Description:

Documents :
1. Will dated 12 May 1663 .
Beneficiaries: All debts to be paid out his personal estate.
To wife, Anne, £12, 2 cows, 6 ewes and lambs, one new flaxen sheet several cooking utensils and a feather bed and appurtenances.
£17 towards 'the paying and discharging of two bonds wherein I stande as suretie with my sonn in law David Prichard'.
To son in law, David Prichard, one cow.
To son, John Prichard, £15. To son, William Prichard, £35 eight pounds of which was left him by the will of Rees Landon; plus a cow, 6 sheep a mare and furniture.
To son, William Prichard, £35 eight pounds of which was left him by the will of Rees Landon, 2 cows, six sheep and assorted household items.
To son, Phillip Prichard, £35, 2 cows , six sheep and assorted household items.
To daughter, Anne Prichard, £35, 2 cows, six sheep and assorted household items.
To daughter, Katherin James, one cow and to her two children a ewe and a lamb each.
To daughter Mary Gilbert, one two year old heifer.
To son, Gabriel Prichard, one two year old heifer and 3 sheep.
To 'every Grandchild [number unspecified] that I have one ewe and lamb apiece'
To cousins, Samuell Probert and Dorothy Probert, one ewe and one lamb each.
To grandchild, John Hunt jnr, one store calf
Household stuff and implements of husbandry to be divided equally between all his children.
£7 to be used for funeral expenses and the proving of the will.

Executor: cousin,James Probert, the elder.

Marked by testator.

Witnesses: John Powell, Philip James and Philip Rogers.

Date of probate: 13 January 1663/4 .

2. Inventory: [2 pages] dated 4 January1663/4, value £344 14 1d. Appraisers Morgan Powell, Walter Phillips, Harry Howell and John Powell.

Observations:

The documents include a bond dated 13 January 1663/4 with bounden James Probert of Michaelchurch Eskley, gent and Morgan Powell of the same place, gent in the sum of £600 Appointing James Probert administrator of the estate.
The Inventory describes the deceased as 'husbandman'. It includes 54 sheep among the livestock also a lease [a mortgage] for £250 on a certain un-named messuage and lands by Morgan Powell, gent for 70 years. There is also a list of small unsecured loans due to the deceased with the names of the debtors many amounting to less than £1.
4 documents.