Description:

1. Will: [2 pages] dated 13 or 30 January 1709 [the exact date is unclear as it is written 'thirteeth].
Beneficiaries: To wife, Mary, for her lifetime, his house and accompanying lands and buildings, identified as lying in St Margarets and purchased by the testator's father, Thomas Lewis from Edward Wright gent and his wife Elinor and Mary Wright, widow [presumably Edward's mother]. On his wife death the house etc to pass to his brother John Lewis.
To brother, John Lewis, his great Bible, the table in the hall and a bedstead in the cellar.
To nephews and nieces, sons and daughters of brother, John Lewis the following legacies:
To John , £15 ; to William £5; to Anne, £10; to Rowland, £10; to Elizabeth the youngest daughter, £10.
To cousin, Anne, the wife of James Griffits of Bitterley in Shropshire , £5.
To Thomas Jones, cousin, St [?]Deberax in Herefordshire, £5.
  'Whereas I have formerly bought an estate in Crasswall in this county and settled the same in reversion on my cousin Thomas Jenkins second son of Thomas Jenkins of Hunthouse…with a provisoe to reserve to myself the liberty in my last will and testament to dispose of such sums of money not exceeding …one hundred pounds of wch money I give..'.:
To Walter and Willim the sons of Thomas Jenkins of Hunthouse £10 apiece. Also to Mary, Jane and Henry the 3 children of Thomas Jenkins of Hunthouse £20 each. Which £80 is to be paid by Thomas Jenkins from the Craswall estate a year after wife Mary's death.
To the poor of six parishes or townships, Dulas, St Margarets, Newton, Michaelchurch Escley, Craswall and Cusop 20/- each
Residual legatee, wife, Mary

Executrix: wife, Mary Lewis.

Signed by testator

Witnesses: Joseph Exton, Thomas Griffiths and John Watkins

Date of Probate: 3 April 1711 .

2. Inventory: dated 6 January 1710 , value £78 10 6d. Appraisers Joseph Exton, Thomas Smyth, John Watkins and Charles Price

Observations:

Will inventory and coversheet; 4 sheets in all. The leaving of money to the poor of more than his own parish seems to indicate that this man had wide interests across the northern half of the Hundred.