GENUKI Home page
Return to Index Lists

1671 jonathan read hungerford brk dean of sarum will inv 10767 will and inventory: jonathan read of hungerford probate 16 may 1671 to daniel read natural son of the deceased 1) will made 19th october 1669 jonathan read of hungerford, sadler to son jonathan - brewing vessels etc jonathan the son must pay his brother benjamin and sister ruth £40 in goods and money within the year (£20 each) residue of goods lease of house debts on shop book and ware in shop to daniel my son and executor to daughter sarah £5 grandchild benjamin £5 and to have a room in the dwelling house provided of the executor overseers: friends and neighbours william butler and thomas butler signed jonathan read witnesses: elizabeth pettie (x) jospeh butler, sarah meer 2) inventory of the goods of jonathan read senr, sadler taken 6 october 1670 by john fortye and samuel walters exhibited 6th may 1671 sum total £313 includes lease of house £30-00-00 mault in the house and measure £56-00-00 brewery vessels and goods in the brewhouse £140-0-0 [no mention of leather goods !]
[his main trade seems to have been brewing]


Copyright © 1998, Nick Hidden [Last revised 03 Apr 1998]