Will and Inventory of William Hawtrell, carpenter, 1562

Hawtrell following local tradition, requested burial in the churchyard and left two pence to the cathedral. The lease of the house was left to his widow and if she remarried, to his eldest son and then to his younger son;  a careful father making provision for all his children, his two unmarried daughters were left beds and bedding, the sons a cow and all the children were left a sheep, everything else to his widow. Although he was called carpenter, there are no specific tools of the trade mentioned in his inventory, just the crops and livestock of a small farm. He may have retired. Total value £34 19s.