Description:

Documents:
1 Will dated 2 December 1587 .
First a request that her body be buried in the church of Michaelchurch Escley .
Beneficiaries:
To youngest son, David Harry Poell [an abbreviation for Powell], £10 cash, a feather bed, a flock bed, 2 bolsters, four hurden sheets, two new blankets two 'coverlitts' two table cloths, two coffers, 2 brass pans, five pewter dishes, one candlestick, one salt cellar, and one posnet, the testator's best bedstead, and another bedstead, a truckle bed, a round table with four 'joyning frames' and all the treen vessels.
To Catherine, daughter and wife of Harry Gilbert, £10 with son-in-law, David Morgan to have the use of and accounting for the money during the period of 13 years after the testator's death. He is to pay Catherine on the conclusion of the 13 years, £20 being the capital and interest. If Catherine dies within that period then the capital and interest is to be distributed equally between her surviving children.
To Harry Watkins als Gilbart, £10.
To the 'reparacon' of the parish church of Michaelchurch Escley , 6/8d.
To Johan, daughter of John Jeffrey, 20/-.
To Johan Harry Poell, daughter and wife of David Morgan, £5 and £5 to Sibell David daughter of David Morgan.
To Thomas Weston, 20/-.
To William Weston, 30/-.
To Johan Weston, sister, 30/-.
To Sibell Weston, sister, 20/-.
Towards funeral expenses, 26/8d.
To godson, William David ap Richard, 3/4d.
To daughters, Johan and Catherine, three fine sheets.
To brother William Weston, one rough sheet and a blanket.
To Katherine John Poell, the best blanket.
To daughter, Johan, 'one towel of five yards'
No bequests are to be paid until next Lammas.
The residue of the estate to the executors to cover their costs.


Executors: Son-in-law, David Morgan and youngest son, David Hary Poell.

No indication on copy of testator's signature or mark.

Witnesses: Jenkin William Thomas, clerk, & Thomas ap Richard.

Date of Probate: nd.

2. Inventory: no date, not totalled but comes to £47 18 2d . No appraisers listed

Observations:

This set of reproduced documents which cover 3 pages of the second volume of Brecon wills for the 16^th century have been copied onto 2 sheets of A3.

The inventory is reproduced below with modern spelling.

Inventory