John Daft of Hickling 1696 Will, Inventory and Bond
Nottinghamshire Archives PR/NW
[only a poor microfiche copy of this will has been seen]
In the Name of God Amen The Second day of Aprill 1696 I John Daft the Elder of Hicklin in the County of Nottingham yeoman being weake and ill of body but of a sound and perfect mind and memory (Blessed by God for it) doe make and ordaine this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following that is to say
First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hopeing and assuring my self that through the Lords mercy and the all sufficient merits of Jesus Christ my onely saviour and Redeemer to be partaker of Life Everlasting And for my body I bequeath to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in Christian buryall according to the discretion of my Executors hereafter Nominated
And for my worldly Goods which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I dispose of them in manner and forme following
And first I give and bequeath unto my Loveing wife my house and homestead and two oxgang of land and … known by the name of Glovers Close for her life
Item I give unto my kinsman William Leeson that oxgang of land that my father Enjoyed separate from my other two oxgange and he to hold it my wifes life entering upon it att my decease and after my wifes decease I Give and bequeath that oxgang to John Daft of Nottingham and his heirs for ever and also Glovers Close and John Daft to Enter upon the oxgang and one year after my wifes decease nevertheless I give this Glovers Close to John Daft on the condition that he pay unto Mary Daft and Alice Daft the daughters of William Daft five pounds apiece to be paid … … halfe a yeare after he enters otherwise I will that Mary Daft and Alice Daft enter upon Glovers Close and do hold it to them and their heires for ever
Item I give unto my kinsman William Leeson and his wife for their lives my house and homestead and oxgange of land to enter upon them after my wifes decease and after the decease of the longer liver of them I give and bequeath my house and homestead and two oxgange of land unto Ann Leeson and her heires for ever
Item I Give unto my loveing Brother William Daft the house he liveth in in Nottingham in Fishergate during his life and after his decease I give the house aforesaid unto his son John daft and his heires forever
Item I give and bequeath unto my kinsman Richard Daft four pounds to be paid twelve months after my wifes decease to John Mussons four children four pounds to be paid twelve month after my wifes decease and I give to the poor of Hickling twenty shillings
Item give to the three daughters of John H..se [?] of Claypole that married Elizabeth Leeson ten pounds amongst them and their particular parts to be paid as they come to Age and if it happen that any daughter or daughters die before she or they come to Age then that part or parts of the ten pounds be given to the survivor or survivors of them
Item my will is that a long table in the house and a press in the house and a table a bedstead and a cubbord in the new parlour and also a bedstead in the old parlour be and remain heirloomes to my house from time to time and soe to continue
Item I Give and bequeath all the rest of my goods chattels and cattell unto my loveing wife and my kinsman William Leeson they paying the above said legacies as they are before bequeathed and paying my debts if any be and also my funerall expences
And I doe hereby make my loving wife and my kinsman William Leeson full and Sole and Joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament the Day and Yeare first above written
John Daft
Sealed and signed and published to be the Last Will and Testament of John Daft the Elder in the presence of us
John Reay
Henry Leeson
John Musson
A True and perfect Inventory of the Goods Cattells and Chattells of John Daft late of Hickling in the County of Nottingham yeoman lately Deceased taken and prised the 6 day of July Annoq Dni by Henry Brown George Man and William Barlow
| £ | s | d | |
| Imprimis his Purse & Apparrell | 08 | 01 | 00 |
| Item in the house one fire Iron frodgs one gallowtree one fire Shovell & tonges | |||
| Some small hookes and other materialls | 10 | 05 | 00 |
| Item one table and two formes | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Item one Landsettle i little table two cheares … joynt stoole | 00 | 07 | 00 |
| Item one presse | 00 | 16 | 00 |
| Item five and thirty yards of flaxen Cloth | 01 | 15 | 00 |
| Item thirty yards of hempen new | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| Item Six yards of Jarsie white | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| Item Ten yards of Collard Cloth | 01 | 05 | 04 |
| Item four Yards more of Collard Cloth | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Item eighteen yards of Cloth white | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| Item in the parlour one Table four Buffitt Stooles i Cuberd 3 cheares | |||
| 2 Chestes … | 09 | 00 | 00 |
| Item one Coverlid 3 Blankets i pair of sheets with a bed hillin & 9 napkins | |||
| & a little pillow | 01 | 05 | 03 |
| Item five pewter dishes one warming pann two Cups two Candlestickes one | |||
| Little baskin table one dozen of spoones two porringers one saucer one | |||
| Looking Glass two salt sellers | 01 | 09 | 06 |
| Item in the other parlour 3 pair of hempen sheets 1 dozen of napkins flax all | |||
| together halfe a dozen of Oyster napkins four other napkins of flaxen a table | |||
| Cloth of Oyster three flaxen sheets & one towel | 02 | 08 | 00 |
| Item five pillow beares | 00 | 07 | 00 |
| Item one bedstead one Matteris i chest i coffer | 01 | 02 | 00 |
| Item two pair of sheets hempen | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Item three pair of sheets harden | 00 | 11 | 00 |
| Item one table cloth two pillow bears & five yards of flaxen cloth one Oyster | |||
| Napkin | 00 | 08 | 06 |
| Item nine pewter dishes two pewter pintes one pewter Cup one Chaffin dish | |||
| two besons one skillet | 00 | 12 | 00 |
| Item 9 barells five pans & one pott pann and one pott and one skimmer | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Item one Copper | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Item in the kitchin foure tubs one Kinnell | 00 | 15 | 00 |
| Item Six kitts barrells & dishes and other materialls | 00 | 07 | 00 |
| Item in the kitchin Chamber one bedstead with the beding thereon | 00 | 06 | 00 |
| Item five pale some … & hopper & several scuttels | 00 | 09 | 00 |
| Item in the Chamber Eight pounds of jarsie in the yarn | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Item three strike of wheate | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Item one Bed hillin | 00 | 06 | 08 |
| Item one Materis and a sheet | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| Item for barley | 09 | 00 | 00 |
| Item Bed & Beding thereunto belonging | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| Item pease | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Item … 1 woollen wheel & 1 linnen wheel | 00 | 06 | 08 |
| Item 1 strike of barley winno cloth & for malt | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Item for Cheese | 01 | 10 | 00 |
| Item for Linnen | 04 | 10 | 00 |
| Item one Chest & one Coffer | 00 | 01 | 08 |
| Item Cheese hecks with some smale bords | 00 | 01 | 00 |
| Item 1 brandiron & one maund & other things there | 00 | 06 | 00 |
| Item two frying pans one Creve iron and 6 forks and … and one serge | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| Item two carts and one Cart body and one fan | 05 | 00 | 00 |
| Item five leathers | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Item four fele trees three plowes … … | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Item Six Sheep Cribs | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| Item one plowe & … and shares | 00 | 06 | 08 |
| Item three harrows with all materialls | 00 | 12 | 00 |
| Item four Creches | 00 | 03 | 00 |
| Item five stone Troughes | 00 | 13 | 04 |
| Item manner 10 leades | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Item in the stable plow geares & cart geares and horse collers with other | |||
| materialls | 01 | 10 | 06 |
| Item Bease … … wood … … … one paire of … & other timber | 01 | 06 | 08 |
| Item Swine in the yard | 01 | 01 | 04 |
| Item nine Mares | 13 | 00 | 00 |
| Item six Cowes 2 heffers two years old 4 yearlings 2 rearing Caulfes | … | 06 | 08 |
| Item shepe two score and ten | 15 | 00 | 00 |
| Item fleake belonging to the fould | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Item Corne on the ground six oxgangs and a halfe | 06 | 00 | 00 |
| Item for the Clots of the ground being five oxgang and a half | … | 00 | 00 |
| Item pullen and all things seene and unseen | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| Sum Total | 211 | 19 | 00 |
Bond, bound Dorothy Daft widow of Hickling, William Leeson husbandman of Hickling and Henry Brown husbandman of Hickling, 18 July 1696. Condition bound Dorothy Daft and William Leeson executors of John Daft to execute will and produce inventory
Dorothea Daft mark
William Leeson mark
Henry Browne