Buckinghamshire Will of Robert Maynwaring, Vicar of Winslow, 1647

In the name of God Amen. The fourteenth daye of March, Anno Domini 1647(8): I Robert Maynwaring, Vicar of Winslow in the County of Bucks, being sicke and feeble in body, but in good and perfect memorie (God be praised for it) do make this my last Will and Testament in maner & forme following. First I bequeath my soule unto Almightie God, who created me, and redeemed me by his sone Jesus Christ, by whose merits onely I trust to obtaine remission of my sines, and consequently everlasting salvation in the Kingdom of heaven: And my body to be buried decently in the Chauncell of Winslow. Concerning that small portion of worldly wealth which it hath pleased God to lend me: I give unto my sone Robert one standing bedsteed in the parlour, with the fetherbed and other furniture belonging to it, and the one halfe of my other houshold goods after his mothers decease. Item I give unto him my whole studie of books with all other things therein contayned. Also I give unto him the one halfe of my croppe now sowed on the ground, [illegible erasure] Item I give unto my daughter Dorathie the other halfe of all my houshold goods after his mothers decease, beside that which her brother is bound to give her. Item I give unto Elizabeth Becke my kinswoman and servant one blacke broad-horned cow, which I promised her before. Item I give to the poore of the parish twenty shillings to be distributed among them in money or otherwise at my funerall. The rest of my goods unbequethed, my funerall and debts being discarged, I leave unto my wife Dionys, whom I ordaine to be my sole executrix: and my loving kinsman Richard Edmunds gent, and my good neighbour Beniamin Leach overseers of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same performed. Witnesse hereunto my own handwriting. The [the Sedutheth ?] day of March. 1647. By me Robert Maynwaring. Probate, 31 August 1650 at Winslowe, Bucks, granted to Dionisie Maynwaringe, executrix, by the Archdeaconry of St. Albans.
Inventory	Hertfordshire Record Office      A2 5/3 5 73
A trew Inventory of the goods and Chattells belonging to Robert Maynwaring deceased.
	£    s    d
In the Parlour one Joyned bedd..................................	2  10    0
One Fetherbedd 2 bolsters 2 pillows 1 rugg
one blanckett one straw bedd curtaines & vallans......	2  10    0
One drawing table one court cubboord
4 Chairs 7 stooles 3 formes 1 truckle bedd
6 Cushins one Carpett and hangings..........................	5    0    0
One paire of Andyrons 1 paire of tongues 1 fire
shovell 1 fire forke....................................................	0    6    8
In the hall one table and frame with
6 ioyned stooles one cubboard one Court Cubboord
3 chaires one spice Cubboord one Jack (?)
one glasse Cubboord.................................................	4    0    0
In the Kitchin 6 brasse potts one pott posnett
one chafer 3 kittles 3 posnets one brasse morter
and pestle..................................................................	5    0    0
one paire of Racckes 5 spittes 2 paire ofAndyrons
3 pott hangers and 2 paire of pott hookes
one gridyron 2 driping pannes 2 shreding knives
one chopping knife one cleaver..................................	1    0    0
one casse one cheese presse 2 stooles 4 tubbs
3 buckets one brasse bason.......................................	1    0    0
In the dary house 6 kivers one frying panne
with all the other lumber..............................................	1  10    0
In the buttry one Court Cubboord 5 barrells
and a hogges head one meshing fatt and a yeelding fatt
one salting trough one powdring tubb one leather
Jack with all the other lumber.......................................	2  10    0
In the roome over the Parlour one ioyned beddsteed
one fether bedd one mattris 2 bolsters 3 pillows
2 blanketts one coverlett with curtains and
vallans........................................................................
one fether bedd 2 bolsters one blanckett one rugg
2 cushens 2 carpets 2 fustian blanckets......................	4    0    0
one great presse one cubboord 2 chestes one trunck
one coafer one chaire one stoole................................	4  10    0
2 dusens of platters with all other peauter 3 skimmers..	5    0    0
14 paire of Sheetes 12 pillow-beeres 8 table clothes
4 dousins of napkins 4 cubboord clothes 12 towels...	5    0    0
2 mashers one tanckard one beere boule one salt seller
one trencher salt one porringer one wine boule
7 spoones.........	10    0   0
In the roome over the buttry 2 haife headed bedds
one fether bedd 3 coverletts 3 blancketts 5 bolsters
2 pillowes one table and frame one stoole..................	3    0    0
In the roome over the hall one beddsteed one trucklebedd
one coverlet one blanckett 2 pillowes one coafer
one stoole one forme one still one bake panne
with all other lumber....................................................	5    0    0
In the roome over the kitchin one cheese rack 2 wheeles
2 coafers one pillian one side saddle with all
the other lumber.. ...............................................	1    0    0
In the Study one chaire with all the bookes...................	20   0   0
3 gownes with his wearing apparrell.............................	10   0   0
At the staire head one safe one chest...........................	1    5    0
2 fliches of bacon.. .............................................	1    0    0
In the closet one Cristall Jugg with other things.............	1  10    0
In the bame hay and straw with 6 boords.....................	1  10    0
In the wood house a gardner and malt..........................	1  10    0
Item one Cow...........................................................	3  10    0
Item one hovell in the yard with the rest of the wood
and all other lumber in yard or houses..........................	1  10    0
Item one boore and 2 stoores.....................................	1    0    0
Item turkies duckes and other poultry...... [sum altered]	15   0
Item 25 ridges of wheat and barly.................................	12  10  0
Item 17 ridges of beaneland.........................................	5    0    0
Item moore beanes and oates.......................................	4    0    0
Item the soyle in the yard.............................................	0    6    8
The totall summe is	£       s     d
[struck through]	141    5    4
Richard Hodgkins
Robert Lowndes
	131   13    4
Exhibited with this indenture the thirtieth day of the month of August Anno Domini 1650, by Dionisia Manwaringe widow, relict and executrix of the said Robert Manwaringe