John Kirk of Scalford 1669 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1669
In the Name of God Amen I John Kirke of Scalford in the Countye of Leister sheepeheard being weake in body but of perfect memory & understanding (praised bee God therefore) doe make & ordaine this my last will & testament in maner & forme following
First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God hoping to be saved onely by the merits & mediation of his son my Saviour Jesus xt
My body I bequeath unto the earth from whence it was taken decently to be interr’d at the discretion of my Executor hoping for resurrection unto life
And for the worldly estate which God hath lent mee I give & dispose of it as followeth
Imprimis I give & bequeath unto Anne Wallis my kinswoman living at Melton ten pounds of Current English money to bee payed her within one yeare after my decease
Also I give her one of those bease now in the yard which shee shall make choice of
Ite I give & bequeath unto Richard Kirke of Scalford my kinsman eight pounds of Current English money to bee payed within one yeare after my decease
Item I give unto the other daughter of my brother Richard Kirke living at Hallaughton & named Alice five pounds of Current English money to bee payed her within one yeare after my decease
Item I give unto Richard Love [?] of Turlanghton my kinsman twenty shillings of Current English money to bee paied within one yeare after my decease and five shillings more to Joane Ruddle of Langham
Item I give unto Margaret Moore that liveth with mee ten shillings
All the rest of my estate goods cattels or chattels bills bonds & debts dues & demands whatever I give & bequeath the same unto Thomas Burbidge of Scalford who maried my kinswoman desiring him to see my debts payd and my funerall chardges, whom also I doe make Sole Executor of this my last will & testament
John Kirke his marke
Signed sealed and published the first day of Aprill in the yeare of our Ld xt 1669 In the presence of
Willm Coles
Jane Butler her marke
Probate 29 April 1669
PR/I/69/17
A true and perfect Inventory of all the goods Chattels and Cattels of which John Kirke of Scalford in the Countye of Lester lately deceased died seized taken by Donhalt Freeman of the same Gentln: And Stephen Awood yeoman Aprill the 12th 1669
| Imp: his purse & wearing apparell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ite: in the house one table two forms five pewter dishes and sixe brasse pans & | |||
| one brasse pott, three chairs with some other odd things | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| Ite: In the parlour two bedsteds three Coverlids foure paire of blankits three | |||
| bowlsters three matrices sixe paire of sheets foure pillow beares tow napkins & | |||
| one tablecloth five coffers & five pillows | 3 | 14 | 6 |
| Ite: In the chamber one bedstead two tubbs one kimnell & two wheeles | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Ite: In the buttery three barrels & 5 pails | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Ite: In the Grange grounds foureteene ews with their lambs, & two lambe hoggs | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Ite: In the same grounds tow cows | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Ite: In the yard two cows and one calfe | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| It: In Scalford feild ten sheepe | 3 | 6 | 8 |
| Ite: a little hovell of pease | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ite: The crop of corne uppon the ground | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| It: In the yard tow stour piggs | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Ite: In debts owing to him sperat & desperate | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| It: In goods either forgotten or not considerable | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Sum: | 52 | 3 | 2 |
Don: Freeman
Steven Awoode