Held at: | National Library of |
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
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:
2. Inventory: dated
Observations:
The documents include a bond dated
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 |
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It one feather bed one flock bed four bolsters three coverlets |
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It one table cloth one dozen of hurden napkins one flaxen |
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It three bedsteads three coffers two table boards 2 benches |
| |
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It one vat three trinds 2 barrels three stands & two tubs |
| 5 |
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It one cauldron one butter tub three pails and a churn |
| 2 |
|
It one hogshead two 'pickatts'[piggins1 ?] and certain other wooden |
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It one broche one iron dripping pan two pair of pot hooks |
| 1 |
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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 |
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It two kine | 2 |
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It two little bullocks | 2 |
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It one two year old colt |
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It four sheep |
| 2 |
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It six small pigs |
| 3 |
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It |
| 13 |
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It oats unthreshed in the barn |
| 7 |
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It hay in the barn |
| 6 | 8 |
It corn lately sown |
| 6 | 8 |
It hemp and flax unthreshed |
| 1 |
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It one dung crib one plough one horse harrow one carr |
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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.
Ref: ldhsarchive_mfs_mar_0718