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Will & Inventory of John GODFRY of Hailey Will 19 Aug 1670   Probate 21 Sep 1670
Source: OHC no. W.I. 27/1/33 Contributed by: Steve Bumstead Go to Translation Go to Transcript
Summary.
... I John Godfry the elder of Haily ... Witny ... cooper ... Name Relationship [Comments] or Major Bequests John GODFRY   Hailey Martha GODFRY Wife (Exec) John GODFRY Son Martha GODFRY Granddaughter [eldest d John - under 18] Daniel GODFRY Grandson [s John] Samuel GODFRY Grandson [s John] Ann ANDREWS Eldest Daughter Ann ANDREWS Granddaughter [d Ann] Thomas ANDREWS Grandson [s Ann] Amy GODFRY Youngest Daughter Thomas WAST Debtor Sutton Henry SMITH Overseer Appraiser Hailey Charles CHARLES Appraiser Richard ALLDER Witness John WHITE Witness Inventory taken 20 Sep 1670, value: £106 13s 6d Exhibited: 21 Sep 1670 Witney (Visitation) ... by Martha Godfrey, relict and sole Executrix. Probate: 21 Sep 1670 Witney ... Martha relict and Executrix ...
Transcriber's and Editor's Notes
A full Inventory is included. The following details are believed to be true but should not be totally relied upon: Testator: Husband of Martha (1682 qv); Father of John (1705 qv).
Translated and paragraphed. with some of the standard preamble and "legalese" removed. Go to Glossary
... I John Godfry the elder of Haily ... Witny ... cooper ... My body is to be decently buried in Witney churchyard. 20s is to be given in bread to the poor of Hailey. I give my house, close, and two adjoining tenements at Delly End in Hailey to my eldest daughter Ann Andrews and her heirs forever [after the decease of my wife and myself]. I give £20 each to Ann's two children, Ann and Thomas, to be paid after my wife's decease out of a £40 bond due to me from Thomas Wast of Sutton. I give £60 to my younger daughter Amy Godfry, to be paid within a month after my decease, and three farndells of land in Hailey field, lying in a through shoot between Chastel, and Crayly, to her and her heirs for ever. I give £10 to Mather Godfry, eldest daughter of my son John, to be paid at age 18. I give £5 each to Daniel and Samuel Godfry, youngest sons of my son John, after my wife's decease. I give 20s to my son John Godfry after my wife's decease. I make my wife Mather Godfry sole Executrix. I make Henry Smith of Hailey, yeoman, my overseer ... I revoke all other wills. Witnesses Richard Allder; John White An Inventory ... of the goods of John Godfry the elder of Haily ... Inventory taken 20 Sep 1670 by Charles X Charles; Henry Smith Inventory value: £106 13s 6d Exhibited: 21 Sep 1670 Witney (visitation) ... by Martha Godfrey, relict and sole Executrix. Probate: 21 Sep 1670 Witney ... Martha relict and Executrix ...
As transcribed from a copy of the original document. Original line- and page-breaks are preserved as far as possible.
In the name of God, Amen. on the nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and seventy. I John Godfry the elder, of the tithing of Haily in the parish of Witny, in the County of Oxford Couper, being of sound mind and perfect memory, prais be to God, make this my last will in manner following: first I offer up my soul to God my maker and redeemer, and will that my body be decently buried in Witny churchyard, and that twenty shillings be given in bread to the poor of Haily. also I give, will, and devise my hous, close, and two tenements, next adioining all situate at Delly end in Hailey tithing in the parish of Witny aforesaid, to Ann Andrews, my eldest daughter to have and to hould to hir and hir heirs for ever, yet reserveing therein my own life, and the life of my wife. also I will and bequeath to hir two children Ann and Thomas, to each of them, twenty pounds in mony, to be paid them after the deceas of my wife, out of a bond of forty pounds due to me from Thomas Wast of Sutton in the County of Oxford. also I give, will, and devize to my younger daughter, Amy Godfry, three farndells of land in Haily field, lying in a thorough shoot, between Chastel, and Crayly, to have and to hould to hir and hir heirs for ever; also I will and bequeath to my said daughter Amy threescore pounds in mony, to be paid hir within a month after my deceas. also I bequeath signed in the presence of Richard Allder                  the mark of X John John White                         Godfry the elder to Mather Godfry, eldest daughter of my son John ten pounds in mony to be paid hir, when she is eighteen years ould. item I bequeath to Daniel Godfry, and Samuel Godfry, youngest sonns of my son John, five pounds in mony to each of them, after the deceas of my wife, also I bequeath to my son John Godfry twenty shillings, after the deceas of my wife, and of this my will I make my wife Mather Godfry, my sole Executrix. and of the execution of the same, I ordain Henry Smith of Haily yeoman to be overseer. and I utterly revoke and null all other wills, and testaments, and all and every other former legacies, bequeaths, executors, overseers, by me anywise before this time made, willed, devised, bequeathed or named                   the mark of John Godfry                          the elder                            X the word (hir) being interlined signed and sealed in the presence of Richard Allder John White Probat' apud Witney [............................................................] .......................... Vicesimo primo Die mens's Septembr' Anno D'ni 1670 coram ....... [..............................................................] Jur' Martha R'lic et Ex'ci … [.........................................................] .................................. An Inventory of the goods and Chattells of John Godfry the elder, of Haily in the parish of Witny, appraised and taken by those neighbors, whose names are hereunto subscribed.                    Sept. 20th 1670     li   s  d Imprimis, his wearing apparell   1 10 0 item, mony in his pocket   0 15 0 item three flockbeds   0 16 0 item three bedsteeds   0 13 4 item, seven blankets   0 17 6 item two coverlids   0   6 8 item, five cofers, and three little boxes   0 13 0 item, one standing press   0   6 8 item, one round table, two flagchairs   0   5 0 item twelve pair of sheets, hempen   2 15 0 item three tablecloths, one doz. & half of napkins   0 10 0 item, four pillowbers, four towels   0   9 6 item. three boulsters and four pillows   0 12 0 item, one pr. of andirons, one pr. of dogs    one pr. of tongs, one fireshoul   0   3 6 item three spitts, one tin drip-pan, bellows    one pair of pothooks, firelinks   0   3 6 item one table in the kitchen, one form    two stools, three flagchairs   0   4 0 item four drink barrells   0   4 6 item three couls   0   3 6 item three brass potts   0 19 8 item three brass kettles   0 18 0 item a warmingpan, two bras skellets    one brass-pan one skimmer   0   6 8 item ten ould pewter platters   0 13 4 item three pewter poringers, one bason    one quart, & one pint pot, one beker    two chamber pots, two bras candlesticks    one bras-spoon, one bras-morter, and    one dozn of pewter - spoons   0 10 0 item three small kivers, two pails    a churn, one dow kiver, two milk-bucketts    and a mustard bowl   0   6 8 item one frying pan, a gridiron, a fork & cleuer   0   1 6 item in bords   1   0 0 item in hay   6   0 0 item, in corn   2   0 0 item in mony out of the wood-book   1 11 0 item in wood and lumber   3   0 0 item three cows, and a calf   5 10 0 item two piggs   1   0 0 item in bookdebts good and bad 20   1 0 item one bond of   5   3 0 item one bond of 41   4 0 item the shop of Coupery ware   5   0 0 sum. totall is 106li 13s 6d                the mark of Charles C Charles                      Henry Smith Exhibit' erat hoc Inventarium .....… ap'd Witney in Visitac'on [................................................] ............. vic'imo primo die mens's Septembr' Anno d'ni 1670 p' Martham Godfrey R'l'cam et Ex'tricem unica' ...... ........................................................ ..............................................