sheep and 6 lambs	iij^li	3
Itm 1 sow	iij^s iiij^d		3	4
Itm one plough with 'Jolles and chaines' and the appurtenances, one dung wain unbound, a pair of harnesses, a top 'wrall'[?] and a 'carrebridle'.	xiiij^s		14
Itm an axe, 2 hedge bills, 2 'nogars', one chisel, one 'athes' [?], one spokeshave, one spade & 2 sickles	iiij^s vj^d		4	6
Itm 15 acres of wheat and rye in blade	iiij^li	4
Itm 14 acres of oats	xl^s	2
Itm 10 bushels of rye in the barn	xx^s	1
Itm 5 bushels of oaten malt	vj^s viij^d		6	8
not totalled but comes to		£47	5	4

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