GERARD RAWES OF HARTSOP

Will of Gerard Rawes of Hartsop, Patterdale, Westmorland. Made 4th January 1593. Proved 1593 at Carlisle. (Hartsop Line)
In dei nomine so be it etc: The fourth day of January In the xxxvth yere of the Reigne of our soveraigne ladie / Elizabethe by the grace of god of England fraunce and Ireland quene defendour of the faith etc. I Gerard Rawes of Hartsopp / beinge sicke in bodie nevethelesse hole in mynd and in perfitt Remembrance (god be praised) doth make this my / last will and testament in manere and forme followinge (viz) fyrst I give and bequethe my soule to Almightie / God my maker and Redemer and my bodie to be buried within the churchyeard of Patterdale paying all / dewties theirunto belonginge dew and accustomed. Item I give to Gerard Rawes my youngest sonne twentie / wedders to be delivered Imediatly after it shall please god to call me to his mercie. Item I give to Agnes / Rawes my dowghter three poundes of lawfull Englishe money beinge now in the handes of Lancelot / Rawes my Eldest sone to be payed by the said Lancelot Rawes unto the said Agnes Rawes / at the three next Michaelmas Dayes after my discease. Item I give to the said Agnes a twynter / blacke styrke. Item my will is that my executors shall pay unto George Bucher my sone in law / fiftie shepp out of the hole goodes accordinge to the custome of the countrie. Item I will that the / said George shall have two kyne delivered at and upon the feastes of Saints Phillip and Jacob the / Apostles, beinge the fyest day of May next after my death. Item I give to Robert Dowsonne / - xii. The Rest of my goodes moveable and unmoveable my dettes payed, legaces geaven / and funerall expenses discharged, I give to Robert Rawes, Gerard Rawes and Agnes / Rawes my children whome I make executors and executrix of this my last will and testament. Supervisors / I make John Makereth, Rychard Lancaster, William Harrison and John Richeson, (wittnesses / hearof Edward, erased) geavinge to everie of them xijd. Witnesses hearof Edward Rawes / and Robert Dowsonne,       with others.       Jur(ato) Wyllyam Harrison.
      vicesimo primo die mensis Februarij Anno dicto secundu computacionem ......
      1592; probatum fuit huius testamenti [------- etc.] 

17th January 1592/3.                      Gerard Rawes.



      The Inventorie of all the goodes moveable and 
      unmoveable of Gerard Rawes priced by 
      foure sworne men (viz) Allon Newton 
      John Harrison th John Tomson and Rychard 
      Bell the xvij of January as followithe:


Imprimis    for bigge and haver                      xxs
Item   hay                                          xiijs iiijd
Item   seventie sheppe                         xjli xiijs iiijd
Item   thrittie hogges 	                      iiij
Item   two kine, two whyes, two styrkes & a calfe      vs
Item   one meare                                     xxxs
Item   ploughe geere                                 ijs vjd
Item   two hendles, one Cheare, one cam, two bowles,
       a tubb, foure wodd dishes with other dishes  ijs iiijd
Item   a kersett, a bease pott, and a girdle      iiijs
Item   foure puder dishes                               xijd
Item   blacke woole                                  vs
Item   white clothe                               viijs
Item   sixe pannes                                   vs
Item   foure arkes                                 iijs iiijd
Item   two bease quarters                         iiijs
Item   a sacke, a wheile & a backboard                  xvjd
Item   his apparell and beddinge                   xxs
Item   in the handes of Rychard Harrison         viijs viijd
Item   of John Harrison of Benetrigg and Christopher Harrison
                                    pledge        xij
Item   of Robert Rawes of Crosses                xiijs
Item   of the wife of John Lancaster               ijs xd
Item   Richard Wilkinson and his mother         iijs
Item   Lancelot Rukinge of Placefell                 xvjd
Item   Robert Joxson (Jopson?)                      xijd
Item   of Rychard Harrison                           xvd
Summa - xxix ii xv d






       Dettes owinge by me Gerard Rawes:


   Imprimis to the wife of John Lancaster          - xxs
   to be payed when my executors is discharged
   of the obligacion which I stand bound to my lord
   of Carliell for the said wife and not before.


Item to the said wife of John Lancaster           iiijs vjd
Item to Christopher Rukinge                          vs vijd
Item to John Weddeall                               xjs vjd
Item to Arthure Lancaster                            xs
Item to Robert Tomson                                vs


                                Summa -       lvjs iiijd

Notes:-
Because the year started on March 25th, according to the reckoning of the time, this will was written on January 4th 1592. It was written by William Harrison - note 'doth, in place of 'do' in line 5 - so Gerard died sometime between the 4th Jan and the date that probate was granted - February 21st of the same year. Is the parish register extant? The feast of Sts Philip and James was May 1st. Four children are mentioned'. there must have been another girl to be wife of George Bucher. Hartsop is about 2 miles south of Patterdale.

Bigge and Haver: Bigg = a hardy Barley of hardy growth suited to poorer soils and northern latitudes. Haver = a northern word for Oats.

Why = a northern word for Heifer. Styrk = a bullock or heifer usually between 1 & 2 years old.

Hendles, cheare and cam: among the collection of wood ware: Cheare: = chair, or? chearne = churn. Hendles and Cam doubtful. There is no table etc. listed as such. Kersett = possibly Cresset. Girdle = griddle?. Puder = pewter. Ark =chest Bease quarters = bacon & salt meat for winter. Wheile = spinning wheel.

Transcribed from the original by G.L. Bishop of Cirencester, 1985