1741 Will

[Redroger]

Oldtimer: 1/- as a legacy is not unusual, I've seen them as low as 3d in early wills from the late 16th century.

[oldtimer]

  

[Redroger]

Yes, it surprised me too!

[slam]

Trawling OED for possible dialect words, they have 'clats', cow-dung - which seems to have been a useful product on farms, e.g. their example:

 "1834 Brit. Husb.  I. 27 'Clats..the dung of cattle as fuel..collected from the pastures at the close of summer' ". 

(Weirdly, I had a Yorkshire friend who puzzled me once when she casually referred to something being 'as flat as a cow clart': I now understand what she meant.)

Re the 'pease ___', OED has a word which can be spelled 'eddish', 'etch' or 'eatage' meaning the stubble left after a crop had been reaped.  It could have value as cattle fodder, or because other crops could be sown over the top and gain nutrients from it:"The bean etche well cleaned in the autumn and sown again with wheat".

[Alexander.]

Interesting...never heard of that but it could be right. "Clats and wheat on the ground"...not exactly what I was expecting, but it fits, thanks!

[oldtimer]

Yes! I have had Staffordshire wills where dung has been mentioned in an inventory!

[Redroger]

Dung of course had (and has) value as a fertiliser. I have seen sheep sent into sprout fields in November when the crop has been flooded to eat the debris and clean and fertilise the field. Pigs were traditionally let loose in autumn for this very purpose. Older wills will be much closer to the natural cycle than we are, and it is often difficult to work out exactly what the makers meant.