Extract of the Will and Inventory of Edward Rampton, Died September 1665

Know all men by these presents that I Edward RAMPTON of West Sherborne in ye County of Southton Labourer being very sick in body but of good remembrance doe make my last will and testament as followeth First I give up myself in to the hands of God depending on him to deale with me ..... and ye worldly goods which God hath given me I dispose of as followeth I desire that the cupherd in ye hall and ye great chest in ye loft and whatsoever else appears to be unmoveable shall remain as standards in ye house & ye rest of all my goods and money o be divided into four equall parts to be divided by my ? hereafter named, distributing to my wife & my [three?] children each a part. Also I doe appoint that whilst my wife doth continue a widdow that shee shall enjoy ye house & both ye portions? of my ? ? shee helping & keeping them according to their need but no longer but after her marriage ye house to belong to my eldest sone also I appoint that within a quarter of a year of my decease or assoon as money can be taken for goods my daughter portion be put to use in ye hands of some able man as my overseers shall thinke fit Also I appoint that when my eldest sone shall come to enjoy my house that he pay to his brother my younger sone the sume of five pounds. And whatever else shall be thought fitt to be done for to my wives disposull making her my sole executrixe & hereunto I sett to my hand naming Thomas CORDEREY and Robert COPPERTHWAIT to be overseers of this my last will and testament Dated ye Day and yeare first before mentioned. Edward RAMPTON X his marke

in ye presence of John DOBSON, vicar Decimo Sixto die month May Anno Dom 1666
Probati fuit quir ...Waltere DARVILL    signed Willmus ELDRIDGE

Inventory of the goods and chattalls of Edward RAMPTON of the Parish of West Sherborne .. who deceased September ye 1665

one suit of apparrell worth £1
money left in his house about £4
two beds and bed clothes worth £3
brass & pewter worth £1 10s
wooden vessel worth £1 8s
one cupherd, one la?, one chest, two cofers & a formd press worth 16s and 7s
one horse and two hogs worth £2 10s
seven dozen of shovells worth £15
cleft timber for shovells worth £8
spoakes and fellows worth £1 5s
a wheel barrow worth 4s
a pile of wooden chips worth 14s
money owing to him £4 2s
working tools 12s
a sadle pannoll & laddir worth 5s
a lanthorn spit & tongs gridiron & cotterell worth 4s

total £44 17s

shovells timeber spoakes & fellowes £24 5s
wooden goods £2 8s

[The total of £44 17s is worth about £4,368 today]