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Anthony BISSEY of North Bradley
Will and Inventory   13 May,   1669    Arch. Sarum

transcr by E.L.Church from Trowbridge CRO collection

18th September in the 20th year of the reign of Charles Second,
I, Anthony BISSEY of North Bradley, Wilts, Fuller,    ( etc...

Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann HURN alias AMSBERY   20 pounds to be
paid within 1 year after my decease.
Item o my daughter Mary CUFF 20 pounds likewise
Item to Mary HURN, my grandchild, 1 heifer and 1 halfhead bedsted with the bed and
boulster and pillow and coverlet and blankets that belongs to it
Item to Samuel HURN my grandchild 1 heifer
Item to Richard HURNE my grandchild 5shillings
Item to Ann HURN my grandchild 5 shillings
All the rest of my goods and chattels, after my debts, funeral expenses etc, I give unto William
BISSEY my son whom I do make --- sole Executor

Mark of Anthony BISSEY

witnesses : John WITTIE (?)      And William CRABB

Inventory dated 28 September, 1668

In the Hall 1 tableboard and frame, 2 formes, 2 chairs, 1 bacon (?) rack and warming pan, 1
chafing dish, 4 pepitts, 1 dripping pan,1 ------ - - -   - mortar, 3 brass candlesticks, 2 pewter
candlesticks, 2 hangells and 2  - - - - -, other lumber and 1 flitch of bacon                                
                                                                                      -  2 pounds 1 shill

Item in the Buttery   3 pans brass, 5 potts brass, 4 kittles brass, and 2 skillets brass                   
                                                                                       3 pounds 3 shill and 4 pence
Item 14 platters, 6 pottengers, 1 flaggon, 3 pewter cups, 1 bason, 2 pewter dishes, 6 saucers,
2 salts                                                                -   2 pounds 8 shill
Item 6 barrells, 1 churn, 2 powdering tubs, with other lumber    - 15 shill
In the Kitchen :
Item 4 tubbs, 4 pails, 2 trendles and other lumber                 - 10 shill
In the Lought (loft) on the Hall
Item 1 coffer bedsted, 1 flock bed , 1 fether bolster, 1 pillow 1 pr blankets   1 pound 10 shill
Item 1 halfhead bedstead, 1 flock bed, 1 fether bolster, 1 pillow, 1 coverlet, a pr blankets          
                                                                                             - 2 pounds
Item 1 chest, 2 coffers, 2 joynstools and other lumber             15 shill and sixpence

In the Laught on the Buttery :
Item 1 tester bedstead, 1 fether bed, 1 dether bolster, 1 fether pillow, 1 coverlet, 1 pr blankets
                                                                                              4 pounds 10 shill
Item 1 tableboard and frame, 3 chairs, 2 coffers, 1 box and 1 press 1 pound 2 and sixpence
Item 3 silver spoons                                             10 shill
Item 1 sheet, 1 tablecloth and 6 napkins with other lumber       13 shill
Item his wearing apparel                         2 pounds 10 shill

In the Laught of the kitchen
Item in cheese                                 11 pounds
Item in Wheat and mault                   2 pounds
Item cheesework and tack and other lumber        10 shill

Without doors :
Item 6 kine, 2 heifers, 2 wainling calves         21 pounds
Item 1 hogg and 2 breeding pigs                   2 pound 10 shill
Item in beer                                          2 pounds
Item in hay and corn and the Execators half year      14 pounds
Item in wood, geese, hens                        2 pounds

Total 78 pounds, 13 shill and fourpence

William CRABB, John WILLIS, Phillip ASHER (?)

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