Thomas Hart of Long Clawson 1719 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1719
In the name of God Amen I Thomas Hart of Claxton Als Long Clawson in the County of Leicester Whitture being Mindfull of my Mortality doe make & ordain this my last will and Testament in manner following
Impris I Give devise & Bequeath unto my youngest Son Thomas Hart and to his heirs & assigns for ever All That my Messuage or Tenement withe orchards & appts thereunto belonging Scituate & being in Claxton Als Long Clawson aforesd wherein I now Inhabit & dwell And allsoe All that my one fourteenth part of a certain Wind Mill & the several peices & parcells of ground to the same belonging scituate & being within the westend fields of Claxton Als Long Clawson comonly called or known by the name of the West Mill
Allsoe I Give and bequeath unto my sd son Thomas the sume of five pounds of good and lawfull money of Great Britain out of my personal Estate
Item I Give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Richard Hart the sume of sixty pounds of good & Lawfull money of Great Britain out of the residue of my said personal Estate
Item I Give & Bequeath unto my onely daughter Elizabeth Hart the sume of Thirty pounds of good & lawfull money of Great Britain out of the sd residue of my sd personal Estate
Allsoe my Will & Mind is that my sd three Children shall have receive & Enjoy their respective shares & portions aforemenconed when they shall severally attain their Ages of one & Twenty years & not before
Allsoe I Desire my Executors hereinafter named to make sale of all my personal Estates whatsoever as soon as conveniently may be after my decease and to place the money raised thereby (together with such other ready money which I shall Leave) out at Interest And to apply therouts of my said messuage the profits of my sd part of the sd windmill and the Interest as aforesd To the Bringing up of my sd Three Children untill they shall Attain severall Ages aforesd
Allsoe I desire my Brother Richard Hart to take care of my sd son Richard to Learn him the Trade of a Whitture which he now useth as soon as he conveniently can
And also all the overplus of my sd personal Estate if any be after my Just Debts funeral Expences Executors Chrges & the Legacys aforesd are fully discharg’d I Give & Bequeath unto my sd Three Children to be divided amongst them at the Discretion of my sd Extors
And Lastly I Doe hereby make ordain constitute & appoint Henry Marriott of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesd yeoman & George Rowse of the same Blacksmith & my sd Brother Richard Hart Joynt Executors of this my sd last Will & Testamt and Guardians for my sd Children hereby revokeing all former Wills & Testamts whatsoever by me heretofore made
In Wittnesse whereof I the sd Thomas Hart sd Testator have hereunto set my hand & Seal the fifth Day of August in the year of our Lord 1719
Tho: Hart
Signed Sealed published & declared by the sd Thomas Hart the Testator to be his last will & Testamt in the presence of us whose names were Subscribed in the presence of the said Testator
Sarah Flower Junr
Lyddia Hart
John Doubleday
A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods Cattles and Chattles of Thomas Hart of Claxton alias Long Clawson In the County of Leicester deced the Eight Day of August In the year of our Lord 1719 and apprized by us the seventeenth of the sd month by us whose Names are here Subscribed
| £ | s | d | |
| Impris His purse and Apparell | 00 | 13 | 04 |
| Itm Crash [sic] and Creditt | 96 | 18 | 00 |
| Itm Two Horses | 09 | 10 | 00 |
| Itm Three Cowes | 04 | 10 | 00 |
| Itm Thirteen Ewes and Eight Lambs | 04 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm Swine a Lame One, 5 Young piggs & another Little One | 00 | 08 | 00 |
| Itm Hay and Corne | 10 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm a Harrow & a Carte a plow & forkes & Rakes & Geares | 01 | 05 | 00 |
| Itm Clott and pease Earth | 03 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm In the Shope all Leather & Coles & other Materialls | 02 | 15 | 00 |
| Itm Malt in a Chamber | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm In the Cheese Chamber Cheese Wooll & Barley &c | 03 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm In the Chamber over the Parlor a Bed & Lumber | 01 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm In the parlor 2 beds a Chest a Table and Linnen | 03 | 00 | 00 |
| Itm In the House Two Tables ten Chaires & Copper & brass and fire Irons and | |||
| a Cusp and other Small things | 02 | 13 | 04 |
| Itm things Unseen and forgot | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| 137 | 17 | 08 |
John Reay
Robt. Hickling
Robt. Garton
Probate 14 September 1719