Know all me by these presents that
we Sarah Blower of the parish of
Cwmcarvan in the County of
Monmouth spinster, William Morgan of the parish of Lanarth and
County aforesaid Gent and John Edmunds of the parish od Cwmcarvan and
County aforesaid yeoman are held and firmly bound unto the Right Reverend
Father in God Shute by divine permission
Lord Bishop of Landaff in the sum
of four hundred pounds of good and
lawful money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord Bishop or to his
certain attorney his executors administrators or assigns to which payment well
and truly to be made. We oblige ourselves and each of us by himself for the
whole our and each of our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these
presents. Sealed with our seals dated
the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty one
The Condition of this obligation is
such that if the above bounden Sarah
Blower the natural and lawful daughter and one of the residual legatees
named in the last Will and Testament of late William Blower late
of the parish of Cwmcarvan in the County of Monmouth and Diocese of
Landaff deceased and administratrix with
the Will annexed of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the
said William Blower deceased do
make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the
goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the
hands possession or knowledge of the
said Sarah Blower or into the
hands and possession of any other person or persons for and the same so made do
exhibit or cause to be exhibited in the Registry of the Consistory Court of on
or before the last day of January next
ensuing and the same goods chattels and credits and all other the goods
chattels and credits of the said deceased do well and faithfully administer
according to law, that is to say, do pay the debts of the said deceased which
he did owe at the time of his death and
then the legacies contained and specified in the said Will annexed to the said
Letters of Administration so to be committed as far as goods chattels and
credits will thereto extend and the law charge and further do make or cause to
be made a true and just accompt of said
administration when shall be thereunto lawfully required. And all the rest and
reside of the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found remaining
upon the said administrat accompt and not otherwise disposed of in the said
Will the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges of the
said Court for the time being shall distribute and pay in such manner and form
as shall be limited by the direction of the said Judge. And lastly do at all times hereafter clearly
acquit discharge and save harmless the within named Lord Bishop the said Judge
and all other officers of the said Court against all persons having or pretending
to have any right title or interest in the goods chattels and credits of the
said deceased then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force
ant virtue. Sarah Blower, Wm
Morgan; John Edmonds
Signed sealed and
delivered in the presence of James Davies NP
16th
October 1781. The above named Sarah
Blower was sworn well & faithfully to administer &c to the truth of
the inventory &c and to render an acct &c and that the goods chattles
and credits of the deced do not amount in value to the sum of three hundred
pounds, before me Benj Hall, Surrogate
...? Blower widow
the relict ...? survived her husband but dying without taking upon *
*NOTE: This line was written at the very bottom
of the page, the above is all that can be seen. DW
NOTE: I
have used a proforma for this document.
DW
A true and perfect
inventory of all and singular the goods and credits of William Blower
late of the parish of Cwmcarvan in the County of Monmouth and Diocese of
Landaff deceased made valued and appraised on the second day of June in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine by William
Williams and William Bendall, Gentlemen, appraisers as follows (to wit)
£ s d
First his wearing
apparel valued at 2 12 6
One old horse and
one old mare 9 0 0
Six oxen 25 0 0
Seven milch cows 30 0 0
Three stalls of
bees 0 7 6
Twelve ewes &
lambs 5 8 0
Eight dry sheep 2 10 0
Two old geese, a
gander & three goslings 0 3 0
Fowls of all sorts 0 3 0
A rowler and ox
carr 0 3 6
Four old wain
wheels 0 10 6
One old waggon 5 0 0
Two old pair of
harrows 0 7 6
Two old plows 0 5 0
Yoakes and chaines 0 10 0
Horse gerses
(three pairs) 0 7 6
Cyder vessells of
all sorts (hogsheads, barrels, tubbs &c) 3 10 0
Two old sows and
two hoggs 1 5 0
Spades, pikes,
rakes, dung forks, mattocks, hatchetts, hedge bills and hakers 0 15 0
Fifteen covers of
wheat in grass 13 1 0
Nine covers of
oats in grass 4 4 0
Three covers of
barley in grass 1 10 0
Six covers and a
half of pease in grass 3 18 0
Two covers horse
beans in grass 1 6 0
One old rick of
hay and a piece of ditto 21 0 0
One four year old
heifer 4 0 0
Two three year old
heifers 7 0 0
Four two year old
young cattle valued at 9 15 0
Six calves 4 10 0
Two yearling
stears and two ditto heifers 7 0 0
One feather bed,
boulster, bedstead and curtains and quilt &c 2 10 0
One old close
stool 0 1 0
One hanging press 0 7 6
One old clock and
case 0 15 0
One table, one
bench, one screen, four chairs & one stool 0 10 0
Four spitts, four
iron candlesticks, one brass mortar, one gridiron, one stilliers,
one smoothing iron &c 0 7 6
One copper
saucepan 0 0 6
Old books and
other trumpery 0 2 6
One dogg wheel 0 2 0
Bacon upon the
cratch 1 0 0
One brass pan,
shelves, saulting stone and benches and earthen ware 0 15 0
One cheese press 0 5 0
One brass pan,
three brass kettles, four iron potts, one brass skillett
& one tea kettle 1 0 0
One iron furnace
&c 0 6 0
Costrells cheese
vates, one tub and bench 0 5 0
Fourteen pewter
dishes, five pewter baking dishes, seven pewter plates,
one tining puding pan, one
cullender, six earthen plates and
one pewter tankard 2 0 0
Eight brass
candlesticks, one brass pepper box, one brass flower box
and a brass frying pan 0 4 6
One long table,
one round table, two joint stools, eight chaires and
one tea table 0 16 0
One old writing
desk & one old screen at 0 8 0
Twenty two cheeses
of all sorts 1 7 6
One weather glass 0 1 0
One cart saddle,
two churles, one wayn rope 0 12 0
Four feather beds,
four boulsters, two bedsteads, one pair of curtains
with their appurtenances 9 0 0
Two old chests and
linen in ditto 1 10 0
Two flock beds,
bedsteads & appurtenances 1 10 0
Cyder in ditto 5 5 0
Wheat in ditto 1 16 0
Oats in ditto 0 13 0
A fryer 0 4 0
One cross saw 0 5 0
One old malt mill 0 10 0
Potatoes 0 1 0
One barley stamper 0 2 0
One old scythe 0 0 6
One old clover
riddle and other sives and other riddles 0 1 0
One old cable and
cyder hairs 0 3 0
Vessell hoops 0 1 6
Old baggs 0 2 0
Wheat in the barn 2 14 0
208 17 0
16th
October 1781. The within named Sarah
Blower was sworn to the truth of the foregoing inventory. Before me Benj Hall, Surrogate
Exhibited at
Abergavenny on the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty one by Sarah Blower, spinster, the
natural and lawful daughter of the said deced and administratrix of all and
singular the goods chattles & credits of the sd deced &c for a true and
perfect inventory &c but under protestation of adding &c if any more of
the assetts of the deced shall hereafter come to her hands possession or
knowledge. James Davies, Reg.
NOTE: There are two copies of this inventory. It
looks as if someone decided to re-write it in a neater hand. The two are almost
word or word identical. DW
Transcribed from a
photocopy by Dave Woolven, 2 Aspen Way, Malpas Park, Newport, South Wales. NP20 6LB
Tel 01633 858 359 24 January 2003