Loudmytham Wills :
1) Ann Chrombleholme [Cro0028] - 1594 (SR 13)
2) John Cromleholme [Cro0018] - 1614 (SR 12)
1) (RC Will Ref : SR 13) Ann Chrombleholme [Cro0028] of Loudmythorne 12th February 1594
A nuncupative will : (a will not written but declared verbally) Partially also in Latin
A full transcription : (my thanks to Mrs Marjorie Pollard)
The 12th day of February or thereabouts the year of our Lord God 1594. Anne Chrombleholme late of Lowdmithom with the county of Lancashire, widow , deceased being of sound and perfect remembrance before sufficient witnesses did pronounce, make and declare in express words without writing her last will and testament in manner and form following : First, she gave and bequeathed her soul in the hands of Almighty God her maker and redeemer and her body to be buried in Chipping Churchyard near unto the place where her husband was buried.
Item - her mind and will was and she did freely forgo unto her son Richard Chrombleholme all such debts and reckonings whatsoever that were betwixt them and upon condition that her son Richard shall dwell with her during her life and do as a dutiful should do.
Item - she gave and bequeathed a great ark standing in the house to Cislye her daughter.
Item - she gave and bequeathed unto Richard her son another great ark at the making toward of the said ark her son Richard had formed some of the boards.
Item she gave and bequeathed to Alice her daughter the value or worth of suchlike ark to be taken up of goods at her discretion.
Item - her mind and will was and she gave and bequeathed all the rest and residue of her goods and cattails moveable and unlovable whatsoever and her debts, legacies and funeral expenses first paid and discharged to be equally divided and distributed betwixt Richard Chrombleholme, Cisley Chrombleholme and three .....? her daughters . And for the performance of this her last will and testaments .... and appointed her son Richard Chrombleholme and George Chrombleholme her son in law to be her true and lawful executors.
William Baille mentioned
Amongst the inventory of her goods there were:
2 flitch of bacon and a quarter of beef, 20s. 3 hens and a cock 16d.
Summary :
Made : 12th February 1594 Proved : 1597
Residence : Loudmytham
Burial - wished to be buried in Chipping Churchyard with her husband (he is not known)
Children :
Richard - left a great ark
Cislye - left a great ark
Alice - goods to the value of an ark
Left residue to by divided equally amongst them (and three ... ?)
Executors - son Richard Chrombleholme and son in law George Chrombleholme
2) (RC Will Ref SR 12) John Cromleholme [Cro0018] of Lowdmythorne in Bolland – Inventory made 1614 - (RC Will Ref SR 12)
(No will as such) (Inventory transcribed by Marjorie Pollard)
The Inventorie of all and singular the goodes and chattells movable ? and inmovable ? of John Cromleholme late of Lowdmythome in Bolland within the county of Lancaster yeoman.......... ......? The second ? daie of April anno dom one thousand six hundred & fourteen.
By four men that ye do find
Henrie Richmond gentleman
John Parker yeoman
James Parker yeoman
And George Cromleholme husbandman
4 oxen
4 threaks (beast of 3 winters old)
6 twinters (beast of 2 winters old)
8 kine
5 twinter heifers
7 stirks
2 mares
2 colts
20 sheep
2 swine
6 feather beds; 5 bolsters; 4 pillows, i mattress
9 coverlets, 4 coverings, 1 caddow (thick blanket)
10 blankets
9 pairs of linen and canvas sheets
6 pairs of bedsteads
14 chests
2 arks. 1 counter (?)
2 tables, 1 stone cistern, one to remain in the henhouses
2 other arks (large chests usually for grain)
6 great brass pans, 6 little pans, 3 brass pots
1 chaffing dish (for heating food)
1 brass mortar, 2 brass ladles
24 pewter dishes
10 podingers (bowls), 2 pewter candlesticks, 2 pewter .....?, 5 pewter ....?, & 5 pewter salts
3 brass candlesticks
12 barrells and stands
6 ... forms and wooden cups, 2 kettles and two great .... with other things
26 milk troughs
4 fulling tubs
6 skillets (cooking vessel) & collocks ??
1 piggin (small wooden vessel)
1 mash kneppe ? and 1 gelker ?
2 fleshetts (tub for salting meat)
1 knappe & 1 other tib
Basins & dishes
1 fire iron, 1 dripping pan, 2 frying pans,
3 rackentithes (vertical band of iron from which hooks were suspended for pots)
2 spits & 1 pair of racks
1 griddle, 1 brandreth (grid iron)
2 toasting irons and other things
Meal, Malt & barley
Beef & bacon
10 cushions
8 chairs
4 .... and a half of oil ?
Wheat upon the ground
12 sacks, 2 pokes (bags) & 2 window cloths
1 tanned skin in the custody of Richard Haughton
1 other tanned skin
3 stone of lime
9 table napkins & linen board cloths, 3 pillowbearers, 2 towels, 2 other linen board cloths
3 other little table and 1 counter
2 horse wains and cow wain and 2 cowp....? & 2 pair of wheels
2 harrows, 2 ploughs, 4 sickles, 2 cowlters (iron blade for plough)
1 crow ? of iron and 4 bars of iron
......? timber axe, bows (saws) with other things
spade shafts
Forks and spades, 1 worthing ? hook with other things
End of second page
Yokes & looms
Saws, axes wimbles (gimlets) hatchets and other implements
Hooks & sickles
Wheel spokes th....? bound wheel spokes & other implements
1 pack saddle
wheels, barrows, 1 seed hopper , sieves, riddles & scuttles
6 silver spoons
Hay & turves
A piece of a hare ? for the kiln
2 ladders and slead (sledge for carrying hay etc) and other things
3 geese & 1 gander
5 hens & 1 cock
Money & gold
As more appear by two boards
As more appear by a bill
1 close of the demise of Thomas Marsden de Pale for certain years yet unexpired
End of third page
By another speshalty (legal term – deed under seal or sealed contract)
By another speshalty
By another speshalty
of Richard Walkersenior of Chaigley
of John Bradley de Thornley
of John Bradley de Thornley
of George Swinglehurst de Barholme
of George Cromleholme
of John Leather
of Thomas Parker de Higher Grinstonleigh
All other implements
The dead’s apparel
Total £317 5s 1d End