Fordington

Inventory & Letter of Administration for William & Robert WHITE (d.1607)
Link to WHITE FAMILY Biography

Inv: SPC 1607 8 108: P5/8REG/108A
Inventory proven 15th Dec 1607 held at the Wiltshire Archives

©Transcribed by Michael Russell OPC for Fordington September 2020

NOTE:- This Inventory which lists the goods and chattels of Robert and William WHITE was attached to the Will of Elizabeth WHITE (d.1607) Widow of Fordington together with the Letter of Administration granted to her executor and surviving son Hamnet WHITE issued on the 15th Dec 1607. Follow link provided for more information. The following two Letters of Administration shown below for the estates of her sons William WHITE (d.1607) and Robert WHITE (d.1607) were also granted to Hamnet on the same day - 15th Dec 1607.

William WHITE Clerk was buried first at St Georges Church in Fordington on 13th Oct 1607, followed by his brother Robert WHITE on the 14th October 1607. Their neice Cisely WHITE the daughter of their brother Roger WHITE was also buried there on the 14th Oct 1607. Elizabeth WHITE Widow, their mother, was buried 5th Nov 1607. The fifth member was William WINSOR Senior the husband of Thomasin who was buried at St Georges Church on 25th Feb 1607/8.Christopher WAY who oversaw the appraisal of their goods was their brother-in-law.

Will of Elizabeth White Widow 1607

    TRUE INVENTORY of all such goods & chattels & monies & whatever else was appertaining unto William WHITE Clerk,
    & unto Robert WHITE Late deceased in the parish of Fordington:

    The Goods of William WHITE:

    Item: one old dublet & one pair of breeches & one old cloak ----- vijs [7s.]
    Item: j [1] pair of breeches and one dublet ----- xs [10s.]
    Item: fourteen? books ----- xxs [20s.]
    Item: iiijer [4] parcels of linen -----xvjd [16d.]
    Item: a black coat -----ijs [2s.]
    Item: a pair of bed sheets -----vjs viijd [6s.8d]
    Item: a pair of old bed blankets -----xvjd [16d.]
    Item: ij [2] pair of old stockings -----xijd [12d.]
    Item: ij [2] old vats -----iijs iiijd [3s.4d]
    Item: in money ----- xjli [£11]

    Sum Total xiijli xiijs viijd [£13. 13s. 8d] [Note:- Actually £13.12s. 8d ]

     

    The Goods & Chattels of Robert WHITE:

    Item: in money ----- xs [10s.]
    Item: a cloak valued at -----xs [10s.]
    Item: doublet and breeches -----viiis [8s.]
    Item: iiijer [4] parcels of linen -----iijs iiijd [3s.4d]
    Item: j [1] hat -----ijsvid [2s.6d]
    Item: j [1] pair of Stockings -----xd [10d.]
    Item: viijli 8 pounds of wool ----- vjs [6s.]
    Item: ij [2] acres of land for the term of ix [9] years at
    vjs viijd [6s.8d] a year the rent which cometh to ----- iijli [£3]
    Item: xl [40] sheep praised [appraised] at -----xli [£10]
    Item: j [1] bullock ----- xxvs viijd [25s.8d]
    Item: one weanling calf -----vjs [6s.]
    Item: j [1] sheep skin ----- iiijd [4d]

    SUM: xvli viijs [£15.8s]?

    Robert BELLMAN, Luke BOCKER : appraising

    Christopher WAY:

    Exhibited xv [15th] December 1607 proven


Letter of Administration - Estate of William WHITE (d.1607)

L/A William White Husbandman of Fordington 1607

[Needs a proper translation - rough translation]
WHITE: 15th Day December in the year of our Lord 1607 entrusted was administration of the goods and credits of William WHITE of Fordington within the peculiar jurisdiction of Sarum deceased unto the aforementioned Hamnet WHITE brother of the deceased

Letter of Administration - Estate of Robert WHITE (d.1607)

L/A Robert White Husbandman of Fordington 1607

[Rough translation]
WHITE: Similarly on the same day entrusted was administration ---- Robert WHITE ----- intestate---deceased unto the aforementioned Hamnet WHITE




Genealogical Notes:-

(1). Robert and William WHITE were two of the sons of John WHITE Senior (d.1600) by his wife Elizabeth WHITE nee BASCOMBE (d.1607). This Inventory was proved on 15th December 1607 the same day that their mother's Will was approved. Links to an accounts of the lives of Robert WHITE (1556-1607) and William WHITE Clerk (c1563-1607)

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