Edmund Gregory of Saxelby 1683 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1683/11
In the name of god Amen I Edmund Gregory of Saxilby in the County of Leicester yeoman being of sound memory (Blessed be god) though weake in body, do ordain this my last will & Testament in manner & form following
My Soule I commend into the hands of god who gave it & my body to the earth from whence it was taken to be decently buried according to the discretion of my Executors
And for my worldly goods I thus dispose of them
Inprim I give & bequeath unto John Goodicary & William Goodicary, the sonnes of John Goodicary of Holliwell in the County of Leicester the summe of Twenty shillings A peice to be paid unto them severally when they shall accomplish the severall ages of fifteen yeares
Item I hereby give & bequeath unto Mary & Frances (two of the daughters of the abovesaid John Goodcary) the summe of Five pounds a peice to be paid unto them when they shall accomplish the severall ages of Fifteen yeares
Item I also hereby give & bequeath unto Elizabeth & Anne, two other daughters of the abovesaid John Goodicary, the summe of three pounds a peice, to be paid unto them when they shall accomplish the severall ages of fifteen yeares
Item I hereby give & bequeath unto Edmund Gregory the sonne of John Gregory of Saxilby in the County of Leicester the summe of Forty shillings, to be paid unto him when he shall accomplish the age of fifteen yeares & I also give & bequeath unto John, another of the sonnes of the aforesaid John Gregory, the summe of Twenty shillings, to be paid unto him when he shall accomplish the age of fifteen yeares
Item I hereby give & bequeath all my household goods, be it brasse, pewter, bedding, or of what kinde soever, unto Elizabeth & Mary, Frances & Anne, the daughters of John Goodicary aforesaid, to be divided amongst them according to the discretion of John Goodicary & Mary, the Father & mother at the said chilldren
Lastly I do hereby ordain & appoint John Goodicary of Holliwell & John Gregory of Saxilby joynt Executors of this my last will & Testament & do hereby give & bequeath unto the said John Goodicary & John Gregory Twelve pence a peice for their paines
Edmund Gregory
Sign’d, seal’d, publish’d & declared by the said Edmund Gregory April the 10th Anno 1682 in the presence of us
Thomas Bleay
John Kirkby
John Clarke his marke
PR/I/85/15
A True & perfect Copy of the Inventory of all the goods & Chattells of Edmund Gregory of Saxilby in the County of Leicester, lately deceased, together with the worth & value of them; as they were apprized by the Inhabitants of Saxilby aforesaid, whose names are hereunto subscribed April the 20th day Anno Dom 1682
| £ | s | d | |
| Inprim purse & Apparrell | 2 | 00 | 00 |
| Goods in the house | |||
| A great Table & a little one: A Form, Two Chaires & A stoole | 00 | 6 | 6 |
| Foure shelves | 00 | 1 | 00 |
| One Racking Three hookes One Tosting Forke One Beife Forke, one pair of | |||
| Tongs, one Fire Shovel one Landiron | 00 | 4 | 3 |
| One Frying pan, Two pair of pothooks One Crow of Iron | 00 | 2 | 4 |
| Goods in the Chamber over the house | |||
| Two Tubbs One Churn One pair of Tressells One Trie one Kimnell one Form | 00 | 7 | 00 |
| Goods in the Chamber over the parlour | |||
| Barley, about one Bushell | 00 | 4 | 00 |
| A winnow Cloath | 00 | 1 | 6 |
| Goods in the Chamber over the upper Parlour | |||
| Foure wheeles, Two bedstedds Two Coffers one Board | 00 | 10 | 4 |
| Goods in the Upper Parlour | |||
| Two Bedstedds | 00 | 13 | 4 |
| Two Feather Bedds Three Boulsters Five Pillowes | 3 | 00 | 5 |
| Eight Blanketts Foure Coverlidds | 2 | 4 | 00 |
| Flaxen sheets one paire hempen sheets Two paire harden sheets Three paire | |||
| Foure napkins Six pillowbeares two Table cloaths one hand Towell | 1 | 12 | 00 |
| Two setts of Curtains & vallence with one Carpet | 00 | 13 | 4 |
| Six pewter dishes one Candelstick one pinte one porrenger Two spoones one | |||
| Chamber pot Three salt sellers one Bason | 00 | 10 | 2 |
| Four panns & a pot A skimmer A Brasse Ladel A Brasse Pestel & mortar | |||
| A warming pan | 00 | 18 | 6 |
| A woodden mortar & an iron pestel sixteen Trenchers | 00 | 1 | 6 |
| Two … one Barrell | 00 | 4 | 00 |
| One heckle | 00 | 1 | 00 |
| Three pailes one Tubb one Bowle | 00 | 6 | 6 |
| A Twiggen Chaire | 00 | 3 | 00 |
| One Livery Cupboard | 00 | 6 | 00 |
| One Table Three Coffers One Trunke | 00 | 9 | 00 |
| A Leather Bagg A Broileing iron | 00 | 1 | 00 |
| Some other odd things in the same roome | 00 | 5 | 00 |
| The Crop upon the ground | 14 | 10 | 00 |
| Three heifers | 3 | 15 | 00 |
| Another heifer | 2 | 5 | 00 |
| Ten sheep | 4 | 00 | 00 |
| Oweing for Two Cowes | 4 | 14 | 00 |
| Summa Totalis | 44 | 9 | 8 |
John Kirkby
John Grale
Exhibited 18 April 1683