Thomas Garton of Long Clawson 1699 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1699/33

In the name of God Amen The three and twentieth day of April 1699 according to the computation of the Church of England I Thomas Garton of Claxton als Long Clauson in the County of Leicester yeoman being weak of body but of a sound and perfect mind & memory (Blessed be Almighty God for it) doe make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say

First and principally I comend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hoping through the merits of Jesus Christ my onely Saviour and Redeemer to receive full pardon of all  my sins and bee made a partaker of life everlasting And as for my body I commit to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buried in such manner as my Executor hereafter named shall thinke fit & convenient

And as Touching that temporal estate which the Lord in mercy hath lent me I dispose of it in manner and form following That is to say

First I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Cicely Garton twenty shillings

Item I give unto William Marriott two shillings six pence

Item I give unto Richard Marriott two shillings six pence

Item I give unto John Marriot two shillings six pence

Item I give unto Mary Marriott two shillings six pence

Item I give unto the poor of Long Clauson twenty shillings

Item I give unto the poor of Hoose twenty shillings

Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Robert Garton and his heires for ever lawfully begotten or to be begotten all those four oxgangs of land lying and being in the precincts of Hoose with all the appurtenances belonging thereto And alsoe one house and homested with the appurtenances And also three oxgangs of Land lying and being in the liberty & precincts of Claxton als Long Clauson after my wives decese

And for want of such heires lawfully begotten or to be begotten by my son Robert Garton My Will and mind is that my Grandson John Hubbard shall have all the four oxgangs of Land lying and being in the liberty of Hoose aforesaid The said Grandson John Hubbard paying two hundred pounds to his sisters and the two hundred pounds to be distributed as his father and mother or the survivor of them shall think fit and convenient

And if it should please God that my son Robert Garton should die without issue lawfully begotten or to be begotten my Will & mind is that the rent of the four oxgangs of land aforesaid during my grandsons minority by yearly reserved towards the two hundred pounds, and when he comes to age of one and twenty then to pay the residue of what is behind of two hundred pounds to be distributed as his parents or the survivor of them shall think fit and convenient among the sisters

And if my son Robert Garton die without issue and my Grandson John Hubbard die before the two hundred pounds be paid my Will & mind is that the four oxgangs of Land be equally divided among my son Hubbards children

And as for the house and homested and three oxgangs of Land bequeathed to my son Robert Garton and his heirs as abovesaid my will & mind is that my Grandson Thomas Hubbard and his heires shall have enjoy them after my wives & sons death if my son have not issue, all of it lying and being in Claxton and the precincts thereof, he paying to my Grandson John Moor of London Apothecary sone of Edward Moore of Sustern the sum of five pounds when he enters upon it if the aforesaid John Moore be alive But note that my Will & mind is that if my Grandson Thomas Hubbard die without issue then the three oxgangs of land & house & homested to be equally divided amongst my son Hubbards children then living

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Garton all my stock and crops Goods Cattell & Chattells moveable & unmoveable in whose hands soever they be he paying my debts & funerall charges whatsoever

And I doe make my son Robert Garton full & sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament

Thus revoking all former Wills and Testaments by me made I hereby make this my last Will & Testament the day and year abovesaid

Witness my hand and seal

                                                                                                         Tho: Garton

Signed sealed and published as the last Will and Testament of Thomas Garton in the presence of

John Reay

John Hubbard

PR/I/104

A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods Cattell and Chattells of Thomas Garton of Claxton als Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Yeoman deceased the thirtieth day of Aprill 1699 taken and apprized by us whose names are here subscribed the sixth day of May 1699

	£	s	d
Imprimis his purse and apparel	6	13	4
Item In the chamber over the Kitchin bedcloathes & wheat	2	4	0
Item In the Chamber over the house barly & pease	3	0	0
Item In the store chamber & the other little chamber cheese bacon & wheels
& other materials inconsiderable	0	16	0
Item Malt & a …	6	3	4
Item In the best parlour stooles chairs a bed & bedcloathes	7	10	0
Item In the little parlour a bedsted & bedcloathes a cubbard & a chest
& other inconsiderable things	1	15	6
Item In the Kitchen a copper brass & peuter & shelves & small things with
weights & scales	5	7	2
Item Linnen Course & fine & mens bed	2	5	0
Item Barrells & shelves in Buttery	0	9	4
Item In the house a Long table & a little table & stooles & chaires & other
inconsiderable things	2	10	0
Item horse flesh	66	0	0
Item Horn bease	29	5	0
Item Sixty seaven sheep with the lambs & four odd sheep	37	0	0
Item Three swine hoggs	2	5	0
Item The crop of the Ground & some pease in the hovill	31	16	0
Item Coales & querns	3	10	0
Item Hay & straw	4	0	0
Item Wood in the yard	4	0	0
Item Manure in the yard	4	0	0
Item Sheep cribs & fleakes & fence fleakes	1	1	3
Item A wagon & three carts plows & harrows & all geers	15	10	9
Item The fanne & sackes & horse trough forkes & shovells & other materials
of husbandry	2	0	0
Item Five irons & hookes & rackins bellows & smoothing irons & other smal
things	1	0	2
Item Things unseen & forgotten	0	6	0
Sum: tot:	240	8	6

John Reay Vic

John Hubbard

Rich Fawkes

Thomas Hickling his marke

Probate 30 May 1699