NLW Ref: LL/1697/56
George Williams – Goytre
Noverint universi per presents nos Walter Williams pochi de Goytre in Comitatu Monmouth Gent & William Jenkins of Usk in the same County Gent & William Morris of Mamhilad if the said County, Gent teneri et firmiter obligari libris bone et Legalis monete Anglie solvendis eidem aut certo attornato executorbus administrators vel assign suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum per se pro toto et in solidum heredes, executors et administrators nostros firmiter per presents per presentes sigillis nostris sigillatas Date 27 April 1697
The condition of this obligation is such that if ye above bounden Walter Williams of ye pish of Goytre in the County of Monmouth administrator of all and singular ye goods chells and credits of George Williams late of ye pish of Goytre aforesaid deceased doe make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattells and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of him the said Walter Williams or into the hands and possession of any person or persons for him and the same soe made doe exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Consistory Court of Landaffe at or before the first day of October next ensuing. And the same goods chattells and credits and all other the goods chattells & credits of the said deceased at the time of his death which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said Walter James or into the hands & possession of any other person or persons for him doe well and truely administer according to law or further doe make or cause to be made a true and just accompt of his sd ad’con at or before the 27th day of April and all the rest and residue of the said goods chattells and credits wch shall be found remaining upon the said administrators accompt the same being first examined and allowed by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said Court shall deliver unto such person or persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his or their decree or sentence pursuant to the true intent and meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and twentieth years of ye reigne of our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles the second intitled an Act for ye better settling of intestates estates, shall limitt and appoint. and if it shall hereafter appeare that any last will and Testament was made by the said deceased and the executor or executors therein named doe exhibit the same into the said Court making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the said Walter James above bounden being thereunto required doe render and deliver the sd Letters of Administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said Court then this obligation to be void and of none effect or else to remaine in full force and virtue.
Wa: Williams; Will Jenkins; William Morris
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Tho: Maddocks NP. W Jenkins
NOTE: I have used a pro forma for the above. The wording differs slightly from document to document but the gist of it is the same. DW
NOTE: In the above the bounden Walter Williams seems to be referred to as Walter James. DW
A true & pfecte inventorye of all & singular the goods cattle & psonall estate of George Williams of the pish of Goyterye in the Countye of Monmoth & Diocesse of Landaffe gent late deceased who died intestate being taken & prayed the first day of February in the eighth yeare of the Raygne of King William the third Anno Dom 1696 as followeth
£ s d
Imprimis his wearing appell prysed to 02 00 00
Ite 3 feather beds & 3 boulsters 03 00 00
On coverled prysed 00 05 00
Fower fine sheets 00 15 00
Ite eight sheets of courser sorte 00 12 00
Seaven table napkins & on table cloth 00 07 00
Ite all sorts of pewter 00 09 00
Two brasse panns prysed to 01 00 00
& on brasse pott prysed to 00 09 00
Ite kettles & other brasse prysed to 00 10 00
Ite on iron pott & the stander of the still 00 03 00
Ite fower bedsteeds & curtayns & on table carpett 01 00 00
Ite iron andirons with ye iron backe & iron spitts 00 12 00
Ite two chests five coffers & two truncks 01 10 00
Ite all the wooden vessells prysed to 01 00 00
Item all the impliments of husbandry prysed to 01 00 00
Ite two oxen being in the teeme 06 00 00
Item three milch kine prysed to 06 00 00
Three calves prysed 01 00 00
Item all the swine or pigs about the howse prysed 01 17 00
Item all the corne in the barne threshed & unthreshed prysed 06 00 00
Item corne uppon the ground prysed to 02 10 00
Item beans theshed 00 02 06
Item all the hay in the ricks & in the howse 04 00 00
Ite all sorts of powltery being at the howse 00 08 00
Item three horses being prysed to 05 00 00
Ite on silver spoone being prysed to 00 07 00
Item bakon on the rooffe being prysed to 01 00 00
Totallem 48 16 06
Praysors heareunto; William Moris; Charles Jones
(Latin) This inventory was exhibited at Abergavenny 27 April 1697 by Walter Williams