Nicholas Adcock of Scalford 1582 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1583/70

In the name of God amen In the xiiith daye of October & in the yeare of our Lorde god 1582 I Nycholas Adcock of Scalford in the countye of Leicester husbandman sycke in bodye but whole in minde and of good and perfect memorye god be thanked therefore doe make and ordaine this my laste will and testament in maner and forme followinge

Firste I bequeathe my soule unto allmightye god and my bodye to be buried in the churche yarde of Scalford

Itm I geve and bequeath unto everye one of my foure daughters one ewe hogge to be delyvered presentlye after my departure out of this worlde and to goe forwarde to theire comodyte

Itm I geve and bequeathe to Elizabethe Webster my sister one ewe and to her sonne Jhon Webster one lambe

Itm I geve and bequeathe to Nycholas Buggye one lambe

Itm I geve and bequeathe unto my sister Joyse Adcocke in consideration of a discharge of my fathers will iii strike of barley and one strike of maulte

I will also that my wiffe shall plowe the lande during the terme of my lease in suche order and for the same consyderatione I plowed it before

Itm I geve and bequeathe unto Alice my wiffe the thirde parte of my goods moveable and unmoveable with my lease and the yeares in it yet not expired

Itm the other two parts of my goods I geve and bequeathe unto my sixe children that is the one halfe equallye to be devided betwixte my two sonnes Willm Adcocke and Nycholas Adcocke to be paied when they shall come to the age of one and twentye years The other parte to be equallye devided betwixte my four daughters Jone Adcocke Margaret Adcocke Hellenn Adcocke and Isable Adcocke to be paied eythere at the day of their mariage or else at theire age of one and twentye yeares

Itm I do make and ordaine Alice my wiffe and Willm Adcocke my sonne executors unto this my laste will and testament

Itm I will that Raphe Segrave Gentleman and Jhon Musson be supervisors unto this my testament

Thes beinge witnesses unto my last will and testament whose names are underwritten

Willm Binckes

Willm Astall

Robarte Gilberte

Willm Berye

An Inventorye of the goods and cattells of Nycholas Adcocke of Scalforde in the countye of Leicester husbandman taken and prysed by us Willm Astall Robarte Gilberte Thomas Musson and Willm Berye 1582

In primis his apparell	xiiis iiiid
The Halle
Itm two cobbords	xs
Itm one table and a forme thre cheares two tables	vis viiid
Itm one dishe benches with one penn and other trenn ware	iis
Itm thre pailes one greate wodden bole	xvid
Itm two brasse pannes and two kettles	xxvis viiid
Itm iiii brasse pots	xxiiiis
Itm xi peces of pewter & three sawcers	xis
Itm thre salts three candellstickes	iiis
Itm one leade	vis viiid
Itm one fire yron one brandyron with pote hingles and one paire of tongs	iiis iiiid
Itm one spite and thre cobyrons	iis viiid
Itm vi cushines and one hanging clothe	vs
Itm two lynnen wheles and one wollen whele	iiis
The parlore
Itm vii paire of flaxen sheets	xlvis viiid
Itm v paire of hempen sheets and two bord clothes	xxvs
Itm viii paire of harden shets and two harden bordeclothes	xxiiiis
Itm iiii towels and vi table napkins	ixs iiiid
Itm vi small pillowebeares	vis viiid
Itm iiii matrisses	xiiis iiiid
Itm vis bede coverings	xls
Itm iiii bolsters and vi small pillowes	vs iiiid
Itm iii bedsteds	iiis
Itm iiii coffers	viiis
Itm hengings in the parlore	iiis iiiid
Itm one saltinge trofe one boltinge trofe one arke with other tubes	xvs iiiid
The Stable
Itm iiii horses and mares	v li vis viiid
Itm two fillyes	xiiis iiiid
Itm viii kynne	ix li xs
Itm five and fiftye sheepe	x li
Itm two yron bounde cartes and carte geares	iii li
Itm xviii axe tres	vis
Itm plowes and plowe geares with harrowes	xiiis iiiid
Itm two hovels	xvis
Itm one sowe and iii shotes	xxs
Itm the crope in the feilde	xx li
Suma 67 li 4s