Robert Kilby of Grimston 1667 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1667
In the name of God Amen the seaventeenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand six hundred sixtie and seaven I Robert Kilbie of Grimston in the County of Leicester Shepard beinge weake of body but of sound and perfect memory praysed be God doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following
First I give and bequeath my Soule into the hands of Allmighty God my Creator in full assurance that through his mercy and the merits of Christ Jesus my Saviour I shall have free pardon and remission of all my sins And my body I comend unto the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named
And my worldly Goods to bee distributed as hereafter is expressed
First I give and bequeath all my land in Grimston and the house wherein I inhabite to Robert Kilbie my Sonne and his heires and if my Sonne Robert Kilbie depart this life without heires of his body begotten then my minde is that Henry Kilbie my Second Sonne shall have the same house and lande to him and his heires And for want of heires of his Body Then to my Daughter Ann and her heires and assignes forever
And my minde is that my Wife shall hould the house and land until my Sonne Robert Kilbie shall accomplish the age of one and twenty yeares and then hee to enter
Item I give to John Kilbie my Sonne one Shillinge
Item I give unto my Sonne William Kilbie one Shillinge
Item it is my will that my Sonne Robert Kilbie shall pay to my Sonne Henry Kilbie when hee doth come to the age of one and twenty yeares fifteene Pounds
Item that he shall pay to my Daughter Ann Kiblie when shee shall come to the age of one and twenty yeares ten Pounds if he injoye my Estate
Item I give unto my Daughter Margerett one Shillinge
Item I give and bequeath unto my Wife all my Goods Cattell and Chattells and debts of what nature or kinde soever and I make and ordaine her to be the Executrix of this my last Will and doe hereby revoke and renounce all former Wills by me made
In Wittnesse whereof I have sett my hande and seale the day and yeare above written
The marke and Seale of Robert Kilbie
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
John Kirkby
The marke of Robert Simpson
The marke of Thomas Day
Probate 9 October 1667
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A true and perfect Inventorie of all the Goods Cattel and Chattells of Robert Kilbie late of Grimston in the County of Leicester Shephard deceased, taken June the 6th Anno Dom 1667 by
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis his purse Apparell and girdle | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Item in the house one Cubberd one Table one buffett forme, one buffett stoole, | |||
| 3 Cheares 12 dishes of puter 2 poringers 6 Sausers 2 Candlestickes one Sault, | |||
| one bible one flaginger one Chafeindish one fall Table | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Item in the Parlour 2 Beds with the furniture one Chest 3 Coffers one warmeing | |||
| pan one lookeinge glass 6 paire of Sheets one Towell one table cloth 4 pillow | |||
| beares 6 napkins | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Item in the milke house 4 brasse panns 2 brasse potts 2 barrills 3 tubs one thrale | |||
| 3 formes 2 pailes 4 chease fats one pestill and morter one paire of cabberds and | |||
| 2 spitts | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| Item in the Chambers 4 Strikes of corne one Table one Shelfe one greate forme | |||
| 3 wheeles one churne one bedstead one bacon flich one tub one cimnile | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Item 3 Cowes and one pigge | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| Item 5 Ewes and Lambs and 2 Lambe hoggs | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| Item 2 Acer of barley and 2 of pease | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| Item for things unnamed and forgotten | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| The Summe totall is | 30 | 9 | 8 |
John Neale
William James
The marke of Robert Simson
Bond, bound Anne Kilbie widow of Grimston and Nicholas Burges yeoman of Grimston 1 October 1667, condition bound Anne Kilby relict and executrix of Robert Kilbie late of Grimston to execute will
Signum Anne Kilby
Nicklis Burgis