Scarlett Will 1695

Will of Thomas Scarlett

of Deal, Kent


Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury PRC 32, Book 56, folio 333 & PRC/27/34/59 (Inventory - Document Order #: U1108/T123)
Transcribed by Noël Siver, 6 February 2000.
In the name of God Amen
I Thomas Scarlett of Deale in the County of Kent Carpenter being sick and weake in body but of sound & p[er]fect memory doe make and declare this my Last Will and Testament in writeing this six and twentieth day of March Anno Dni 1695 in manner Following
Inp[rimi]s I bequeath my Soule to God my Creator trusting by the meritts of Jesus Christ my Redeemer to be made p[ar]taker of a better life after this mortall life ended. My body I comitt to the Earth to be buryed att the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named

Item I give and bequeath unto John Scarlett my son one shilling
Item I give and bequeath unto Mary Scarlett his daughter ten shillings to be paid by my Executrix within twelve months next after my Decease

Item I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my daughter and unto her heirs and assigns for ever all that my messuage or Tenement with all the Lands and appurrts there unto belonging which was my late Fathers situate and being in Lower Deal in Deal aforesd and now in my own occupation

As for all other my goods and personal estate I give and bequeath the same unto the said Elizabeth my daughter and doe hereby make and appoint her sole executrix of this my will

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and year above written Thomas Scarlett
Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Thomas Scarlett to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of
Mary St. Ledger - Robert Nicholas his marke - Edward Taylor not pub

Probatum fuit 20 September 1695.

An Inventory of all and singular the goods & Chattells of Thomas Scarlett Late of Deale in the County of Kent Carpenter deceased taken and appraysed by us whose names are heareunto subscribed the Seaven & Twentieth day of August Anno Dom[ini] 1695 as followeth 

It[em] his wearing apparrell wollen & Linnen										1 - 0 -0
	In the Hall
It[em] a small paire of firegreetes firepan & tongs a gridiron a firefore two Spitts two Railes one paire of Bellowes	0 - 5 - 6
It[em] a brase morter & p[e]stle two Candlestickes two basting ladles & some Earthen ware				0 - 2 - 6
It[em] a Standing Cubbord a table a forme two Joyne Stooles & 5 Chaires							0 - 10 - 0
It[em] seaven small pewter dishes fower plates two pewter porrengers a pewter pott & three spones			0 - 10 - 6
	In the Parlour
It[em] a Bedstedle Curtaines & vallanse a Featherbed boulster pillow a Coverlet & a Blankett				3 - 0 - 0
It[em] a Cubbord a Chest a Box three Chaires & a Looking glasse and a glasse Case					0 - 5 - 0
	In the Chamber
It[em] two close bedstedles a Flockebed an old quilt fower Chest & a Box						0 - 13 - 4
	In the Backe Roome
It[em] two Iron potts a Brase kettle a small copper a kneading brasse two barrells two tubbs one paile woodden trayes 
& some old Lumber													1 - 0 - 0
	In the workhouse
A broade Axe and other workeing tooles	& some Lumber									0 - 6 - 8

It[em] three paire of sheetes one Tablecloth six napkins six Towells two paire of Pillow coates				1 - 0 - 0
It[em] some Lumber & things unseene											0 - 2 - 6

															7 :  15 : 6
															___________

												Totall: —           	8 : 17 : 6
Edward Taylor /
Aylmer Blechynden

[Paragraph in Latin that mentions widow Elizabeth Sturdie, the daughter of Thomas Scarlett]

Notes: Thomas SCARLETT, carpenter, of Deal, Kent was baptised at St Leonard’s, the parish church of Deal, Kent on 19 December 1630 & buried at St Leonard’s on 8 June 1695.

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