John Tinsley of Harby 1588 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1599

In nomine dei Amen The xxxith daye of December in the yeare 31th of her majesties raigne & in anno Dni 1588 I John Tinsley of Harbie in the Countie of Leicester husbandman beinge sicke in bodye, but of perfect mynde & memory do ordaine constitute & make this my last will & in manner & forme followinge

First I bequeath my soule to god trusting to be saved by the merits & passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ & my bodye to be buryed in the churchyard of Harbie

For my temporall Goods my mynde is I bestowe them as followeth

First I geve & bequeath to Mathew Tinsley my eldest sonne xls of lawfull Englishe money for his whole portion or childs parte

Itm I geve & bequeath Jane Tinsley my Eldest Daughter all the feathers that be in the howse

Item I geve & bequeath unto Ann … an ewe sheepe to be paid unto her at her adge of ten years yf shee live or els to stand in noe effect

The rest of all my goods moveable & unmoveable unbequeathed, my debts & legacyes payed, & my buriall discharged I geve & bequeath to five of my Children Viz Hughe, James, Edwarde, Jane & Elizabeth to be equallye devided amongst them, whom allso I do make the … executors of this my last will & testament

Itm I do make my brother John Michell Supervisor of the same

Wittnesses of the premisses

John Michel

Edward Nicolsonn

Richard Hawtoft

Probate 27 February 1588/9

PR/I/9/186

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The Inventorie of all goods moveable & Immoveable of John Tinsley of Harbie in the Countie of Leicester husbandman late deceased prased accordinge to the inst value by Thomas Ines, Willm Blagge, & Edward Nicolson the viiith of Januarye 1588

Imprimis in his purse & his girdle	xs
Itm formes table & paynted cloths 2 cubbards 3 chairs	xvis
Itm in brasse 3 potts, 5 kettls, 3 panns	3 li 13s 4d
Itm xvi peecs of pewter, v candlesticks, one brasse morter with a pestil, one
chafendishe, one Schomer	xxxs
Itm one fier Iron, one paire of gallows, one paire of tongs, one coole hatchet,
with pothoks	vis 8d
Itm one chest within the Chamber, 2 bedsteads with hangings with such like implements
Within the Chamber	xxiiiis 4d
Itm 3 bed steeds in the parlour	viis
Itm 2 cheeshecks, one chest, 8 flicks of bacon & one barrell	xxiiiis
Itm v coffers & a …	xviis
Itm xiiii Coverleds	iiii li vs
Itm 4 bolsters, 6 pillowes	iiis 4d
Itm 6 paire of sheets 8 pillowbeers boordcloth	xxxs 8d
Itm one paire of quarns, the leade, one shepe fatte, one mashfat, one paire of
mustard quarns	xliis
Itm v Tubbs one gilefat, iiii payls, one swilling tubbe	xs 4d
Itm certayne implements in the butterye & in the chamber over the butterye	xxiiis
Itm 5 horses, 2 carts, with horse geeres	6 li 7s 8d
Itm all the wood about the yarde, pals & hovel props, one … with such like	3 li 4s
Itm 4 kine	viii li
Itm 2 heffars	xxvis 8d
Itm 2 bulshins	xxs
Itm 2 yearlinge calves	xiiiis
Itm one sucking calve	iiiis
Itm vi shoots	xvs
Itm one sowe & vi piggs	vis 8d
Itm ix henns iii cocks & one capon	vs
Itm vi … & one …	iis 4d
Itm 2 ploughs with furnyture & other certayne implements of …	xxvis 8d
Itm 4 ploughs … … … one axle tree … … …	viiis
Itm the lease of the …, all the barley & hey about the yarde with all the pease	xl li
Itm v acers of wheate	v li
Itm xii acers of barley fallows	xls
Itm xviii acers of pease leases	xxs
Summa totalis	100 li 52s 8d