Wilford John 1720 of Scalford Will

John Wilford of Scalford 1720 Will and Inventory

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives, Leicestershire Wills and Probate Records 1720

In the Name of Gd Amen I Jn Wilford of Scalford in the County of Leicester Husbandman being of sound mind & perfect memory (praised be Gd) do make this my last Will & Testament in Manner following

First I commend my Soul into the hands of my Saviour Jesus Xt hoping thro his alone Merits to be partaker of eternal happiness & my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter mention’d

& as for my Goods & Possessions I dispose of as follows

Imp I give & bequeath to my son Edward Wilford one shilling

Item I give to my son Jn Wilford forty shillings

Item I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary Wilford twenty pounds

Item I give to my Daughter Frances Wilford twenty pounds

Item I give to my son Thomas Wilford twenty pounds to be receiv’d when he is one & twenty years old

Item all the rest of my Goods Chattle Cattel & Personal Estate, my Debts Legacies & Funeral Expences being first discharg’d, I give & bequeath to my Son William Wilford whom I make Executor of this my last Will hereby revoking all former Wills by me made

In  Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of March 1720

                                                                                                                Jn Wilford’s mark

Sign’d Seal’d publish’d & declar’d by the Testator to be his last Will in the presence of us

R Goodall

Jn Berry’s mark

Mary Berry’s mark

Eleanor Ryell’s mark

Probate 9 April 1720

A true Inventary of all the goods and Chattells of John Willford of Scalford in the County of Leicester taken and Appraised the 30 day of March 1720 by us whose names are here under reitten viz

 £sd
Imprime his purse and apparel150
Item goods in the house176
Item goods in the parler100
Item goods in the chamber over the house076
Item goods in the chamber over the parler050
Item goods in the kitchin0126
Item goods in the chamber over the kitchin0150
Item six mares and tow coults2000
Item nine cowes and four hefers1200
Item fiftey foor sheep7100
Item tow piges1100
Item a cart and a wagin500
Item gears hares and plowes1100
Item thinges unseen  014
 53310

John Riall

William Dunsmore