Edmund Wood of Harby 1606 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/228
In the name of god amen I Edmund Wood of Harby in the county of Leicester inholder being sick in body but whole in minde and of perfect memorye praised be god for the same doe make & ordaine this my last will & testament in maner & forme followinge
First I give & bequeath my soule to almighty god my saviour & redemer & my body to be buried in Harbey church aforesaid
Itm I give & bequeath to my eldest sonn John Wood xls and all my apparell
Itm I give & bequeath to my sonn James Wood xls & the featherbed whereon I lie with a bolster a coveringe a blanket & a paire of shetes
Itm I give & bequeath to my sonn Henry Wood ls
Itm I give & bequeath to my daughter Margaret White xls & one little featherbed
Itm I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizab Blankley xls & one mattres a coveringe a blanket & a paire of shetes
Itm I give and bequeath to my daughter Sicelie Billingbrough xls & the best mattres
Itm I give & bequeath to all my childrens children xiid apece
Itm I give to all my god children iiiid apece
Itm I give to the poore of Harby iiis iiiid
Itm I give and bequeath to John Braddell the yonger one swine shoate
All the rest of my goods moveable and unmoveable, my debts legaces & funerall expences discharged I give & bequeath to Agnes Wood my wife whom I make sole exec of this my last will & testament
Lastly I doe make John Braddell thelder & James Hubarde supervisors of this my last will & testament giveinge unto each of them xiid apece willinge that all thaforesayde severall legaces & evrie of them be discharged & paide within one yeare after the day of my death
In witnes whereof I have set my hand & seale the 9 day of October in the fourth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge James by the grace of god of England France & Ireland kinge defender of the faith &c and of Scotland the xl ano dni 1606
Probate October 1606
PR/I/21/91
A true, full & perfect Inventory of all the goods cattels & chattels of Edmund Wood of Harbie in the county of Leicester Lately deceased whereof he died possessed & seased of as his owne Praised vewed & valued the 17 day of October in the yeare of our Soveraigne Lord King James of England France & Ireland King defender of the faith &c the fourth & of Scotland the xl ano dmi 1606 by John Watson Willm Watson Mathew Markham Thomas Hichcocke & James Tilsley
| Imp all his apparel | xlvis viiid |
| Itm 9 Swine | xlvis viiid |
| Itm one mare | xxvis viiid |
| Itm v kine | iii l |
| Itm hay & fodder | xxxs |
| Itm the Coales | xvs |
| Itm horsehecks, mangers & fourniture about the well | iis |
| Itm all the bedinge & bedsteads | iiii l xiiis iiiid |
| Itm sheets napkins & pillowbears | liiis |
| Itm Cushons, chairs & stooles | vis |
| Itm tables & formes | vis |
| Itm one stone of hemp | iis viiid |
| Itm 4 chests | viis viiid |
| Itm all the pewter & candlesticks | xs |
| Itm 4 ketls & one pot | xis |
| Itm the lead & bruinge vessels with tubs & other things | xxviiis |
| Itm the fire range reckons & hooks spits Cubards & other implements | vis viiid |
| Itm 2 quarter of malt | xxvis viiid |
| Itm 2 sacks & 2 bags | iiis |
| Itm 3 spininge wheles | iis |
| Itm painted clothes about the house | iiiis |
| Itm a lanterene | iiiid |
| Suma totalis | xxiii l xvs |