John Tallas of Plungar 1686 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1686/104

In the name of god amen I John Tallas of Plungar in the county of Leicester being in my perfect sences, tho aged, doe make this my last will & testament in form as followeth

Imprimis I begge of god who gave my soul, for Christ sake to pardon all my offences, & to receive it again; and I will my body to be decently buryed

Item I make my Sonne Robert Tallas Sole executor, giving to his mother, my wife, two milch cows, & six ewes & duly managing, tilling, sowing, reaping & leading the increase of one oxgang of arable land for her use onely

Item I give to my two daughters Anne & Ellen twenty pounds a piece, to be paid att the day of their marriage and in case either of them dye before, then that portion shall fall to the surviving sister, but if both dye before they are married then both their portions shall bee my Sonne Roberts

Item I give to my Sonne William Tallas a Score of ewes to be drawn out a week after my death, & twenty pounds to be paid him two years after my decease

Item I give my Sonne Thomas Tallas fifteen pounds to be paid the third year after my decease

Item I give to my Sonne Richard Tallas two horses, two mares, four cows, and a Score of sheep to be given him when he takes a farm and ten pounds to be paid att the same time, which ten pounds att three years end he shall repay to his brother Robert Tallas; and in case my Sonnes William, Thomas, or Richard, or any of them shall dye before their portions are payable, then shall my Sonne Robert with the surviving brother or brothers equally divide his or their portions between them

Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth Warriner five pounds, & to her daughter Frances Warriner forty shillings, to be paid the fourth year after my decease; and if my daughter Elizabeth dye before the time be expired, then her five pounds to be paid to her daughter Frances but if both dye before the four years are ended, then it shall fall to my Sonne Robert

Item I give to my daughter Frances Marsh five shillings to bee paid att my funerall

Lastly I give to my Sonne Robert as Sole executor all my personall Estate, goods & chattels, save onely what is before mentioned, & disposedof, and half my houshold goods, the other half I give between my wife & two daughters Anne and Ellen

And this I declare to bee my last will and testament and hereto have sett my hand & seale

November 1^st 1686

                                                                                                         John Tallas his Mark

The last will & testament of John Tallas declared in the presence of us

George Cartwright

Brian Howitt

William Caunt

PR/I/88/131

December the 21^st Anoq Dni 1686

A true & perfect Inventorie (then Taken) of all the goods Cattells, Chattells, and Credits (whatsoever & wheresoever) of John Tallas of Plungar in the Countie of Leicester husbandman, Deceased, viewed & prized (by the persons whose names are under written) in Manner and Forme Following, vizt

	£	s	d
Imprimis his Purse and Apparrell	05	0	00
Item in the Hall, one Long Table & Frame, 2 Buffett Formes, one great Cubbard,
one Little Table & Frame, one joined Cheere, 2 Smale Cheers, two Formes, to
Smale Stools, six cushings, & other Smale things theire	02	00	00
Item in the Hall Chimney, one fire ierne, 2 fire Froggs, one Raccon balke, 2 paire
of Drawhooks, & other Smalle hookes, fire Shovell, fire Tongs, & Bellows, and
other Smalle things theire	00	10	00
Item in the first parlor, one halfe headed Bedstead, three Joyned Chests, one
Wanded Cheere, three Flasketts, one old prass, one sett of Cloth collard,
Curtaines & vallens, one Matteris, one paire of Sheets, one Coverlid, one
Blankett, one fether bolster, two fether Pillows	03	14	00
Item Linings in the said Roome, (vizt) twelve paire of flax Sheets, eight paire
& a halfe of hemp Sheets, foure paire & a halfe of Harden Sheets	09	10	06
Item Six flax pillowbears severall with stanneings, eight flax Napkins, 15 harden
Napkins, two flax Towels, wrought, two flax table Cloths, three flax Midleing
Table cloths	02	07	06
Item one peice of flax cloth, 3 pieces of hemp cloth	02	02	06
Item in the same Roome, one Red blankett, one White Blankett, one Matteris,
foure fether pillowes	01	04	06
Item in the same Roome, one Teaster bed, one Sett of Red Curtaines & Vallens,
3 coverlids, one Blankett, one paire of Sheets, on fether bed, one fether
Bollster, one fether pillow	08	00	00
Item in the Second Parlor, one Table & frame, one Buffett forme, one Litle
Drawbox table, one Chest, foure Cheers	01	02	06
Item one Tester bed with the Beding thereon (vizt) one Sett of Cloth …
Curtaines & vallens, one Coverlid, Two Blanketts, one paire of harden Sheets,
one Matteris, one fether Bolster, one fether Pillow	02	17	00
Item one Low bed, with the beding thereon (vizt) one greene bedhilling, one
Blankett, one Matteris, one feather Pillow	01	03	00
Item one Piece of Gray cloth, 5 yards, one yard & halfe of Cloth, cloth culld,
nine yards & halfe of cloth culld, thirteene [line lost in a fold] three yard of
Lining & Wooll, Sixteene Yards of white Jersey, nineteen pound of Coverlid
Yerne, foure pound of woolly yerne, foure pound & a halfe of Jersy yearne	07	17	05
Item in the Store chamber, 74 Cheeses, 80 pound of potted butter, two Bacon
Flitches & a halfe, one Pillion Seate, three Stone of hemp, two woolin Reels,
5 Lining wheeles, a Markett Maund, & other Smale things	06	19	00
Item in the Servants Chamber, 2 Stubb Beds, & Beding, two Coffers & other
Smale things theire	00	15	00
Item Pewter & Brass in & about the House (vizt), twelve pewter Dishes, one
Bason, 5 Plates or Saucers, one Pewter Flagon, Tankerd, 2 CandleSticks,
4 Salts, one porringer and pewter chamberpott, one pewter Tumbler, one
Duzen & a half Spoones, one Brass CandleStick, one Warming pann, and Some
Smale pieces of Pewter	03	05	00
Item one great brass pott, one great pann, foure Smaler pans, one frying pann,
one Drippin pann and other Smale pieces of Brass	02	02	06
Item in the Deary & Buttrie, 7 Barrels, one Salting Trough, six Shelves, milke
Vessel, & other Smale things there	01	05	00
Item in the Kitchin, one Brewing Lead, one paire of Querns, two great
Brewing Tubbs, 4 …, one Swilling Tubb, one Cheese prass, one Cherne, 8 Pealls,
B… Thrales, and other Smale things there	02	13	00
Item in the Corne Chamber, Wheat, Malt & otemeale, one Corne Skreene, one
Table Leafe, 3 Bords, eleven Secks, 3 … Ridles, 2 … …, one Strike, 2 pecks, one
half peck, 4 Scutles, one Seed hopper, one Corne Shovell, forks & Rakes, and
other Smale things there	03	09	00
Item goods in & about the yard (vizt) seventeen hoses & Mares, young & old,
& foure Foles	80	00	00
Item one Bull & nine Cows	25	00	00
Item seven young Bease	14	00	00
Item seven Calves, neere yeare old	05	05	00
Item six score & eighteen Sheepe old & young	40	00	00
Item Wheat, Barley, Beans & pease & other Graine	60	00	00
Item Tyth corne in the tyth Barne & yard & owing for	16	00	00
Item hey in the yard, and other places	30	00	00
Item nine Swine, old & young in & about the yard	04	10	00
Item three Carriages and Cart Gears	19	12	06
Item Plows, and Plowgears	02	08	00
Item 40 Fould Fleaks, 17 fence Fleakes, foure beast cribs six horse Racks &
Mangers, one horse trough of Stone, one Stone Trough and one Wood
Trough for Swine	03	15	00
Item two Harrow, old irne, curt Timber, & Plow timber, Hovells, & Hovell geare,
Timber & old Wood in the yeard, Blow Stone, & … in the yard	04	00	00
Item nine Sheep cribbs	00	15	00
Item ground in the Field Sowne & to Soe	34	02	00
Item Coles in & about the house & yard	03	00	00
Item pulling in & about the yard	00	07	00
Item things & goods forgotten or not seene by us	00	03	06
Sum total	408	15	05

Richard Hickson

William Gibbon

Bryan Howett

Charles Sumner

Exhibited 18 January 1686/9