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Will and Inventory of Charles King, innholder, 1708
Herts RO 145AW9, A25/4600
Charles King kept The Old Crown
In the Name of God Amen I Charles King the Elder of Winslow in the county of Bucks Inholder being weakly of Body but of sound and perfect Mind and memory Praise be therefore given to Allmighty God doe make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say first and principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Allmighty God my Creator and my Body I committ to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors herein after named and as touching the Disposition of all such Temporal Estate as it hath pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis I will that my Debts and funeral Expenses shall be all paid and discharged Item I give and bequeath unto my Son Charles King one shilling of lawfull money of Great Brittain to be paid him within one year after my decease Item I give to my Son Matthew King one shilling of like lawfull Money to be paid him within one year after my decease Item I give unto my Daughter Anne Topping one shilling of like lawfull money of England to be paid her within one year after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife Sarah King two third parts of all the rest and residue of my personal Estate Goods and Chattels rights and Credits whatsoever (not herein otherwise bequeathed) Item I give and bequeath the other third part of my said Goods Chattells rights and
The mark of Charles King senr
[Page 2] Credits (after my Debts and Funeral Expenses are paid) unto my Loveing Daughter Elizabeth Robinson And I doe constitute and appoint the said Sarah my Wife and the said Elizabeth my Daughter joint Executors of this my Last Will and Testament Hereby revokeing disallowing and making void all former and other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made In witness whereof I the said Charles King the Elder have to this my Last Will and Testament \contained in two sheets of paper/ sett my hand and Seal this Eighteenth day of May in the Eighth year of the Reign of our sovereign Lady Anne by the grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith & c Anno Domini 1708
The mark of
Charles King senr
This Will (contained in two sheets of paper) was
Signed and sealed and delivered (owned and
discharged) by the said Charles King the Elder
in the presence of
The mark of Katherine Grape
(signed) Tho Wainright
(signed) Deborah Wainright
A true and perfect Inventary of all the Goods and Chattls of Charles King of Winslow made by Robeart Addams William Gyles & Joseph Rogers the second of Octobr 1708
| Lb | s | d | ||
| Item | His purs and apparill | 03 | 00 | 00 |
| Item | All the sheets (in the garret south) | 05 | 12 | 06 |
| Twenty four diaper napkins | 01 | 02 | 00 | |
| Three diaper |
00 | 08 | 00 | |
| Ten diaper napkins | 00 | 05 | 00 | |
| Twelve ordinary napkins | 00 | 04 | 00 | |
| Eight pillow-drawers | 00 | 08 | 00 | |
| Four silver spoons one taster | 01 | 08 | 00 | |
| More linen | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| One riding-whood | 00 | 05 | 00 | |
| Two Chests one Chest-drawers three Truncks one Table one bed-sted one trundle bed-sted one chare | 01 | 01 | 00 | |
| One Rug one blanket two bolsters one flock bed Two straw beds | 01 | 00 | 06 | |
Item |
One Bedsted one chare two Ruggs one blanket One flock bed and bolster(In the Garret North) | 00 | 16 | 06 |
Item |
One Bin beans & Oats. (In the Garret Weast) | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| One bedsted two flock beds six flock bolsters two Ruggs two blanckets | 01 | 15 | 00 | |
Item |
Four Chares (In the little Chamber) | 00 | 02 | 00 |
| One forme one Table two joynt stools one bedsted | 00 | 06 | 06 | |
| One Rug one blanket one pare of Curtins | 00 | 12 | 00 | |
| One flock bed | 00 | 06 | 00 | |
Item |
Three fether beds nine Pillows six bolsters (In the Great Chamber) | 07 | 03 | 02 |
| One Quilt | 00 | 14 | 00 | |
| Three Blankets | 00 | 05 | 00 | |
| One Rug | 00 | 09 | 00 | |
| Two flock beds | 00 | 12 | 00 | |
| Two matts one straw bed | 00 | 01 | 06 | |
Two setts of Curtins |
00 |
15 |
00 |
|
| Two bedsteds | 00 |
10 |
00 |
|
| Three flack bolsters | 00 |
04 |
00 |
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Item |
Two Coverings | 00 |
01 |
06 |
Item |
Window Curtins | 00 |
02 |
00 |
| Three Tables | 00 |
11 |
00 |
|
| Twelve joynt stoules | 00 |
06 |
00 |
|
| Five chares | 00 |
02 |
00 |
|
| One pare of dogs one pare of Bellows | 00 |
01 |
00 |
|
Item |
Eight joynt stools (In the Hall) | 00 |
03 |
00 |
| One table & two chares | 00 |
01 |
06 |
|
| One pare hand irens one pare of Dogs one par of bellows one fier shoule | 00 |
02 |
06 |
|
Item |
All the Puter (In the Kitchin) | 05 |
03 |
10 |
| All the Brass | 05 |
15 |
06 |
|
| Two pare of hand irens | 00 |
06 |
00 |
|
| Four pare of tongus three fier shoveles | 00 |
05 |
00 |
|
| One warming pan & skimmer | 00 |
03 |
00 |
|
| One jack & spit | 00 |
05 |
00 |
|
| Two dripping pans | 00 |
04 |
00 |
|
| Three pare of Pot hangers one fier-iren one pare of Doges one gridiren one chafeindish | 00 |
05 |
00 |
|
| One pot mettall pot | 00 |
04 |
00 |
|
| All the brewing vessell & Busshell | 01 |
00 |
00 |
|
| Mugs glasses iren Candlilsticks earthen ware | 00 |
04 |
06 |
|
| Lumber | 00 |
01 |
06 |
|
| One frying pan one warming pan | 00 |
02 |
06 |
|
Item |
All the Alle Hogsheads Barrills & Cocks (seller) | 15 |
00 |
00 |
Item |
Sider and Brandy | 00 |
10 |
00 |
Item |
All the wood in the Barn & the Ladder | 02 |
00 |
00 |
Item |
All the Hay | 07 |
10 |
00 |
Item |
Shovles forcks barrough in the yard ommitted & forgoten | 00 |
02 |
06 |
| The sum Totall | 70 | 06 | 00 | |
William Gyles
Joseph Rogers
Robt Adams
[Latin text in another hand]
Exhi(bitu)m fuit hui(us)mo(d)i Inv(entorium) tricesimo die
Mensis Octobris 1708 per M' Richardum
Pickering no(ta)rium pub(li)cum no(mi)ne procur(atoris)
pro Sara King relicta et Elizabetha
Robinson filia et ex(e)cutricibus &c pro vero
pleno et integro Inv(entorio) bonor(um) etc qua' hactenus &c
sub protestatione tamen de addenda &c si &c
This inventory was shown on 30 October 1708 by Master Richard Pickering, notary public, by right of proxy for Sarah King the widow and Elizabeth Robinson the daughter and executrices, etc., as a true full and entire inventory of the goods etc. which up to this point etc. with the proviso of adding etc. if etc.
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Notes
Charles King was buried on 20 Sep 1708. He arrived in Winslow before 1671 (his older children were not baptised there). He rented The Crown from William Gyles, then Samuel Norman. Sarah, previously Jennings, was his second wife, married on 15 Aug 1703. His first wife Alice was buried on 17 June 1702. Their children were:
- Charles jr: a tailor; he had these children baptised at Winslow
- Mary: bap. 19 Nov 1683, bur. 27 April 1684
- Katherine: bap. 10 Dec 1687, bur. 31 Dec 1687
- Alice: bap. 10 Jan 1688/9
- Ann: married Richard Topping 25 Nov 1695
- Matthew: possibly the Matthew King who (with his wife Mary) had a son Charles baptised in 1723, but he would have been an unusually old father
- Elizabeth = Elizabeth Robinson
- William: bap. 17 Nov 1671, bur. 19 March 1689/90.