Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1647/114

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection; Will and documents for Katherine Prichard, widow

Place name:

St Margarets

Date:

1647

Description:


Documents

1 Will: dated 25 August 1647
Beneficiaries:
To daughter Jane, one little brass kettle and one old bolster.
To grandchild James Prichard, one feather bolster.
To grandchild, Katherine Prichard, daughter of son James Prichard, one pewter platter.
To son in law Thomas James 'all my corn and grain upon the ground and in the house and all goods cattle and chattels whatsoever towards the paying of debts and funeral expenses'.

Executor: son in law, Thomas James with ' my worthy and very good landlord Robert Kempe' as overseer.

Marked by testator

Witnesses: Robert Kempe, Anne Church, Thomas Harrys and Walter Phillipps.
 
Probate date:
7 September 1647
   
2. Inventory: dated
6 September 1647 ; value £9 18  10d. Appraisers: Humphrey Jones, Lewis Legg and Abraham James..

 

 

Observations:

The documents include a bond  dated 7 September 1647 with bounden Thomas James of St Margarets, yeoman and Walter Prichard of Clodock, gent in a surety of £40
She has a very detailed inventory but her stuff is of very small value.
Her inventory is reproduced with modern spelling                                   
           
                                    Inventory



 

  £

 s   

d

Imprimis  her wearing apparel

 

  5

 

It    one feather bed  one flock bed  four bolsters  three coverlets
    two pillows   two pillow beers of flax  a pair of flaxen sheets
    and four pairs of hurden sheets 7 two blankets



  1
 



10

 

It    one table cloth  one dozen of hurden napkins  one flaxen
    towel and two cushions




  5

 

It    three bedsteads  three coffers two table boards  2 benches
     and four forms

 

  
  5

 

It    one vat  three trinds  2 barrels  three stands & two tubs

 

  5

 

It    one cauldron  one butter tub  three pails and a churn

 

  2

 

It    one hogshead  two 'pickatts'[piggins1 ?] and certain other wooden
    vessels

 


  1

 

It    one broche  one iron dripping pan  two pair of pot hooks

 

  1

 

It    one brass skimmer  one basting spoon and one pot link

 

 

 6

It      one chair with other small stools

 

 

 6

It    one brass posnet  six pewter platters one pewter candlestick     
    two saucers and one little brass candlestick and a salt cellar

 


  2

 

It    two kine

  2

 

 

It    two little bullocks

  2

 

 

It    one two year old colt
    one year old heifer and two weaning calves


  1

 

 

It    four sheep

 

  2

 

It    six small pigs

 

  3

 

It    Rye in the barn unthreshed

 

13

 

It    oats unthreshed in the barn

 

  7

 

It    hay in the barn

 

  6

  8

It    corn lately sown

 

  6

  8

It    hemp and flax unthreshed

 

  1

 

It    one dung crib  one plough  one horse harrow  one carr
    one yoke  one carr bridle  one 'toprall'[tumbrall2 ?]  one tow & an
    iron bar




  2

 

It    working tools and other small implements of husbandry

 

 

  6

 

  £ 9

 18

 10d

                       
                                                Suma total  ixli   xviijs   xd         
By us
            Humphrey Jones
            Ludovici[Lewis] Legg
            Abraham James      

1
Piggin similar to a kellorne, a small wooden milk pail with one stave longer which was used as a handle - Words from Wills
2
Tumbrill  a high sided tipping cart often used for dung - Words from Wills.


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