1741 Will

[Alexander.]

Thanks Judy & Redroger, at first I thought it said 'five iron' but didn't think that golf would had made it to a small Notts village by 1741.

Still wondering about the "board" - there just doesn't seem enough letters in the word. And why in the third line would it say 1 board and 1 table if they are the same thing?

The last section:

harnis for the horses   –   –   –   3 : 0 : 0
1 waggon 1 Cart   –   –   –   –   6 : 10 : 0
for plows and harrows   –   –   –   1 : 00 : 0
for Corn in the Chember   –   –   12 : 00 : 0
for Clots? and wheat on y^e ground 19 : 0 : 0
for the pease ..... –   –   –   3 : 0 : 0

Thanks,
Alexander

[Redroger]

After a further look I now think that what we thought was "board" is in fact "bed" Try this in other contexts, it seems to make sense to me.

[Alexander.]

Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. But what is a bed doing in the "Chees Chamber"? Am I correct in saying that is meant Cheese? What is a cheese chamber?

[g eli]

I am wondering if the Chees Chamber had something to do with the farming operation.Somewhere Cheese was made or kept, a board i.e. table would make sense.
Liz

[oldtimer]

... where it says Cbots on the ground, I would expect it to say oats 

[Alexander.]

I guess they must have made cheese. I don't know whether most farms would have done this.

I've been puzzling over that Clots/Cbots for ages - almost positive it starts with a C and ends in 'ots' compared to other letters on the page, but can't make anything fit. I didn't think of oats though - but it really doesn't look at all like that. I don't know...

I was wondering on the next line whether it says "Pease eath" as in Peas heath or something like that. Though I'm not really sure.

[oldtimer]

It is definitely cheese chamber. Perhaps what we would call a larder or pantry now - somewhere cool with cold stone slabs to store milk, cheese and other perishables.

[oldtimer]

I thought it might be pease (peas) valued though I can see all the letter don't fit!

[oldtimer]

In many old wills you will see the phrase

for oats and wheat on the ground - though I must admit that it definitely doesn't say oats, but Cbots