Laslett family history

Stephen Laslett of Deal - 3 May 1690
(Page 18)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Stephen Laslett of the parrish of Deale in the County of Kent Blacksmith being sick in body but of sound and perfect memory praysed bee God for the same Doe make & declare this my last Will and Testament in writeing the third day of May in the seconde yeare of the Reigne of our most gratious Soveraigne Lord and Lady William and Mary now King and Queene of England yr Annog. Dui 1690. In manner ffolloweing that is to say ffirst I comend my soule to God my Creatour trusting by the alone merritts of Christ my Redeemer to bee made pertaker of a better life after this mortall life ended - my body I comitt to the earth to bee decently buryed att the discretion of my Executor heerafter named And as to my worldly estate which by the blessing of God I now possess and enjoy I give devise and bequeath in manner following that is to say I give devise and bequeath unto my loving wife Anne Laslett ALL that messuage or tenement and Smiths Shoppe which I now dwell in, and also all those two messuages situate in Deale aforesaid in the said County of Kent and now are in the severall tennres or occupatons of Thomas Jones of Deale ffisherman and Joan Estis of the same widdow and also All that barne stable and outhouses and yard or backside thereunto belonging situate in Deale aforesaid in the said county of Kent and now is in tennre or occupaton of William Hoford of Deale aforesaid bricklayer and of the said Stephen Laslett or of their assignes and allso all that Well & twelve foot of land thereunto now in my occupation in Deale aforesaid. To have and to hold the said messuages or tenements yardes or Backsides unto her the said Anne Laslett my loving wife her Executors Adms & assignes together with all my Right title interest Terme of yeares clayme & demand whatsoever Also I give and bequeath unto my Loving wife Anne Laslett all my goods chattells and household stuffe now standing and being in my dwelling house aforesaid and also all my Workeing tooles and iron in my shopp and also all and every summe and summes of mony debts which are due oweing unto mee either by bill bond booke debts or otherwise belonging or appertayneing to mee and all my Reall and personall estate whatsoever provided that my said loving wife pay my debts and also my legacys heerafter given and bequeathed to my children heerin and heerafter named. Item I give and Bequeath unto my eldest daughter Mary Laslett the full summe of Ten pounds of Lawfull mony of England Item I give and Bequeath unto my loveing daughter Anne Laslett the Summe of ffive pounds of Lawfull mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing Sonn Stephen Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing Sonn John Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing Sonn Joseph Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto my Loveing daughter Anne Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of Lawfull mony of England Item I gave and bequeath unto my loveing Sonn William Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England Item I give & bequeath unto my loveing daughter Hannah Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing daughter Elizabeth Laslett the full summe of ffive pounds of lawfull mony of England. All which aforesaid Legacyes I doe hereby Appoint my loveing wife Anne Laslett my Executrix heerafter named to pay unto my said children their severall legacys aforesaid given to them when they shall attaine their full ages of one and twenty yeares. And I doe heerby make ordaine authorise and appoint my said loveing wife Anne Laslett my sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament in writeing heerby revoking All former Wills & Testaments by mee att any tyme heertofore made And doe declare this to bee stand and remaine as my last Will and Testament for ever. And my Will and mind is that John Taverner of Deale aforesaid Grocer and Nicolas Martin of Deale Maltster bee overseers of this my last Will and that they will ayd and assist my wife in the performeing this my last Will & Testament. IN WITNES whereof I the said Stephen Laslett have heerunto sett my hand & seale the day and yeare first above written:

Stephen Laslett (Seal)

Signed sealed published and declared
by the said Stephen Laslett to bee
his last Will and Testament in -
the presence of the . . . with the hand
enterlined before the ensealeing in the
presence of Henry Stokes
John Lasham
Tho: Goobin

Probatum fuit hujusmodi Suprascrit testamentum Stephain Laslett neperdo Deal defunct virossimo secundo die May Anno Diu 1690 . . . Juramento Anne Laslett Executrici . . .

An Inventory of all and singular the goods and Chattells of Stephen Lacelet late of Deale in the County of Kent Blackesmith decd taken and appraeysed by us whose names are heareunto subscribed Nineteenth day of May Anno Dom 1690 as followeth.

Impris his wearing apparell woollen & linnen 1- 0-0

In the Hall

Item a paire of grates frepan a paire of
tonges .... & bellow 0- 5-0
It. two small tables a shoule an old
cubbord a glabrass two cucketts and
old stove six old chaires 0- 6-0
It. a warming pan six small pewter dishes
ten pewter plates a lanthorne a pewter
pott one coxiron a landle box and
some earthen ware 0-12-6
It. an iron pott a brass pott a brasse
skillet 0- 5-0

In the Shoppe

It. the workeing tooles, Iron & old Iron 14- 0-0

In ye Chamber

It. a paire of grates a paire of cabisons 0- 8-0
It. a high bedstedle curtaines & vallanse
a litterbed & bolster a flocke bolster
a ffeather pillow & fflocke pillow a
coverlet two blanketts & a trundle
bedstedle 2- 5-0
It. a table two chests a ..... a box
five chaires another small table a
bible and some other bookes a muskett
and old bandoleers 0-13-4

In the Garrett

It. two old bedstedles & some old bedding
an old table one old chest a spinning
wheele & some old lumber 0- 6-8

In the Seller

It. a small copper fouer tubbs three
& two shillings 1- 0-0
It. three paire of sheets a pair of
Pillowcases two tableclothes six
towells six napkins 0-13-4

In the yard

It. three hogge a small piece of wood 1- 5-0
Shovel
Cuckett – probably a type of stool. Perhaps derived from cucking-stools. OED notes in Sandwich in the 1500s “[Two women] to be placed in the coqueen stool, and dipped to the chin.’ The type of stool used at the pillary.
It. one horse & one cow 4- 0-0
It. a coach & 4 horses 20- 0-0
It. a messuage & yard & shopp in Deale
being leasehold estate 80- 0-0
It. two tenements two stables & yards
& well in Deale being leasehold estate 70- 0-0
It household lumber & things 0- 3-4
It. debts owing to ye deceased hopefull
to . . . 6- 0-0
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Total 202- 3-2

James Buttorie (his mark)
Edward Taylor
22 Maii 1690