Robert Wright of Long Clawson 1680 Will And Inventory
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1680/20
One edge of the will is badly crumpled and torn and also appears to be suffering from water damage
In the Name of God Amen I Robert Wright of Claxton als Long Clawson in the countie of Leic yeoman being [damage] good & sound mind & memory (blessed be god for it [damage] mind the incertainty of humane life doe make & ordaine [damage] last will & testamt in manner & forme following that is to say
I give & resign my soule into the hands of my Mercifull [damage] Redeemer Jesus Christ trusting to be saved by the merritts of his bitter death & passion & my bodie I comend to the earth to be decently interred
And as for my worldly estate goods [damage] which god hath beene pleased to give & lend mee I doe devise & bequeath them as followeth this is to say
I doe devise & bequeath unto my eldest son Robert Wright & to his heires [damage] for ever All that Messuage or tenemt with th’appurtenaces wherein I now dwell & all those twoe closses with theire apptences thereunto belonging called the Gorse closse & Pakes [?] closse And allsoe all those five oxgangs of land of arrable meadow & pasture ground with theire & evrie of theire appurtenances antiently belonging to the said Messuage or tenemt All which said Messuage closses & lands are scituate lying & being in the West end & in the west end fields of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesaid
Alldoe I doe devise & bequeath unto my second son Edward Wright & to his heires & assignes for ever All that Messuage or tenemt & the home closse thereunto belonging & All those three oxgangs of land or arrable meadow & pasture ground with all appurtenances to the said Messuage closs & lands scituate lying & being in the East end & East end fields of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesaid & now being in the tenure or occupacon of me & John Smith George Swaine & Andrew Peight & lately purchased of George Hornebuckle & Edward Wright
Allsoe I doe devise & bequeath unto my third son John Wright & to his heires & assignes for ever All that one Oxgang & one half Oxgang of land of arrable meadow & pasture ground with theire appurtenances lying & being in the said West end fields of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesaid which I lately purchased of Willm Knott And allsoe all that closse with th’appurtenances in the Lordship of Hose in the said county of Leic called Brockhills closse being the west closs of the twoe closses
Allsoe I give & bequeath unto the said John his extors adtors & asss All that one halfe Oxgang of land with th’appurentances in the said West end fields of Claxton also Long Clawson aforesaid which is Mortgaged to mee by the said Willm Knott together with the Indenture of Mortgage & all the principall & Interest [damage] due or to be due & owing upon the said Mortgage
Allsoe I doe devise & bequeath unto my youngest son Thomas & to heires & asss for ever the other closs with th’appurtenances in the Lordship of Hose aforesaid called Brockhills closs being the East closs of the said two closses
Allsoe I give & bequeath unto the said Thomas his extors adtors & asss All that Messuage home closs & one Oxgang of land with theire & evrie of their appurtenances scituate lying & being in the said West end of Claxton als Long Clawson aforesaid which I have in Mortgage from Willm Draper together with the Indenture of Mortgage it selfe & all the principall & Interest money’s due or to be due & owing thereupon
Allsoe I give & bequeath unto the said Thomas his extors & asss the sum of fiftie pounds of lawfull money of England due & owing unto mee from Edward Hickling upon bond with the bond it selfe & all Interest money due or to be due & owing upon the said bond
Allsoe I give & bequeath unto my twoe daughters Mary & Elizabeth two hundred pounds apeice of lawfull money of England to be paid unto each of them when they shall severally accomplish their severall ages of twentie & one yeres or at theire severall & respective dayes of marriage which shall first happen And my will is that if either of my said twoe daughters shall happen to dye before her said legacy be due & payable unto her as aforesaid that then the same shall goe & be paid & equally devided unto & amongst the other of my said daughter surviving & my said twoe younger sons John & Thomas share & share alike But my will is that if my personal estate undisposed doe fall short of raiseing the said twoe hundred pounds apeice after my debts being first paid & funerall charges & all other things about this my will) that what the same shall want or fall short shall be deducted & abated out of the same & that my Extors hereafter named shall not be lyable or chargeable to make good the same or any other Legacy herein menconed
And my will & mind allsoe is that my said sons & daughters shall be maintained educated & brought up out of the … issues Interest or increase of those said Legacies that my debts shall be first paid funerall charges discharged & all other charges about his my will & testament as much as my personall estate undisposed will … towards the said twoe hundred pounds apeice to my said daughters
And lastly I doe hereby make & ordaine my brother Edward Wright & my said son Robert full & sole Executors of this my last will & testamt revokeing all former wills heretofore by mee made
In Wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the foure & twentith day of December in the one & thirtieth yere of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord King Charles the Second of England &c Anno Domi 1679
Robert Wright
Signed sealed delivered & published as the last will & Testamt of the said Robert Wright in the presence of us
Ja Julian
Will Julian
Richard Wright
Richard Guy
PR/I/82
A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods and Chattells of Robert Wright of Claxton als Long Clawson deceased the 24 day of December and prized by us subscribers the seaventh day of January 1679 [1679/80] as followeth
| li | s | d | |
| Imp: his purse and apparel | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm In the house two tables three forms two chairs & a desk chair | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Itm In the parlour a high bedstead and trundle bedstead and the bedding with blanketts | |||
| and coverlid and curtains | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Itm A great cubbord a livery cubbord a table and 4 stools 4 chairs one chest and a little | |||
| box with some woollen yarn | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Peuter viz dishes & porringers & flagons | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm A coverlid and table linnen and fire iron and other implements | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| In the dayry | |||
| Peuter and brass and butter a salting tubb and other implements | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| In the Buttery | |||
| A cheespress and berrills a salting trough and other implements | 2 | 10 | 6 |
| In the Kitchin | |||
| Brass panns brewing vessells tubbs kitts and other implements | 2 | 15 | 0 |
| In the open chamber | |||
| Pease oats forkes rakes a wheel and other implements | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| In the store chamber | |||
| Wheat and barley a brass pan a .. cheeses flowr & other implements | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| In the far lodging Chamber | |||
| A bedstead and bedding with bolsters and coverlids and blankets | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| Item Three chairs 4 stools a little box and six cushins | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| In the apple chamber | |||
| Apples and other small things | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| In the stone stare chamber | |||
| Wooll bacon cheese greatts and other inconsiderable things | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| In the lodging Chamber | |||
| Two beds next the doore with a chest at beds feet | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm Two other beds with bedding and linnen | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm A chest and four webbs of linnen & other shall things | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm A set of curtains and other implements | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| In the Chamber over the house | |||
| Two bacon flicks and four quarter of Malt | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Itm Sheep in both fields viz 7 score and odd sheep with hay for them with fence treas | |||
| and fold fleaks | 40 | 4 | 0 |
| Itm Two and twenty horn bease and four calves | 35 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm horses mares and foales | 110 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Barley thresht and unthresht | 37 | 6 | 8 |
| Itm Beans and pease | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Wheat | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Item debts owing to me | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm seaven swine hoggs | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Plows and plow gears Cart and Cart geers and harrows | 16 | 13 | 4 |
| Itm Timber Wood | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Bees and Coals | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm A chest two Coverlids curtains 6 pair of sheets & waring cloaths | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Ladders swine troughs | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| Itm Wheat upon the ground | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm hay at home | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Itm Bease cribbs and sheep cribbs and manure in the yard & poultry and things seen | |||
| unseen and forgott | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 379 | 00 | 02 | |
| Debts owing by me | 55 | 0 | 0 |
Prizers to this Inventory
Phill Bass
Robert Hickling
Tho: Garton
William Guy
Henry Hebb
Probate 28 April 1680