Thomas Walker of Stathern 1600 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/221/66

In the name of god Amen the sixte daie of January in the yere of our lord god a thousand fyve hundred nyntye and eight I Thomas Walker of Stathorne in the county of Leycester husbandman sicke in bodye of whole and perfect remembrance thanks be to almighty god doe ordeyne and make This my last Will & Testament in manner & forme folowinge

Firste I bequeth my soule unto almighty god & to my saviour Jesus Christe my onlye saviour & redeemer And my bodye to the earth from whence it came

Itm I give & bequeth to Thomas walker my eldest sone all my copye hould lands in Derbysheyre & one fetherbedd with a boulster a coverlette a blanket one paire of sheetes which he hath in his owen custodye aleadie

Also I give unto him a bason and a candelsticke

Itm I give & bequeth to my sonne Willm Walker foure pounds in money to be paied within the space of two yeares next after my decease

Itm I give & bequeath to Johan … my kinswoman my cupbord standing in my hall

Itm I give & bequeath to Randell my sone my draught wholly that is to saie fyve horses & mares with carte & carte geares plowe & plowe geares which carte is the better of the twane

Itm I give to my sone Randell the lease & all the Intereste of my ferme whearin I nowe dwell

All the reste of my goods unbequeathed my debts Legacies and funeralls being discharged I will shalbe equally devyded betwixt Randell my sonne and Johan … my kinswoman And I make Randell my sonne my full executor

All the wills heretofore made I doe verily forsake And I acknowledge this to be my last will

In wittnes whereof I sett my hand the daie & yere above written

Wittnesses Thomas Rouse Henrye Greene Thomas Towers & Thomas Allame

Probate 12 December 1600

PR/I/18/96

The Inventorie of all the goods & chattels moveable & unmoveable of Thomas Walker of Stathorne deceased prysed indifferently by Thomas Rowsse Thomas Towers Thomas Allame & Henrye Greene the xixth of Novembre in the xliiith yere of our Soveraigne lady Elizabeth &c as foloweth 1600

Imprimis in his purse & his apparrell	xvis viiid
Ite two bedsteads ii fetherbedds iii boulsters ii matresses & iii pillowes	iii li
Itm iii paire of flaxen sheets iii paires of harden & iii paires of hempen	xliiiis
Itm v coverlettes	xxxs
Itm iii coffers	xiis
Itm the painted clothes with all other implements in the parler	xs
Itm a bedstead in the chamber a spininge Whele ii stones of hempe certen wollen yarne with
scepes & other implements	xxs
Itm in the hall iii tables iii formes ii buffett stooles & ii cheares	xvis viiid
Itm one cupborde	xxs
Itm ii brasse pottes ii pannes iiii ketles a dripinge panne & a scomer	iii li
Itm x pewter platters a basen a peuter potte & a salte	xiiis iiiid
Itm iii candelsticks a chaffen dishe and a lavar	xs
Itm ii gar…s of bord & ii shelfes	iiiis
Itm painted clothes in the hall	vs
Itm ii spites a paire of cobeirons	iiis
Itm the fyer eirne the gallowes a paire of tonges a fyer panne with the potte hookes	vis
Itm viii cushens	vis viiid
Itm iiii tubbes iiii peales a knydinge trough with dishes and trenchers	vis viiid
Itm in the stable ii geldings ii mares a fylle	ix li
Itm one fylle more	xxs
Itm v keyn one heikfer & a calfe	vii li
Itm sixe swyne	xxs
Itm viii sheepe	xxiiiis
Itm the better carte & carte geares plowe & plowe geares	iii li
Itm one old carte	xxvis viiid
Itm one hovell as it standeth with syde peeces & over … with all the pales in the yerde & the
wodd in the same yerd	liiis iiiid
Itm ii Irone harrowes & ii lathers	xs
Itm ix … iii tubbes & ii swyne troughs	viiis
Itm the pullen in the yerd	iiis iiiid
Itm the corne & hey in the yerd	x li
Ite the Lease	xxs
Suma Tolis	lv li xixs iiiid