Held at:

National Library of Wales

Reference:

BR/1636/284

Source:

Photocopy of original documents

Title:

Probate Collection: Bond and documents for William Watkins.

Place name:

Clodock

Date:

1636

Description:


Documents

1.   Bond: dated   20 July 1636 with:
Bounden Sibil Watkins of Clodock, widow and Thomas Jones of the same place, gent in a surety of £100.
 
Date of Probate: as bond

2. Inventory:
     dated
19 July 1636 ; value not given [is this inventory complete?] but comes to £39  19  4d. Appraisers: Lewis [lost in a fold], Thomas Jones, Phillip Watkin, Howell Phillip and Theophilus Jenkins

 

 

Observations:

It is possible that there is a lost page of this inventory it shows no sign of an attempt at a final valuation.
  His inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

                                                Inventory

 

  £

    s

    d

In primis eight kine priced at the rate of twenty shillings a piece

  8

    0

    0

One yoke of oxen priced at a rate of thirty shillings a piece

  3

    0

    0

Two mares and two colts priced at a rate of twenty shillings a piece
    the mares, & the colts ten shillings a piece


  3

 
    0


    0

Four young beasts of two years old priced at a rate of a mark a piece

  2

  13

    4

Four yearling beasts priced at a rate of ten shillings a piece

  2

    0

    0

Twenty sheep at the rate of two shillings a piece

  2

    0

    0

Ten lambs at the rate of twelve pence a piece

 

  10

    0

Four weaning calves at the rate of 3 shillings apiece

 

  12

    0

[text obscured]

 

    4

    0

Five acres of hard corn priced at the rate of ten shillings an acre

  2

  10

    0

Twenty acres of Lent crop priced at the rate of four shillings an acre

  4

    0

    0

Hemp and flax at the rate of

 

    2

    0

Two beds with furniture priced

  1

    0

    0

Thomas Price owes to the said William Watkin the sum of

  2

  11

    0

Two brass pots   one brass pan and one brass kettle at the rate of
     two shillings a piece.

 

    8

    0

Six pieces of pewter priced at the rate of eight pence a piece

 

    4

    0

Two table boards one chair  two bedsteads  at the rate of

  2

    0

    0

One plough, and pair of harrows with yokes and all that belongs to them

 

    5

    0

William Powell owes to the said William Watkin upon bond the sum

  3

    0

    0

Jenkin Lloyd owes to the said William Watkin upon bond the sum

  2

    0

    0

                                                                                    comes to

£39

  19

    4d

                                                
                                                           


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