Thomas Walker of Stathern 1600 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/221/66
In the name of god Amen the sixte daie of January in the yere of our lord god a thousand fyve hundred nyntye and eight I Thomas Walker of Stathorne in the county of Leycester husbandman sicke in bodye of whole and perfect remembrance thanks be to almighty god doe ordeyne and make This my last Will & Testament in manner & forme folowinge
Firste I bequeth my soule unto almighty god & to my saviour Jesus Christe my onlye saviour & redeemer And my bodye to the earth from whence it came
Itm I give & bequeth to Thomas walker my eldest sone all my copye hould lands in Derbysheyre & one fetherbedd with a boulster a coverlette a blanket one paire of sheetes which he hath in his owen custodye aleadie
Also I give unto him a bason and a candelsticke
Itm I give & bequeth to my sonne Willm Walker foure pounds in money to be paied within the space of two yeares next after my decease
Itm I give & bequeath to Johan … my kinswoman my cupbord standing in my hall
Itm I give & bequeath to Randell my sone my draught wholly that is to saie fyve horses & mares with carte & carte geares plowe & plowe geares which carte is the better of the twane
Itm I give to my sone Randell the lease & all the Intereste of my ferme whearin I nowe dwell
All the reste of my goods unbequeathed my debts Legacies and funeralls being discharged I will shalbe equally devyded betwixt Randell my sonne and Johan … my kinswoman And I make Randell my sonne my full executor
All the wills heretofore made I doe verily forsake And I acknowledge this to be my last will
In wittnes whereof I sett my hand the daie & yere above written
Wittnesses Thomas Rouse Henrye Greene Thomas Towers & Thomas Allame
Probate 12 December 1600
PR/I/18/96
The Inventorie of all the goods & chattels moveable & unmoveable of Thomas Walker of Stathorne deceased prysed indifferently by Thomas Rowsse Thomas Towers Thomas Allame & Henrye Greene the xixth of Novembre in the xliiith yere of our Soveraigne lady Elizabeth &c as foloweth 1600
Imprimis in his purse & his apparrell | xvis viiid |
Ite two bedsteads ii fetherbedds iii boulsters ii matresses & iii pillowes | iii li |
Itm iii paire of flaxen sheets iii paires of harden & iii paires of hempen | xliiiis |
Itm v coverlettes | xxxs |
Itm iii coffers | xiis |
Itm the painted clothes with all other implements in the parler | xs |
Itm a bedstead in the chamber a spininge Whele ii stones of hempe certen wollen yarne with | |
scepes & other implements | xxs |
Itm in the hall iii tables iii formes ii buffett stooles & ii cheares | xvis viiid |
Itm one cupborde | xxs |
Itm ii brasse pottes ii pannes iiii ketles a dripinge panne & a scomer | iii li |
Itm x pewter platters a basen a peuter potte & a salte | xiiis iiiid |
Itm iii candelsticks a chaffen dishe and a lavar | xs |
Itm ii gar…s of bord & ii shelfes | iiiis |
Itm painted clothes in the hall | vs |
Itm ii spites a paire of cobeirons | iiis |
Itm the fyer eirne the gallowes a paire of tonges a fyer panne with the potte hookes | vis |
Itm viii cushens | vis viiid |
Itm iiii tubbes iiii peales a knydinge trough with dishes and trenchers | vis viiid |
Itm in the stable ii geldings ii mares a fylle | ix li |
Itm one fylle more | xxs |
Itm v keyn one heikfer & a calfe | vii li |
Itm sixe swyne | xxs |
Itm viii sheepe | xxiiiis |
Itm the better carte & carte geares plowe & plowe geares | iii li |
Itm one old carte | xxvis viiid |
Itm one hovell as it standeth with syde peeces & over … with all the pales in the yerde & the | |
wodd in the same yerd | liiis iiiid |
Itm ii Irone harrowes & ii lathers | xs |
Itm ix … iii tubbes & ii swyne troughs | viiis |
Itm the pullen in the yerd | iiis iiiid |
Itm the corne & hey in the yerd | x li |
Ite the Lease | xxs |
Suma Tolis | lv li xixs iiiid |