Part two:
Will of Hardin TALBOTT of Stretton on Dunsmore
At Coventry, 8 OCT 1784 (see also 16 FEB 1801)
ITEM. To my grandchild Ann GUNTON the interest of £100 to be paid for her life. Should she die leaving no children the £100 shall be returned again to my family.
Also two pair of sheets, all my wife's weaving apparel both linens and woollens of all sorts, one gold ring, her grandmother's snuff box and gold and silver bodkins, a chester drawer, the best chest, a long box, seven black chairs, the looking glass and sconces in the Palor, the tea table as goes with a spring, the card table, the tea chest and what belongs to it, the tea tongs and six silver teaspoons marked with [E.C], a tea kettle and all the Cheney, the buckles and buttons I wear, a pewter basin, a poset pot and stand marked with [E.J] a tobacco plate marked with [E.C], the mortar and pestle, the little cleaver and carving dish, the little fender, the little fire shovel and tongs and the little irons as belong to them. The clothe horse and night stool and the bed pan, a pair of flat irons, a lock iron and heaters, my Great Bible with the Apocrypha in it, the cupboard in the House, the warming pan, the best pair of brass candlesticks, a hanging candlestick, the tinder box, the ladle and pepper box, all brass, a barrel and pot and a frying pan.
To my gt-grandchild Elizabeth Gunton, interest of £20 yearly until she is twenty one, then to receive the principle. (If Elizabeth dies her portion to go to her sister Susanna). Also to Elizabeth one gold ring.
To my gt-grandchild Susannah interest of £20 etc.. (If both die without heirs, to go to their mother Ann and if all die, to go to their nearest Talbot relations). Also to Susanna, one gold ring.
To my maidservant Sibel Veasey £10. Also a flock bed and bedstead with bed furniture, three blankets, pillows and what belongs to it. Also mourning and every thing decent to wear with it.
To my son Hardin Talbot the interest of £340 (if he dies to go to his sons Thomas & William). Also a silver pint for his life (then to go to Thomas and if Thomas dies without heirs, to go to William)
To Thomas my second best clothes and to William the next best cloaths. My shirts to be parted between Hardin William and Thomas only two shirts I give to my grandson Richard Gunton.
A suit of mourning to Hardin, William, Thomas, Ann and Richard Gunton.
I also appoint William SMITH of the parish of Dunchurch, Warwickshire and Richard Matthias , Mason of Stretton on Dunsmore as trustees.
Signed 24 APR 1784.
Witnesses: James YOUNG, Samuel YOUNG, Thomas JENKINS