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In the name of God Amen the twentyFowerth
day of February in the twenty third ueare of the Reigne of o’r
soveraigne Lord Charles the seacond By the Grace of God ....
England Scottland France& Ireland Kinge defend’r of the faith I
Thurston Arrowsmyth of Haydocke in the County of Lancaster
yeoman being Sicke of body but of good & perfect memory thankes
bee to God doe make & ordaine this my Last will & testament in
manner & forme following
That is to say first & principally I
Comend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my onely maker
Trusting assuredly through the onely meritts of Jesus Christ my
Saviour to bee made p’taker of Life everlastinge And I Commend
my body to the earth (itsorigenall) to bee intered in the Parish
Church or Churchyard of Winwicke by my executor herein hereafter
named: And as for the disposeing of my worldly goods & p’sonall
estate wher’w’th God hath blessed mee my will & mind is as
followeth first that my debts funerall expenc’s & the charges in
& about ..... of this my Last Will & testam’t bee taken out of
the whole: After which done my will & mind is that the
remainder of my s’d goods & p’sonall estate be equally devided
into three partd the first parte whereof I give & bequeath unto
Ellen Arrowmyth my Loveing wyef: The seacond parte & third
parte theirof I give & bequeath unto Mary Arrowsmith & Ann
Arrowsmyth my daughters equally betwixt them: And I nominate &
appoint Edward Stockley of Ashton in the s’d county gent. Thomas
Shuttlesworth of Preston in the s’d county gent & my said
Loveing wyef Joynt Executors of this my Last & testam’t In
witnes wherof I the said Turston Arrowsmyth have herto putt my
hand & Sealle & published this my Last Will & testam’t the day &
yeare first above written Anno Domi 1670
Thurston Arrowsmith
memerandum M’d that it was desired that
Richard Gerard of Sothworth Esq. would be overseer of the above
men’coned Last Will & testam’t: by the s’d Thurstan Arrowsmyth
for & on the behalfe of the s’d Mary & Ann Arrowsmyth And
theirupon theise p’sents now sealled published & deliv’red in
the p’sence of
Will’m Hurst Francis
Wilkinson John Taylor
A true Inventory of all the goods and
cattells of the said Thurstan Arrowsmith late deceased the
twenty eight day of february in the yeare of out lord one
thousand six hundred and seventyth
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Imprimis |
for six milke beasts |
18 - 0 - 0 |
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an incalfe heifer |
2 - 13 - 4 |
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two farrow heifers |
4 - 0 - 0 |
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three twinters |
5 - 6 - 8 |
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six calves |
5 - 5 - 0 |
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three horses |
8 - 0 - 0 |
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cartes & wheeles |
2 - 10 - 0 |
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2 plowes & plow arns |
10 - 0 |
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2 ould harrowes |
12 - 0 |
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geares for the horses |
13 - 4 |
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two paccots |
2 - 6 |
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hay |
2 - 10 - 0 |
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forty measures of oats |
3 - 0 - 0 |
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thirty measures of barley |
4 - 10 - 0 |
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sects ceeves & a window sheet |
11 - 0 |
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a swine |
13 - 4 |
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2 gange of fellies & one spoakes |
12 - 0 |
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his tooles |
6 - 0 |
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eight windles of oat meale |
1 - 12 - 0 |
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tenn measures of malt |
1 - 10 - 0 |
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pewter |
2 - 6 - 8 |
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brase |
2 - 10 - 0 |
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a backston frying pan & other iron
geere |
10 - 0 |
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2 greets 2 crowes & apere of
tonges |
1 - 6 - 8 |
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triime weare |
1 - 10 - 0 |
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the house table & cubbert |
3 - 0 - 0 |
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cheeres & stooles |
5 - 0 |
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a seeltbed |
1 - 10 - 0 |
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a presse a trunke 2 cheists a
little table & a box |
1 - 10 - 0 |
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linnens |
4 - 5 - 0 |
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a trucklebed |
4 - 0 |
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curtenans & beding in the parlar |
3 - 6 - 8 |
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a bed a coe..... boards in a
chamber above |
1 - 0 - 0 |
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yarne and toe |
15 - 0 |
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a bed & beding in a ... or chamber
below |
1 - 10 - 0 |
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a cheesepresse |
3 - 0 |
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powtry ware |
5 - 0 |
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buttery boardes & sheil...s |
5 - 0 |
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earthen weare |
4 - 0 |
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quishons |
6 - 0 |
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a spining wheele & sitting wheele |
3 - 0 |
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2 peere of draughts & geatbares |
7 - 0 |
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beife and baccon |
1 - 6 - 0 |
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reakes and pitchforts |
2 - 0 |
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a bucket and a rope |
1 - 0 |
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bookes |
6 - 0 |
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his apparell & saddle |
5 - 0 - 0 |
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The totall sume is |
£99 - 14 - 2 |
The praisers names
William Hurst
William Ashton
William Houghton
Henry Bordman
Probate granted 29th
September 1674
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