In the name of God, Amen: the 20th day
of Julie 1605. I Tristram Bowhay of the paryshe of Stockclimsland being
of pfecte mynde and memory (God be praised) do make and ordayne this my
last Will and Testament in manner and forme following. First I commende
my Soul to Almighty God and my body to Christian buriall.
Item I give to my wife 20 sheepe or ther abouts which were of my
Father's ewe
It 4 pannes which I had of my Father 6 platters, 6 pudingers and sixe
sawcers 3 silver spoones, a featherbed {p}[frame all] which is in
Whiteford. All these aforesaid I give to my [brother deleted] mother
Item I give to my brother Nicholas £4 [o-iiij li].
Item I give to Sampson [Langston] o-iiij li.
Item I give to my brother's son Nicholas Bowhay o-xls.
Item I give to Tristram Bowhay a yewe lambe.
Item I give to Sampson Hunt my Ser vaunt a yewe.
Item I give to my sonne Edward Bowhay one hundred pounds to be paid at
21 years of age.
Item I give to the poor of Stoke o-v s.
All the rest of my goods and chattells whasoevr not given not bequethed
moveable and unmoveable I do give and bequeath to Marye my wife Whom I
make and appoynte my full and sole executrix
witnesse hereunto Iohn Clarke Iam Bowhay and others.
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A true inventorie of all such goods as Iohn Brent of the pishe of
Stokeclimsland in the Countie of Cornwall de used [deduced]
indifferentlie valued and praysed by Anthony Coombe [Groube] and Andrew
Adams in manner and forme as here after followeth [E]ven the
seventh day of Aprill in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord
Charles by the
grace of god of England Scotland [Scotland deleted] France and Ireland
King defender of the faith the fourth.
Imprimis his purse girdell and wearing apparell
valued xxx s
Item 2 table bords 2 formes a bincher [bench]
valued xvj s
Item one cubborde
valued
xiij s iiij d
Item one feather bed and bouster and a bedstead
clothes xx s
Item three
bedstedes
xij s
Item a bar ior [jaw] one spit 2 pot
hangings
viij s
Item a ladder and 3 yards of
tymber
xij s
Item all other implements of household
unvalued
v s
Suma totalis 5
li xvj s iiij
d
[£5 16 04]
ix Ap: 1629 Ad[ministrat]io et Comiss[io]
Iohanni[s] Brent
filio def[un]cti:
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It 4 acars a half of
Otes
iiij li
It 2
mares
v s
It 3 quarters of an acare of
barley
x s
It 5 keene & one
calfe
x li
It vj
Oxen
xiiij li
It 4 Young
Cattells
iiij li xiij s iiij d
It 5
pidges
xl s
It other smale stufe in the
howse
xx s
[£41.03.04]
Suma totalis Cij
li xj s [£102.11.00]