Henry Mann of Nether Broughton 1682 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1682/16
In the Name of God Amen upon the twentieth day of January & in the yeare of our Lord 1681/2 I Henry Mann of Neather Broughton in the County of Leicester yeoman being sick & weake in body but of good & perfect remembrance praised be God do make and ordaine this my Last will & testament in manner & forme as followeth
First I give & bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my maker & Redeemer in whom I trust to be saved And my body to be buried
Ipr: I give unto my sonne John Mann All that oxgange of land which I purchased of Richard Steele & the foure pastures which I purchased of Hugh Gill with the appurtenances thereunto belonging when hee shall accomplish the age of foure & twenty yeares, with this condition that he pay unto my son George Mann the sum of fiftie pounds when the said George shall come to the age of one & twenty yeares
Ite: I give unto my sonn George Mann all those three pastures (which I purchased of my brother Henry Browne) when the said George shall come to one & twenty yeares of age for himself & his heires for ever
Ite I give unto my sonne George the sum of fifty pounds when he shall come to one & twenty years
It I give unto the poore widows of Neather Broughton the sum of ten shillings
It I give unto Elizabeth my wife all my goods & Chattels unbequeathed she paying my debts Legacies & funeral Charges And I do hereby make her my sole executrix of this my last will & testament
Henry Mann his sig
In wittnesse whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seale the day & yeare above written In the presence of
George Man
Nicholas Man
Henry Browne
PR/I/84/23
A true Inventory of the Goods & Chattels of Henry Mann of Neather Broughton yeoman who died January the 21 in the yeare of our Lord 1681/2 as they were valued by George Browne & George Mann & Henry Orson The first day of February 1681
| £ | s | d | |
| Imp: His purse & apparel | 2 | 13 | 4 |
| It: Two Tables & foure formes | 1 | 16 | 0 |
| It: five Chaires one Landsettle two buffett stooles | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| It: fire Iron Hookes & gallow tree & other Implement | 0 | 05 | 0 |
| It: one bed one Cubboard one Chest a box & coffer | 2 | 08 | 0 |
| It: one bed & one Coffer | 0 | 06 | 0 |
| It: Three bedsteads & two Chests | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| It: Cheese & Cheese boards & trestles | 5 | 04 | 0 |
| It: four Coverlids 8 blanketts & curtaines 1 dozen of Cushions | 4 | 05 | 0 |
| It: Six paire of sheets 3 Mattresses 4 pillows 4 boulsters & pillow bear | 3 | 12 | 0 |
| It: Two table Cloaths halfe a dozen napkins & linnin & Cloath | 1 | 00 | 0 |
| It: Two stone of hempe & some yearne | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| It: one peice of wollen cloath | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| It: Ten pewter dishes 3 flagons 6 poringers & other small pewter | 2 | 08 | 0 |
| It: Two great brass pans 2 little pans one pott | 2 | 14 | 0 |
| It: Barrels & tubbs & shelves & dishes & other lumber as wheeles | 2 | 00 | 0 |
| It: two flitches of Bacon & the coals & such like | 1 | 00 | 0 |
| It: foure mares one colt & one foale | 27 | 00 | 0 |
| It: Two carts a plough & implements for husbandry | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| It: eight kine 7 heifers 5 calves | 22 | 00 | 0 |
| It: five quarter of pease 3 quarter of barley one quarter of wheat | 9 | 00 | 0 |
| It: hay & the clods for barley & pease | 16 | 00 | 0 |
| It: sheepe & cribbs & fleakes | 12 | 00 | 0 |
| It: All things seen or unseene within doors or without | 00 | 02 | 0 |
| 125 | 1 | 4 |
George Browne his marke
George Man
Henry Orson
Exhibited 22 April 1682