Description:

1. Will: dated 6 October 1680 .
Beneficiaries: To niece, Elizabeth Saunders, a feather bed and bolster, one blanket, 4 pr of sheets, one red rug, the middle brass pot, a little brass pan, a posnet, two of the biggest pewter platters, one lesser platter, a pewter candlestick, 12 lb of wool, half a hundredweight of cheese, the bedstead in the parlour, 2 coffers, one little barrel, or kinderkin, a milk trind, a pail, a pickett, a burkin[firkin?] tub, a woollen wheel and a linen wheel, 4 bushels of corn, 5 bushels of oats, half a flitch of bacon, 12 lbs of 'Roossbeff' [?roast beef] and one of my little pigs.
To godson and nephew, William Powell, 50/-, to be paid half within one year of the testator's death and the second half a year later.
Residual legatee to be David Powell,nephew, the remainder of his estate to be used to pay debts and funeral expenses with David keeping the surplus.

Executor: David Powell, nephew.

Signed by testator

Witnesses: William Williams, John Griffith and Philip Vaughan

Date of Probate: 21 November 1681 .

2. Inventory: [2pages] dated 6 December 1681 , value £58 9 0d [pence column obscured]. Appraisers Thomas Prosser, William James, Thomas Eustance, John Prichard and Philip Vaughan

Observations:

Documents include a bond dated 21 November 1681 with David Powell of St Margarets and David Price of Clodock bound in a surety of £100. With a coversheet 5 sheets in all