Gabriel Bernard of Scalford 1640 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1640/138
In the name of God Amen January the 31th Ao Dom 1639 I Gabriell Bernard of Scalford in the County of Leicester husbandman beinge sickly of Body but of good & perfect memory (God be praysed therefore) doe ordayne this my Last will & Testament in manner & forme followinge
This is to say first I give & bequeave my soule to allmighty God my Creatour hopeinge & verily assuring my selfe through Gods mercy & the onely merits of Christ my onely saviour & redeemer to be partaker of life everlastinge
And my body I bequeathe to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buried in Christian Buriall in the Church or Churchyard of Scalford aforesayd at the discretion of my Executrix & for the worldly goods where with it hath pleased God to endow me with I doe despose of them in manner & forme followinge
That is to say I devise & it is my will that Alice my wife shall satisfie & pay all my debts forth of my goods & estate & afterwards the rest & residue of all my Goods & estate whatsoever I doe hereby wholly & soley give & bequeath to Alice my wife whome I doe make the sole & onely Executrix of me & of this my Last will & Testament for the maintenance of her selfe & raysinge of Portions to be given to my Children according to her discretion provided that first my funerall Charges be defrayed & defaulked out of my estate
And thus revoking all former wills by me made whatsoever I doe constitute & appointe this to be my Last will & Testament wittnesse my hand & seale here unto putt the day & year first above written
The marke & seale of Gabriell Bernard
Published & declared in the presence of
Robert Kirkby
Debts which I owe
Imprimis by Bond to Mr … Bardsey five poundes & a noble
Item to Widdow Pares five Poundes by Bond
Item to William Smyth of Scallford by Bond five Poundes
Item to John Shelton seaven Pounds & sixe shillings by Bond beside …
Item to Widdow Frances two Pounds Tenn Shillings by Bond
Item to Thomas Daft by Bond thirtie Shillinges & odd
Item to Mr Bidles sixe Pounds without Bond
Probate 9 March 1640/1
PR/I/42/166
A true & iust Inventory of all the Goods Cattell & Chattells of Gabriell Bernard late of Scallford in the County of Leicester deceased husbandman taken May the 13th Ao Dom 1640 by
Simon Stevenson
Thomas …
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis his Purse Aparrell & Girdle | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| A table with the frame & forme a bench & a little fall table | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Item an old Cubert & a Pen, stooles & Chayres | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Item Backon | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Item fire irons, hooks, a Gallitree & 2 spitts | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Item a brasse Pan one pott & 3 little kettells | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Item in the Parlour | |||
| Two Bedsteads & bedinge upon the two Bedsteads | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Item two Coveringes 2 blankets 4 Pillowes & 2 pieces of Cloth | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Item another little Bed & bedinge | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Item four Chests | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Item 3 payr of flaxen sheets 7 Pillowbeares 4 Napkins 3 Towells 2 tablecloths | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Item 2 payre of hempton Sheets & 3 payre of hardinge Sheets | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Item a Cubert | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Item 11 peeces of Pewter 6 Sawcers 6 Spoones & a Salt & 5 Candlesticks | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Item in the Buttery | |||
| Four Barrells 2 Churnes & other milking vessell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm in the Chamber over the Parlour | |||
| A Bedstead, woole, Cheese & Cheese racke & other necessaries in the Chamber | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm 2 Bottells & other small things | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| In the kitchinge 4 Peales & an Iron & other small thinges | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| In the Chamber over the kitchinge | |||
| Maute & Pease & 4 tubs and kimnells & other necessaries | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm in the Barne | |||
| Corne & Straw 2 Ploughs & 3 harrows | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm hay & other straw | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Seaven … & three Calves | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm five Mares | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm in the yard | |||
| A hovell & Cart & straw & wood | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm tenn Swine little & bigg | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| In the field | |||
| Thirty Sheepe & sheepe … | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| Itm the Crop of Corne & Grasse | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Item old Iron & thinges unnamed & forgotten | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| The Somme totall is one hundred & tenn Pounds three Shillinges & ten pence | 110 | 3 | 10 |