John Dixon of Stathern 1614 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/237
Memorand that the 19th day of December in this present yeare 1614 John Dixon of the towne of Statherne by trade a butcher being very sicke and weake in bodye and of … perfect remembrance being … and … called upon by Roger … Clarke, Thomas Rowse his uncle and Richard Rowse his kinsman to make a will which he was very unwilling to doe but yet at last after divers persuasions he was drawne to make a kinde of nuncupative will giving the lease of his house to his sone Richard Dixon and twenty marke a peece to his twoe daughters and 40s to his old mother being a blinded woman towards the bying of a Cowe for her better maintenance and the houses old stuffe to be devided by equally portion amongst the three children and his sonne Richard to be his executor
PR/I/25/164
An Inventorie of all the goods & cattells of John Dicson of Stathern diseased mayde the thirtie daye of December in the yeare of owr lord god one thowsande six honderth & fowreteene & prased the same daye … Thomas Towans Richarde Dicson Andrew Dicson & Thomas Dicson as followeth
| Itm in his porce | xvi li |
| Itm his aparrell | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm all the corne | xvi li |
| Itm hovells payles & wood in the yerde | xxs |
| Itm three horses & mares | vi li |
| Itm three kye | iiii li iiis viiid |
| Itm one fat hog | xxvis viiid |
| One sow being with piges | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm in the shop | iis |
| Itm all the hey | iiii li |
| Itm ii … with … & other Iron | viis |
| Itm one olde weyne | xxs |
| Itm all the puter | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm all the brasse with fryeing pan | xxs |
| Itm fyve barrells | vis |
| Other tubbs | vis viiid |
| Itm one salting hogg & … | vis viiid |
| Itm chesefats with woden platers | xiid |
| Itm dishes & trenchers & some other tryfells | xvid |
| Itm ii panshons & a littell tronke | xviiid |
| Itm a kimnell & a booll for milke | viiid |
| Itm ii lennen wheles & one wollen wheyll | iiis vid |
| Itm one sayke iiii sives & a framing stole | iiis iiiid |
| It the fyer Iron tongs recings spits & coverlet ) | xs |
| Itm brandorn & an iron p… ) | |
| Itm a table with a frame & a bofet forme ii cheares a barbench a settell & ii stoles | xxs |
| Itm a press & a cobbert in the hall | xxxs |
| Itm fowre peales for water | iis |
| Itm all the payntid clothes in the howse | iis |
| Itm ii payre of fine sheetes | iiis iiiid |
| Itm one … sheete | xs |
| Itm fowre payre of hempen sheets | xxviiis |
| Itm six payre of harden shetes | xxiiiis |
| It ii long table clothes | viiis |
| Itm ii shorte table clothes | vis |
| Itm ii cobert clothes | iiiis |
| Itm ii ordenari table clothes | iis vid |
| Itm xiiii table napkins & ii pilloberes | xvis |
| Itm ii new coverings | xxviiis |
| Itm iii olde coverlet | xs |
| Itm iii matressis v pilloes & ii boulsters | xxs |
| It ii valances | iis vid |
| Itm i cobert and a chest | |
| Itm a standing bedstead & a trundle bed | xs |
| Itm one bruing leade | vis viiid |
| Itm sackcloth | viis |
| Itm vii qweshens | iiis |
| Itm piche forks | xiid |
| Itm pollen in the yerde | vs |
| Itm the lease of the howse | iiii li |
| Itm owing by John Perpoynte | viii li |
| Suma totalis 81 li 12s | |
| The debts of John Dixon deceased | |
| Imprimis to Thomas Townes | 12 li |
| It to Robert Hall | 4 li |
| It to Richard Rowse the younger | 5 li 10s |
| It for the Rent of … | 3 li |
| It for the … of … beastes | 5s |
| It to Jane Mason for wages | 4s 4d |
| It to Smalleyes wife | 2s 6d |
Probate 13 January 1614/5