Burvill Will 1613

Will of Valentine Burvill

of Little Mongeham, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/55/201 (Will) & PRC 10/37/198 (Inventory)
Submitted by Margaret Wills
This is the laste will and testament nuncupatyve of Valentyne Burvill late of the parrishe of Lyttle Mongham in the Countye of Kent Yeoman deceased, by him made and declared in or not longe before the tyme of his sicknes whereof he dyed, and in the monethes of March, Aprill, Maye and June in Anno Dini 1613 or in one of those monethes, he beinge then in perfects memorye, in the wordes followeinge or by the like in effecte and substance, that ys,
He first willed his soule to God and his bodye to be christianlie buryed

Item he willed and gave all his goods and Chattells whatsoever unto his three children Agnes Burvall, Marye Burvill and Martha Burvall by even and equall partes to be devided betwixte them
and he named and appoynted his said three daughters his full and whole execut(ors) and his brother James Burvill his Ovrseer

Witnesses hereof James Burvill; Valentyne Austen wth others signm.

Probatum fuit: 24th June 1613
Inventory of Valentyne Burvill, Yeoman of Little Mongeham, Kent, 1613

Note: The left edge of the page is cut off, due to it being the centreline of a book. Exact date unclear.
A note of the goods and cattles of Valantine Burvill latlie deceased ... 1613 

												£.	s.	d. 
Imprimis  One purse, one girdle and six and twenty pounds of mony and two shillings		26	02	00
Item	one Mare and one coult		fiftie five shillings					02	10	00
Item	one ewe and one lam and two twelmonting sheepe eighteene shillings			00	18	00
Item	too pigs				foure shillings					00	04	00
Item	six? hens and one lock		foure shillings six penc(e)				00	04	06
Item	one pres cubbard, one table with a frame and a foarme	twentie five shillings		01	05	00
Item	too old chistes with one clooke, one gerkin, one dublit, too .. of lose?, too paire 
of stockings and too paire of shoes, too hats			three pounds  ?? shillings	03	??	00
Item	one male bring cetle with foure smale bras kettles, toe	stupnites, one chafinge dis(h), 
one pre....? with six bras caustiks [candlesticks] 		thirtie shillings		01	10	00
Item	nine paire of sheetes, five shists, foure table clothes, six napkins, six napkins, 
six hantowels and ?? 					thre pounds, toe shillings, six penc	03	02	06
Item	one doosen of pewter platters, halfe a doosen of pewter papers, for [4] porringers,  
.. doosen of spones, toe salsellers, one pewter pot    	thre and twentie shillings		01	03	00
Item	one feather bed with one flock bed, toe boulsters, toe pillowes, foure blankits, 
toe ...hts		foure pounds five shillings						04	05	00
Item	tow bedstedles, toe chaers and one bascet chaer thre and twentie shillings		01	03	00
Item	thre tubs, one ringe, thre smale boore vesels, a kneading trofe, thre pales, five ?? 
with lumber	foreteene shillings								00	14	00
Item	one swoard, one dagger with halfe a pike and a paire of Curats with a bill and ?? 
tooo spits, a paire of seers? with other ould iron 		twentie shillings		01	00	00

			Sum cometh to fiftie pounds and foureteene shillings			50	14	00
These goodes prised by  Thomas Fyle  and  John Parker

Notes:
Valentine Burnill was buried 6 Jun 1613 at St. Andrew, Buckland near Dover, Kent.
His three daughters were all baptised at St. Andrew: Annys Burvell 16 Sep 1591; Marye Burvill 12 Dec 1593; Martha Burvill 20 Jun 1596.
Valentine Burvill married Elizabeth Elgar 24 Oct 1586 at St. Augustine, Northbourne, Kent.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 26th January 2024

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