In ye name of God Amen I William George of ye pish of Penaclauth in the Countie of Monmoth, batcheler, being in good and perfect memory praise be --? to Allmighty God doe make and ordaine this my present last will and testament in manner and forme folowing, that is to say, first and principally I commend my soule into ye hands of Allmighty God hoping through the merits, death and passion of my saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgivenes of all my sins and to in herit everlasting life and my body I commit to ye earth to be decently burial at ye discression of my executrix hereafter named and as touching the disposition of all such temporall estate as it hath pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon mee I give and dispose therof as followeth.
Item: I doe give and beequeath unto my naturall brother John George ye sume of thirty shillings of current English money to bee paid him yearly upon ye second day of February for ye space and terme of eight yeares by my executrix.
Item: I doe give and bequeath unto my nice Mary ye eldest daughter of my brother Walter George ye sume of forty shillings to bee paid her within ye space of to yeares after my desease.
Item: I doe give and bequeath unto Elisabeth ye other daughter of my sd brother the sume of forty shillings to be paid her alsoe within ye space of to yeares after my desease.
Item: I doe give and bequeath unto Jane ye daughter of my brother Jenkin deseased the sume of forty shillings to bee paid her within ye space of to yeares after my decease.
Item: I doe give to Mary other daughter of ye sd Jenkin deceased ye sume of forty shillings to be paid her allsoe within ye space of to yeares after my desease.
Item: I doe give to my cussin Walter Hary ye sume of twenty shillings to be paid him within --? weekes --? after my desease.
Item: I doe give and bequeath unto my maid servant one cowe to be delivered her within ye space of one weeke after my desease.
Item: I doe give and bequeath unto Elisabeth Steeven one cow to bee delivered her within ye space of one weeke after my desease.
And as for all the residue of my personall estate, goods and chattells whatsoever moveable and unmoveable I doe give and bequeath unto my loving aunt Elinor Thomas, spinster, and doe nominate and apoint her to be the full and sole executrix of this my last will and testament and I doe heerby revocke and disannull all former wills or gifts and testaments by mee heretofore made. In witnes heerof I the sd William George have to this present last will and testament have set my hand and seale ye ninth day of March in the four and thirtieth yeare of his Maiesties Rainge over Ingland and in ye yeare of our Lord God 1681. The marke of William George
Sealed and delivered in ye presence of Peter Jenkins; the marke of Richard Walter; Row Prosser
Memorandum That I the said William George do confferme? and ratiffie this my said last will and testament by seling and delivering of it to my executrix above named upon the twenty seaventh day of December in the yeare of our Lord God in the presence of the psons heerunto subscribed 1685. William Walter, Row Prosser
Ye oath is that the writing hereto annexed is the originall last will and testam’t of William George late of the parish of Penclawdd in the County of Monmouth, dece’d soe far as ye know and believe, and that ye will well & truly pforme the same according to law, by paying his debts and legacies soe far forth as --? --? & --? law will binde ye, and will alsoe exhibite a true & pfect inventary and a iust account of all & singlar the goods, cattle and chells of the said deced when ye shall be thereto lawfully called. Soe help ye God & by the contents of this booke. Kiss the Booke
(Latin) Executrix authorised 27 January 1685/6 by me Rob: Vaughan
The true & pfect inventery of all ye goodes cattells & chattells houshould stuffe & implem’ts of houshould stuffe together wth ye implem’ts of husbandry of William George of ye pish of Penyclauth wthin ye County of Monmoth yeoman, late deceased, aprized by us whose manes are here under written the 28th day of January 1685
£ s d
Imprimis his wearing appell prized att 5 0 0
Item in ye hall one table boorde two chayres three benches three small stooles two andirons one slice one tonges 1 5 0
Item in ye parlor or inner roome one bed steede & two coboords 2 0 0
Item in ye chamber over ye halle two bedsteedes two doust bedds
Two coverlidds two payre of sheetes & two boulsters 1 10 0
Item in ye chamber over ye said parler two cofers 0 6 0
Item in ye foresd parlor one pheather bed one boulster one coverlid?
& one payre of sheetes prized att 2 10 0
Item two --? Three pack sadles ine riding sadle & some other
furniture 7 10 0
Item six oxne 20 0 0
Item fower kine three heyfors & a steere 17 6 0
Item two rickes of hard corne & otes 10 0 0
Item pte of a ricke of pease 2 10 0
Item hard corne in two barnes 3 0 0
Item --? 1 0 0
Item two calfes & one old cow 3 0 0
Item one mare & one smale coulte 1 10 0
Item sev’all wodden vessells 1 0 0
Item two waynes 3 plorakes? one harrow one payre of horse harrows
& other implem’ts of husbandry as yoakes chaynes & such things 10 0 0
Item 19 piggs smale & greate 6 16 0
Item 34 ackers of hard corne now growing in grass 22 5 0
Ready p’vision in ye house 1 10 0
In all 120 0 0
Apprizors John Edmonds; the marke of James Phillip; Fran Williams
Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales.
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