In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Osborne of Erdington in the Parish of Aston in the County of Warwick Yeoman being at present of sound Mind & Memory praised be God for the same Do make & publish this my last Will & Testament in manner following First I give & bequeath to William Peacock brother to my late Wife the Sum of Ten pounds if he lives till my Executors have made sale enough of my personal Estate after payment of my Debts & Funeral Charges & then to be immediately paid him Item I give to my Servant Elizabeth Turner if she continues in my Service till my Decease (but not otherwise) the Sum of Five Pounds & I do hereby constitute & appoint John Cater Wheelwright of Minsworth in the Parish of Curdworth in the County of Warwick and John Rogers Yeoman of Erdington in the Parish of Aston in the County of Warwick Joint Executors of this my last Will & Testament & I give the Sum of One Pound a piece unto such of them my Executors as shall take on them the Burthen & Execution thereof as an acknowledgement for their care & Trouble in & about the same As to all the Rest Residue & Remainder of my personal Estate of what Nature Kind or Quality soever the same be not by me otherwise disposed of after & subject to the payment of my Debts Legacies & ffunerall Expences I give & bequeath the same & every part thereof unto my said Executors Upon Trust that they my said Executors or the Survivor of them his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns shall & do as soon as conveniently may be after my decease consistent with the delay which may be necessary on account of the Occupation of my Farms sell & convert into ready Money all such part or parts thereof as shall not consist in Money and the Money arising by such sale I desire the said John Rogers to receive together with any Money which may be found in the House and any Debts which may be due to me and immediately to deposit the same in the hands of my Landlord Mr Holden for safe Custody & his receipt shall be a discharge to my Executor s Item I give and bequeath the Money so deposited in the Hands of Mr Holden to John Cater Mary Cater William Cater & Catherine Cater the Sons & Daughters of John Cater the Executor herein before mentioned by Elizabeth his present Wife to be equally divided between them and their Shares to be paid by the said Mr Holden when they attain the Age of Twenty One Years & I would have each of those Children paid their Shares as soon as they come of Age & not to stay till the others come of Age & in case any one or more of the said Children die before such Child or Children attain the Age of Twenty One Years then and in such case I give the Share or Shares of such Child or Children so dying to be equally divided between them who survive when they come of Age in the same manner as is above directed for the payment of their Original Shares In Witness whereof I the Testator Thomas Osborne have to this my last Will & Testament set my Hand and Seal

30 Sept 1753

(Attestation Clause)

Tho Osborne

Willm Smith
John Smart


An Inventory Taken of the late Thomas Osborne of Goods and Catel of Hus wose Names ar under written
 

Cash in the house	0:10:6
Waren apparril	2:15:0
a Dresor of drawers and puter frames	0:15:6
Puter	0:15:6
a Clock	2:8:6
An Old warmin pan	1:1:0
2 Cheirs in the Citchin	0:10:4
a Stand Tabel	0:2:6
2 Breckfast Tabels and two Joint stools	0:5:0
Baken and Baken Cratch	1:1:6
a Jack	0:5:6
6 Candle Sticks	0:1:0
A pear of Stilerdes	0:3:6
Forniture of the fire place	1:5:6
a fring pan	0:1:2
an Old ****** lock	0:4:0
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In the parler a bed Blancotes and bolster	1:4:6
a Chest	0:7:0
a Close stule	0:3:4
6 Old Cheres	0:2:0
a Long Table and frames	0:5:6
a luking glas	0:1:0
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In the dary three bras pans	0:9:6
6 Shilvs and milk pans	0:5:0
2 Cimmils	0:6:0
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In the back house a little Copper	0:14:6
a Litel breckforst Catell	0:3:6
a Old Saspan and little Cattel	0:1:0
2 Brass cettels	1:0:0
2 Old bruing tubes	0:4:6
a Mashing Tobe	0:3:6
a Old Seston	0:2:0
a Old Treding Tobe	0:2:0
2 Chorns	0:5:6
a Chees pres	0:6:0
5 Old Cheesfats and shuters	0:4:6
a Pell and 2 gawns	0:2:6
2 Chees bols	0:0:6
4 Old Misers	0:2:6
a Peck and a smal washing tub	0:2:8
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In the Seler & barils	1:0:0
3 Dozen of botels	0:4:6
a Little old bob	0:2:0
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In the pantry a littel brackfast Tabel	0:4:6
An old dresser	0:1:6
A dosin of knives and forkes	0:3:0
a Littel Stand	0:2:0
3 Old Sives and a Surch	0:4:0
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In the Chember over the Kitchin a Bed and furnetide for that Rome	5:15:6
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The Chamber over the Parler
a Bed and blancoates and angens	2:0:0
a Chest and ******	3:5:8
2 Old pear of Bedstides and fetherbed and blancoates	3:5:5
3 Old Spining Weels	0:5:0
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In the Chees Chember
Chees	14:9:0
Wooll	1:15:0
7 Chees shilves	1:5:0
Old *****	0:7:0
3 Straw wickes	0:5:0
4 Old sives	0:9:0
12 Old bages	0:1:0
a Old linen shet	0:8:0
a Cart horse	0:2:0
Old seales and *****	0:1:6
a Old Malt Mill	0:12:6
Lumber in the house	0:3:4
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The hey and the Cheese	21:0:0
Wheet	20:0:0
Otes	8:0:0
Barley	4:10:0
The Sheepe	10:10:0
6 Cows	27:0:0
2 Storkes	7:0:0
a Bool	3:10:0
2 Cawes	2:4:0
a Waggon and Tumbrills	9:0:0
the harrow and ****and Wheels	1:6:0
2 Piges	1:6:0
2 Horses and Tackel	2:10:0
Coells and forkes and other metior****	1:5:0

Thomas Hargrave
William Jenkins