Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1641/182

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection; Will for William Thomas, yeoman

Place name:

Newton

Date:

1641

Description:

Documents:
1 Will :
.dated
30 April 1641 .
Beneficiaries:
To youngest son, Leison, one third of all goods , cattle and chattels.
To daughter, Sibill, the remaining two thirds.
The executor is enjoined to use the goods and chattels etc. for the 'best use of the two children Sibil and Leison'.                      
     
Executor: Brother, Leison Thomas.    
   
Marked by the testator.

Witnesses: John Price, Thomas Jenyngs, John Howell, Charles Jennings and Lucas David.
    
  Variation: dated
18 August 1641 ; stating that the appointed executor Lyson Thomas renounces his executorship with John Lewis of Dore, grandfather of the children taking over as executor.
Marked by Lyson Thomas and signed by Lewis John.
Witnesses: Lewis David, Jasp George, Lyson David, Richard Phe [Phillip] Parry and Gilbert Powell.

Date of Probate: 
27 August 1640 [this is a clerical error and should have been 1641]

2. Inventory: 
  dated
4 May 1641 ; value £65  12  2d. Appraisers: Jasp[er] George, Thomas Watkins, David James, John Howell and Thomas Phillip.

 

 

Observations:

The Variation makes these documents a bit different; presumably John  Lewis was the grandfather on the children's mother's side.
The documents include a bond dated 20 [month unreadable] 1641 with bounden John Lewis senior of Dore, yeoman and Jasper George of Clodock, gent in a surety of £100.

His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

                                                                    Inventory

 

 

   

  £ 

 s

d

Inprimis seven kine and three sucking calves 

xxjli

  21

 

 

Ite    one ox and a bullock

vjli

 

   6

 

 

Ite    three young beasts, a heifer of 3 yr old and the other
       two are bullocks of 2 yrs old  and two yearling calves 


vjli

 


   6

 

 

Ite    one sow and a 'Barrow' [barren?] hog at

  xs  

 

 

  10

 

Ite    four acres of Rye at

xls

 

   2

 

 

Ite    eight acres of oats at

liijs iiijd

 

   2

  13

   4

Ite    one black mare at

iiijli

 

   4

 

 

Ite    geese and hens at

    iiijs

 

 

   4

 

Ite    a brass pan, a brass pot and two brass posnets

   xxxvs

 

   1

  15

 

Ite    four platters of pewter and four pewter saucers and a
    pewter salt cellar and a brass candlestick


      xs

 

 


  10

 

Ite    the decedents wearing apparel given away and not valued.

 

 

 

 

 

Ite    the standing bedstead in the parlour and a bedstead
    in the solar


xxvjs iiijd

 


   1


   6


   8

Ite    one feather bed  one feather bolster  one pillow beer
    and three pillows and a bed tick in the solar stuffed with
    chaff


   xls

 


    2

 

 

Ite    two coverlets  two blankets  a chaff bed and bolster

   xls

 

   2

 

 

two flitches of Michaelmas beef and two flitches of bacon

   xxvs

 

   1

   5

 

Ite    a woman's gown and the decedents riding coat are
    set up to make cloths for the children and not valued.

 

 

 

 

 

Ite    two great chests and four coffers

   xxs

 

   1

 

 

Ite    five pair and a half of hurden sheets and one sheet
    of the tear of flax and four of the tear of hemp.


  xxxijs vjd

 


   1


  12


   6

Ite    one board cloth and 19 table napkins

     xxs

 

    1

 

 

Ite    8 bushels of oats as it is guessed by view of the heap

    xvjs

 

 

  16

 

Ite    five bushels of oaten malt at

     xiijs

 

 

  13

 

Ite    two sacks and two bags

     xs

 

 

  10

 

Ite      two stands and a pigett* & 3 pails.

    vjs viijd

 

 

   6

   8

Ite    4 trinds and a milk tub

    vjs viijd

 

 

   6

   8

Ite    33 bushels of rye upon the solar

  vli xiijs

 

   5

  13

   4?

Ite    in ready money owing to the decedent from David Wm
    of  Michaelchurch Escley


ijli   xs

 


   2


  10

 

Ite    three bushels of Muncorn and one of wheat settled in
     sacksupon the chamber over the Hall 

'not
  prised'

 

 

 

 

 

comes to

 

  £65

  12

  2d

   
 
*probably a Piggin, a small wooden pail with one stave longer than the others for carrying .

There is a note in the left hand margin at the bottom of the inventory, probably as an afterthought, 'Debts owing  by the decedent £5  3s as is alledged'.

There is also a document in Latin which is damaged in the folds and a coversheet with the message:

'pleaseth it yr Lops [Your Lordships]
      I have fully executed the tenor of this comission as thereby yt [that] was required and
      soe I rest
                                    at yor Lops further command          
                                    Jenkin Williams clke'                                                                                               


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