William Fann of Scalford 1714 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1714
In the Name of God Amen I William Fan of Scalford in the County of Leicester Roper being indisposed in health but of sound mind & memory praised be Gd do make this my last Will & Testament in manner following
Imprimis my soul I commend into the hands of Jesus Xt my Saviour hoping thro his alone merits to partake of eternal happiness & my body I commit to the ground to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix herein after mentioned
& my estate I dispose of as follows
Imp I give & devise to my son John Fan & his heirs after the decease of my dear Wife that house wch I now live in with the homestead & a close adjoyning to it & another house lying in Scalford now in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Bass with a Cottage Common & half a Common being in Scalford field & all other appurtenances belonging to both houses
Item I give & devise to my Daughter Elizabeth a house lying in Long Claxton in Leicestershire with all appurtenances thereunto belonging
Item I give & devise to my sons William & Augustine & my Daughter Martha a Close lying in Scalford field commonly call’d Dumore piece with a quarter of a yard land & half a Cottage Common to be equally divided amongst them but if the aforesaid John Fan die having no lawfull issue my will is that what I have here left him shall after my Wife’s decease be given to my Son William & his heirs provided that my Son William shall resign his share in Dunmore piece and the quarter of yard land & the half Common aforemention’d to my son Augustin & Daughter Martha to be equally parted between them
Item I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary half a Crown & to my granddaughter Elizabeth half a crown
Item the house wch Ralph Barks lives in & all my goods chattles cattle & personal estate whatsoever I give & bequeath to my dear Wife whom I make Executrix of this my last Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made
In witness whereof I have here set my hand this twenty seventh day of September 1714
William Fan’s mark
Sign’d seal’d publish’d & declar’d by the Testator to be his last will & Testament in the presence of us
R Goodall
William Dunmore
William Keark
Probate 23 November 1714 to relict Anne Fann
A treue Inmetare of the Goodes and Chatels of William Fann of Scalford Late Desesed October the 14 1714
| His pors And Aparil | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Fore Cowes And three Calfes | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| Goodes In the House | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Goodes In the Parler | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Goodes In the Chamber Over the parler | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Goodes In the Chamber Over the House | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Goodes In the Shop | 2 | 15 | 6 |
| Goodes In the Kichin | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Pase and Barle and Haye in the barne | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Twente Shep | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| One Mare | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| One pig | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Thinges Not Sene and for Goten | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 26 | 19 | 0 |
Thomas Awood
William Dunmore