NLW Ref: LL/1739/64

In ye name of God Amen ye 6^th day of March 1738. I Mary Andrew of ye pish of Goytre being sick in body but of p’fect mind & memory praised be given to God therefore, do make & ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following:

Ffirst of all I commend my soul into ye hands of God yt gave it hopeing to have free pardon of all my sins and my body I comitt to ye earth to be buried in a decent manner att ye discretion of me executor hereafter named as foll:

Imps: I give & bequeath unto my daughter Martha Lewis, ye wife of Timothy Lewis ye sum of ffive pounds to be paid as soon as they can be paid by Mrs Jones of Horimuis? Within ye space of one month next after my decease and also one 3 yearling heffer, one chaff, 4 pewter platters & pewter dish, one pewter candle stick, one brass skillett, 2 blankets & 2 sheets, one bushell of wheat and one cheese.

Imps: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Morgan ye sum of ffive pounds to be paid as afores’d. One cow and chest cupboard, 4 pewter platters a pewter dish, one brass candle stick, one iron marment and one baking tin, one feather bed wherein I now lye with it’s appurtenances and one chest and one black chair & one stone jug and 3 quarter barrott

Itm: I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Andrew ye sum of ffive pounds to be paid as afores’d one 2 yearling heiffer, 2 blanketts one bushells of wheat and one chest, one brass pot.

Itm: I give and bequeath unto Joshua Andrew ye sum of ffive pounds to be paid afores’d and ye little horse.

Itm: I give and bequeath unto Anne Andrew ye sum of ffifty shillings together with ffifty shillings she owes me wch making up ffive pounds to her likewise. One great caldron, one milking pail, one great tub, one stool, one great coffer, one dustbed, one sheet, one blankett, one cow caled Rawm goch, one rug, 4 pewter platters, 2 pewter dishes, one brass candlestick, one milking ironpot, bushell of wheat, one cheese, one cheese vate, one peck of oatmeal and one pig, one quarter barrott.

Itm: I give and bequeath all ye rest of my household goods, cattle and chattles whatsoever unto me belonging unto my son Benjamin Andrews whom I do hereby nominate & appoint to be my sole executor of this my last will and testament revoking, disannuling all former wills by me made or by any other writing whatsoever.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal ye day month and year ffirst above written.

Signed, sealed & declared

by ye testator Mary Andrew

to be her last will and Testament

in ye p’sence of us:

Walter Griffith The mark X of

Wm Morgan Mary Andrew

May the 8^th 1739: Benjamin Andrew the son and executor named in this will was sworn well and faithfully to execute the same to the truth & ye inventory by him ext’ed & to render an account before me

Wm. Harris

Surr.

An Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Cattles and Chattles of Mary Andrew late of the parish of Goytre in the County of Monmouth and diocese of Landaffe, widow, deceased, made, valued and appraised, the seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord Christ 1738 by David Morgan and William Morgan appraisors as follows, that is to say:

£sd

First her wearing apparell valued at 02 05 00

Also one feather bed and appurtenances at 01 10 00

Also two dust beds and appurtenances at 02 00 00

Also all other household stuff as pewter,

brass, iron and wooden vessells at 02 10 00

Also six bushells of corn at 01 01 00

Also corn in grass at 00 10 00

Also provision of victuals at 03 00 00

Also money by bond the summ of 20 00 00

Also one little horse at 02 00 00

Also six small cows and two calves at 12 10 00

Also four young heifers at 04 00 00

Also two small piggs at 00 10 00

Also implements of husbandry at 00 05 00

Also desperate debts the summ of 00 05 06

Lastly all other utensills not before

mentioned at 00 01 04

Summ Total520710

Exhibited at Abergavenny upon the eight day of May 1739 by Benjamin Andrew the son and executor for a one and perfect inventory, but under protestation of adding if any more of the deceased’s after shall hereafter come to his – hand, possession, or knowledge.

NLW Ref: LL/1856/103

Know all me by these presents that we Richard Jones  of the parish of Goitrey in the County of Monmouth labourer and James Jones of the Hamlet of Clytha in the parish of Lanarth in the said County farmer are held and firmly bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God Alfred by divine permission Lord Bishop of Llandaff in the sum of eighty       pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord Bishop or to his certain attorney his executors administrators or assigns to which payment well and truly to be made.

We oblige ourselves and each of us by himself for the whole our and each of our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents.

Sealed with our seals dated the twenty fifth   day of April in the nineteenth   year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland   Queen       Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six

The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Richard Jones the widower       and administrator     of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of Maria Jones late of the said   parish of Goitrey       deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of him   the said Richard Jones       or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited in the Registry of the Consistory Court of Llandaff     on or before the last day of October         next ensuing and the same goods chattels and credits and all other the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased do well and faithfully administer according to law, that is to say, do pay the debts of the said deceased which she   did owe at her     death and so to be committed as far as         goods chattels and credits will thereto extend and the law charge     and further do make or cause to be made a true and just accompt of   his   said administration when   he     shall be thereunto lawfully required. And all the rest and reside of the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found remaining upon the said administrat accompt and not otherwise disposed of in the said Will the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges of the said Court for the time being shall distribute and pay in such manner and form as shall be limited by the direction of the said Judge. And lastly do at all times hereafter clearly acquit discharge and save harmless the within named Lord Bishop the said Judge and all other officers of the said Court against all persons having or pretending to have any right title or interest in the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue.     Richard Jones; James Jones

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of   J Morgan

Diocese of Llandaff       in the Consistory Court. In the Goods of Maria Jones the wife of Richard Jones     deceased

Appeared Personally   Richard Jones       of the parish of Goitrey   in the County of Monmouth labourer       the party applying for Letters of Administration     of the Estate and Effects of the said Maria Jones the wife of the said Richard Jones     late of the said parish of Goitrey         deceased, who died on the second day of September     of   in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three         and made Oath that the Estate and Effects of the said deceased for and in respect of which said Letters of Administration with the said Will annexed are to be granted, exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other Person or Persons, and not beneficially, and without deducting any thing on account of debts due and owing from the said deceased, are under the value of   forty       Pounds to the best of this Deponent’s knowledge, information and belief. And he   lastly made Oath that the said deceased did not die possessed of any leasehold Estate or Estates for years, either absolute or determinable, on a life or lives to the best of this deponent’s knowledge, information and belief.   Rich’d Jones

Sworn on the twenty fifth     day of April     in the year of our Lord one thousand   eight hundred and forty six       before me   Thos Williams MA, Surrogate

NOTE: I assume that the date of the swearing should be 1856 and not 1846. The ‘one thousand eight hundred and forty’ is printed. The ‘six’ hand written in. It looks as if they didn’t realise they were using an out dated form. DW

25^th day of April 1856. Richard Jones the widower of Maria Jones deceased was sworn well and faithfully to administer and as usual, that the goods chattels and credits of the deceased are under the value of forty pounds, and that the intestate died on the 2^nd day of September 1853. Before me Thos Williams, MA, Surrogate

NLW Ref: LL/1688/48

In the name of God Amen I John William Thomas of the pish of Goytrey in the County of Monmoth being sick in body but of pfect mind & memory (praise be to God) doe by these p’sents make ordayne and declare this my last will and Testamt in maner and form following that is to say.

First I bequeath my sin full soule into the hands of my gratious Lord God & maker in a hopefull expectacon of eternall life through all the sufficient meritts of my deare Saviour & redeemer Jesus Christ and that my body be intered according to Christian buriall &c.

Item I give devise and bequeath one parcell of lands comonly called Capen yr hewl and the plott of grownd adioyning to the same, late by me fenced and joyning to Pelleny Comon and a free lyberty to inhabite in my now dwelling house wth use of the gardens thereunto belonging and comonly used and the new house or stable lately by me built, unto my two sisters Margarett and Elizabeth during their naturall lives and the longest liver of them both and after their decease and the decease of the longest liver of them I doe give devise and bequeath all my said tenem’t lands & hereditaments unto my loveing brother William Thomas dureing his naturall life and after his decease I give devise & bequeath all the said tenem’ts and lands unto his sonne William my nephew and to his heires for ever.

Item I give & bequeath one milch black cow and her calf unto my sister Margarett.

Item I give & bequeath one other cow & calf unto my sister Elizabeth.

Item I give & bequeath one mare to my brother law Gwillym Jenkin.

Item I give a red coult three yeares old unto my brother Jenkin.

Item I give and bequeath all my corne growing and in my house unto my two sister Margarett & Elizabeth to be equally devided between them both.

Item I give and bequeath forty shillings to my said brother Jenkin being money due to me and lent unto Thomas Watkin of Munckswood smyth my said brother to take upp & receive the sume imediately after my decease.

I give and bequeath forty shillings to be equally devided between my two nephews Gwillym Jenkin sonns William and Thomas the said forty shillings now in the hands of John Edmond.

Item I give and bequeath tenn shillings unto Mawd Harry late wife of David Morgan.

Item I give & bequeath unto Marsly the wife of David Richard John the sd twenty shillings now in the hands of Jane Charles widow.

Item I give and bequeath forty shillings to my sister Margarett.

Item I give & bequeath forty shillings to my sister Marry.

Item I give & bequeath twenty shillings to my sister Alce and the ox wch I paid three pounds for it I give & bequeath between my brother law Evan Watkin & his two children.

Item I give & bequeath forty shillings to my sister Elizabeth. Item I give & bequeath forty shillings unto my sister Anne.

Item I give & bequeath fowr pounds due from my brother William to be equally devided between the three children of my said brother William Thomas vizt thirty shillings to each of them William, Elias and Mary.

Item I give and bequeath towards my funerall expences all my sheepe young and ould to be disposed of by my executor hereafter named.

Item I give all my bacon now in the house unto my sister Margarett.

Item I give and bequeath six pounds and fourteen shillings that Oliver Morgan oweth me and alsoe their lawfull interest sithence Michellmas last past and like wise five pounds due to me by bond from Phillip William Morgan wth their lawfull use unto my executor to be disposed of and towards the paym’t of my legacies afore menconed.

Item I doe give bequeath and allow hedge buote & fire buote to my two sisters Margarett & Elizabeth to be spent and used on the premisses during their tearme as aforesaid wthout any interupcon whatsoever.

Item I doe hereby nominate & appoynt my loveing sister Elizabeth William my sole executrix of this my last will & Testamt revoking all other former wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the 7^th day of May Ano RR Jacobi scdi nunc Angl &c quarto Anoq dni 1688.   Sig John William (X) Thomas

Sealed & delivered in the p’sence of us

Geo Williams

William (X) Rich; sig Thomas?

(TJ) Jenkin; sig

William John

Proved 28^th June 1688 before …? by Elizabeth William the executrix &c