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Will of Silvester Cleaver of the King's Head, 1685
Herts RO 122 AW8
1. In the name of God Amen the Fourteenth day of July Anno D[omi]ni 1685 I Silvester Claver of
2. Winslowe in the County of Buck Inholder being somethinge indisposed in my bodily health but of
3. sound & p(er)fect Mind & memory I give God Almighty humble thankes for the same & callinge to
4.Mind the certainety of Death & the uncertainety of the tyme when doe make this last will &
5. testam(ent) in manner followinge First & principally I bequeath my soule into the hands of
6. Almighty God that gave it mee hopinge & trustinge to be saved by the mercyes of God
7. & merritts of my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ and my body to the earth to bee decently enterred
8. att the discretion * of my Executors hereafter named And for my temperell estate I dispose
9. of itt as followeth that is to say my will is that out of my p(er)sonal estate & the surplusages
10. of the moneys to bee raised by the sale of my landes there shalbee yearely paid to
11. my sister Elizabeth Irish Foure poundes of lawfull english monyes du(l?)y for life and for
12. the remander to the use of \Anne my wife &/ Mary my d(au)ghter and in case her \my daughter/ dep(ar)t this life before her
13. age of eyhteen years and without issue of her body lawfully begotten then to the use
14. of my dearly & welbeloved wife Anne And of this my last will & testament I doe make
15. constitute & ordane my dearly & welbeloved wife Ann & my d(aug)hter Mary executors In
16. witness whereof I have herebefore sett my hand & seale the day & year first above
17. written
18. Item my will is that the full moneys raised by the sale of my
19. landes shalbee paid to take of the mortgge of the house
20. wherein I live called the kinges head *
published & declared
in the p(re)sence of us
Stephen Bigg [signed]
Richard [unreadable] * [signed]
George Elliot [signed] Silvester Claver [signed]
Oliver Lawrence [signed]
[Latin] Probatum fuit huiusmodi Testamentum 29 die mensis Aprilis Anno
Domini 1686 coram discreto viro Magistro Johanne Crofts Clerico et
Surrogato venerabilis viri Guilielmi Oldys legum doctoris in et per totum
Archidiaconatum Divi Albani London’ Diocesis officialis principalis rite
et legitime constituti Juramento Annae Cleaver Relict’ et
Execut’ cui comissa fuit Administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum
Jurium et Creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter Administrand’
eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia prius Jurat’ salvo jure cuiuscumque
Reservata potestate similem commissionem faciendi Mariae Claver filiae
et alteri Executrici &c eandem petitur’ et admissur’ cu(m) venerit
[translation] This will was proved on 29 April 1686 before the discrete man Master John Crofts, clerk and surrogate of the venerable William Oldys, doctor of laws, principal official duly and legitimately appointed in and throughout the whole archdeaconate of St Albans in the diocese of London, on the oath of Anne Cleaver, widow and executrix, to whom was entrusted administration of all the goods, rights and credits of the said deceased, to administer them well and faithfully, having previously been sworn on God’s holy gospels, not infringing anyone’s right, with the power reserved of making a similar commission to Mary Claver the daughter and other executrix, etc., when she comes to seek admission to it.
Inventory of Silvester Cleaver, 1685
Herts RO A25/4211
A true and Perfect Inventari of the Goods and Chattells of Sillvester Claufer of Winslowe in the County of Buckes yeoman deceased tacken the five & twenty of August in the year of our \Lord/ 1685 Inpaysed and tacken by Steven Bigge and Robert Gibes as followeth.
| Imprimis his purse and apparell | 05 |
00 |
00 |
| In the rome ower the hall | |||
| Item one bedsted & beding | 01 |
00 |
00 |
Itm one hanginge presse and one cubard one chest & some other lumber |
01 |
10 |
00 |
In the pasage to the chamber |
|||
| Itm one Chest & a trundle bed and some other lumber | 00 |
15 |
00 |
In the Chamber over the palor |
|||
| Itm two bedstedes & twoe bedes with the beding to them | 03 |
00 |
00 |
| Itm ten Chares and one table | 01 |
00 |
00* |
In the rome over the Millk howse |
01 |
02 |
06 |
| Itm in the Garet sume lumber | 00 |
15 |
00 |
In the Chamber ovfer \the/ boturey |
|||
| Itm two bedstedes & two bedes and seaven chares | 01 |
10 |
00 |
| Item Sheets & table linen | 04 |
00 |
00 |
In the brewehowse |
|||
| Itm one furnise with the bruinge vesell & som other lomber | 03 |
00 |
00 |
| Itm in \the/ old boutry sume lomber | 00 |
06 |
00 |
| In the parler | |||
| Itm two tables with some chares and stolles | 00 |
12 |
06 |
| In the Seler | |||
| Itm the vesell and beare | 08 |
05 |
06 |
In the halle |
|||
| Itm the brase & pewter and fier Irons & one table | 05 |
10 |
00 |
| Itm some backen | 00 |
05 |
00 |
| Itm one mare & two Colltes | 01 |
12 |
06 |
| Itm sowe and piges | 01 |
00 |
00 |
| Itm one Cow | 01 |
10 |
00 |
| Itm thre Cartes & two pare of wheles | 03 |
10 |
00 |
| Itm the wood with some bordes | 01 |
10 |
00 |
| Item in the feld in beanes & grase | 02 |
05 |
00 |
45 |
19 |
00 |
Ann Claver maketh oath yt this
is a full and perfect inventory &c
In p(re)sense of us
Christopher Cortts
Richard Ginger [Latin] Sworn in the presence of me John
Croft. Vicar of Winslowe in the County of
Buks. 24 March 1685.
This Silvester Claver was the son of Silvester Claver yeoman (d.1681). He seems to have been baptised at Middle Claydon in 1645.
l.8: letters deleted in the middle
The unreadable signature might be Richard Horsley, who made a mark in other documents.
Inventory l.9: this has been altered but not deleted
This King's Head is now 10 High Street (the name was later used for 26 High Street).
Mary daughter of Silvester Cleaver was bap. 16 Dec 1677. She died in 1700. Silvester's widow Ann married John Hearne, and made a deathbed surrender of the King's Head recorded at the 1706 manor court.
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