LS Ref: 003

Abbreviated Transcript of:

all my messages, lands, tenements and hereditaments + appt unto John Bebye my natural brother

- to be buried at the discretion of my executor

- my sister Sara to have her dwelling house in some of my messages for and during the term of her natural life. Also 1 cow and a load of hay each year during her life towards the maintainance of her cow.

- to the children of my sister Sara xx£ apeece, at age 21

- to the children of my sister Joane xx£ apeece, at age 21

- to the children of my sister Eliza xx£ apeece, at age 21

- to the children of my sister Anne xx£ apeece, at age 21

- to the children of my sister Alice xx£ apeece, at age 21

- to the poor of the parish xs at next Christmas

- to John my servant vs

- to Edward Morton xs

- the rest to John Bebye my brother and sole executor

- witnesses, Thomas Cox, clarke, Edward Morton, William Bolney

signed James Bebye

-debts owing to testator: Thomas Dewberry v£

Henry Jerman xxs/d

Thomas Percivall xviiid/s

Probatim 14.9.1631 fratri John Beebee

Inventory:

James Beeby of Great Addington yeoman by Thomas Cox, clarke, Richard Raynor, William Bolney, John Bolney, 13.9.1631.

- Itm, ready money in his purss vs

- Itm, his apparell xis

- Itm, in the hall all was his systers but a little frme iiiid

- Itm, in the parlour, a table and frame vs

a little cupboard a plain bedsted a mattrise

one pair of blanketts a boulting trunk iii coffars xxd

- Itm, in the chamber on the parlour his weo iii£ vis iiid

- Itm, vi horsses £xx iiii

- Itm, x beast and bullocks xiv

- Itm, score + x1 sheepe + lambs £xv

- Itm, Cartes and cartegears, ploughs and ploughgeares

harrorers and other implemth of husbandry £viii

- Itm, a sowe and other swyne xxxiis iiid

-. Itm, hys croppe of wheate £xxx

- Itm, hys croppe of barley £xxx

- Itm, hys croppe of pease and oats £xxx

- Itm, a hovell of hay £v

- Itm, the honells and other wood about the yard xis

- Itm, the horsse -ackes oaste standerd and plough

timber and such like implmt xxs

- Itm, forkes, rakes, sives and cutters and such like implmt iiis iiiid

- Signed, Thomas Cox, William Bolney,

Richard Rayner, John Bolney

- Summe 1cc£ v11s

dets

total 162£ cs

- 14.9.1631 coram uro Rot Boithe

Reproduced from the notes of Steve Walker who transcribed the original documents.

Chart derived from the will:

More about James Bebye from other sources:

An Inquisito Post Mortem was held at Northampton 22 November 1632. It states that he died 29 August 1631, that he held lands in Great Addington, that his heir was his brother John who was age 40+ at the time of his death. He did not have any children.

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