Two wills and four inventories survive for this period, of which the Ansell and Crook families were copyholders of the manor of Steventon.
The three wills reflect Catholic practices of praying for the soul.
There is a suggestion of an epidemic disease in 1533 as only four wills survive for the 1530s, all of which are from July and August 1533 which in
Wills and inventories survive for Steventon in Hampshire Record Office (HRO) and The National Archives (TNA).
Ibstock is one of Leicestershire's largest villages.
Queniborough is a linear village, half way between Leicester and Melton Mowbray.
Sileby lies astride the main railway line between Leicester and Nottingham.
