Thomas Rouse of Hose 1709 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1710/58

In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Rowse of Hose in the County of Leicester Yeoman being sick in Body but of a Sound and Perfect Mind & Memory Praised be God Doe Make and ordaine this my present Last will & Testament in Manner & form following (That is to say)

First & principally I Comend my Soul Into the hands of Almighty god my Maker and Redeemer hopeing through the Merits death & Passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins And my Body I Commit to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Discression of my Executors hereafter Named

And as Touching the Disposition of Such Temporal Estate as it hath pleased Almighty god to bestow upon me I give and Dispose as followeth

First I will that my Debts & Funeral Charges shall be paid & Discharged

Imprimis I give unto my Son Thomas Rowse the sume of Thirty pounds whereof Ten pounds shall be paid when he is Fitt to be putt to a Trade and Twenty pounds more shall be paid when he attaines to the Age of Twenty one Years

Item I Give unto my Eldest Daughter Anne Rowse the Sume of Twenty pounds To be paid when shee attaines to the age of Twenty one years

Item I give unto my Daughter Mary Rowse the Sume of Twenty pounds to be paid when shee Attaines to the age of Twenty one years

Item I Give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Rowse the Sume of Twenty pounds to be paid when shee Attaines to the age of Twenty one years

Item I Give unto my Daughter Issabell Rowse the Sume of Twenty pounds to be paid when shee Attaines to the age of Twenty one years

And it is my Will that If any of my Children above Named should happen to die before their Legacies become due that the Legacie or Legacies that may soe happen Shall be Equally Divided amongst the rest of my Children above Mentioned that shall be alive And further it is my Will that My Cousin Richard Gillen of Hose In the County of Leicester and my Brother John Oliver of Aslacton in the County of Nottingham Should be Trustees to see & Cause that this my Will be Truly performed

And all the rest & Residue of my personal Estate Goods & Chattells Whatsome Ever I doe Give & bequeath unto Elizabeth my Loving wife and unto my Eldest Son John Rowse full & whole Executors of this my Last Will & Testament

And Lastly it is my Will that all my Children should be Brought upp with Cloathing Maintenance and Learning at the Cost & Charges of my Executors above Mentioned untill Each & Every one of them Attaine to the age of Sixteen years

And I do hereby Revoke Disanull & Make void all former Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made

In whittness whereof I do hereunto sett my hand and seal This Eighteenth Day of January In the year of our Lord 1708/9

                                                                                                         Thomas Rowse

Memd: that and my Brother John Oliver of Aslackton in the County of Nottingham was Interlined before the Will was Signed

John Oliver

Mary Black her Marke

Robert Hicklinge

PR/I/117/57

January the 24^th day Anno Dni 1708/9

A True & perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattels Moveable and unmoveable of Thomas Rouse of Hose late deceased Valued & praised by us whose hands are hereunto Subscribed as followeth &c

	£	s	d
Imprimis his Purse and Apparrell	005	00	00
Item in the House fire Irons two tables pewter Yarne Chairs with all other
Materialls belongeing to the house	002	14	10
It in the Kitching a Copper four pewter dishes a Cheese press with all other
Materialls in it	003	05	03
It in the Dairy a Brass pann pantions & Trenchers with all other Materialls
belonging to the Dairy	001	08	05
It in the Drink houses Barrel & Drink Flasc hoppetts with all other things
therein	001	04	06
It in 2 Parleurs 2 beds & beding Cloth & Chairs with all other Materialls in the
Parleurs	007	06	08
It in the best Chamber a bedd & bedding Chests & Drawers Linnen Cloth
Table Cloth & Napkins Linnen Sheets & Candles with all other Materialls in
& belonging to it	006	02	10
It in the Middle Chamber & Cheese Chamber 2 badd bedds & bedding wheat
and Cheeses with all other Materialls in & belonging to them	004	11	08
It in the Stables four Mares one filley & one fole	034	00	00
Beasts in the yard 12	021	05	09
Sheep in the field 38	009	10	00
Item for three Swine in the Yard and Stye	003	00	07
For Corne & Hay in the Barnes & Yard & elsewhere	025	02	00
Item for Wheatt Fallow Clotts & Pease Ground	027	12	01
It for a Waggon 2 Carts with All manner of Gears & Materialls belonging to
them	016	00	00
It for Plows & Harrows & plow Timber & all other Materialls belonging to them	002	06	02
For Maneur in the Yard a Horse trough Beast Cribbs fold Fleaks with all other
things unseen & forgotten	002	01	04
	172	12	01

Henry Parnham  )

Richard Julyan    )  Valuers &

John Oliver          )  Appraisers

Probate 3 March 1708/9, it is not clear why the Archives include the will in their 1710 records