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EXTRACTS FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

OF ROBERT FIELDEN OF HADES

DATED 1623

Husbandman farmer

 

In the name of God, Amen. The fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundreth twenty and three.

I, Robert Fielden of Hades in the parish of Rochdale and county of Lancaster, husbandman, sick of body but of perfect memory, praised be God, do constitute and make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, first and principally I commend my body to the earth and to be buried in the parish churchyard of Rochdale at the direction of my friends……

And another second part I give to my three youngest children, which be these, Deboraye, and Elathan and Prissillaye……

It is my will and mind for to assign and make my eldest son William Fielden that part and parcel of ground lying and being in High Wardle called and commonly known by the name of the Lee, so long as the lease shall endure…..

Exors

William Fielden the elder and William Fielden the younger

Overseers

James Fielden and Edmund Butterworth

From the Inventory of his goods and chattels

Item in grounde   xxxvj pounds

Item in corne  vj pounds

Item in haye  xxxx shillings

Item in kine  ix pounds

Item in horses  iij pounds

Item in sheepe  iij pounds v shillings viij pence

Item in unshapen cloth xxiij shillings

Item in wolle and yarne  xxxx shillings

Item in loumes and furniture for them  xiij shillings iiij pence

Item in butter and cheese xx shillings

Item in husbandry worke loumes xiij shillings

Item his apparel  xxxx shillings

Item his bookes  xxxx shillings

The total sum is four score and one pounds, one shilling and eightpence