Description:

Documents

1. Will: dated 29 April 1637
Request for body to be buried in the parish church of Clodock .
Beneficiaries:
To kinsman, James Rowland, £5.
To uncle, John Thomas Parry, £4.
To sister's daughter, Dorothy Mapp, £3.
To Catherine Mapp, sister's second daughter, £3.
To aunt, Alce [Alice] Vaughan , 20/-.
To kinsman, David Gilbert, 10/-
To Myles Powell, clerk, 5/-
50/- [£2  10s] to be distributed at his funeral.
All sums of money to be paid within one month of his death.

Executor: kinsman, James Rowland.

Marked by the testator.

Witnesses: William Gilbert, John Thomas Parry, Myles Powell, clrk.

Date of probate: 5 May 1637 .  

2. Inventory: dated 5 May 1637 ; value £20 2  0d . Appraisers: Lewis Gilbert, John Thomas Parry, Myles Powell,clrk.

Observations:

The documents include a bond dated 5 May 1637 with bounden James Rowland of Clodock, tailor and Richard Hustie of Brecon town, yeoman in a surety of £100..
His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.
                                   
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