In the Name of God Amen Thomas Green of Wallesey in the County of Chester Yeoman being weak of Body but of Sound & perfect Memory knowing the uncertainty of my departure out of this Life doe make & ordaine this my last Will & Testamt in Manner following first and Principally I Bequeath my Soul to God Almighty my Creator hopeing through & by the Meritts & Sufferings of Jesus Christ my Saviour & Redeemer to Receive free pardon & Remission of all my Sins & my body to the Earth from whence it Came to be Buried in Christian Buriall at the Discretion of my Executx hereinafter named & as to that Estate wch the Lord in his Mercy hath Bestowed upon me my Will & Pleasure is that after the Probate of this my Will & all my Debts & ffunerall Expences are fully discharged & satisfied ……the Remainder of all my Estate of what Nature or kind soever the same is or in whose Hands soever the same or any part thereof shall or may be found to my son John Green & that the same shall be fully & wholly Improved to the Sole use & behoof of my sd Son John by my Executx (whom I trust to bring  my sd son up in Some Learning & Laudable Education until he attains Such Lawfull age as he can or may Improve & Manage the same himself) & this is my Will I Leave my Loveing Sister Elizabeth Green to be my Sole Executrix & doe hereby Renounce & make void all or any other Will or Wills by me at any time heretofore made & pronounce this my Last Will & Testamt In Witness where of I have hereunto sett my Hand & seal this twentieth day of October 1713

Thomas X Green his mark

(Attestation Clause)

John fforshall

Saml Hill

Hen Robinson

Proved 26 July 1714 at Chester Elizabeth Green renouncing Henry Green brother of deceased being granted administration

A true & perfect Inventory of the Goods & Chattells Debts & Creditts of Thomas Green Late of Wallesey in the County of Chester decd viewed & Prized by John Robinson, Thomas Bennet & Henry Robinson the third day of November 1713

to Barley at his owne Barne unthrasht                27:00:00

to Pease at Thomasons barne & elsewhere         01:00:00

to oates at Thomassons barne                           05:00:00

to wheat at his own barn                                  02:00:00

to Hay                                                              05:00:00

to Rye                                                               01:00:00

to ffive Cowes & one Heifer                              17:00:00

to four Young beasts                                         04:00:00

to two Mares one Nagg & three Colts                 23:00:00

to one Sow & four Piggs                                                04:10:00

to three Geese                                                              00:03:00

to one Corn Cart & wheels one muck Cart & draught}    04:00:00

Harrowes & Swingletrees}

to the plowes & plow geer                                            00:10:00

to treases Collars Chrines Packetts                                00:10:00

to three Ladders                                                           00:12:00

to Spades Pitchforks yelves Sythes Cowrake & Mattock  00:05:00

to Winnow Clothes sacks Sieves weeding tongs              00:12:00

 

In the Kitchen

One furnace pan, a Cheese press, Cheese tubb, crook, Pales}  00:08:00

Churn other trene ware & a Cratch}

To two Cheese fatts                                                              00:03:00

 

In the Cheese Loft

Eight Hundred of Cheese                                                  00:08:00

to undrest & drest flax & Hemp                                         00:06:08

to a webb of Packin                                                         00:02:06

to a Small table                                                                00:02:06

 

In the Parlour

to one pair of bedsteads & ….old feather beds &b coverlet     01:10:00

to another pair of bed steads one feather bedd two boulsters 02:00:00

to three Small Chaire & two Chests                                      00:09:00

 

                                                                                           96:17:00

 

In the higher Chamber

to two pair of bed stocks two Chaff beds four blankets        00:12:00

& two pair of round sheets                                                  00:12:00

To two turnells two wheels one forum & an old table        

Leafe and one Long Spinning wheele                                    00:03:00

To one old tressell a pair of weighs                                     00:00:06

 

In the Loft over the Stables

To one pair of bedstocks & some old lumber of husbandry    00:03:04

 

In the Cellar

To one Shillage & some bottles Coales & kannell &

Some potatoes                                                                00:15:00

 

In the Room over the Cellar

To one halfe measure one peck some Muggs

Sheering hook & some feathers                                          00:05:00

to a Buckett & Rope at the well 2s to Cratches 2s               00:04:00

In the House

to eleven pewter dishes some pewter plates & a tankard    01:02:00

to one Cupboard Some bottles a small Lookeing glass one}

earthen punchbowle & some ……..dishes}                           00:11:00

to one old dishboard one Joynt Stoole & other stooles

& Little Chaires                                                                  00:04:00

to one table frame forme & bench                                     00:05:00

to two Iron potts one brandrett a brass skillet tosting Iron   

& Spitt & Rack                                                                   00:08:00

to an old Gun                                                                    00:04:00

to one stone Pumming trough & frying pan                       00:00:06

to fire grate pair of tongs & bellowes                               00:04:00

to a parcel of wheat sowen                                             00:16:00

to six pair of sheets one table Cloath & Napkins               01:02:00

to some Raw yarne                                                         01:01:00

to saddle & bridle & all manner of wearing apparell         02:00:00

to due for old field hay Rent by Samll Dean                      01:06:00

to due for wheat straw sold to mr Tho: Barnes              00:16:08

to oweing by Jon Smith                                                 00:07:02

 

                                                                                   108:09:08

Debts of the sd Tho: Green

to John Egerton Esq for arrear of this yeares growing Rent  30:00:00

to Elizabeth Green his Sister                                              25:00:00

to the use of Priscilla Wilson                                              10:00:00

to Thomas Harrison of Mells                                               03:00:00

to John Robinson for Rent of Ground                                 01:16:00

to the performance of a Covent for the erecting of a Cottage on Esq Egertons Land at the Leasow end                                                                       05:00:00

                                                                                       74:16:00

Seen & apprised by us as aforesd

John Robinson

Thomas X Bennett his marke

Hen Robinson