Nathaniel Needham of Saxelby 1637 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1637/132 and 133
The 15th day of October Anno Dom 1636
In the name of God Amen I Nathaniell Needham of Saxilbie in the countie of Leicester yeoman being sick in bodie but whole in mind of good and perfect remembrance thankes be to god for the same doe make and ordeine this my last will and testament in manner & forme following
First I bequeauth my soule to Almightie god my maker to Jesus Christ my redeemer and to the holie ghost my comforter trusting to be saved by the meritts death and passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my bodie to the earth from whence it came to be interred in the parish Church of Saxilbie
Item I give to the Church to buy a flagon for the communion vs
Item I give to the poore of Saxilbie vs
Item I give my sonn Clement Needham my young saddle nagg
Item I give to my daughter Francis Needham xx li of lawfull money when she comes to the age of one and twentie yeares or the day of her maryiage which shall first happen
Item I give to Elizabeth Needham my second daughter xx li of like money when she shall come to the age of one and twentie or the day of her mariage which shall first happen
Item I give to Katherine my third daughter xx li when she shall come to the age of one and twentie or the day of marriag which shall first happen
Item I give Susanna my yongest daughter xx li when she shall come to the age of one and twentie or the day of her marriage which shall first happen
And my will is that yf any of my sayd daughters shall depart this life before they come to the age of one and twentie, that then theire portion or portions shall remaine to be devided to those survivinge
Item I give to my mother Phillip Needham xiid
Item I give to William Needham my brother xiid
The reste of my goods undisposed my debtes being payed and funerall charges discharded & doe give to Katherine Needham my wife whom I doe make my sole executrix of this my last will and testament
In witnes hereof I have setto my hand & seale the day & yeare first above written
Nathaniell Needham his mark
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
John Neale
Georg Hubbard his mark
Katherine Needham sworn 18 April 1637, probate same day
PR/I/39/55
An Inventorie of all the goodes Chattells Cattle mooveables and unmooveables of Nathaniell Needham of Saxilbie in the countie of Leicester yeoman late deceased seene praysed and valued by us whose names are hereunder written the 22 of October 1636 [there are no names underwritten]
| Inprimis his purse and apparrell | v li |
| Item in the hall a table & forme one cubbard, one chaire, 3 stooles, a cradle, fire irons & rackinges | 40s |
| Item in the parlour one bedstead curtaines & ballans with the furniture on it | 4 li |
| Item a cubbard a table, 2 chestes, a box a truncke 3 chaires fire irons in the parlour & other | |
| implements | 50s |
| Item in the chamber 3 bedsteades one rugg 2 fetherbeds and other furniture on them | 4 li xs |
| Item in an other parlour woole | xvi li |
| Item a table a cubbard and other lumber | xxxs |
| Item in a chamber butter & cheese apples & lumber | xxxxs |
| Item in the butterie barrells brasse & other implements | 50s |
| Item in a chamber barlie, mault, wheate & a trie | xiii li vis 8d |
| Item bacon & salt | xxs |
| Item pewter & cushions | xxxxs |
| Item 4 paire of flaxen sheetes 6 payre of hempen sheetes and other llinnen | 3 li xs |
| Item in the kitchen a lead a paire of quernes cheese fatt tubbes & other implements | 3 li xs |
| Item in the boulting house coles & tubbes | xxxs |
| Item 2 hives | xs |
| Item 5 swine & 5 pigges | 4 li xs |
| Item 5 horses & geares | 18 li |
| Item x kine | 22 li |
| Item six score & nineteene sheep | 18 li |
| Item cartes & ploughes fleakes & hoffeilds and plough timber & other Fold wood | vii li |
| Item in the kilne haircloth & sackes | xxs |
| Item his books | xxs |
| Item barlie, wheate, pease, heye & wheate sowen | 70 li |
| Item money in the house & oweing | xxxx li |
| Item for thinges seene & unseene | xs |
| The total Summe | 265 li vis 8d |