James Cook of Stathern 1662 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1662
January 28th 1656
In the name of god amen I James Cooke of Stathorne in the Countie of Leicester Taylour being weake in body but of good and perfect memorie (praised bee god) doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner & forme following
First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almightie god hoping by the meritts of Jesus xt my alone saviour to have remission of my sinnes & life eternall in glory everlasting
My body I bequeath to the earth from whence it came to bee buried in the church yard of Stathorne, and my worldly goods and outward estate, that it hath pleased god to blesse mee with all I dispose of it as followeth
First I give to my sonne Thomas halfe my house and land at Eaton in the County of Leicester, when hee doth accomplishe the age of one & Twenty yeares, & after the decease of my wife Ellin all that my Messuage & land to him & his heires for ever one bed stead & a coffer
Item I give to his sonne James Twenty pounds when hee doth accomplish the age of one and Twenty yeares, Ten pounds to bee payd by my sonne Thomas, & the other ten pounds by wife Ellin, one great Pott, one seeled chest an halfe headed bed, and my bible
Lastly all the rest of my goods moveable & unmoveable I give unto my wife Ellin whome I make sole Executrix of this my last will & testament
James Cooke his sea[lost behind seal]
Witnesses hereof
Richard Rouse
… Wiseman
Probate Leicester 17 April 1662
PR/I/58/17
A true and perfect inventory of all the goods cattles and chattles moveable and inmoveable of James Cooke of Statherne late deceased taken the 15th of Aprill 1657 by James Rouse Richard Thompson Will Robinson Thomas Healy
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis purse & apparell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| It in the hall one table one cupboard one chaire two ioyn’d formes | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| It in pewter dishes 2 chaffon dishes, 3 brasse candlesticks 3 salt cellers, | |||
| 2 pewter cups 2 panns 1 pot | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| It 2 kitts 1 old cupboard 1 old cuffer 2 stooles fireiron & rackings 1 paire of tongs | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| In the parlour 3 flaxen sheets 2 paire of hempen sheets 6 napkins 2 pillowbears | |||
| 1 towell, 2 tablecloaths a cupboard cloath | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| It 1 bedstead, 2 coverlids, 1 blanquet, 1 boulster 2 pillows 3 coffers 1 whollen | |||
| wheele, 2 boxes | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| In the buttery 1 barrell, coales | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| In the chamber 4 brasse pannes 1 brasse pot 3 chesses 2 old tubbs 1 linnen | |||
| wheele | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 bedstead, 4 strike corne 2 & halfe … 1 flich of bacon 1 cheesheck with all | |||
| other implements | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| In the yeard 2 cowes & 2 calves | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Thirty sheepe | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 leathers, 2 fence trees, offall wood | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 3 henns & a cocke | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Crop at Eaton & Stathorne | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Debts oweing by Henry Gibbon | 2 | 13 | 4 |
| By widdow Simpson of Eaton | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| By Roger Caunt | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| The totall Summe is | 35 | 0 | 8 |
Richard Rouse
James Rouse
Richard Tompson
William Robinson [his mark]
Thomas Healey
Exhibited 17 April 1662