Philip Francis of Scalford 1637 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1637/62
In the name of God Amen & Philip Francis of Scallforde in the County of Leicester being sicke in body but of good & perfect memory God be praised therefore doe make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner & forme following viz
First I bequeath my soule to allmighty God my creator hopeing assuradly through the merits of Christ Jhs my only saviour & redeemer to be partaker of life everlasting & my body I bequeath to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in the churchyard of Scallford at the discretion of Jane my wife the executrix of this my last will & testament
And for the worldly goods wherewith God hath endowed me I dispose of them in manner & forme following vizt
I bequeath to my father Mathew Francis three pounds and foure sheepe of the meanest sort
To my brother William Francis twenty shilling
To my brother Mathew one hogg & a lambe
& to my sisters two chilldren Mary and Alice ten shillings a peice
And to twelve of the poorest people of Scallford threepence a peice
And to my father my cloake
To my brother Mathew my fustion dublet & best paire of breeches & a payre of stockings & a leather dublet and ierkin & my best hatt
And the rest of my goods & chattels whatsoever undisposed (my funerall charges being first defrayed and discharged) I doe hereby wholy give and bequeath to Jane my wife whom I doe constitute & appoint to be the full and only executrix of this my will and testament and revoking all former wills whatsoever by me made I doe ordaine publish and declare this to be my last will and testament
Wittnesse my hand and seale hereunto put the xvith day of April Ao Dom 1637
The marke and seale of Philip Francis
In the presence of
Edm Bardsey
Probate 3 October 1637
PR/I/39/155
A true & iust Inventory of all the Goods, Cattels, and Chattels whatsoever of Philip Francis late of Scalford in the Countie of Leicester Shepheard deceased taken prized and made on the tenth day of August Anno Dom 1637 by Simon Stevenson & Thomas Drake of the same Town & County aforesayd
| £ | s | d | |
| The Goods Contayned in the house | |||
| Imprimis his Purse & Girdle tenn shillinges | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Item his Aparrell one pounde | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Item his Brasse one pounde | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Item his Puter three shillings foure pence | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Item his Cubert thirteen shillings foure pence | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Item his Table with the frame & a forme tenn shillinges | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Item his Chaires his stooles & a little fall table three s foure d | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Item all his wooden ware tenn shillinges | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| The Goods in his Parlour | |||
| Item his Linen one pounde | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Item his woolen one pounde | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Item his Chests & his Bedstead sixteene shillinges | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Item his wheels & forkes three shillinges foure pence | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Item his fuell & fodder one pounde three shill: foure pence | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Item his Sheepe foure poundes tenn shillinges | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Item his Cowe two poundes three shillinges foure pence | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Item the Lease of his house five poundes | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Item his woole thirdteene shillinges foure pence | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Item for some other thinges which may be left out & forgotten two s | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| In tot | 21 | 1 | 4 |
Simon Stevenson
Thomas Drake