George Brown of Nether Broughton 1682 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1682/15
In the name of God Amen, upon the fourteenth day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1681/2 I George Browne of Neather Broughton in the County of Leicester husbandman being aged & weakely but of perfect memory & remembrance (praised be almighty God for it) do make & ordaine this my last will & Testament in manner and forme as followeth
First I commit my soule into the hands of Almighty God my maker & redeemer in whom I trust to be saved, & my body to be buried
And as for the goods which it hath pleased God to bestow upon mee, I give & bequeath as followeth
Imp: I give unto my Son Richard Browne Thirty pounds
It I give unto my daughter Jane the Summe of Thirty pounds, when shee shall accomplish the age of one & twenty years and if the said Jane shall happen to die before shee come to that age, then my will is that Ann my wife shall dispose of her part as shee pleases
It: I give unto my son William the sum of ten pounds
It. I give unto my wife Ann either ten pounds in money, or else the value of it in househould goods
It: I give unto my son Henry the sum of one shilling
It I give unto my daughter Man one shilling
It I give unto my daughter Orson one shilling
It I give unto my daughter Read one shilling
It I give unto the poore of Neather Broughton the sum of tenne shillings
It my will is that Ann my wife shall have sufficient maintenance with my son George Browne so long as shee shall live & be willing to dwell with him, but if any difference shall happen betwixt them or the like, so as my wife shall leave or go from him, then my will is that my son George shall pay unto her five pounds a yeare truly so long as shee shall live
And Lastly I give unto my son George Browne all my goods and Cattle & chattles whatsoever, he paying my debts Legacies & funerall Charges And do hereby make him the onely Executor of this my Last will & Testament
In wittnesse whereof I have here unto put my hand & seale the day and yeare first above written
George Browne his marke
In the presence of
William Browne
Henry Smyth
Henry Browne
PR/I/84/22
March 29 1682
A true Inventory of the goods & Chattels of George Browne of Neather Broughton in the County of Leicester husbandman who died the seaventeenth day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1681/2 as they were valued by Henry Smyth, William Browne & others
| £ | s | d | |
| Imp: His purse & apparell | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| It Two tables & formes & stooles & six chaires & reckings & hooks &c | 2 | 00 | 0 |
| It one table & forms & chaires one cubboard one bed & bedding | 5 | 00 | 0 |
| It Little parlour a bed & a table | 1 | 00 | 0 |
| It Little chambers two Beds & coffers & other things | 2 | 00 | 0 |
| It Best chamber two beds & bedding & other linings & two Chests | 15 | 00 | 0 |
| Store chamber one quarter of wheat six Strike of malt six quarter of barley | |||
| eight quarter of oats | 12 | 00 | 0 |
| It Cheese boards & tressels a try & other things | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| It four bacon flitches & other provision | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| It Three wheeles & blades & linin yarne & reele & cushions | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| It Two Brasse potts 8 brasse pans & other brasse | 3 | 00 | 0 |
| It pewter dishes & candlesticks & other small pewter | 2 | 00 | 0 |
| It Barrels & tubbs & churne & peales & other lumber in kitchin | 3 | 00 | 0 |
| It Three carts & cartgearse and plow & harrow & geares | 12 | 00 | 0 |
| It Hovels & plow timber & other implements for husbandry | 05 | 00 | 0 |
| It Sheep cribs & beastcribs & fleakes | 01 | 00 | 0 |
| It hay & horse corne & such like | 04 | 00 | 0 |
| It Seaven oxgange of corne of the groung & other corne | 74 | 00 | 0 |
| It Eight mares a colt & three foales | 66 | 00 | 0 |
| It Eight cows eight heifers & two yeareling | 34 | 00 | 0 |
| It Three score & odd sheepe | 22 | 00 | 0 |
| It Three swine | 02 | 00 | 0 |
| Lastly Things seen & unseene | 03 | 00 | 0 |
| 276 | 00 | 0 |
William Browne Senier
Henry Smyth
William Browne Junier
Exhibited 22 April 1682