MRP: Richard Boylston will
Richard Boylston will
PROB 11/343 Pye 119-167 Will of Richard Boylston, Cloth Worker of London 30 December 1673
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29/11/11, CSG: Posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Richard Boylston is only mentioned in one legal document relating to the SVJS. This is C10/82/2 (1664), which states he had invested £500 in the SVJS. He is not mentioned in the earlier listing of SVJS subscribers, C10/109/102 (1663). A Richard Boylston is also listed having invested £700 in the Williams Adventure.[1]
The PRC will transcribed below is a plausible match for the SVJS subscriber, but has been excluded from further analysis of the venture since there is no confirmation of the SVJS shareholding.
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Richard Boylston Citizen and clothworker of London being weake in Body but of sound and perfect mind and memory God be praysed for the same. Considering the certaintyof death and the uncertainty of my departure doe make and declare my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following That is to say
FFIRST and principally I commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator beleeving the free pardon of all my sinns through the meritts death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ And my Body I committ to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in Christian like Buriall according to the discretion of my Executors hereafter named And as concerneing that worldly Estate it hath pleased Almighty God to make mee Steward of in this world I give will and bequeath the same as followeth
FFIRST I will that all my iust debts and funerall charges shall be paid and discharged
ITEM I will that all my Goods Chattells and personall Estate shall be duely appreised and devided into Three equall parts according to the Custome of the City of London One Third part whereof after my said debts and funerall charges shall be paid and discharged I will shall be enioyed by my deare & loveing wife Sarah Boylston together w:th one chamber furnished & all her Jewells rings & wearing apparell according to the custome of the City of London One other third pt thereof I will shalbe enioyed by all my children w:ch to them belongeth by the said Custome To be equally pted & divided betwixt them pt & pt alike according to the said custome and the other third pt thereof w:ch is at my owne disposing of I give & dispose as followeth
FFIRST I give and bequeath untomy loving Wyfe Sarah Boylston One Hundred Pownds of lawfull money of England
ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving brother Edward Boylston One hundred pownds of like money
ITEM I give and bequeath unto my servant Thomas Stanfall fforty pownds of like lawfull money of England for his paynes to be taken in helping my Executors to gett in my Estate
ITEM I give and bequeath unto John Pound my servant Tenn Pownds of like money
ITEM I give and bequeath unto my Three Apprentices Humphrey Middleton Stephen Gittins and John Boylston ffyve Powndes a peece of like money
ITEM I gyve and bequeath unto my Two Maid Servants Ann Holding and Rachell ffower Pownds a peece of like money
ITEM I gyve and bequeath unto my Cosen Thomas ffox Thirty Pownds of like money All the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattells and personall Estate whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath unto all my children equally to be paid unto them as followeth That is to say To my sonnes at theire ages of One and Twenty yeares respectively And to my daughters at theire severall ages of One and Twenty yeares or dayes of Marriage which shall first happenrespectively And if any of my said children which shall be lyving at my death shall dye and depart this lyfe before theire severall portionsshall be due unto them as aforesaid respectively Then I doe will that the survivors and survivor of them shall have the parts and portions
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of him or her of them so dyeing to be equally devided betwixt them And I doe hereby ordeyne nominate and appoint my said loving wife Sarah Boylston and my said brother Edward Boylston full and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I doe hereby constitute and appoint my said loving wife Sarah Boylston and my said Brother Edward Boylston Guardian to my children respectively viz:t To my sonnes untill they shall atteyne theire severall ages of One and Twenty yeares And to my daughters till they shall atteyne theire severall ages of One and Twenty yeares or dayes of Marriage which shall first happen respectively And my Will is That my said loving wife Sarah Boylston and my said Brother Edward Boylston and the survivor of them shall manage and imploy my said Childrems Portions respectively for their best advantage by putting the same at interest or otherwise untill my said sonnes shall atteine theire said severall ages of One and Twenty yeares and untill my said daughters shall atteine theire said severall ages of One and Twenty yeares or dayes of Marriage respectively which shall first happen for and towards theire better mayntenance and education and placing my sonnes to be Apprentices or otherwise as they in theire discretions shall think most fitt and convenient
ITEM I will and bequeath unto my sonn John Boylston and to his heires forever All that my dwelling house wherein I now lye with all the warehouses yards and appurtenances thereunto belonging And all these my Messuages or Tenements Lands and hereditamentssituat and being in Austley in the Parish of ?Rolston or elsewhere in the County of Stafford with all the Barnes Stables Outhouses Gardens and Orchards Lands and Hereditaments thereunto or to anyof them belonging And I doe hereby revoake disanull and make void All former Wills and Testaments by mee heretofore made
IN WITNES whereof I the said Richard Boylston have to this my last Will and Testament sett my hand and seale the Nynetienth day of December Anno Dom 1673 And in the ffyve and Twentyth yeareof the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the graceof God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith xr.
RICHARD BOYLSTON
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Richard Boylston to be his last Will and Testament the said Nyneteenth day of December 1673. In the presence of ffrancis Gillow Senior ffrancis Gillow Junior Edward Tasker
PROBATUM
Sara Boylston Relicta et Edwardi Boylston fratris
Notes
- ↑ Home Miscellaneous Vol. 26, 10 June 165[8?] [folio 5])
