Brian Stringer of Saxelby 1679 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1679/149
In the name of God Amen January the 27th 1679 I Bryan Stringer of Saxelby in the County of Leicester husbandman beinge weake & sicke of body but of good & perfect memorie praysed be the Lord for the same doe ordaine & make this my last Will & Testament in manner & forme followinge
First I bequeath my Soule to Almighty God my Creator hopeinge & verily assureinge my selfe through Gods mercies & Christ Merrits to be partaker of life everlasting & my body I bequeath to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buried in Christian buriall in the Churchyard of Saxelby aforesaid at the discretion of my Executor & for my worldly goods wherewith the Lord hath endowed me withall I doe dispose of them in manner & forme followinge
Imprimis I give to my loveinge wife Margarett Stringer & my two youngest daughters Ann Stringer & Mary Stringer Thirtie Pounds amongst them one ten Pounds to be payd one year after my death & the other ten Pounds the second yeare & the last ten Pounds the third yeare
Allsoe I give my loveinge wife three of my best Cows & ten of my best Sheepe & halfe my househould Goods
Item I give to my loveinge sonne Thomas Stringer five Shillings
Item I give to my loveinge daughter Elizabeth Stringer five Pounds and a brasse pott & one Cubberd
Item I give to my loveinge sonne Charles Stringer all the rest of my goods undisposed hee payinge my Legacies as I have bequeathed them whom I make Executor of this my last will and Testament hee plowinge a Acre of land which belonges to the house which his mother liveth in for her use soe longe as hee liveth in the towne & keepeth a teame he likewise is to pay my debts & funerall charges
Thus revokinge all former wills I make this my last will & Testament
Wittnesse my hand & seale hereunto put the day & yeare first above written
The marke & seale of Bryan Stringer
Written Sealed & delivered in the presence of
John Kirkby
The marke of Thomas Gamble
The marke of Robert Cooper
PR/I/81/183
A true & perfect inventory of the goods, Cattell & Chattells of Bryan Stringer husbandman late of Saxelby in the County of Leicester deceased taken March the 5th Ao Dom 1679 by
Willm Nedham
The marke of Tho: Gamble
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis his purse & Apparrell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| In the house Itm one table, one forme, one Cubbard, 2 Chayres, one fire iron | |||
| & one racking, hookes & tonges | 0 | 16 | 6 |
| In the Parlour Itm 2 bedsteads & one preasse | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Item 2 other preasses, 2 boxes, 2 barrells, & one Coffer, one thrall & 2 … | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Itm 2 Coverings, 2 blanketts, one flock bed, one matrice & 2 pillowes | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Itm 7 flaxen sheetes, 3 hemping sheets, 2 flaxen pillow beares, 2 hemping pillow | |||
| beares, 2 flaxen towells | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Itm 3 brasse pots, 5 brasse pans & one warming pan | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm 9 pewter dishes, 3 pewter candlesticks, one pewter flagon, | |||
| 22 pewter spoones, 2 porringers, 2 sawcers, one pinte | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| In the Chamber It one bedstead, one wooden garner, one borded … & …, | |||
| 2 coffers & kimnell, 3 wheales, one Reele | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Itm one Chest one Covering, one blanket, one matrice & 2 pillows | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| Itm 4 bacon flitches | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm wheate, barley, pease & hey | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm for the Clots sowen & unsowen | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm 2 geldings, 3 mares, one Colt & one yearling foale | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm 5 Cowes, 3 heifers, 2 yearling Calves | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Sheepe | 13 | 13 | 4 |
| Itm 2 Carts & Cartgeares, 2 ploughs & plowegeares, 2 harrows | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm 2 hovells, 2 ladders, fence fleakes & fold fleakes | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm thinges unnamed & forgotten | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| The summe total is one hundred twenty & foure poundes eighteene shillings | 124 | 18 | 4 |
| & foure pence |
Exhibited 13 March 1679/80