John Marriott of Eastwell 1586 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1586/49 also probate copy
In the name of god Amen the xxvth daie of Auguste in the yeare of our god 1586 I John Maryat of Estwell in the Countie of Leicester beinge sicke in bodie but of perficte memorie, doe ordayne constitute and make this my laste will and Testament in manner and forme followeinge
First I geve and bequethe my soule to allmightie god, in whome I believe onelie to be my Saviour and Redemer, as for my bodie I bequeathe to the earthe, from whence it came, and to be buriede in Churcheyearde of Estwell
Itm I geve unto Thomas Tales all my apparell
Itm I geve to everie one of the said Thomas Tales his daughters one Ewe and a lambe
Itm I geve to Sence Co… one Ewe
Itm I geve to George Tales one yearlinge calf
Itm I geve to John Huckerbie one foale
Itm my debts and Legaseis beinge dischargede and paide I will that all my goodes moveable and unmoveable shale devidede into ii partes the one half part whereof I doe geve and bequeathe unto Hugh Franncke, and the one half of the other parte I geve unto Agnis my wife, and I will that the other half shalbe equallye devidede betwexte my twoe daughters
Itm I doe make Hughe Frannke my full and Lawfull Executor of this my laste will and Testament and Nicholas Parpoint and Willm Heathe the Supervisors of the same, to se this my Last wyll performed
Wyttnesses hereof Wylliam Huckberye Robart Draper Willm Heath withe others
PR/I/8/97
The trew Inventory of all the goods and cattells of John Marriat of Estwell in the countie of Leicester deceased prised by fowre indifferent men, that is to say, Henry Hawtrey, Nicholas Perpoynt Richard Spicke and Richard Hardell the xiiii day of September and in the yeare of oure Lord 1586
| Imprimis one youlke of oxen | v li |
| Itm ii mares | iii li vis viiid |
| Itm i foale and one yerlynge calfe | xxvis viiid |
| Itm I kyne & one weaning calfe | iii li vis viiid |
| Itm iii Swyne | xvs |
| Itm iii Shetes | viis |
| Itm ii yoos and iii lames | xvs |
| Itm xii other shepe | xxxiiis |
| Itm Rye | iii li vis viiid |
| Itm hay | xxvis viiid |
| Itm vii acarrs and a … of barley | v li viiis |
| Itm an acarre & a … of oates | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm 33 acarre of pease | xxxs |
| Suma | xxvii li xiiis viiid |
| In the hall | |
| Itm a cubbord a tabell a forme a cheare a littell fallynge tabell with a disshe benche | vis viiid |
| Itm iii brasse potts ii pannes ii cawdrons and ii Skilletts with a frying panne | xxxiiis iiiid |
| Itm vi tubbes iiii peales a chearne a saltyng trowhe iiii chese fattes v boweles iiii … platters | |
| with dishes trenchers & a tankerd | xiiis iiiid |
| Item iii platters & peawter dishes iii sawsers ii saltes iii candellstickes & ii porringers | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm spits copirons brandirons a paire of tonges a fyer iron and pott hookes | viiis |
| Suma | iii li iiiis viiid |
| In the parlor | |
| Itm his apparrell | vis viiid |
| Itm his purse and his girdell | iiiid |
| Itm iii arkes iii bedsteds iii bolsters iii pilloes iii coverlides & i blanket | xiiis iiiid |
| Itm a paire of flaxen sheats v paire of hempen vi paiyer and a sheete of harden | xxs |
| Itm one other bedstead a mattrisse a bolster ii pillowes with beares ii coverlids i payre of | |
| flaxen sheats and one payre of hempen sheates | xxs |
| Itm iii tabell cloths iii towells vi napkynnes iii pillowe beares vi yards of harden a wallet and | |
| iiii badd caisshens | xs |
| Itm iii li of yarne and ii li of flaxe | iis vid |
| Itm iiii bottells a mannd iii erthen cannes ii pippins iii drinkynge cuppes | iiis iiiid |
| Suma | iii li xvis iid |
| In the chamber | |
| Itm woolle | viiis |
| Itm ii wheell a payre of blades & a cheese hache | iis |
| Itm a window cloth with sackes & bagges | iiis iiiid |
| Itm a … a hopper & v boards | iis |
| Itm paynted cloethes | xxd |
| Itm viii pycheforkes ii … hookes iiii … hookes ii … hookes and a sickell | iiis |
| In the yard | |
| Itm plowe & plowe geares weane & weane geares, with a payre of yron harrowes | xxxiiis iiiid |
| Itm iii ladders | iid |
| Itm plow tymber, hovell ware, & ould wood about the yard | xxxiiis iiiid |
| Itm x shepe fleacks | xxd |
| Itm viii geease, ix hennes, & xx chyckins | vs |
| Itm coales | viiis |
| Itm xiii acar of fallow | xiiix iiiid |
| Suma | iiii li xvis iiiid |
| Suma totalis | xlii li xd |
Probate 4 November 1586