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		<title>George Spokes: a brief span</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Spokes family had been farming in West Haddon since the first Queen Elizabeth was on the throne. By the 1630s there were several branches of the family. George was the son of John Spokes, who died in the spring of 1636, very shortly after making his will, so he may have been aware that &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/george-spokes-a-brief-span/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "George Spokes: a brief span"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />The Spokes family had been farming in West Haddon since the first Queen Elizabeth was on the throne. By the 1630s there were several branches of the family.</p>
<p>George was the son of John Spokes, who died in the spring of 1636, very shortly after making his will, so he may have been aware that he was dying (but we don&#8217;t know what of.)</p>
<p>John&#8217;s will has survived, along with a probate inventory, listing all his possessions at the time of his death. Because it lists household goods in the rooms they stood in, the inventory offers a snapshot of the house George grew up in. It was pretty sparse &#8211; quite minimalist.</p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-443 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pieter_de_Hooch_-bed-in-the-parlour_-crop-300x296.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="296" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pieter_de_Hooch_-bed-in-the-parlour_-crop-300x296.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pieter_de_Hooch_-bed-in-the-parlour_-crop.jpg 765w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Downstairs there was a hall (the main living room) which had a table, a form (a kind of bench) and three stools in it &#8211; no chairs. In the parlour (the best room) there was a bed, three coffers, three barrels and a thrall to stand them on. This was a room for entertaining visitors. It was usual at this period for the best bed to stand in the parlour, usually with bed curtains, displaying the wealth of the family by the quality of the fabric or the richness of the embroidery. (Visitors may have been offered ale, but it seems they were expected to stand.) The kitchen held the usual food-related equipment of the period. But there was only one chamber, or upstairs room. This held two more beds and a couple more coffers. The furniture was valued at a lot less than the household linens and bedding &#8211; the table, stools etc were worth ten shillings (50p), the brass and pewter ware £2, while the mattresses, blankets, sheets and pillows, tablecloths and napkins amounted to £8!</p>
<p>John left almost everything to George, with the understanding that he would take care of his mother <em>if they can accord to live together, but if she shall depart from him then she is to have £10 and half the moveable goods within the house.</em></p>
<p>In the event, the widowed Elizabeth didn&#8217;t depart. Her son George did.</p>
<p>By the end of July in that same year, George had made his will, leaving various small bequests, including to his two godchildren and to the poor of West Haddon, and by the end of September his mother had inherited everything else.</p>
<p><strong><em>Apologies &#8211; this should have been posted on 22 August.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Mary Elmes: widow, mother and will-maker</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Almost all that we know about Mary Elmes comes from her will. Her late husband, Thomas, had died in January, 1657, leaving her with four grown-up children: John, Joane, Sarah and William. He had also left a will, bequeathing various parcels of land and a couple of houses to his sons, large dowries to his &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/mary-elmes-widow-mother-and-will-maker/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Mary Elmes: widow, mother and will-maker"</span></a></p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-336 alignright" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="198" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo-270x300.jpg 270w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Great-Fire-logo.jpg 350w" sizes="(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px" />Almost all that we know about Mary Elmes comes from her will. Her late husband, Thomas, had died in January, 1657, leaving her with four grown-up children: John, Joane, Sarah and William. He had also left a will, bequeathing various parcels of land and a couple of houses to his sons, large dowries to his daughters (£100 to Sarah and £200 to Joane &#8211; was Sarah the pretty one?) and household goods and  money to Mary.</p>
<p>Mary&#8217;s will is so detailed that reading it feels like taking a tour of her house as she shares things out among her family.</p>
<p><em>The desk and the chest in the further chamber to my son William.</em></p>
<p><em>The screen in the hall to my son John.</em></p>
<p><em>The box in the parlour to my daughter Sarah, with one carpet and three green cushions.</em></p>
<p><em>The other carpet and the other three green cushions to my daughter Joane.</em></p>
<p><em>The press in the chamber and the bed that I lie in and all the furniture [ie the bed hangings etc] belonging to it and the joined chair that stands at the bedside and my chest in the parlour and all the things in the chest&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>A coverlet that is red and yellow and a pair of blankets, one new one and the other worn awhile and two pair of coarse hempen sheets and a bolster pillow&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-391 alignleft" src="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-300x260.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="260" srcset="http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-300x260.jpg 300w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-768x665.jpg 768w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard-1024x887.jpg 1024w, http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17th-century-court-cupboard.jpg 1100w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Two cushions of a colour, one of them stands on the court cupboard in the parlour, the cupboard cloth and the wicker chair in the hall&#8230;</em></p>
<p>But life wasn&#8217;t to be all lolling about on cushions &#8211; there was work to be done too.</p>
<p><em>The salting trough and all the shelves in the buttery to my son John.</em></p>
<p><em>One linen wheel [for spinning] to my daughter Sarah.</em></p>
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<p><em>The other, and the winding blades [for winding the yarn] to my daughter Joane.</em></p>
<p>In addition, each of the boys got a bible and ten shillings went to the poor.</p>
<p>Interestingly, she made her daughter Joane, rather than one of her sons, her executor.</p>
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