William Tilsley of Eaton 1685 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1685/33

This is the only will found for Tilsley but the will and inventory are consistent about the spelling of the surname.  There is, however, a will for a William Tinsley in Eaton made in 1644 [but not proved until 1661] and he was also a miller and had a son William so this will has also been indexed under Tinsley, a surname for which there is local evidence.  No burial registers have been found for Eaton in 1685.

In the Name of God, Amen The twenty eight day of March in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred eighty five I William Tilsley of Eaton in the County of Leicester miller being sick in body but of perfect memory praised be God for the same do make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form following

First and principally I commit my Soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, trusting through the merits and Passion of Jesus Christ my Saviour to obtain the forgivenesse of my Sins, and Salvation in the Kingdom of Heaven and my Body to be decently buried in the Church-yard of Eaton aforesaid at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named

And as for my worldly goods I do dispose of them as followeth

Impris I give to William Good and to each of his three children five shillings a piece

Item I give to the poor of Eaton five shillings

Item my will and mind is and I do hereby appoint that half of my Stock and crop be sold off within a convenient time after my decease for the payment of my debts

Item my will is that the other half of my Stock and crop, & all my houshold goods be parted into three equall portions at the Discretion of my Executor and Super-visors hereafter named, whereof one part or portion I give to my loving wife Mary, another equal part to Isabel my Daughter, and a third to my Son James

Item I give unto the said James all my Carts, geers, plows and all other Instruments of Husbandry whatsoever

The rest of my goods and debts of right due to me from any person I doe give unto my said Son James Tilsley, whom I do make the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament & I doe desire the Assistance of my loving Friends William Guy Senior of Long-Claxton & Thomas Blankley of Eaton yeomen to be aiding and directing to my said Son, as Supervisors of this my last will and Testament

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale, the day and year above written

                                                                                                                Wm Tissley

Sealed and published as the last will of William Tilsley in the presence of us

John Beardmore

John Houldinge minister

The mark of John Man

PR/I/87/34

April the 22 1685

A true and perfect Inventorye of the goods Cattles & Chattles of William Tilsley Miller, late of Eaton deceased taken & pryzed by us the day and yeare above saide viz

	£	s	d
Imprimis his Apparrell purse girdle and money in it	5	0	0
A Bible and Ceverall other Bookes	5	0	0
In the hall & Chimney
The Table and frame two formes One Cubert foure Chaires the fire Iron
hookes the bellowes and other Small Irons	2	10	0
Five puter dishes two Candlestixes One flagon	1	0	0
In the hall chamber
One Bedsted with the hangings A mattris & Coverlet two Blankets a boulster two
pillowes a paire of hempen sheetes	3	0	0
One Table Two Joyned fourmes six buffet stooles One Chaire Two Cofers two
Chests & a box five paire of hempen Sheets	2	10	0
Two paire of flaxen sheetes six pillowbeers & six napkins three Table Clothes Six
yards of hempen Cloth Six Cushens	1	12	0
One Bedsted & mattris three pillows Two Coverlets One Blanket A paire of
hempen sheets	2	0	0
In the store Chamber
Two Bedsteds One Cheese heck & other useful things there	2	0	0
One Bedsted & mattris Two pillows foure Blankets One Coverlet One paire of
harden sheets Two Baskets three Sceps	2	2	4
In the Buttry
Allso the Copper Bruing vessells & Cheese Presse five Barrells And other useful
things there	4	0	6
Two potts foure pans Eight pieces of puter, Two Basons one flagon and some
other small things there	3	2	6
Three Bacon flitches Six pailes & other Small things there	3	3	0
Item a Churne Eight milke vessils a Searse and Tems Some Sieves & Three Tubs
Six Shelves Two dozen of Trenchers	1	0	0
In the stable
Ceven Mares Two Colts Two filleys	51	0	0
In the yard
Eleven Cowes One heafer foure yearlings Two Cwine	70	0	0
Threescore and Tenn Sheep	21	0	0
In the corne chamber
Eightteene quarters of Barley and mault	21	10	6
The Carts and Cart geares plowes & plow geares the harrows fold Trayes sheep
Cribs beasse Cribs hovells mangers Racks plow timber	15	0	6
Twenty acres of wheat Rye & Barley	40	0	0
Eightteene Acres of Otes and lentils	20	0	0
The mannure in the yeard, the Poultry and offald wood there	4	0	0
Moreover in things not viewed or forgotten	0	2	6
Summa Totalis bonorum	200 42	13	10

William Good

Thomas Blankly

Exhibited 5 May 1685