Richard Healy of Harby 1694 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1695/25

In the Name of God Amen The Sixth day of April in the yeare of our Lord God 1694

I Richard Hely of Harbye in the county of Leicester Husbandman being sicke and weak in body but of sound and perfect Mind and memory (praised be God) calling to mind the frailtis of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye have thought fit to make and ordeine and do by these presents make and ordeine this my last will and Testament in manner as followeth That is to say

First I recommend my soule into the hands of God that gave it; my body I commend unto the earth to be in Christian and decent Manner Buried att the discretion of my Executors herafter named

As touching my worldly goods (my debts being first well and truly paid and my funerall charges defrayed by my Executors herafter named) I give, devise, and dispose of them in such manner as form as followeth

First I give and bequeath unto my deare Mother one guinea

Item I give and bequeath unto my Brother Charles Hely of Cheme in the county of Leicester Blacksmith the summe of one shilling of good and lawfull money of England to be paid within one yeare after my decease

Item I give and bequeath unto Charls Hely infant Sonne to my Brother Charls Hely above named the Summe of five pounds to be putt out and improved by my Executors for the said infant untill he the said infant shall come unto the age of one and twenty years

Item I give and bequeath unto Iliner [?] Hely Infant Daughter of my abovenamed Brother Charls Hely the Summe of five pounds to be improved for her by my Executors untill Shee shall come to the age on and twenty years provided that if either of the children dye before he or shee come to the age of one and twenty years, then the surviver shall have both five pounds with what improvement shall be made thereupon

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Brother William Hely of Kerby Bellows in the county of Leicester Miller the summe of thirty pounds to be paid within a year and a day after my decease

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Brother John Hely the summe of thirty pounds to be paid within one yeare after my decease and likewise the possession of the farme att Harby which I rent of the Earle of Rutland

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Brother Henry Hely of Great Dolby in the county of Leicester the summe of thirty pounds to be paid within one yeare after my decease

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Brother James the summe of twenty pounds to be paid when he shall come to the age of one and twenty years

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Sister Anne Hely the Summe of fourty pounds to be paid within one yeare after my decease

Likewise I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Whittle the daughter of Ralph Whittle of Harbye an ewe and a lamb

Likewise I give and bequeath unto my Deare Father and my Uncle Richard Hely of Eastwell one Guinea each

The overplus of my Estate that shall remaine after these things above shall be performed I leave to be divided amongst my Brothers William John Henry and James and My Sister Anne in such proportion as my Executors shall think fit

Lastly I do my these presents appoint ordeine and declare my dear Father Henry Hely of Newball in the parish of Ouson [?] in the County of Leicester and my Unckle Richard Hely of Eastwell in the same county joynt Executors of this my last will and testament

In wittness whereof I have herunto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare above written

                                                                                                         Richard Hely his mark

Sealed published and declared in the present of

John Hubbard

Kaleb Whittle

Robert Peete

PR/I/99 A Trew Inventory of the Goods And Chattles of Richard Healey husbandman Late of Harby in the County of Leicester who departed this Life the fifteenth of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1694

Imprimis His Purs and Apparill	2	10	0
In the Halle
1 fire Iryrne & frogs 1 Pr of hooks 1 Gallobaulk pr of bellow 1 pr of Tongs and
fire shovle 1 old Stoole	0	07	6
In the Kichin
1 hung pan to brew withall 2 milk paills 1 water paill 3 tubs and 1 mash fat all at	1	07	0
In the Pantery
2 puter dishes 3 bras pans 1 frying pan 2 wooden boules 3 wooden dishes
1 Lanthorne 3 pantions 1 … dish 1 puter mug all att	0	17	0
In the Dearey
2 wooden platers 2 pippins 1 bread … 1 backen flick and a peice 1 barrill
2 Shelves 1 Stricke all at	1	0	0
In the Parler
4 old chears 1 table 1 chist 1 trundle bead 1 Teaster bed 2 wool pillows
1 woole bolster 1 wool bead 2 old sheets 2 old blankits 1 old coverlid
1 set of old curtain and Roods all at	1	5	0
In the Chamber
1 bedsted and bedin 12 Strick of barley and 2 of wheate all at	2	10	0
In the yard
Plows and harrows and other materialls belong to them the well and hors
trefe	1	15	0
2 Pigs	1	06	8
In the Barne
1 waggon & 2 carts 1 old fan collers Gears and holters	9	5	0
4 Geldings 1 mare and 1 mar and fole 1 filley	23	10	0
In the Close
6 cows and 2 heffers 1 bull and 4 Rearing calves all at	31	0	0
In the field
69 Ship and 28 fould fleaks 1 old hovill all at	35	12	6
For the maner in the yard and D… and … & hens all at	01	12	6
8 oxgang of corne and gras at	70	5	0
4 Acker of corne in Great Crankwell	06	2	6
For all other things not known of	00	1	6
Sum Totall	190	7	2

Ralph Whittle     )  Apprasers

Willm King          )  of this

Barth …                )  Inventory

Probate 26 May 1694