Seven wills and ten inventories survive for this period, reflecting the local farming community and the production of hops.
Six wills and seven inventories survive for this period.
Four wills and six inventories survive for this period.
Three wills and inventories survive for this period, reflecting a mixed farming economy.
The first four wills in this period reveal a traditional Catholic community who left their souls to the Virgin Mary and supported lights to burn in
The small parish of Nately Scures, lies on the A30 road four miles east of Basingstoke and two miles west from Hook.
Somerset has a good selection of 17th and 18th century probate inventories for the west of the county but later ones are rare.
The English Civil War broke out in August 1642.
Nately Scures was a small parish four miles north east of Basingstoke and adjoining Newnham.
One will survives for the last 20 years of the 17th century.
