Jarvis Watchorn of Chadwell 1731 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1731
In the Name of God Amen I Jarviss Watchorne of Chadwell in the County of Leicester yeoman being weak in health but of sound & disposing mind & memory & Considering the Certainty of death & the uncertainty of the time thereof do make Constitute & appoint this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following (that is to say)
First & principally I Committ & Commend my soul in to the hands of Almighty God who gave it me assuredly hoping thro the meritorious death & passion of my Ever blessed Redemer Christ Jesus to obtained free pardon of my sins & to be made partaker of Everlasting felicity & my Body I Committ to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named & as to my worldly Estate wherewith God hath Blessed me I Give & dispose thereof as follows
Impris I Give & bequeath unto my daughter Jane Watchorne the sume of thirty pounds of Good & lawfull money of Great Brittaine to be paid her in six months after my decease by my Executrix hereinafter named
Item I Give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Watchorne the sume of thirty pounds of like money to be paid her as she shall attaine her age of one & twenty years by my Executrix hereinafter named
Item I Give & bequeath unto my daughter Alice Watchorne the sume of thirty pounds of like money to be paid her when she shall attaine her age of one & twenty years by my Executrix hereinafter named
Item I Give & bequeath all the rest of my Goods Chattells & personall Estate whatsoever not herein before by me bequeathed unto my dear and loving wife Elizabeth Watchorne whom I make my sole Executrix of this my last will & Testament And I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made
In Wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal the Eighteenth day of November in the ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George over Great Brittaine &c King Annoq Dni 1722
The mark of Jarvis Watchorn
Signed Sealed published & declared by the Testator as his last will & Testament In the presence of us & afterwards by us In the presence of the said Testator
J: Lambert
Tho: Crane
Thomas Helinsby his mark
March the Eighteenth 1728 Memordum I do here by disannul and make voide the Legasie of Thirty pounds by me bequeathen unto my Daughter Jane Watchorn She having already received her propation of my personal Estate or what I intended for her
Witness my Hand this Day and year above written
The mark of Jarvis Watchorn
Witness to the alteration made by the within named Testator Jarvis Watchorn and by him declared before us
William Marriatt
Elizabeth Marrot
The mark of Rachell Wittell
Executrix sworn 11 October 1731
July the 30 1731 An Inventer of the Goods which belong to Jervice Whatchorn of Chadwell deseased
| £ | s | d | |
| Purs and Appriall | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Goods in the House | 5 | 10 | |
| In the Parlour | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| In the Brewhouse and Pantrey | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| In the Chamber over the House | 12 | 10 | 0 |
| In the Chamber over the Parlour | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| In the Chamber over the Brewhouse | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| The wool | 12 | 10 | 0 |
| Pease Hovel | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| Bearly in the town Chamber | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Wagens Carts and other Meatreals for husbandray | 27 | 10 | 0 |
| Coles | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Twelfe horse kind | 75 | 0 | 0 |
| Threty Beast kind | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| One Hunderd and ten Sheep | 57 | 10 | 0 |
| Eliven Swine | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| The Crop in the feild | 118 | 0 | 0 |
| The Clotes in the fellowfeld | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Hovelperst and overlaiers | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Goods seen and unseen | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| Beas in the garden | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Totall | 467 | 15 | 6 |
Appraisd by us
William Hackett
John Watchorn