Description:

Documents:
1 Will : . dated 1618 [ too damaged to identify the exact date]
Beneficiaries:
To the parish church of Michaelchurch Escley, 12d.
To wife Margaret, for a period of 4 years, all houses, barns meadows leasows pastures woods and underwoods 'with the commodities thereof' if she remains a widow for that period otherwise son, David is to take the houses etc and commodities.
Wife, Margaret is to have half his lands during her widowhood with the other half going to son David.
David is to pay daughter, Sibill, £10 at the feast of the Purification of Our Lady after he obtains his legacy. David is also to pay daughter, Catherine, £8 similarly the year following Sibill's payment.
If the sum of £42 be behind and unpaid then 'I give and bequeathe all the houses etc and commodities thereof now held by lease att Lewis Prosser unto son William. [This paragraph makes little sense but it may be that the explanation is lost with the damage to the top of the next page which has a considerable amount missing until]
To son, William, [missing] pounds.
To wife, Margaret, tame horses, two kine  and two steers.
To son ,William, a cow and a mare.
To son, Jenkin, a cow and a mare.
To daughter, Sibill, a cow and a mare.
To daughter, Gwenllian, a cow and a colt.
To daughter, Catherine, acow and a colt.
To wife, Margaret, a yearling colt
To Jenkin, a mare colt. To Sibill and Catherine, a colt each.
To son David, a mare and a 2 yr old colt, a yearling heifer, the best pan, cupboard,  the great chest, all[?] the featherbeds, 'my great brotch and my plough geers [harness] so that Margaret my wife shall have use of them during her widowhood and the use of my great pan and potts likewise'.
To William, one 4 yr old colt.
To Gwenllian one yearling heifer; to Sibill a yearling bull; to Catherine a yearling bullock.
To wife, Margaret, a 2 yr old heifer and a 2 yr old bullock.
To William, Sibill, Gwenllian and Catherine, 20 sheep and 8 lambs to be equally divided between them.
To David, 4sheep and 2 lambs and to wife, Margaret, 10 sheep.
To Sibill and Gwenllian, 5 lambs to be equally divided between them; and to Sibill, a feather bed, 2 sheets, 2 blankets, and a coverlid, whilst to Gwenllian, a bed, the best her mother can let have.
To William, the biggest pot and the second pot to Jenkin, the third pot to Sibill with the cauldron to Gwenllian. Two platters and a little pot to Catherine.   .

  ' I give and bequeathe all grain in the house and in the barn  and in the field growing to their uses together like as before I have done'
To wife Margaret 26/- being in the hands of Thomas ap John of Cusop.
to my five children, William, Jenkin, Sibill, Gwenllian and Catherine all the 'Implements of the house' after the death of their mother 'not named' to be divided equally between them.
To son, David, 'my Chest'  

Executors: Wife, Margaret and son, William.

Sealed by testator

Witnesses: Margaret Myles, William Myles, David Myles with others.
   
Date of probate: 9 January 1618/19

  2. Inventory:    dated 30 December 1618 , value £125  3  10d. Appraisers: Thomas Powell, Thomas Eustance and Thomas Whitney.

Observations:

This is along will, much damaged at the top of each page which precludes finding the date of the document although it must be before the 30^th of December 1618 when the inventory was made. From the wording of the will and the careful distribution of assets it seem certain that Myles Thomas had been married before and probably the five children, William Jenkin, Sibill, Gwenllian and Catherine were the children of the first 'not named' wife with David the offspring of Margaret. It is unusual to find that the names witnesses were all close family members.
His inventory is reproduced below with mostly modern spelling.

                                                Inventory

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