MRP: Sir Dudley Carleton will
Sir Dudley Carleton will
PROB 11/239 Alchin 303-356 Will of Sir Dudley Carleton of City of London 22 March 1654
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Sir Dudle Carleton of the Cittie of London Knight being somewhat sicke in Body but of good and perfect mind and memory thanks beginen (sic) to Almighty God considering my mortalitye and desiring to free (?) and discharge my thoughts of worldly Affairs by making a timely settlement of that Estate which it hath pleased the Lord of his mercy to lend unto mee in this life doe xxx to all former Wills andTestam:ts by mee heretofore made and now make and declare this my present last Will and Testament in manner and forme following That is to say
FFIRSt I comend my Soule into the hands of God that gave it hoping assuredly that through the only merritts of Jesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer I shalbe made partaker of life everlasting And my body I will to be interred in decent and consequent manner in the Earth from whence it Came and whereof itw as made And for my said worldly Estate I doe in the first place devise and bequeath unto my daughter M:rs Anne fferrers Wife of John fferrers Esq:r all such moneys and other Estate whatsoever as doe or dooth any wayes belong unto mee within the United Provinces of the Low Countrey or any of them of which M:r Arnold Vandaulur can give an Account the Certainty whereof will in part or in all appeare by the last Account remaining w:th mee
ALSOE I devise to my sayd Daughter fferrers my Cabbinett inlayd with XXXX and my gold Ring with the Seale of my Hands (?) which I usually weare
NOW the Reason why I part with noe more of my Estate to my said Daughter fferrers is not out of any disrespect or disaffection to her but because upon her marriage I parted with three thousand pounds to her in porcon which was twelve (?) hundred pounds more than I could raise againe (sic) out of the Lands of hers in holland which were agreed upon the sayd Marriadge to be sould and which I had authoritye to sell And for that I gave her since Marriadge in xxxx xxxx and other things to the value of twoe hundred pounds soe that what I now give her being added to what shee hath formerly had will makemore than an equall porcon w:th the Rest of her sisters besides what is Come to her asheire to her mother
ALSOE I devise and bequeath to my daughter Lucie Carleton being my eldest Daughter by my last Wife the sume of eleaven hundred pounds to be paide unto her at her Age of one and twenty yeares of Day of marriage which shall first happen And in case my sayd Daughter Lucie shall at any time within six Monthes after such tyme as shee shall attaine her Age of one andtwentye years by good and sufficient assurance in Lawe convey Release and assure ag:t her and her heirs and all other person and persons whatsoever claiming from by or under her All her and their Estate Right Tythe Interest Claime and Demand whatsoever unto Edward Bellamye Cittizen and ffishmonger of London his heirs and Assignes of in and to all those Lands called and knowne by the name of the Roy (Or, Rey?) with the Appurtenances and every part and parcell thereof in the parishe of Walton upon Thames in the County of Surrey and of in and to all other the Lands Tenements & hereditaments warranted or menconed to be warranted to the sayd Edward Bellamye and his heirs by mee and my kinsman Thomas Carleton of London Mercer against the sayd Lucie and her heirs in and by one Indenture bearing date the Second Day of June Anno Domini 1649 and made betweene my Selfe and the said Thomas Carleton of the one part and the said Edward Bellamy of the other part And in case my said Daughter Lucie shall happen to be married not having attained and accomplished her full Age of one and twenty years whereby the premises for the present cannot be Conveied as adoresaid
THEN if her husband shall within six months after such their Marriage give such secuirtye to my Executors by bond or otherwise as he shall thinke fitt and allowe of for the Conveying Releasing and assuring the said premises called the Roy and other the Lands in the said Indenture menconed as aforesaid in manner and forme as aforesaid and shall further give sure secuirtye by bond or otherwise as aforesaid that if my sayd
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Daughter Lucie happen to depart this life within the Age of one and twenty yeares and six months and before any sure conveyance had and made as aforesaid having Issue or Issues of her Body then the said Edward Bellamie (sic) his heirs and Assignes shall have hold and enioy the sayd premises called the Roy and other the premises aforesaid with their andevery of their Appurtenances against my said Daughter Lucie and against such Issue and Issues of her body soe to be had as aforesaid And all clayming from by or under them or and of them
THEN I will and bequeath that upon such Assurance had and made or upon such securitye given as aforesaid my Executor:s pay unto my said Daughter Lucie the sume of foure hundred pounds over and besides the sayd sume of eleaven hundred pounds before limited to her as aforesaid And in case my said Daughter Lucie or her husband respectively as aforesaid refuse to make or doe not make sure assurance or give such security as aforesaid
THEN my Will is that my Executor:s keepe the sayd summe of foure hundred pounds in their hands to the Intent and purpose that my estate and the said Thomas Carleton his heirs Executors and Administrators be therewith saved and kept harmelesse of and from all Warranties in the before menconed Indenture contained as aforesaid And of and from all Suites Costs Charges Damage and Losse whatsoever for or by reason of the said Warranty or Covenant or any of them
ALSOE I doe devise to my Daughter Mary being my second Daughter by my last Wife the sume of one thousand and five hundred pounds to be paid unto her at her Age of one and twenty vears or Day of Marriage which shall first happen
ALSOE I doe devise to my daughter Elizabeth (being my youngest Daughter by my last Wife) and her heirs All and every the Tythes arising growing and renewing (?) within the severall Towns and places of Claygate Albrooke and Chadesworth and every or any of them scittuate and being in the parishe of Thames Ditton in the County of Surrey and all other my Tithes in the said parishe of Thames Ditton now or late in the hands (?) or Occupacon of William Walter and Euxxbuis Mathewes or either of them
AND WHEREAS Dame Mary Crofte of Crofts in the County of Hereford Widdow by Indenture bearing Date the eleaventh Day of July in the eigth yeare of the Raine of our late Soveraine Lord King Charles made betweene the said Dame Mary Croft of the one part and Lucie Croft one of the Daughters of the said Dame Mary Croft of the other part did grant unto the said Lucie Croft one Annuity or yearly Rent of fourscore pounds to be issueing out of the mannors and Lands therein menconed for and during the Tearme of fifty years from the ffeast of the nativity of S:t John Baptist last past with XXXX of Reentes for non payment thereof and payable as in the said Indenture is expressed
AND WHEREAS by my marriage with the said Lucie croft my last Wife and by the Deathe of the said Lucie my Late deare Wife the Estate and Interest of and in the said Rent is Come and accruwed to mee NOW my Will is and I doe devise and bequeath the sayd Annuitie or yearly Rent of fourescore pounds unto my said Daughter Elizabeth Carleton her Executor:s or Assigns
AND WHEREAS S:r William Croft of London Knight by Indenture Dated the seaventeenth day of July in the eigth yeare of the Reigne of our said late Soveraine Lord King Charles made betweene the said S:r William Croft of the one part and the said Lucie Croft of the other part did ratifie and Confirme the said Annuitie to the said Lucie Croft with Clause of Distresse for not paim:t thereof and did by the said last menconed Indenture further grant unto the said Lucie Croft one other Annuity of twenty pounds p Annum with Clause of Distresse for not payment thereof to Comence and begin from and after the decease of the said Dame Mary Crofte for and during soe many of the said years as should be then unexpired Which Rent is likewise come unto mee by the marriage and Deathe of my sayd last Wife
NOW I doe devise as the aforesaid yearly Rent of fourescore pounds
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THIS WILL was proved at Westminster the twoe and twentith Day of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty three before the Judges for probate of Wills and granting Administracions lawfully authorized by the Oath of William Vanbrugh sole Executor named in the said Will to whom the Administracon was Comitted of all and singular the goods Chattells and Debts of the said deceased hee being first sworne well and truly to administer the same,
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