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Will and Inventory of Goods, Richard Daniell, 15 September 1622

In the name of god Amen
The last will and testament of Richard Danyell of the parish of Ruanlanyhorne.
Item I give and bequeve too Florance Daniell my wife ___ and a bed furnished
Item I give and bequeve too Jone my daughter and her children betwext them £ __ XXs
Item I give and bequeve too Anne my daughter and her children betwixt them £ ___ Xs
Item I give and bequeve too Thomas John Danyell sonne £_______ a yowe lame
Item I give and bequeve too Jone John Danyell daughter £__________ a yowe lame
Item I give and bequeve too George John Roes Sonne _________ a yowe a year old
Item I give and bequeve too John Forgean my servant £________ a yowe and lame
Item I give and bequeve too John Roes Children £__________ XIId a year
Item I give and bequeve too Nicolas Tredenans daughter £_________ XIId
Item I give and bequeve too the poore of the parish of Ruan Lanyhorne £____Vs
Item I give and bequeve too Silvester Martyn £_____________ IIsVId
Item I give and bequeve all the rest of my goods unto John Danyell my sonne and hee my executor my will is that Stephen Michell my sonne in lawe and Silvester Martyn to be overseers and that is the last will and testament of me Richard Danyell the fifteenth day of September anno Dome 1622
 
The sine of Richard Danyell
In the presence of Silvester Martyn
And John Forgean

INVENTORY OF RICHARD DANIELL OF RUAN LANIHORNE, 1624
 

A trew Inventarye of all the goods and Chattels of Richard Danyell decessed
Praysed [appraised] by us Stephen Michell John Paskow and Silvester Martyn the thirtieth daye of Agust 1624

Imprymes [in primis = first of all] his weringe sutte of aparell iij li
 
It’ [item - this precedes all the subsequent entries but hasn’t been transcribed]
one Tabellbord and forme x s
 
iij chests xiij s iiij d
 
on Cobord x s
 
ij Cheares xij d
 
[torn] dosen of pewter dishes on salte and [torn] dosen of spones xviij s
 
iij [?] Candelstickes ij s
 
iiij panes and a letell skelet xxx s
 
iij brazen Crockes x s
 
dishes and Trenchers xij d
 
on Mousket furneshed [ready for action] xiij s iiij d
 
ij brandes [brandis] one peare andyerns [andirons]
one peare of potehangins one gredell
a toster and a bare of Irone vj s viij d
 
iij feather bedes iij bolster ij pelles [pillows] v li x s
 
v Rouges [rugs] v blankets ij peare of
Canvas shets iiij steede beds iij li
 
his woolle xiij s iiij d
 
for howsold provisian v s
 
for sackes iij s
 
for Tember vesells x s
 
for Earthen vesells xij d
 
his lumes and takell xx s
 
on packesadell on hackene [hackney] sadell on old torne [‘turn’ = spinning wheel]
on old bedsted on pear of sandpots viij s
 
ij windinge shetes [winnowing sheets = using the wind to get rid of the chaff]
iij seves iij s
 
his Corne xviij li
 
a weane but [butt] a peare of wheeles
a plow and plow stofe v li
 
ij harrowes a harrow tenes furneshed x s
 
his fewell xiij s iiij d
 
his bees v s
 
his piges xl s
 
his gees and pulterye [no value given]
 
iij kine ij stere of ij yeare ij steres of on yeare on heafer of on yere olde
and iij Caves [calves] of this yeare xvij li
 
xxxiiij yeawes and a Lame vij li
 
on ???? stoben [that’s what it says, but we can’t find it in any dialect dictionary: may be ‘stubbing’ to describe the biddix] betex [beat-axe, biddix], on showell [shovel] on evell
on hatchet a pache hooke [patch hook = a bill hook]on hamer xviij d
 
for all other smale implements that lieth about the howse v s iij d
 

Sum’ [summa] total’ [totalis] [sum total not calculated]
 
Marks of Stephen Michell and John Pascow
Signature of Silvester Martyn

N.B. Transcriber's Notes in [italics]. Values in li (pounds), s (shillings) and d (pence) are stated in Roman numerals.

 
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Contributed by Carol Hughes