Description:

Documents

1. Will: dated 5 June 1628 .
Beneficiaries:
To the cathedral church of St Davids , 4d.
To Elizabeth Symonts, one bolster, one coffer and a pair of h[missing but probably hurden] sheets and 2 sacks
To sister, Juan Watkins, one cow, one feather bed and one chaff bed.
To Elizabeth Watkins, one petticoat.
To Margaret Mile, one farigard [?] [farthingale perhaps?]
To Bridget Morgan, 'my ould petticott'.
To Maud Harry, one flannel waistcoat.
To James Morgan, all the rest of her unbequeathed goods.

Executor:  James Morgan.

Marked by the testator

Witnesses:  Harry Phee David, Ann Hughe, William James, cl[erk]. 

Date of probate: 24 June 1628 .

2. Inventory: undated; valued at £6  8  10d [but comes to £6  9  10d].  Appraisers: William Jones, Phe Gwillim, and Jasper Powell, clerk.

Observations:

The will is untidily written with many errors and a number of interlinings which are just impossible to decipher but these concern general instructions and do not detract from the reading of the bequests.
There is a bond dated 24 June 1628 with bounden James Morgan of Clodock, yeoman and Hugh Jevans of Brecon town, yeoman in a surety of £40.
     
Her inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling..
                                   
                                                Inventory

                        Summa Totalis  Vj^li  viij^s   x^d

Prissers
William Jones
Jasper Powell, clerk
  Phe Gwillim