- [52-56]Thomas Edson's last will and testament, as that of his father, is a quaint and valuable memorial of his day and generation:
" In the name of God Amen, the xiiiith day of Marche, in the yere of our lorde god, 1586, I, Thomas Edsun of Fillongley, in the countie of Warwicke, husbandman, beying sycke in bodie but whole in mynde and of good and perfect remembrance, do ordayne and make this my last wyll and testament in manner and forme followyng: Fyrst I bequeth my soole unto Almightie God, trustyng to the merites of Jesus Christ to be saved and my bodye to be buryed where yt [it] shall pleyse god and my friends. "Also I gyve and bequethe unto Richarde my sonne iiij poundes. "Also I gyve and bequethe unto Thomas my sonne iij poundes. Also I gyve and bequethe unto my doughter Elizabeth x poundes. Also I gyve and bequethe unto Nicholas my sonne all my yron ware that belongeth to husbandry with waynes [wagons], plowes, harrowes, yokes, tewes [chains], culter [coulter, front part of a plow], shares [blades of a plow], wayne rope, nagers [augers], gowges [gouges], chesylles [chisels], a mattoche, and a spade. "The rest of my goodes unbequethed, my dettes payd, and my bodye honestly brought whome [home], I gyve and bequethe them unto Elyn my wyffe and Nicholas my sonne, whome I make Executors of this my last Wyll and Testament, and I wyll that Thomas Oughton, Martyn Holbache, and John Farmer shal be overseers of this my last will & testament, and I wyll that they shall have for tbeyr paynestakyng, every one of them, xiid.
These beyng witnesses: Thomas Gilbert, vicar, Martyn Holbache, and Thomas Oughton, with other ms."
The instrument was proved on the twelfth of February, 1587-8, by both executors...The property of which Thomas Edson was possessed at the time of his death, in 1588, was in part that which he had inherited from his parents, and the remainder that which he had later acquired. The items of the inventory, as also do the names of several apartments of his home, afford good grounds for the inference that he was a man of considerable wealth and importance, besides a yeoman of intelligence and ability. [The following is the inventory, taken 28 Mar 1587/8; I have converted roman numerals] Imps, in the haule [hall], two tabls with fourmes [seats] & benches 11s. 08d. Itm. 3 chears, 2 stooles 02s. 03d. Itm. the paynted clothes [hangings] in the hawle, 02s. 03d. Itm. the copbord [cupboard] in the hawle, 10s. Itm. in brase : fowre pots, 3 panes, five kettels, one dobnet, two chafyng dysses, one scymer, 02 L Itm. foure candlestykes 03s. Itm. in pewter: 11 platters, 7 pewter dysses, 6 saucers, two salts, one pot, 7 porringers, 7 tin spones, 21s Itm. to [2] pewter bols [bowls], 07d. Itm. in the parlor: one cupboard, too standyng beds 25s. Itm. 6 cofars [chests] and one forme 20s. Itm. payntel clothes [hangings] in the parlor, 02s. Itm. foure bedhyllyngs [coverings], one blanket, fowre twyles [twills] 25s. Itm. Too[2] feather beds, foure matres, fyve bolstars, 2 pyllars, 03 L Itm. in wearyng clothes: one cloke, too coates, iij. dowblets, one payr of hose, too hats, 28s. 08d. Itm. 5 yerds of grene clothe for quyssens [cushions], 05s. Itm. one purse, one gyrdell 08d. Itm. one forme [bench], too bourds [boards], a standynd [stained ?] stole, a paire of valances 03s. Itm. thre hechils [hatchels for combing flax or hemp], 27d. Itm. one boultyng [bolting-cloth, sifter] whiche a knedyng troghe [kneading trough], thre theles [thills, boards,] and a stock [rolling-pin ?], 10s. Itm. 3 barrels, v lomes [looms], two chornes [churns], & other implements 20s. Itm. 5. chesfats [cheese vats or tubs], 2 shuters, one lanterne 01s. 06d. Itm. in the hygh chamber, ij bedstyds, too tables, too peir of testels [testers], two fats [tubs], and a barel, & paynted clothes 11s. It. foure spynyng wheles ---- Itm. a saddell, a brydell, one peir of boots, one peir of spurs, 03s. Itm. thre flytches of bakun [bacon] and thre of befe [beef], 26s. Itm. too swords, and a dagger 02s. Itm. in wole [wool] & yerne [yarn] xvi pound. 05s. 03d. Itm. v flaxen shetes, seven canvas shetes, a dozen & a half of table napkins, 3 bord [table-board] clothes, too towels, 03 L Itm. foure pillow beirs [slips]. 03s. Itm. one steepyng fat [vat or tub], a garner, a chese presse, thre tryne of fellyes, 7 shelbords, too hundreth of lath, 21s. Itm. ij laders, too bords, one forme, 06s. Itm. in the barne, Rye, otes, & hay 52s. 03d. Itm. one Iren-boud wayn, too carts, one wayn body, & a Barle Roule [Rowel ?] 03 L Itm. plowes, & harrowes, & sleads, 20s. Itm. too cartrops [cart-ropes], 07d. Itm. 7 yokes, 3 Irentewes, 07s. Itm. foure axell treese, Itm. too axes, thre hatchets, fyve bylls, one ads, one cutty nge sawe, one hand sawe, & other Implements of Iren, 10s. Itm. 6 strik [strike] of ots [oats], 06s. Itm. 6 nawgars, chissels, & fyles, loks, & fitters, with other implements of Iren. 07s. 03d. Itm. iij colters, too shares 05s Itm. too broches, one peir of cobbards, one brandiron, one gridiron, one frying pan, one peire of tongs, one fyer shouel, pothokes, & pothangers 07s. Itm. in sawen bords & montens [fencing], 02s. 03d. Itm. thre sakes, too lyttell bagges, a wyndow shete, & a heare [hair] clothe, 06s. Itm. foure wayles, one dissen of dishes, a dosen of trenchers 16d. Itm. one handiron 02s. Itm. in tymber & fyer wood, one gryndeston 12s. 03d. Itm. 7 pykforkes [pitchforks], one dong fork, one mattock, too showels, one spade, 05s. Itm. a peir of slead brydels, ----- Itm. in lynnen yern, thre guyshens, two peir of showes 05s. Itm. foure hennes & a coke 02s. Itm. one oxe, too steares 07 L 08s.. Itm. too mares 02 L Itm. foure kyne, thre heyfars, 07 L Itm. foure calves 41s. Itm. 6 shepe, and too swyne 27s. Itm. the Rye of the grownd 41s. Itm. Ots on the grownd 30s. . Total 52 L 12s. 4d. [447]
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Abt 1535 - Bef 1588 (~ 53 years)
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