Robert Gamble of Saxelby 1635 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1635/45
This 19 of March Anno Dom 1634
In the name of God Amen I Robert Gamble of Saxilbie sicke in bodie but whole in mind of good and perfect remembrance thanks be to god for the same doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner & forme following
First I bequeath my soule to Almightie god trusting to be saved by the meritts death & passion of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ and my bodie to be buried in the Churchyard of Saxilbie
Item I give and bequeath to Jone my wife xx l of lawful money of England a widows bed with furniture & the best coffer
Item I give to Marie my daughter xx l of like money a mattress a coverled a bedstead a boulster a pillow & a pair of sheets & a blanckett
Item I give to the poore of Saxilbie 5 groates
Item I give to Thomas Gamble of Asfordby my godchild vid
Item to my godchild William Gamble of this towne vid
Item to William Stevenson my godchild vid
All the rest of my goodes unbequeathed my debtes being payed & funeral expences discharged I doe give unto William Gamble my sonn whome I doe make my sole executor of this my last will & testament and I intreat my Cosun Henrie Gamble to be overseer of this my will & I do give him for his paines xiid
In wittnes hereof I have sette my hand & seale the day & yeare above written
Robert Gamble his marke
Sealed & delivered in the presence of
John Neale
Robt Hickling
Probate 14 May 1635
PR/I/1635/47
An Inventorie of the goodes and Chattells of Robert Gamble late of Saxilbie in the countie of Leicester deceased taken & praysed the 27th day of May Anno Dom 1635 by Robert Hicklinge, Thomas Foxe and Henrie Gamble as followeth
| Imprimis his purse and apparel | xxxxs |
| Item in the house the fire Irons hookes tongues & spits | vis 8d |
| Item table and frame 2 fourmes a table chaires & stooles | xs |
| Item in the butterie 3 barrells 3 tubbes 2 kimnells 3 pailes salt tubb and other implements | xiis |
| Item ticknall potts panchions chesfatts spoones dishes & trenchers | vis 8d |
| Item 3 brasse potts & pannes & a possenett | xxxvs |
| Item 8 platters 4 saucers 2 candlestickes pestell & morter | xiiis 4d |
| Item in a parlour one cubbard a presse one chest 2 boxes a bedstead | xxxiiis 4d |
| Item one matteresse a boulster 2 pillowes one paire of sheetes one coverled one blanckett | xxs |
| Item one matteresse one coverled one blanckett one pillow | xxs |
| Item one paire of flaxen sheets 3 paire of hempen sheetes 2 paire of harden sheetes 4 table | |
| clothes towels pillowbeeres napkins | 13s |
| Item in a parlour one bedstead a matteresse a paire of harden sheetes 2 boulsters 2 pillowes | |
| 2 blancketts 3 coverleds | xxvis 8d |
| Item 7 harden sheetes 2 cushions a crow of Iron a cheste an axe & churne with other implements | xxs |
| Item in a chamber yarne mault wheate barlie bacon pease bread oatemeale flower cubberds | |
| & od implements | vii l xid |
| Item in an other chamber pease cheesehock bords forkes hookes a seck wheeles chest bedstead | |
| & beding on it | xxs |
| Item in the yard 7 kine & a calf 2 horses | xxvi l |
| Item a paire of cart wheeles strokes & nayles a … tubb a hive of bees 2 leathers 4 forkes | vis 8d |
| Item 2 seckes a hatchett … bordes fleakes sheepe cribbes | viiis vid |
| Item 18 sheepe | v l |
| Item plough cart geares manger cratch & axeltrees | xiiis vid |
| Item 2 hoffeildes pales manure wood & part of a cart | xiiis 4d |
| Item part of … barlie | 50s |
| Item 5 acres of pease | 4 l vis 8d |
| Item 3 roode of wheate | xxvis 8d |
| Item debtes owing to him | 4 l xvis |
| Item for all thinges seene & unseene praysed & unpraised | 4s |
| The total Summe 74 l xs |