Richard Brewster of Scalford 1599 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/220/45
June 7 Elizabeth Regine 41 Ano 1599
In the name of god amen I Rychard Brustar of Scalford in the countye of Leicester Tayloure sick in body but whole in mind and of good and perfecte memory thanks be to god therefore do make and ordeine this my last will and testament in maner and forme followeinge
First I bequeath my soule to almighty god and my bodie to be buryed in the church yard of Scalford aforesaid
Itm I geve and bequethe unto Agnes my wife xiii li vis viiid
Itm I geve and bequeath unto Jhon Brustar my brother ii ewes and lambes at his own choise for the monie I owe him, one Russet coate a payre of hose of the same, a paire of knit neather stockes and a shirt
Itm I geve unto Margery Brustare the daughter of Nycholas Brustar one bedstead standinge in the chamber, a mattryse, one paire of flaxen sheets, the best coverlet, one boulster, and one pillowe, so that she geve unto Kathrin Parkar xs or else the said Kathrin shall geve unto the said Margery (yf she refuse to geve xs) tenne shillings and she then shall have the said legacy bequeathed unto the said Margery as afore\
Itm I geve and bequeath unto Rychard Brustare sonne of Nicholas Brustar one ewe and lambe, and my portione of the close called the More hall close
Itm I geve unto either of the two sonnes of Willm Hill and Isable my sister two ewes and lambes, and all my apparell of the … …
Itm I geve and bequeathe unto William Moore sonne of Hughe Moore and Rychard Bery sonne of Willm Bery either of them one barren sheepe
Itm I geve and bequeathe unto Elizabethe Burke one bedstead standing in the south side of the parlour, a mattrise a coverlet and a pillowe
Itm I geve unto Kathern Parkare xs and one gray cassock
Itm I geven unto Alice …ly one barren ewe
Itm I geve unto Jhon R… one greene coate one paire of nether stockes of the[MJ1] same, and one paire of over hose of the same
Itm I geve and bequeath unto xxtie of the poorest cottygars in Scalford xxs
Itm the reste of my goods unbequeathed, by debts discharged, and my funerals dispached, I geve and bequeathe unto Robart Palmer the sonne of Rogear Palmer, and to Rychard Brustar whome I make and ordeine my lawfull and full executors unto this my last will and testament
Itm I make and ordeine Hughe Moore and Seth [?] Hosse supervisors to this my last will and testament and either of them to have for their paines iis vid
In wittnes whereof I the above named Rychard Brustar of Scalford aforesaid have hereunto sett my hand the day and yeare above written in the presence of thes wittnesses
Rychard Brustare [his mark]
Willm Bincks
Willm Moore
Richard C…
A … of my debts
Itm oweinge to Christopher Watchehorne iiiis
Itm oweinge to Robarte Parlmer iiiis viiid
Itm oweinge to Hellen Wells xs
On reverse
Robt. Palmer fil Regem Palmer de Wartnabye husbandman
Rich. Brustar fil Nicho Brustar de Wartnabye Laborer
Robt. Palmer … husband. de Wartnabye
Probate 27 June 1599
PR/I/17/63
A true & perfect inventorye of the goods and chattles of Robart Brustar late of Scalford in the countye of Leicester Taylour taken and praysed the 23th day of June 1599 by us Hugh Collington, Raffe Gilbart, Lodwicke [no surname given, probably Kemp], Hughe Moore, husbandmen and Willm Midleton taylour
| Im primis his apparell | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm iii brasse potts | xvis |
| Itm vi brasse pannes and kettles | xvis |
| Itm iiii pewtar chargers, vi small platters, ii candlesticks one chaffingdish one salt | |
| one pewtar potte | xiis |
| Itm one table with frame and two formes | vs |
| Itm one olde cubboard, one penne, and forme | vis viiid |
| Itm one little table one forme, one chair, one stoole, on cheese and one little planke | iis viiid |
| Itm one fire iron, one fire shovel, one paire of tongs, with pott hingles and one hachet | xxs |
| Itm old wood in the chamber | xvid |
| Itm one bedstead iii coverings, one mattrise two bolstares ii blankets | xxvis viiid |
| Itm one other bedstead, one mattrise, one coverlet, one payre of sheets | |
| one bedstead one pillowe | xxs |
| Itm one other bestead with painted clothes about it, one mattrise, one coveringe, | |
| one pillowe | viis |
| Itm iii paire of harden sheets and one board cloth one towel | vs |
| Itm v … | xiis |
| Itm the buttery with all things in it two pailes, one churne, one prasse | vs viiid |
| Itm two little leathers | viiid |
| Itm one old hovell and other wood about the yarde | xs |
| Itm ii kine, and calves, two yearelinge calves | vii li |
| Itm xiiii barren sheepe | iiii li |
| Itm one olde hovell and xiii ewes and lambes | v li xs |
| Sum totalis | xxiiii li xis viiid |
