FOSTER WILLIAM 1723 Inventory Borthwick Original
A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods and
Chattells of William Forster late of Stainforth
under Bargh in the parish of Gigleswick in the
County of York Clothier Deceased apprized -
whose Names are Subscribed this fourteenth
Day of October Anno Dom 1723
Imprimis his purse and apparell10 0 0
his real Estate 258 0 0
Seventy Sheep22 00 0
Eight Cows and two Oxen 30 0 0
Six Steers 12 10 0
three Calves 2 00 0
two Steers more5 00 0
five stirks and twinters7 10 00
A Chest0 03 4
A Cowp and A pair of wheels2 10 00
Oak timber and Slate 12 00 00
Coals and offall wood1 00 00
Hay 10 00 00
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Total 372 13 4
John Browne )
Anthony Paley ) Appraisors
Wm Bentham )
Declaration
To all people to whom these presents shall come I Thomas Foster of Stainforeth under Bargh in the parish of Giggleswick in the County of York Clothier send greetings Whereas William Foster late of Stainforth aforesaid Son of me the said Thomas Foster departed this Life intestate upon whose death the right of Administracion of all his Goods Chattells and Credits belong and appertaine to me the said Thomas Foster the father NOW KNOW YEE That I the said Thomas Foster the father do hereby renounce and for divers good reasons and Consideracions me thereunto moving do assigne and give up all such my said right of Administracion unto my son Robert Foster of Kirby Lonsdale in the County of Westmorland mercer my two Sons in Lawe Francis Slinger of Beggarmonds in Longstroth Dale in the said County of York and Richard Foster of Stainforth aforesaid Yeoman and my daughter Katherine Foster of Stainforth aforesaid Spinster humbly beseeching the worhsipfull Commisary of his Grace the Lord Arch Bishop of York to grant Administracion accordingly of all the Goods Chattells and Credits of my said son William Foster Deceased unto them the said Robert Foster Francis Slinger Richard Foster and Katherine Foster giving and by these presents granting unto them the said Robert Foster Francis Slinger Richard Foster and Katherine Foster full power Lycence and Authority to act and do in the promisses as fully in every respect as if I the said Thomas Foster the father were personally present In witness of which my Renunciacion I have set my hand and Seall this Twenty second day of October In the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty three
Sealled Signed and Thomas Foster
delivered in the presence of us
Wm. Bentham
Rogr. Mitton