Item I give & bequeath unto my three dafters that is to say to Susan Efford widdow & to Elizabeth & Mary Scarlett spinsters All that my Messuage or tenement ground & appurtenances thereunto belonging together with the Lease there of which I hold fro[m] his Grace the Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury on the west of Deale To be had & holden unto my sayd three dafters Susan Elizabeth & Mary fro[m] & imediately after the death & decease of Elizabeth Scarlott my beloved wife To them & the survivor of them & either of them their executors administrators & assigns for & during all the other residue of the term of yeares yet to come & unexpired of & in the s[ai]d lease
Item I give and bequeath unto my s[ai]d wife Elizabeth Scarlott All & singular my ready money bonds bills writeings household stuff & utensills of
household stuff that I shall dye possessed of (& not hereby disposed or bequeathed)
Item my will & meaning is that if my sayd wife shall think fitt shee renew the s[ai]d Lease in her own name
Item all my other estate whatsoever or wheresoever hereby not bequeathed I give & bequeath unto my sayd dearely beloved wife Elizabeth Scarlott who I make sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby adnulling all will & wills by mee formerly made & declared acknowledging this & only this to bee my last will & testament being contayned in this one sheete of paper
In witnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale the day & yeare first above written Annogs Dni 1672
[signed] Thomas Scarlet
Seen read signed sealed & delivered & by mee the s[ai]d Thomas Scarlott published & declared for my last will & testament In the presence of
Ri. Watts - Val Bowles
Probate: 5th Octob: 1672 [Paragraph in Latin that mentions Elizabeth Scarlett, widow of Thomas Scarlett]
An Inventory of all and singular the goods and chattells rights & creditts which were of Thomas Scarlett late of Deale in the County of Kent Pilott deceased taken and appraised this second day of october Anno Dni 1672 And In the Foure & twentieth yeare of the raigne of our Sov[er]aigne Lord King Charles the second of England &c by us John Kingsland of Deale aforesaid gent and Alexander Steward of Deale aforesaid Barber chirurgeon vizt
£ s d Impri[mi]s in ready money in the house 25 00 00 Item all his wearing Clothes woollen Linnen 05 00 00 In the Low roome Item one paire of fire Irons one paire of Andirons two paire of Tongs two fire panns two fire forks one paire of pothangers one Iron Frogg for to sett before the fire 00 18 00 Item two frying panns foure ... one Tosting forke two dripping panns three brasse Candlesticks one brasse pestle & morter one apple roaster one tinn candlestick 00 12 06 Item one Jack 00 08 00 Item a copper pott five brasse kettles two small brasse kettles two brasse skillets two copper skillets one small copper pott one warming pann two brasse ladles one tinn skimmer one tinn strainer two Iron potts 02 00 00 Item eight earthen potts twenty & two earthen Dishes one earthen bason fourteene small earthen vessells two earthen salts one earthen Chamber pott 01 02 06 Item foure old pictures 00 02 00 Item one Looking glasse & one Lanthorne 00 03 00 Item six old Leather Chaires 00 08 00 Item one Wicker Chaire & Seaven other Chaires 00 04 00 Item thirty & two bookes 01 00 00 Item eight pewter Dishes six pewter porringers two pewter plates two pewter Sawcers one pewter fruite Dish one pewter salt three pewter Chamber potts five pewter beere potts one pewter bottle two pewter candlesticks one dozen of pewter spoones 02 00 00 Item one table Six Joynt Stooles one Striped Carpett 01 00 00 Item one Cubboard 00 06 00 Item one Close beddstedd one featherbed one feather boulster one flock boulster one matt three feather pillows two blanketts one rugg 04 00 00 Item one paire of bellows one box Iron 00 02 00 ------------------ 44 06 00 In the Chamber Item one beddstedd Curtaines & valence one featherbedd one feather boulster one flock boulster one Matt one Blankett one rugg three small feather pillows 03 10 00 Item one Trundle beddstedd one flock bedd one flocke boulster two feather pillows two blanketts & a matt 01 00 00 Item a small Chest of Drawers and three other Chests 01 13 00 Item foure old Chaires 00 02 00 Item Sixteene paire of Sheets 08 00 00 Item twenty pillow beeres 01 10 00 Item three large Table clothes & foure dozen & an halfe of napkins 02 12 00 Item foure Tubbs and two pailes & old Lumber 00 06 00 Item six table Clothes 00 06 00 Item eighteene towells 00 09 00 Item eighteen other towells 00 14 00 Item twelve Course table Clothes 00 12 00 Item foure Cubboard Clothes 00 08 00 Item a new beddtick 01 10 00 Item the house late in the occupacon of the said Thomas Scarlett and the house thereunto adjoyning late in the occupacon of John Scarlett alsoe deceased both held by Lease from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and scituate in Deale aforesaid 60 00 00 ------------------ 82 12 00 In first side is 44 06 00 ------------------ The totall sume is 126 18 00
... the totall sume of this Inventory amounts to the sume of one hundred twenty and six pounds and eighteen shillings taken and appraized by us
Jo: Kingsland
Alex. Steward
Note: SCARLETT, Thomas, ship's pilot, of Deal, Kent, England. He was buried at Saint Leonard's the parish church of Deal on 6 September 1672.
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