Thomas Flower of Eaton 1550 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1550/23 and 24

In the name of god amen the xiii daye of maii in the yere of our lord god m vc and l I Thomas Flower of Eyton in the County of Leycester beyng holle of mynde and good and perfyte memorye makeyth and ordeneyth thys my testament & last wyll in manner & forme as here after fouloythe

Fyrst and pryncypally I gyve my soull unto allmyghty god and put it fully to hys mercys and also my boddye to be buryed in the cheurche of Langar [sic] aforesaid paying therfore vs to the said churche

Also I wyll that the poure menes boxe shall have iid

Also I wyll the vycar shall have for all forgottyn tythes and to praye for me vs

Also I wyll that yf my neyghbures of Eyton make the hye waye betwene the cheurche and the grainge where I dwell for that they shal have iiis iiiid yf that they do it and if they do it not they shall not have the said money

Also I wyll that George Flower my god sone shall have oon hew shepe & oon lame

Also I wyll that Thomas Flower my godsone shall have oon hew shepe & oon lame

Also I wyll that every one boeythe of my men servants & of my women servants shall have iiiid

Also I wyll that Grace my wyff shall have ii of my beast kyne that she can cheuyse the beast horse or mare that she wyll have and also xlti hew shepe & xlti lames alone & proper to hir selfe

Also I wyll that all myne other goodes boeyth moveable & unmoveable shall be wel sett fourth & devyded in ii parts & that Grace my said wyff shall have the one halfe of it & the other half shall my ii chyldern have & gyuft the said Grace my saied wyff their mother

Also I wyll that all my deytts shallbe payde uppon those ii parts aforesaid

Also I wyll that yf the one of my ii chyldern dy before they come to yeres of dyscretyon or in the waye of marrydg that then the other that lyves shall have the beoythe ii parts & yf the boeythe dye before the aforesaid tyme & yeres then shall Grace my said wyff have there ii parts alone to hyr selff

Also I wyll that if it chaunce or hapyn that Grace my said wyff marry agayne that then she shall delyver my ii chyldern with their parts before the daye of hyr marryge to my brother Harry Flower bealy of Langar or else yf she wyll not do so then she shall be bounde to put in good & lauffull sucrtyes to the foresaid Harry Flower or to some other of hys honest frends the whych he shall apoont that thei shall be well & honestly brought up & ordered & also ther parts truly payd

Also I wyll that Grace my said wyff shall be myne executriyx alone & my brother Harry Flower the bealy for to be the supervysour of thys my last wyll & testament

Theis beyng wyttnesses Thomas Walker the vycar of Eyton Harry Flower the beyly of Langar John Flower of the same towne

Thys is the inventory of all the gooddes Cattells & detts of Thomas Flower of Eyton in the Countye of Leycester And in the dyocese of Lyncolne praysed by Thomas Glen Hugo Kyllyngley Thomas Wryght & Wyllm Wyttyll of Eyton afforeseyd husbandmen the xviith daie of October in the yere of the reygne of our sovereyng lord Edwarde the vith by the grace of god king of Ingland Fraunce & Iarland defendour of the Feyth & of the cheurche of Ingland And also of Ireland supreme heade iiiith

In the yard
Of Cattell & shepe
In primis viii oxen & ii steres	vi li xiiis iiiid
Itm ii horses ii mares & oon foule	xxvs
Itm xiiii kyne	vii li
Itm viiii yong beastes of iii yere olde	xls
Itm vi beastes of ii yere olde	xviiis
Itm ix calfes of one yere old	xviiis
Itm oon bull	xs
Itm ii hundereth shepe	xxx li
Itm vi swyne hogges & xv score swyne	xxviis
Itm the pullyn	vs
Of other stuffe in the yarde
Itm ii yron bund weynes	xxvis viiid
Itm the plowes iron teymes with the yoekes & all thynges to them belongyng	xiiis iiiid
Itm the hovell wood with other fyar wood And the swyne trowghes	viis
In the Barne
Itm xxx quarts of barlye	xii li
Itm x quarts of rye	lvi s
Itm viii quarts of peyse with the hey	iii li
In the Felde
Itm xvi akers of rye	iii li iiiis
In the chamber
Itm iii feyther beddes iii mattrecys with the bolesets pyllows & the beydde steads	liiis iiiid
Itm standyng in the same chamber oon counter iii chestes ii turned cheyers And
oon preysse	xs
In the kytchyn
Itm iiii pannes iiii brasse potts ii posnetts oon spytt oon payer of yron cobbards
oon masheyng
fatt with other bruyng and bakyng vesseyles	xiiis iiiid
In the buttre
Itm oon [rest of line lost in fold]
Itm ii laytn basones ii latyn lanes & viii candylstykes of brasse	vs
In the Awl
Itm ii tabyles oon awmbre iiii cheyers ii fourmes iiii coshynes oon carpytt cloeyth
oon yron Aboweyt the fyar & oon payer of tongges	xs
Napery
Itm xx payer of shetts the oon halffe flaxyn the other halffe shaken downe sheets
vi napkynes of dyapar and xii other napkynes	xxxs
Itm oon heyre clethe oon wyndowe cloethe vi seykes ii wyndylles & ii syves	vis viiid
Sum	iiii xx and one pound xis viiid
Detts that the sayd Thomas Flower doythe owe to dyvers persones
In primis to Harry Flower the bealy of Langar	ls
Itm to the same Harry Flower	xiiis iiiid
Itm to the same Harry	xls
Itm to the same Harry	xxs
Itm to the same Harry ix quarts of barly vi quarts of peyce	iii
Itm to Antony Beyncoetts [?]	iii li vis viiid
Itm to the parsone of Langar	xxs
Itm to the cheurche of Eyton	viis
Sum	xiii li xviis
The hole Sum of thys inventory … … beyng debts deducted ys	iii xx vii li xiiiis viiid