In the name of God Amen I Henry Probert of the Argoed in the parish of Penalt in the County of Monmouth Esqr being minded in the time of my health to settle and dispose of such reall and personal estate I have and thereby the best I can set my house and family in order knowing not how soon sickness and death may overtake me doe therefore commending my soul to the mercy of God in Jesus Christ make this my last will and testament in writing in manner following and first my will is that my body shall have Christian burial at the cost and expence of my executor and executrix of this my will who I will shall pay to the poore of the parish of Penalt fifty shillings and the like sume to the poor of the parish of Treleck within a month after my decease and in such manner as in the discretion of my executors shall seem best. Item whereas Henry Rumsey of Wolves Newton in the County of Monmouth Esqr being seized in fee of amesonage or farme called Wern heere late in the possession of Lewis Reynolds and now of William Lewis and of severall other lands tenements and hereditaments lyeing and being in the parishes of Uske and Lanbadocke and in the Hamlet of Glascoed in the County of Monmouth and whereas also the said Henry Rumsey being possessed of twenty acres or thereabouts of arrable meadow and pasture land lyeing at a place called Wernheer in the parish of Uske aforesaid by a force of an indenture of lease thereof to John Rumsey deceased the late father of the said Henry Rumsey made by Philip late Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery bearing date on or about the last day of October which was in the thirteenth year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second Anno Dni one thousand six hundred and sixty one for the term of ninety nine years if Richard Rumsey brother of the said John Rumsey and the said Henry Rumsey and Dorothy Rumsey children of the said John Rumsey or either of them should so long live and whereas by indenture of lease and release bearing date respectively on or about the nineteenth and twentyeth dayes of June which was in the yeare of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and five I the said Henry Probert become the purchaser of the said freehold and leasehold premisses of the said Henry Romsey for the sume of seven hundred pounds sterling which I paid to the said Henry Rumsey who in consideracon thereof by the same indentures conveyed the said freehold lands last named to or to the use of me for my life with remainder in taile general to my son Charles Probert with the next remainder to my said wife for her life with the last remainder thereof to me and my right heires and by the said indenture of release convey and assigne over the said indenture of lease from the said late Earl of Pembroke to Charles Hughes of Trostry in the County of Monmouth Esqr and Roger Oates late of Keventilly in the same County of Monmouth Esqr since deceased and their assignes in trust for me and the said other persons to whom the said freehold lands had been conveyed as aforesaid And as they should from time to time be owners of the said last mentioned freehold lands or farme called Wernheer as by the said indentures of lease and release and assignment in the last named release contained may appear Now I the said Henry Probert do hereby give and devise the said freehold farme lands and hereditaments so by me purchased of and from the said Henry Rumsey unto my said son Charles Probert and the heires of his body lawfully to be begotten and in default of such issue I give and devise the same freehold messuages and farmes with the appurtenances unto my wife Elianor Probert for and during the term of her natural life and after her decease and failure of issue of the body of my said son Charles Probert I give and devise the said farmes and freehold premisses and every part thereof with their and every of their appurtenances after the decease of my said wife unto the heires and assignes of my said son Charles Probert for ever And as to the said leasehold premisses lands and hereditaments which I have purchased of the said Henry Romsey my will is that so long as the same lease shall endure the same premisses shall be enjoyed by my said son Charles Probert and the heires of his body my wife and the heires and assignes of my said son Charles Probert successively and respectively and in such manner and for on the estate and estates and during such time respectively as I have hereby given the said freehold lands and tenements last menconed to them respectively and severally and no otherwise for that my will and desire is that the same freehold and leasehold tenements and premisses may be enjoyed together whilst such lease or any other leases hereafter to be new taken thereof may endure and that the possession nor interest thereof may not during the continuance of such lease and new or after taken leases thereof be severed and disunited and as I have for that end already taken the assignement of the said lease to the said Charles Hughes and Roger Oates so I design intend or direct the same lease when renewed or filled up shall be so taken in the names of the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis of St Peere in the County of Monmouth Esqr for the better executing my ends and purposes therein as aforesaid. Item Whereas I stand possessed by vertue of an indenture bearing date on or about the tenth day of August in the four and thirtieth year of the Reigne of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second anno dni one thousand six hundred and eighty two to me made by Phillip late Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (amongst other things) of and in two pieces or parcells now late being part of the beast? ground? of the Chace of Wioewood? within the Mannor of Treleck in the County of Monmouth aforesaid one whereof containing by estimacon nine and thirty acres and three quarters of an acre (be it more or less) lyeth near my mansion house called the Argoed and is known comonly by the name of the Warren mearing and abutting upon my lands on the east part the Wast lands then of the said Earl called the Cantey on the south part the old Bowleing Alley on the west part and part of Weyne Says and Panty Cross Vayne on the north part on which parcell of land there now are coney buryes made and the same now is stocked with coneys as a warren and the other of the said two pieces containeth by estimacon one quarter of an acre lyeth within my curtilage and is meeting and abutting to my stable door at the Argoed aforesaid and thence to a place called the old barne adjoyning to my lands on the east part and from the said lands to the gate or door going out of my said curtilage and other the said Wast lands then of the said Earl on the south part and the wall that compasseth the said one quarter of an acre of land on the west and north parts thereof for the residue of the term of ninety nine years by the said indenture granted to me if I the said Henry Probert and Henry and George my two sons or either of us should so long live as in and by the said indenture may appear now for that the said two pieces of land described as aforesaid do lye very near my capitall mansion house called the Argoed and are necessary easements to the same therefore my will is that my eldest son Henry Probert and the heires males of his body begotten or to be begotten or in default of such issue then whosoever shall be my heire shall have hold and enjoy the said two pieces of land containing both by estimacon forty acres for the residue of the terme thereof granted yet unexpired or what other term I or either of my children or their representatives shall new take from time to time thereof it being my intent that so long as leases thereof may be taken there shall by unity of right and possession of the said two pieces of land with my said capitall messuage called the Argoed and that the same may be occupyed together and not asunder it being inconvenient that the same should be in the enjoyment thereof severed and as to the rest and residue of the lands and hereditaments granted by the said lease last menconed to me my will is that my said son Charles Probert and his assignes shall have the same during the continuance of the said last named lease and all and every other leases that shall hereafter be new taken thereof by or in trust for any of my family and to the end the rent of fifty one shilling and six pence p ann on the said lease reserved and that the rent which may be reserved on any other after lease to be taken of the said premisses may be by my said sons and their respective assignes rateably paid I appoint that my said son Henry and his assignes shall pay twenty one shillings and six pence p ann thereof and my said son Charles and his assignes the rest and so in proporcon for the renewing of such leases which in time to come shall be taken thereof and to the end that the said leased premisses may be the better enjoyed renewed and new taken according to the intent of this my will I hereby devise the said lease or indenture and my terme and estate therein unto my said friends the said Charles Hughes and the said Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his executors administrators and assignes not to take any profit thereby but to the intent that they and the survivor of them his executors administrators and assignes may from time to time new take the said premisses in their names and see this my will fullfilled in the premisses but should it happen that my said son Henry should dye not leaving issue make then my will is that the said entire lease and premisses thereby leased shall goe to my son Charles and his heires and not part thereof to the executors or assignes of my son Henry. Item Whereas upon the death of my cosin Henry Probert the son and heir of my brother Trevor Probert deceased without issue certain lands and tenements lyeing in the parishes of Penalt Cumcarvon and Langum in the County of Monmouth part of the customary lands and tenements held of the Mannors of Uske and Trelecke in the said County of Monmouth descended and came to me as his unkle and heire and heir at law upon which I did for the better enabling me to dispose of the said coppyhold premisses as I should think fit make a surrender thereof into the hands of the Lords of the said Mannor at the Gate of the Castle of Uske according to the custome in the said Mannor used and allowed upon or about the five and twentieth day of January in the first year of the Reigne of our late Soveraigne Lady Ann late Queen of England &c anno dni 1702 Nevertheless to the use and behoofe of John Evans then of the Towne of Monmouth Esqr since de’ced and his heires to the intent that he the said John Evans and his heires should stand seized of the hereditaments and premisses last named to the use of or in trust for me the said Henry Probert for my naturall life without impeachment of waste and after my decease then to the use and behoofe of or in trust for such person and persons and of or for such estate and estates and in such sort and manner as I the said Henry Probert by my last will and testament in writing or by any other deed by me signed or executed in the presence of three or more credible witnesses should give devise limitt or appoint the same copyhold tenements and premisses unto and in default of such gift limitacon and appointment then to the use and behoofe of or in trust for my right heires for ever and whereas the Lord of the said Mannors after did by their steward accordingly grant the said copyhold premisses to the said John Evans and his heires as by the said surrender and regrant and warrant of attorney by which I made Richard Parsons gent my attorney for executing such surrender (relacon being thereto had may appear and whereas I have lately purchased of Thomas Rosser gent and Henry Thomas gent two messuages and outhouses and certain lands tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances in the parish of Penalt and Mannor of Treleck in the said County of Monmouth and whereas in pursuance to our purchase contract the said Thomas Rosser and Henry Thomas at the Gate of the Castle of Uske aforesaid did on or about the two and twentieth day of April which was in the thirteenth year of the Reign of the late Queen Ann over Great Britain anno dni 1714 surrender into the hands of the Lord and Lady of the said Mannor of Uske and Treleck the said several messuages lands tenements and hereditaments of them the said Thomas Rosser and Henry Thomas lyeing in the said parish of Penalt and Mannor of Treleck so by me contracted for as aforesaid in the said surrender more perticulerly menconed and expressed to the intent that the said Lord and Lady of the said Mannor should regrant the same to Charles Probert of the village of Treleck gent and William Jones of the parish of Penalt aforesaid gent and their heires and assignes for ever so that the said Charles Probert and William Jones and their heires should stand and be seised thereof to the use of me the said Henry Probert for my natural life and after my decease upon such trust and to and for such uses and of such person and persons and for such estate and estates as I the said Henry Probert by any deed or deeds in writing or by my last will and testament in writing by me to be sealed and presented? in the presence of three or more credible witnesses should limit declare or appoint and for want of such limitacon declaracon or appointment then to the use and behoofe of Charles Probert gent the son of me the said Henry Probert the elder his heires and assignes for ever according to the custome of the said Mannors of Uske and Treleck and whereas the Lord and Lady of the said Mannors by their said steward did accordingly regrant the said messuages hereditaments and premisses to the said Charles Probert of Treleck and William Jones and their heires and thereupon the said Charles Probert of Treleck and William Jones the trustees were admitted tenants and had seizin of the said premisses to them given as by the said surrender and regrant thereof relacon to the Rolls of the said Mannors being had may more fully appear now the said Henry Probert do hereby declare that it is my will desire and intent that my said son Charles Probert shall from and after my decease have to him and his heires for ever all and singular the said coppyhold or customary messuages lands tenements and hereditaments which so as aforesaid descended and came to me as heire at law to my said nephew the said Henry Probert deceased which I so surrendered as aforesaid and were so as aforesaid regranted to the said John Evans and his heires for the --? and purposes aforesaid and also all those my copyhold messuages lands meadows pastures and hereditaments which I purchased as aforesaid of the said Thomas Rosser and Henry Thomas or either of them and therefore pursuant to the power and authority in and by the said several regrants thereof respectively made as aforesaid by the said Lord and Lady of the said Mannors respectively I hereby so by this my last will and testament by me signed sealed and executed in the presence of three or more credible witnesses give devise limit declare and appoint that my said son Charles Probert and his heires and assignes shall from and imediately after my decease have hold and for ever enjoy all and singular my said copyhold messuages lands meadows pastures hereditaments and premisses hereinbefore by me in this my last will and testament menconed and sett forth with their and every of their appurtenances as well those which so descended and came to me from my said late nephew the said Henry Probert deceased and were by me surrendered and after regranted to and to the use of the said John Evans deceased and his heires as aforesaid upon the trusts and for the uses aforesaid as those which I purchased of the said Thomas and Henry Thomas as aforesaid and were by them surrendered in mannor and for the intents trusts and purposes aforesaid and I hereby also give devise limit and appoint to my said son Charles Probert and his heirs for ever from and imediately after my decease all and singular my other coppyhold and customary lands tenements and hereditaments wheresoever the same are scituate or lyeing within the said Mannors of Uske and Treleck or in either of them whereof or wherein I the said Henry Probert the testator have any estate right title or interest power disposition or demand whatsoever with their and every of their appurtenances to hold the same premisses after my decease to my said son Charles Probert and his heires for ever. Item my will is that my son in law Richard Morgan Esqr and my daughter Elianor his wife and their heires shall have and enjoy in such manner as I have settled upon them my late farme called White Castle in the parish of Lantilio Gressenney with the lands and tenements thereto appertaining with the grove or coppice thereto belonging my late farmes called Lancarvan and the school lands with the lands and hereditaments thereto belonging respectively being (as I value) of about fifty pounds per annum and part of the estate I purchased of William Powell gent and others which as such I did give to and settled upon them as and for my said daughters portion and I would that the same farme lands and tenements be enjoyed according to my said settlement thereof and I would have all partyes intrusted for me in the title of the same to do any further act or acts whatsoever for making the said settlement according to the true meaning thereof good in all respects without putting my said son in law or his wife to any expence therein which (if any are requisite) I would have my executor and executrix stand to and pay the same but I hereby give and bequeath unto my said son Charles Probert and his heires for ever all that my farm called Treloyven with the outhouses lands and hereditaments thereto belonging being about the value of fifteen pounds per annum charged and chargeable with the payment of the sume of five pounds p annum to the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and their heires and assignes during the natural of my sister Mrs Ann Ryly in manner after expressed and whereas I contracted to sell to John Thomas deceased and his heires for the sume of one hundred and thirty five pounds my close of meadow in Landilo Gressenny aforesaid or Lanvyhangle ystrne Lewerne or one of them called Gworlod Panty Vagh with the appurtenances for which by reason of the decease of the said John Thomas I am not yet paid the said purchase money now I also hereby give and devise to my said son Charles Probert and his heires the said close or piece of meadow ground and the moneys which doth or may accrue due on the sale thereof if the same sale shall be perfected and all my estate right and title to the same meadow and money to hold the said close of meadow and money and also the said farme called Trellayven charged as aforesaid to my said son Charles Probert and his heires for ever and my will is that my loving wife Elianor Probert shall during her naturall life hold and enjoy my other meadow in Landilo Gressenny aforesaid called Gworlodpye during her natural life and my will is and I hereby give and devise the same piece of meadow after my wives decease to my son Charles Probert and his heires for ever and my will further is and I hereby give devise and bequeath unto my son Charles Probert and his heires for ever all and singular my other messuages farmes lands tenements and hereditaments of what nature or kind soever they be or are whether my estate and right therein be conditional or absolute and wheresoever the same are scituate lyeing and being within the kingdom of Great Britain and in which I have any manner of estate right title interest or demand law or equity either in possession revercon remainder use or trust other than what I have herein before otherwise bequeathed and charged with their and every of their rights and appurtenances to have and to hold the said messuages farmes lands hereditaments and premisses by me lastly devised and hereby bequeathed to my said son Charles Probert his heires and assignes for ever. Item whereas John Baker late of Ross in the County of Hereford gent deceased late brother of the said Elianor my now wife did by his last will and testament in writing give and bequeath unto George Probert his nephew and my son by his said sister the sume of five hundred pounds sterling to be paid to him my said son within nine months next after the severally of the said testators wife his daughter and his brother Walter Baker in case my said son should attain his age of sixteen yeares as relacon to the said will being had may more fully appear and whereas my said son George did attain his said age of sixteen years whereby the said legacy and right to the same vested in my said son George who since that time dyed in parts beyond the seas whereupon since his decease I have (as of right the same belonging to me) taken letters of administration to the personal estate of my said deceased son whereof he dyed possessed or interested by meanes whereof I am intituled to receive and have the said legacy of five hundred pounds when the same shall become payable which will not be till after the decease of my sister in law the widow of the said testator John Baker now my will is and I hereby give devise and bequeath unto my said son Charles Probert the said legacy and sume of five hundred pounds sterling so devised to my late son George as aforesaid and I hereby appoint the said legacy of five hundred pounds to be paid to my said son Charles Probert and his assignes and also I hereby give devise and bequeath unto my said son Charles Probert his heires and assignes all my right title and interest in and to the lands and hereditaments subjected by the said John Baker in and by his said will for secureing and compelling the payment thereof to my said son Charles Probert according to the intent of this my will and testament. Item I give and bequeath unto my said friends the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis one yearly rent or annuity of five pounds per annum of lawfull British money for and during the naturall life of my sister Ann Ryley the wife of Thomas Ryley to be issueing taken and received yearly by the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his executors administrators and assignes dureing the natural life of my said sister Ann Ryley and no longer out of my messuages hereditaments and premisses lyeing in the parishes of Lantillio Gressenny aforesaid called Treloyven devised to my said son Charles and his heires as aforesaid at four dayes or times in the yeare most usuall (that is to say) at or upon the five and twentyeth day of March the four and twentyeth day of June the nine and twentyeth day of September and the six and twentyeth day of December yearly by equall porcons the first of the said payments to begin at such of those dayes as shall happen and be next after my decease and to be made from time to time during my said sister Ryly’s natural life by my said son Charles and his heires to the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his heires or assignes and for default of payment thereof my will is that the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his heires or assignes shall and may from time to time distrain for the same or any arrears of the said rent of five pounds so happening and from time to time for the time aforesaid detain and dispose of such distresses as distresses for rent taken may be disposed of as well for the satisfying of such rent or any part thereof so in arrear as of all charges occasioned thereby nevertheless my will and intent is that the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his heires and assignes shall not take any benefit of this my devise to them but this devises to them so made as aforesaid upon this trust and confidence that they the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his heires and assignes shall and will from time to time during my said sister Ryley’s natural life well and truly pay and satisfy into the hands of my said sister Ryly and for her my said sisters proper and separate use and benefit and not to her said husband or any other person or persons or other purpose whatsoever the said rent or annuity of five pounds per annum as the same shall be by them received within nine dayes time next after they the said Charles Hughes and Thomas Lewis and the survivor of them his executors or assignes shall have rec’ed the same or any part thereof from time to time as aforesaid and my will and intent is and I hereby declare that the acquittance and acquittances of my said sister Ryley given for the same shall be sufficient discharges to my said trustees and every of them and I hereby declare my will to be that if the said Thomas Ryley the husband of my said sister or any claiming by or under him shall by any proceedings in law intitle himself or goe about so to do (which I hope he cannot) to the said rent contrary to this my intent then my will is that thenceforth and during such time only and no longer then as the same rent shall be so subjected contrary to my intent the said payment thereof shall cease and not be made this devise or any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding and in that case I recommend my said sister to the kindness and care of my said son Charles Probert and his heires that by his and their bounty to my said sister she suffer not thereby. Item my will is that my sister Ryley have ten pounds paid imediately after my decease to buy her mourning clothes and also that my cousin Charles Probert of Treleck have the like sume of ten pounds paid him imediately after my decease to buy him mourning clothes. Item my will is that my eldest son Henry Probert Esqr and Hestor his wife my sons in law William Morgan junr gent Thomas Clifford gent and Richard Morgan Esqr and my daughters their respective wifes have twenty shillings apeice paid them imediately after my decease or rings of that value delivered them respectively as tokens of my affection to them respectively and in like manner I desire that John Stratford of Wallford Esqr and my old servant Henry Thomas may have rings of twenty shillings apeice value delivered them imediately after my decease as tokens of my respect to them and as to the servants that have lived with me above three yeares before my death and living with me at my death my will is that my executors shall give them twenty shillings apeice. Item as to the plate and other goods my wife bought with her own money for ornaments and convenience of her chamber I give and leave it all to her own dispose and as for the rest and residue of my household goods plate cattle corne and other personal estate whatsoever not disposed of my will is that out of my ready money corne cattle and such of my goods that cannot be long kept my debts legacyes and funeral expences be paid and raised and as to the residue and remainder of my said household goods and other my personal estate whatsoever undisposed of my will is that the same shall be equally divided and so I give and devise the same to be equally divided between the said Elianor my dear wife and my said son the said Charles Probert and I nominate constitute and appoint the said Elianor my wife and my said son Charles Probert the executor and executrix of this my last will and testament jointly to execute the same but I hope desire and appoint my said dear wife that whatever at her death of her part thereof shall remain that she will give and leave the same to her onely and dutyfull son the said Charles Probert and lastly I hereby all former wills by me made and in witness that this is my last will and testament I hereto set my hand and seale this third day of May anno domini one thousand seven hundred and fifteene and in the first year of the reign of our Soveraigne Lord George by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the Faith &c Henry Probert

Memorandum that this above written will and testament of the above named Henry Probert the testator contained and written in two skins of parchment affixed together and sealed and to each of them the testator hath wrote his name was sealed published and declared by the said Henry Probert the testator to be as his last will and testament in our presence in whose presence also and at whose request we did subscribe and write our names as witnesses thereto James Williams, Thomas Rosser, John Symonds, Thomas Richards

A Codicill this seaventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventeene added by me Henry Probert of the Argoed in the parish of Penalt in the County of Monmouth Esqr to my last will and testament bearing date the third day of May which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifteen hereto annexed and which this my codicil I will and desire may be taken and deemed as part and parcell of my said last will and testament and therewith proved whereas I have in such my said last will and testament named my dear wife Eleanor Probert executrix and my son Charles Probert executor seperately of such my said last will and testament was for that my said wife hath since the making and published of such my will desired to be excused of the trouble and burden of the said executorship therefore I do hereby revoke the said appointment in and by my said will and testament of my said wife the said Eleanor Probert executor or executrix jointly with my said son Charles Probert of my said will and testament and I do hereby nominate and appoint my loving and obedient son the said Charles Probert the sole and only executor of my said last will and testament and of this codicill part thereof and I do hereby give and devise to my said son Charles Probert all such goods cattle chattells and other personal estate of me the said Henry Probert which my said wife as coexecutor or joint executor of my said will should have had or might have taken by force and vertue thereof but nevertheless my will and desire is and I hereby give and bequeath unto my said wife the said Eleanor Probert one half or moyety of my plate of all sorts one half of all my linnen and bedding and the ready money of mine which she shall have in her hands custody or keeping at the time of my death for her own use and dispose but should she my said wife the said Eleanor Probert happen to dye or depart this life before she hath by deed in writing or by her last will in writing duely signed or by her subscribed and given or otherwise disposed of the same to some person or persons then my will is that such half of my said plate linnen and bedding I have so hereby given to my said wife or such part thereof as then at the death of my said wife shall remain in specie and undisposed by my said wife aforesaid shall go to my said son Charles Probert and be his in such sort as though I had not given the same unto my said wife I give to my cozen Ann Baker a ring of twenty shillings value as a token of the great respect I have for her I hereby give devise and bequeath to my said son Charles Probert all other my personal estate of what kind soever and wheresoever which I have not otherwise disposed of by my said last will and testament or this my codicil thereto annexed and I hereby give to and nominate limit and appoint that my son Charles Probert and his heires and assignes shall have all such coppyhold estates which I have taken either to my self or in the name or names of any other person or persons whatsoever in trust for me by way of mortgage or otherwise howsoever or wheresoever wherein I have any power or authority given or allowed to me to give limit or appoint the same lands and tenements to or for by the tenor or purport of the surrender or regrant thereof and I also give devise and bequeath to my said son Charles Probert and his heires for ever all and singular my freehold tenements and hereditaments or lands of inheritance of what nature or kind soever they are whereof I have any estate of inheritance [page damaged. DW] possession or reversion remainder use or --? whereof I have any power right of title to dispose of I also hereby ratifye and confirme my said last will and testament in all its parts and points other and otherwise then in what I have by this my codicil altered the same and of such my said last will and testament and this my codicil thereto I make my son Charles Probert the sole executor as aforesaid. In witness whereof I the said Henry Probert have hereto set my hand and seale this seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventeen and in the fourth yeare of his present Majesty King George his reign. Henry Probert. Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Henry Probert as a codicil to his before mentioned last will and testament and as part thereof in our presence and at whose request we in his presence subscribe our names hereto. William Jones, Thomas Rosser, Mathew Price

(Latin) Proved in London with codicil annexed 26 October 1719 by Charles Probert, son of the deceased & executor named in the testament & codicil

Memorandum that ye within written will and testam’t of ye within named Henry Probert the testator contained & written in two skins of parchment affixed together with a lable on which the testator’s seal is sett & to each of which skins the testator hath wrott his name was duly signed sealed published & declared by ye sd testator ye within named Henry Probert ye elder to be & as his last will & testament in ye presence of us who subscribed our names as wittnesses thereto in whose presence & att whose request also we wrott our names as wittnesses thereto James Williams, Thomas Rosser, John Symonds, Thos Richards

Transcribed from a photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales. NP20 6LB Tel 01633 858 359 20/21 February 2001