William Bryan of Scalford 1688 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1688/130
In the name of god Amen the Sixt day of January Anno dni 1688 I William Bryan of Scalford in the County of Leicester gentleman being of good and perfect memory doe make my will in manner following
And first I Comend my Soule to god and my boddy to the Earth & to be decently buryed att the discression of my Executrix
And for my worldly estate I dispose of it as followeth
And first I give to my deare wife Anne Bryan all the goods and Chattles that were hers before I marryed her
Item I give to my daughter Clarke & her husband to each of them a mourning Ring
And for my library of Bookes I give my Sonne Samuell Bryan and my Son William Bryan to be equally devided between them except my hewbrew Byble which I give to my Son Lassells
I allso give to my Son Lassells my best Beaver hat and a mourning Ring
And my will is that after my debts being payed and my funerall expences discharged I give all my personal estate to my daughters Anne Bryan Martha Bryan Mary Bryan and my son William Bryan to be equally devided amongst them
And my will is that yf any of my Children dye before marriage or they Attayne theire severall ages of one & Twenty that then the share or part or parts of him her or them soe dying to be equally devided between the rest of my Children surviveing
Item I make my deere wife Anne Bryan my Sole Executrix
In wittnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale the day & yere above written
Will. Bryan
Sealed delivered and published in the presence of us
Willam Smart
John Dunmore
Thomas Smart
PR/I/91/152
A Trew and Perfect Inventary of the Goods and Chattles of Wm Bryan late of Scalford in the County of Leicester Deceased Dr of Phissick
Taken the 14th Feby 1699 vallued and Appraysed by Stephen Awood and Wm Smart both of the same Parish as followeth
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis his purse and aparrell at | 050 | 00 | 00 |
| In the Hall | |||
| Two Tables six Chaires one Clock one Still & pann | 003 | 05 | 00 |
| In the Parler | |||
| Two Tables sixteen Chaires one Couch one vyalin one hanging shelfe with | |||
| some small pictures one fire Irone shovel & Tonges | 03 | 05 | 00 |
| In the Dary | |||
| One Cheese Press with shelves and other Milke vessells | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| In the Cole house | |||
| Coles Wood and some ould Cealing | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| In the Buttery | |||
| Fifteen Barrells one Thrall one hanging shelfe one Cubbard with some | |||
| Bottles and the plate in the Buttery and some other small things | 06 | 00 | 00 |
| In the Brue house | |||
| One Lead one paire of Curns five Tubbs two dressers one payle a Cole Rake | |||
| and a forke | 04 | 03 | 00 |
| In the Kitching | |||
| Twelve Puter Dishes one Duzen of plates six Puter Candlesticks Three brass | |||
| Potts five brass Panns one Jack three dressers two Shelves a Trencher Case | |||
| with Trenchers a fire Iron a wrack Iron an hoockes fire shovel & Tonges one | |||
| salt Trunck spits Cobb Irons & dripping pan and pewter flaggons 2 salts | 06 | 13 | 08 |
| In the Kittching Chamber | |||
| One Gunn one Stone Bowe thirty Deale boards six Walnutt Tree planckes | |||
| with some other odd wood | 03 | 00 | 00 |
| In the same one Chest one Salt Tubb one Kimdall one Closse heck one Brass | |||
| morter some Closse fats five wheeles a Beame & scales and three shelves att | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| In the Studdy | |||
| One deske with twoo Tables one Chaire & shelves | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| In the Chamber over the Parlore | |||
| Two high Bedds one Trundle bed one chest 4 Little boxes with two feather | |||
| Bedds Blancketts & bedding one flock bed one Table one Looking Glasse a fire | |||
| Iron with some other small things | 08 | 00 | 00 |
| In the Chamber over the hall | |||
| One Bedd & Bedding Two Chests Two Presses one Table an ould warming | |||
| Pann a Close Stoole Case | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| In the Chamber over the Porch | |||
| One Bedd and Bedding Two Chests one Trunck fower Chaires and some | |||
| Wearing Lyning | 05 | 10 | 00 |
| In the Yard | |||
| Two Horses and one Mare with sadles & Brydles and other furniture | 12 | 00 | 00 |
| Hay and Straw | 02 | 00 | 00 |
| Swyne & Swyne Troughes | 03 | 05 | 00 |
| One Cow att | 02 | 00 | 00 |
| Barly fower Quarter | 02 | 10 | 00 |
| Two ould Lethers with some Timber in the Barne | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Sheep fowertene & sheepe Cribbs | 02 | 10 | 00 |
| Things omitted and forgotten | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| 121 | 1 | 8 |
The marke of Stephen Awood
Willam Smart
Exhibited 16 February 1688/9
