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In the Name of God, I Thomas SPARKE of Eastham
in the County of Chester Husbandman being sick and weake of body but
of p[er]fect mynde and memory, praysed be god therefore, and being
…………. of this life, doe therefore ordaine and make this my last will
and testam[en]t in writing, in manner and forme following, that is
to say, first I re[com]mend my soul into the hands of Almighty God,
steadfastly believing that through the ……… …………. and passion of our
Savio[u]r I shall have the full p[ar]don of all my sins and be
received into his heavenly kingdome of glory, and my body to be
decently buryed in the Churchyard of Eastham, and concerning my
worldly and temporally estate I leave and bequeath the same as
followeth, and first concerning my loving wife, my will is that my
wife shall be head and ruler of all my reall and p[er]sonall estate
till my sonne Robte SPARKE acomplish the age of twenty and one
years, if she keep her selfe sole and unmarryed and if she marry
after my decease she shall then have ye moity and one halfe of all
my messuages and and tenem[en]ts where I now dwell, during her life,
but noe part of the goods if she marry again, Item my will and mynde
is that my Executors of this my last will and testam[en]t shall take
a lea… of my Messuages and tenem[en]ts and lands thereunto belonging
as soone as they can conveniently after my desease, and put the
lives of my sonnes Robte SPARKE and Thomas SPARKE into the said
lea…, Item I leave to my daughter Alise threescore pounds of law[ful]
English money to be payd her when she hath accomplished the age of
twenty and four years if she soe long live or to the yssue of her
body then living lawfully to be begotten of her body, Item I leave
to my sonne Thomas ffifty pounds of lawfull English money to be payd
him when he hath accomplished the age of twenty and one years, and
the soe much money as shall be payd to sett him to a trade must be
abate… and taken out of the said fifty pounds. Item my will is that
when my sonne Robte hat accomplished twenty and one years he shall
have the one halfe of my Messuages tenem[en]ts and lands, and one
halfe of my goods, if my wife be not marryed not after my
Decease, but if she marry after my decease then my sonne Robte to
have all the goods, and if my wife marry not she to have the other
halfe, and if my sonne wife and sonne divide the messuages
and tenem[en]ts between them, that then they shall pay and discharge
all such debts and …erears as shall be then un payd and undischarged
betweene, Item my mynde is t[ha]t my daughter Alise shall have that
Chest that was Alise WHITEHEADS, Item I leave my sonne Thomas ten
shillings to buy him a Chest. Item my mynde is that the parlor
be..sh.. & little table & bench in the parlor, & the table dishboard
and Cubboard in the house, and the standing bedd in the chamber
where I ly not to be removed nor sold, Item my mynde is that my
Executors shall d...ind by WHITEHEADS tenem[en]t at the end of
twenty and one years paying and dischargeing for such herrydtts as
shall be payd within the said twenty and one years. Item I make
Executors of this my last will and testm[en]t my loving wife and my
coson Robert VALENTINE, hoping they will soe the same lawfully
executed. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal
the twenty first day of Aprill, in the year of our Lord God, one
thousand six hundred ninety.
Sealed signed published
and delivered for my
last Thomas Sparke
will and testam[en]t in
the presence of
John Smith his mark X
Joseph Ashton his mark X
Joh: Dutton
14th die Februar˙ 1690 (Style
Anglice)
Executores inpranominati Fidem dederunt de
bene
(in comni forma)
Coram me L Fogge Sur:
Testment Jurio et Thomas SPARKE …… Eastham
Agricola
Defunct Exthi et 14 February 1690 Et coma
fait Ex……. Catharine SPARK vidua Relicor et Roberto VALENTINE
Executoribus Ex prius coram Lno FOGGE Surrogato juss. Et
1690
An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels
of Thomas SPARKE of Eastham in the County of Chester deceased made
and approved by William WHITEHEAD and Joseph HEAY the eighteenth day
of December in the year of our Lord God one thousand, six hundred
and ninety.
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Imprimis |
Goods in the Parlor two Feather
Beds a green rug an old |
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white Blankett a boulster a
pillow |
02 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
a Standing bed |
00 : 06 : 08 |
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Itm |
a Table frame and Form |
00 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
a Feather Bed a feather
Boulster a pillow a red rug |
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a white blanket a chasse Bed &
vallences |
01 : 15 : 00 |
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A standing Bed and Tester |
00 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
a plain chest and all Linnens
and Nappery |
03 : 12 : 04 |
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Itm |
in a little room by the parlor
a Chasse bed a Feather |
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Boulster and two Blanketts |
00 : 04 : 00 |
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A pair of Bedstockes |
00 : 03 : 00 |
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Itm |
a Coffer a Chees Tub, a Turnell
a little stoond & a plank |
00 : 18 : 00 |
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Itm |
Cheese |
03 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
Goods in the House, a Standing
Cupboard a long table and frame |
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a form four joint Chairs, three
ash chairs, a Table chairs & a dishboard |
03 : 17 : 06 |
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Itm |
Ten pewter dishes four Saucers,
two fflaggons two Salts |
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and a pewter Candlestick |
00 : 15 : 00 |
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Itm |
Four brasse potts, two brasse
pans a Kettle a Skellett a Skimmer |
02 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
a warming pan |
00 : 05 : 00 |
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Itm |
Goods in the Kitchen a Furnace
pan a Kneading Turnell, a Stoond a |
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ffirkin a Cruck a Can a Kimnell
a Cheese press a Silk Seive a hair Seive |
01 : 01 : 00 |
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Itm |
Goods in the Lower loft an old
Coffer two Sitting wheeles a going |
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wheel a pair of Bedstockes & a
plank |
00 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
Goods in the Barne a Corne Cart
Body, a pair of sled wheeles, one |
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old pair of shood wheeles, tub
muck Cart Bodyes two pairs draughts |
03 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
two ploughs and oxen Chaine, a
pair of Tighes two pair of Tresses |
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a draught yoke two harrowes a
pair of double swingle trees |
00 : 05 : 06 |
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Winnow Sheet two Riddles a Sive
a half measure |
00 : 03 : 08 |
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Barley unthrasht |
06 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
a pease unthrasht |
00 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
Oates unthrasht |
00 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
Hay |
01 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
seven kine two heifers and one
Calf |
12 : 00 : 00 |
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Itm |
two Mares and one nagg
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05 : 10 : 00 |
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Itm |
two Shotes and a Gaut
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01 : 06 : 08 |
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Itm |
the Decedent wearing apparel |
01 : 10 : 00 |
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Debts owing to the Decedent |
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John HOLLOWAY 4 Bonds 5 £ a
Bond |
20 : 00 : 00 |
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30 : 00 : 00 |
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William WHITEHEAD’s Tenement
fourteen years 6 £ per annum |
84 : 00 : 00 |
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Sum totall besides Debts is |
145 : 14 : 04 |
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Joseph HEAY
Will: WHITEHEAD his mark
14 Februar˙ 1690 (Style Anglise)
Extm cum protesticoe
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