Thomas Neale of Ab Kettleby 1614 Will and Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/237/51
In the name of God Amen The xxiiiith day of July 1614 And in the twelfth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the grace of god kinge of England Fraunce and Ireland Defendour of the faith & of Scotland the 47th I Thomas Neale Vicar of Abkettlbie in the Countie of Leicester beinge of good & perfect remembrance praysed be god therefore doe make & ordaine this my last will and testament in manner & fourme following
First I commend my soule to Almightie God, etc And my body to be buried in the parishe Church or Chauncell of Abkettlebie aforesaid &c
Item I give to the poore of Abkettlebie vs
And to the poore of Holwell vs
Item I geve to Alice my daughter the wife of John More vs
Item I give to John Neale my sonne vs
Ite I give to Nathaniel Neale my Sonne vx
Item I give to Samuel Neale my Sonne xiid
Item I give to William Neale my sonne the free guift and disposition of the vicaridge of Abkettlebie to him & to his heires lawfullie begotten for ever
Item I give & bequeath to Marie Neale my wife that messuage & Cottage house wherein Nathaniel Neale & Robert More nowe dwelleth with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging or apperteininge during her naturall life, and after her decease shall come to my foure Daughters unmarried & to their heires lawfullie begotten for ever
Item all the rest of my goods, my Corne of the gleebe land Cattaile & haye unbequeathed (these legacies beinge payde) I give & bequeath them unto Mary Neale my wife & to my foure Daughters unmaried equallie to be devided amongst them
Item I will that my sonne John Neale shall be the Overseer that this my last will & testament be dulie performed
Item I ordaine & make Marie Neale my wife the whole & sole Executrix of this my last will & testament
These beinge witnesses Thomas More Nathaniel Neale & Samuel Neale
Probate Melton Mowbray 13 September 1614
PR/I/25/83
A true Inventorie of all the goodes Chattells and Cattell of Mr Thomas Neale of Abkettleby late deceased taken and praysed the fourth day of September by John Neale Clarke, William Neale William Stokes Roger Steele & Nathaniell Neale
| Imprimis his purse & his apparel | 4 li |
| Item in the house 2 frame tables 2 buffit stooles 2 fourmes one Cubbard & 4 chayres | 40s |
| Item Cushinges one bacon flicth one Caleener a headpiece sword & dagger fire irons and tongues, | |
| Spit & Cobberdes | 40s |
| Item in the Parlour 14 payre of flaxon sheetes, 3 table clothes, 4 yardes longe 2 towels, 10 | |
| pillowbeares of holland, 12 napkins | 10 li |
| Item 4 Chestes | 20s |
| Ite 2 bedsteades & Curtaines | 50s |
| Ite in the butterie 5 barrels & one old table | 6s 8d |
| Ite 10 bedhillinges & 9 blankets | 10 li |
| Ite 3 fetherbeds & 9 boulsters | 10 li |
| Item 4 mattresses & a quilt | 26s 8d |
| Ite in the chamber over the parlour, 3 quarter of mault 2 quarter of pease | 6 li … |
| Ite one tod of wooll | 20s |
| Ite 60 cheeses & 3 pots of butter | 50s |
| Ite his books | 3 li 6s 8d |
| Ite in the Chamber over the entrie 2 bedsteades Curtaines & a table | 3 li 10s |
| Item 2 old chestes harden sheetes 6 payre, hempen 4 payre one dosen of hempen napkins and | |
| one table cloth | 3 li |
| Item in the Kitchin, one leade, fore brewing vessels a boultinge tubb a swillinge tubb a cheese prasse | |
| & plowe tymber | 50s |
| Item 3 brasse potts 6 panns, 4 brasse candlesticks | 4 li 10s |
| Item peuter 15 peeces | 30s |
| Item 4 loades of coals | 26s 8d |
| Item in the yarde 2 hoffeildes of other woode | 20s |
| Ite 8 kyne, 3 calves | 17 li 10s |
| Item one horse | 5 li |
| Item 3 swine & 4 piggs | 40s |
| Item for all thinges seene and unseene, prysed and unprised | 12d |
| Summa totalis | 118 li 7s 8d |
Exhibited 13 September 1614