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==John Vincent will==

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'''PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Middlesex 21 October 1669'''

I JOHN VINCENT OF GRAYS Inne in the Countie of Midd. Doe make my last Will & Testament in manner following

FIRST I bequeath my soule to Almightie God my Creato: hopeing it will receive everlasting life through the mercie and merritts of my deare Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ my Bodie I committ to the Earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter name:

TOUCHING my worldlie Estate I dispose thereof as followes:

WHEREAS my sonne Thomas Vincent to whom I intended a greate part of that small Estate which I have left in this World hath without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers, soe that I can not now in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him, and fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be reduced to miserie; I would desire his Mother with mee to forgive him this ?four as to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions: And if he retourne or send some good accompt, where he is, and hath beene with in two yeares and give good assurance of his honest deportment and dutifull behaviour for the time to come, and betake himselfe to the studdie of the Lawe (he having already received a degree at my Reading; Then I intend him my Chambers at Grayes Inne now in the possession of Master ?Price to enter thereupon when his Lease expireth, and in the meane time the Rent towards his incouragement which is Twentie poundes per Annum, and I doe alsoe intend him upon the condicions aforesaid Twentie pounds per Annum during the continuance of Mr Price his Lease, and after the said Terme to Master Price be ended Provided his Mother and my Overseer of this my will be satisfied of his good deportment I would still continue and make good his Annuitie to him, over and besides the chambers aforesaid But if he retourne not in Two yeares and give such Accompt and soe deport himselfe as is above expected, then I give the said Chambers to my Oversee:r in trust to sell the same and pay the money to my Executor, and doe hereby forgive pardon and release him of the money he hath without my leave taken with him, but give him noe Annuitie, nor thinke fitt for his sake further to lessen my Estate to his Mother and Sisters, however if he retourne and amend his life which I heartilie pray for my intention is that the fortie pounds aforesaid in such case be charged upon my Shopps and House in Cornhill, otherwise not: But I would not have it in his power to sell the Annuities or the Chambers and therefore I doe not perticularlie give them to him but would have them in the power and interest of my Overseers and my Wife to prevent him from falling into XXXXXXXX

ITEM I give to my deare wife the use of all my reall and personall Estate with the rents and profitts thereof whatsoever during her life, in trust that she will theirout educate my daughters and raise for them at theire severall ages or dayes of marriage Five hundred pounds a peece to be then paid to them and pay my sonne the said Annuitie upon the Conditions aforesaid otherwise not And from and after the said portions raised I give to her all my personall Estate whatsoever And when it shall please God to call my Wife out of this world (To whome I pray God graunt long life for the good of all my Children) I give all my Lands and Tenements whatsoever which I have in London Sussex or Kent or elsewhere whatsoever whereof I am seized in mine owne Right in theire name or name of anie other person or persons in Trust for ever to John Rowe of Kingston in the Countie of Devon Esquire Peirce ?Batcler (OR, Bateler) of Covent Garden Esquire Thomas Sturgis of London Esquire and Robert ?Ga?sier of Saint Giles in the Feilds Gentleman and to the Survivours and SURVIVOURS

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SURVIVOURS of them theire heires and Assignes forever in trust either to sell the same for best advantage and to devide the money equallie betweene my said daughters or if it may bemore convenient to see the said Lands and Tenements equallie divided amongst the said Daughters and the Survivour of them theire heires and Assignes But in case anie of them shall happen to marrie and dye leaving Children behinde them I would have such Child or children & theire heires have equall proportion and allowance And doe hereby give to my Overseers for theire care and paines to be taken herein Tenn poundes a yeere

In witness whereof I have hereinto put my hand and Seale (this being all written with mine owne hand This ffourth day of May Anno Domini One Thousand six hundred sixtie nine

VICESSIMO purino die Mensis Octobris Anno DOMINI Millesimo Sexcentisimo Sexagesimo nono ?ananavil Commissio Barbara Vincent Relicta et Legatour principat Testamenti dicti defuncti habentis or ad administaXXX bonaima et Credita XXXXX defuncti iuxta Tenerem et effectum Testamenti ipsius defuncti (Xoquodnullum ?omnionominaverit Executorem) de bene et Fideliter administrand Eadem ad sancta Dei Evangelia in ?debitajurisforma jurat

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	John Vincent was admitted to Gray's Inn in XXXX. He was quite closely associated with another more senior Gray's Inn lawyer, Robert Raworth. Both Raworth and Vincent provided legal assistance to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden in the early 1660s.		John Vincent was admitted to Gray's Inn in XXXX. He was quite closely associated with another more senior Gray's Inn lawyer, Robert Raworth. Both Raworth and Vincent provided legal assistance to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden in the early 1660s.
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		+	Although John Vincent claimed in his will that his estate was small, he appears to have lived in a twelve hearth house in St. Andrew's, Holborn, whilst also leasing out his chambers in Gray's Inn. In the St. Andrew's, Holborn hearth tax return for 1666, thirty-one entries separate John Vincent's home from that of the more senior lawyer, Robert Raworth, who had a home of eleven hearths.<ref>'Esqr: Robt: Raworth 11 hearths...Esqr Jno Vincent 12 hearths', in 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Andrew Holborn (1 of 2)', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118895 Date accessed: 10 February 2012</ref>

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 John Vincent, a Gray's Inn lawyer, made his will on May 4th, 1669.
-In his will, John Vincent revealed that his son, Thomas Vincent, has left the family, taking money, and "without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers."  John Vincent no longer felt that he could "in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him."
+In his will, John Vincent revealed that his son, Thomas Vincent, had  "without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers," taking his father's money.  John Vincent no longer felt that he could "in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him."
 Nevertheless, "fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be reduced to miserie." Vincent, therefore, desired his wife, Barbara Vincent, "to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions."

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 John Vincent, a Gray's Inn lawyer, made his will on May 4th, 1669.
-In his will, John Vincent reveals that his son, Thomas Vincent, has left the family and has "without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers."  John Vincent no longer felt that he could  "in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him."  Nevertheless,
+In his will, John Vincent revealed that his son, Thomas Vincent, has left the family, taking money, and "without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers."  John Vincent no longer felt that he could "in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him."
-''fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be reduced to miserie''
+Nevertheless, "fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be reduced to miserie." Vincent, therefore, desired his wife, Barbara Vincent, "to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions."
-Vincent desired his wife
+If he were to return or should "send some good accompt, where he is, and hath beene with in two yeares and give good assurance of his honest deportment and dutifull behaviour for the time to come," and moreover "betake himselfe to the studdie of the Lawe (he having already received a degree at my Reading," then John Vincent left him his chamber at Gray's Inn, for him to take possession of when the lease to Master Price expired
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-''to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions''.
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 If he were to return or should
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-"send some good accompt, where he is, and hath beene with in two yeares and give good assurance of his honest deportment and dutifull behaviour for the time to come," and moreover "betake himselfe to the studdie of the Lawe (he having already received a degree at my Reading," then John Vincent left him his chamber at Gray's Inn, for him to rtake possession of when the lease to Master Price expired
 John Vincent was admitted to Gray's Inn in XXXX.  He was quite closely associated with another more senior Gray's Inn lawyer, Robert Raworth.  Both Raworth and Vincent provided legal assistance to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden in the early 1660s.

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 TOUCHING my worldlie Estate I dispose thereof as followes:
-WHEREAS my sonne Thomas Vincent to whom I intended a greate part of that small Estate which I have left in this World hath without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers, soe that I can not now in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him, and fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be  reduced to miserie; I would desire his Mother with mee to forgive him this ?four as to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions:  And if he retourne or send some good accompt, where he is, and hath beene with in two yeares and give good assurance of his honest deportment and dutifull behaviour for the time to come, and betake himselfe to the studdie of the Lawe (he having already received a degree at my Reading; Then I intend him my Chambers at Grayes Inne now in the possession of Master ?Price to enter thereupon when his Lease expireth, and in the meane time the Rent towards his incouragement which is Twentie poundes per Annum, and I doe alsoe intend him upon the condicions aforesaid Twentie pounds per Annum during the continuance of Mr Price his Lease, and after the said Terme to Master Price be ended Provided his Mother and my Overseer of this my will be satisfied of his good deportment I would still continue and make good his Annuitie to him, over and besides the chambers aforesaid  But if he retourne not in Two yeares and give such Accompt and soe deport himselfe as is above expected, then I give the said Chambers to my Oversee:r in trust to sell the same and pay the money to my Executor, and doe hereby forgive pardon and release him of the money he hath without my leave taken with him, but give him noe Annuitie, nor thinke fitt for his sake further to lessen my Estate to his Mother and Sisters, however if he retourne and amend his life which I heartilie pray for my intention is that the fortie pounds aforesaid in such case be charged upon my Shopps and House in Cornhill, otherwise not:  But I would not have it in his power to sell the Annuities or the Chambers and therefore I doe not perticularlie give them to him but would have them in the power and interest of my Overseers and my Wife to prevent him from falling into XXXXXXXX
+WHEREAS my sonne Thomas Vincent to whom I intended a greate part of that small Estate which I have left in this World hath without anie cause that I knowe of gone away without my consent or his Mothers, soe that I can not now in prudence leave the care of his Mother and my youngest Children unto him, and fearing he is seduced by evill companie, soe that in sometime (notwithstanding what he hath taken with him) he may be reduced to miserie; I would desire his Mother with mee to forgive him this ?four as to use all meanes by her selfe and Freindes to reclaime him from his badd Companions:  And if he retourne or send some good accompt, where he is, and hath beene with in two yeares and give good assurance of his honest deportment and dutifull behaviour for the time to come, and betake himselfe to the studdie of the Lawe (he having already received a degree at my Reading; Then I intend him my Chambers at Grayes Inne now in the possession of Master ?Price to enter thereupon when his Lease expireth, and in the meane time the Rent towards his incouragement which is Twentie poundes per Annum, and I doe alsoe intend him upon the condicions aforesaid Twentie pounds per Annum during the continuance of Mr Price his Lease, and after the said Terme to Master Price be ended Provided his Mother and my Overseer of this my will be satisfied of his good deportment I would still continue and make good his Annuitie to him, over and besides the chambers aforesaid  But if he retourne not in Two yeares and give such Accompt and soe deport himselfe as is above expected, then I give the said Chambers to my Oversee:r in trust to sell the same and pay the money to my Executor, and doe hereby forgive pardon and release him of the money he hath without my leave taken with him, but give him noe Annuitie, nor thinke fitt for his sake further to lessen my Estate to his Mother and Sisters, however if he retourne and amend his life which I heartilie pray for my intention is that the fortie pounds aforesaid in such case be charged upon my Shopps and House in Cornhill, otherwise not:  But I would not have it in his power to sell the Annuities or the Chambers and therefore I doe not perticularlie give them to him but would have them in the power and interest of my Overseers and my Wife to prevent him from falling into XXXXXXXX
 ITEM I give to my deare wife the use of all my reall and personall Estate with the rents and profitts thereof whatsoever during her life, in trust that she will theirout educate my daughters and raise for them at theire severall ages or dayes of marriage Five hundred pounds a peece to be then paid to them and pay my sonne the said Annuitie upon the Conditions aforesaid otherwise not  And from and after the said portions raised I give to her all my personall Estate whatsoever And when it shall please God to call my Wife out of this world (To whome I pray God graunt long life for the good of all my Children) I give all my Lands and Tenements whatsoever which I have in London Sussex or Kent or elsewhere whatsoever whereof I am seized in mine owne Right in theire name or name of anie other person or persons in Trust for ever to John Rowe of Kingston in the Countie of Devon Esquire Peirce ?Batcler (OR, Bateler) of Covent Garden Esquire Thomas Sturgis of London Esquire and Robert ?Ga?sier of Saint Giles in the Feilds Gentleman and to the Survivours and SURVIVOURS

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+'''John Vincent will'''
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+PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Middlesex 21 October 1669
-'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=906849&queryType=1&resultcount=36 PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Middlesex 21 October 1669]'''
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 I JOHN VINCENT OF GRAYS Inne in the Countie of Midd. Doe make my last Will & Testament in manner following
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 VICESSIMO purino die Mensis Octobris Anno DOMINI Millesimo Sexcentisimo Sexagesimo nono ?ananavil Commissio Barbara Vincent Relicta et Legatour principat Testamenti dicti defuncti habentis or ad administaXXX bonaima et Credita XXXXX  defuncti iuxta Tenerem et effectum Testamenti ipsius defuncti (Xoquodnullum ?omnionominaverit Executorem) de bene et Fideliter administrand Eadem ad sancta Dei Evangelia in ?debitajurisforma jurat
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 [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=179-ams3163&cid=9-8&kw=Barbara%20Vincent,%20widow%20of%20John%20Vincent#9-8 East Sussex Record Office: Estate of the Medley and Shuckburgh-Evelyn families of Buxted: PETT  [no ref. or date]:Conveyance (Release, enrolled)  AMS3197  15 Dec. 1698]
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 £420 to be paid to Barbara Vincent and her daughters as above. (a) covenant to levy a fine with the other proprietors of the manors to the use of (b)
 Witnesses: William Acton, Charles White, Martin Seaborne, Roger Shargold, Clare Beates, Francis Hungate, John Horngold, Thomas Browne, Thomas Whitgrave, sen., John Crompe, Richard Peirson, Edward Hawton

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		+	[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=179-ams3163&cid=9-8&kw=Barbara%20Vincent,%20widow%20of%20John%20Vincent#9-8 East Sussex Record Office: Estate of the Medley and Shuckburgh-Evelyn families of Buxted: PETT [no ref. or date]:Conveyance (Release, enrolled) AMS3197 15 Dec. 1698]
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		+	Consideration: £420
		+	Barbara Vincent, widow of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Mddx, dec'd, Barbara Acton, widow, Jane Vincent, and Dorothy Vincent (daus. of Barbara and John Vincent), Rowland Bartlett of Hilland, Worcs, esq., Thomas Barkeley of Ravenhill, Worcs, esq., Thomas Whitgrave, jun., gent, son of Thomas Whitgrave of Moseley, Staffs, esq, and Nathaniell Piggott of the Inner Temple, London, esq, to Edmond Bolsworth of London, citizen and haberdasher
		+	Fourth part of the seventh part of the manor of Mersham, Foder Mersham, Foder Marsh. Messuage and demesne lands of Preisthawes and lands formerly held by Phillipa Pudsey, widow, dau. of James Thechet, dec'd., in Mersham, Foder Mersham, Foder Mersh, Pett, Icklesham, Guestling, Westham, Fairlight, Hellingly, Warbleton, Wartling, Hailsham, Pevensey and Herstmon-ceux
		+	£420 to be paid to Barbara Vincent and her daughters as above. (a) covenant to levy a fine with the other proprietors of the manors to the use of (b)
		+	Witnesses: William Acton, Charles White, Martin Seaborne, Roger Shargold, Clare Beates, Francis Hungate, John Horngold, Thomas Browne, Thomas Whitgrave, sen., John Crompe, Richard Peirson, Edward Hawton

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	'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=906849&queryType=1&resultcount=36 PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Middlesex 21 October 1669]'''		'''[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=906849&queryType=1&resultcount=36 PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of John Vincent of Grays Inn, Middlesex 21 October 1669]'''
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	I JOHN VINCENT OF GRAYS Inne in the Countie of Midd. Doe make my last Will & Testament in manner following		I JOHN VINCENT OF GRAYS Inne in the Countie of Midd. Doe make my last Will & Testament in manner following