Five wills and six inventories survive for this period, all of them for testators from Up Nately.
The wealthiest testator of the 16th century was Gilbert Lookar with an inventory of c. £545.
Only two wills survive from this period: one of a wealthy widow from Andwell mill and the other of the poor curate of the chapelry of Up Nately, wh
There are eleven surviving wills and ten inventories for this period. They reflect a farming community with sheep, cattle and crops.
Wills and inventories dating from 1541-1707 have been transcribed by the Wills Group of the New Victoria County of Hampshire project, based in Basi
Stoney Stanton takes its name (twice) from the rock on which the village stands.
Newtown Linford is a small village to the north west of Leicester, on the edge of Charnwood Forest.
Castle Donington is a small market town in north-west Leicestershire.
Seagrave is one of eight parishes in the north Leicestershire wolds whose boundaries form a 'hub-and-spoke' pattern around a former area of common
Melton Mowbray's market is mentioned in Domesday Book.
