Noverint universi per presents nos Blanch
Brewer pochi de Christchurch in
Comitatu Monmouth & Thomas Bowen of the parish of Goldclift in the County of Monmouth
aforesaid yeoman teneri et firmiter obligari
Father in God John Bishop of Landaff
bone et Legalis monete Anglie solvendis eidem aut certo attornato
executorbus administrators vel assign suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene et
fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum per se pro toto et in
solidum heredes, executors et administrators nostros firmiter per presents per
presentes sigillis nostris sigillatas Date 10 January & in the 7th year of the Reign of George of Great
Britain, France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c and in the year
of our Lord 1720
The condition of this obligacon is
such that if ye above bounden Blanch Brewer ye relict and administratrix
of all and singular ye goods chells and credits of John Brewer late of ye pish of Christchurch in the County
of Monmouth & Diocess of Landaffe deced doe make or cause to be made a true
and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattells and credits of
the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possion or knowledge
of her the said Blanch Brewer or
into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her and the
same soe made doe exhibit or cause to be exhibite into the Registry of ye
Consistory Court of Landaffe at or before the tenth day of July next ensuing
and the same goods chattells and credits and all other the goods chattells and
creditts of the said deceased at the time of his death which at any time after
shall come to the hands or possession of the said Blanch Brewer or into the hands and possession of any
other person or persons for her doe well and truely administer according to law
and further doe make or cause to be made a true and just accompt of her said adcon at or before the tenth day of January wch shall be in the
year of our Lord 1721 and all the rest and residue of the said goods chattells
and credits which shall be found remaining upon the said accompt the same being
first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the
said Court shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively as
the said Judge or Judges by his or their decree or sentence (psuant to the true
intent and meaning of an Act of Parliament intituled an Act for the better
settling of Intestates Estates) shall limitt and appoint and if it shall
hereafter appeare that any last Will and Testament was made by the said
deceased and the executor or executors therein named doe exhibit the same into
the said Court making request to have it allowed and approved accordinly if the
said Blanch Brewer being
thereunto required doe render and deliver the said lres of Adcon (approbation
of such testament being first had and made) in the said Court, then this
obligacon to be void and of none effect or else to remaine in full force and
vertue. Blanch Brewer; Thomas
Bowen
Signed sealed and
delivered in the presence of Tho:
Davies NP
NOTE: I have used a proforma for the above document. DW
A true &
perfect inventary of all & singular ye goods chells & credits of John
Brewer, late of ye pish of Christchurch in ye County of Monmouth &
Diocess of Landaffe deced, made, valued & appraised ye 9th day
of Jan in ye year of our Lord 1720/21 by William Lewis, Thomas Edmond
& Thomas Bowen appraisors as follows (vizt)
£ s d
Imps His wearing apparell valued at 05 00 00
Item one silver can at 01 00 00
Item one chest standing in ye parlour, one tester, & one trunke of linnen at 01 10 00
Item in ye inner chamber over ye parlour one chest, one brewing vate, one
groce of bottles at 01 06 06
Item in ye other chamber over ye sd parlour, one bed & bedstead with it’s
appurtenances, one small table, one straw chair, & one tester at 03 00 00
Item in ye chamber over ye hall four feather beds with their appurtenances,
as bedsteads, & clothing at 04 05 06
Item the goods in ye hall as followeth, one settle, three chairs,
one ovall table at 00 09 00
Item all ye appraizable brass & pewter in ye house at 03 00 00
Item two guns, one grate, & all ye rest of the irons & implem’ts belonging
to ye fire at 01 15 00
Item all ye cheese in ye house at 02 15 00
Item all ye vessells belonging to ye dayry & brewhouse at 01 15 00
Item one cheese press now standing in ye house at Nash at 00 05 00
Item one corn wain, one ox dragg together wth all ye rest of ye implem’ts
belonging to husbandry at 03 00 00
Item two pack saddles wth all ye rest of ye tackle belonging to ye horses at 00 17 06
Item one reek of wheat, one reek of beans & a quantity of barley unthreshed
wth all ye rest of his corn threshed & unthreshed at 18 00 00
Item all his hay at 15 00 00
Item three fatting bullocks at 13 10 00
Item two working steers at 07 00 00
Item four cows at 10 00 00
Item one bull, two two year old cattle & two calfs at 04 00 00
Item one old mare & one colt at 01 10 00
Item two fat pigs at 02 10 00
Item six small pigs at 01 10 00
Item a small pcell of wheat growing at 00 10 00
Item all ye rest of his goods not seen
& forgotten at 00 10 06
Tot 101 13 00
(Latin) Inventory exhibited at Landaffe 10th Jan 1720 by Blanch Brewer relict & administratrix &c
Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park,
Newport, South Wales. NP20 6LB Tel
01633 858 359 19 May 2003