MRP: John Riccard will
John Riccard will
PROB 11/352 Bence Quire 109-158 Will of John Riccard of Portesham, Dorset 21 November 1676
Editorial history
03/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted completed transcription
Contents
Abstract & context
John Riccard was the brother of Sir Andrew Riccard, who predeceased him. One of John's sons, Francis Riccard, was a servant of the East India Company in Mechlepatam, where Francis died between mid-1673 and the end of 1675. John Riccard, making his own will in October 1676 four months after the granting of probate on Francis' will, gave £100 to his wife and £50 to his second son John "out of the Administaton of my sonn ffrancis."
Sir Andrew Riccard, and by implication his brother John Riccard, has been described in regional secondary literature of the nineteenth century as "of mean extraction" and as a "son of a labourer". However, no primary data are ever adduced to this judgement, and the fact of John Riccard's marriage to the daughter of Dorset yeaoman suggests otherwise.
Suggested links
See Sir Andrew Riccard will (predeceased brother of John Riccard)
See Francis Riccard will (probably a son of John Riccard, who died in the same year)
To do
(1) Look for primary sources regarding Riccard family status in Portesham
Transcription
This transcription has been completed, but requires careful checking
I John Riccard of Portsham in the County of Dorsett praised be to God of sound and perfect mermory calling to mind the frailty of mankind and bodily infirmities doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament written with my own hand in manner and forme following that is to say
FFIRST and principally I give up and resigne my soule into the hands of the Almighty God my Creator that gave me the same trusting the merritts of all my all sufficient Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ renounceing and disclameing and merritt or worthiness of my owne I say to be saved and to enjoy everlasting blisse and happines and for my body and earthly ?parts I committ it to the Earth whereof it was made at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named
ITEM I give to my deare Wife and Executrix Mary Riccard All the goods which belonge to me Ashton Portsham and elsewhere whatsoever excepting debts Legacies to be discharged and what it amounts above to goeto the use of my children ?where shee shall thinke fitt to bee bestowed on them
ITEM I doe give to my deare Wife the Administracon of ffrancis Riccard beinge 100:ll
ITEM I doe give my eldest sonn Andrew Riccard my silver bowle
ITEM I give to my second sonn John Riccard the Tenement of Wells which was lately in their hands and in their occupation paying three hundred pounds out the same that is to say to my sonn Will: Riccard Mary Riccard and Christopher Riccard after the expiration of three years and not before and on non payment of those three to have full power to reenter on the ground at all times
ITEM I give to my sonn John ffifty pounds out of the Administaton of my sonn ffrancis towards his settlement in the way which hee is in
ITEM I doe give my sonn Walter Heynes XXXXXXX after three yeares of my decease two of the best of horses with their harnesse one cart, and one halfe of the XXX yeere three cowes and sixty sheepe with corne to sowe six Acres of ground and not to enter till three yeares after my decease
ITEM I doe give to my daughter Mary the best bedd in my house when shee is married bedd & all materialls with the same
ITEM I give to my Executrix and Deare Wife my Wills ??backside dureing her naturall life which lyes in my ?backside and joynes together afterwards to my daughter Christian or els my sonn Andrew paying 30:ll to her for it so this to be bee my last Will and Testament in witness my hand and seale the 4:th day of this instant October 1676
ITEM I give to my sonn Walter, Perrotte ?backside and Exxxne Symes Meadow three yeares after my decease
1676:
John Riccard
The marke of Susan Tomkins the marke of George Winter
PROBATUM apud London fuit huisxxx XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Marie Riccard XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Commentary
Notes
Alleged Riccard family background
"one holder of the property Sir Andrew Ricard, being the son of a " Possom " (Portesham) labourer.[1]
"...The other was Sir Andrew Ricard, the son of a cottager, who became a member of the East India Company and a great Turkey merchant."[2]
