MRP: Maximilian Dallison will
Maximilian Dallison will
PROB 11/160 St. John 69 - 138 Will of Sir Maximilian Dallison of Halling, Kent 28 November 1631
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN THE Thirtieth day of November One thousand sixe hundred and thirtie I SR MAXIMILIAN DALISON OF HAWLING in the Countie of Kent KNIGHT beinge of perfect health and memory thankes be given to God and calling to minde the incertainty of mans life in this world and desicons to settle my estate Soe that if it shall please God to visite mee with sicknes before my death I may not if it shall soe please his heavenly maiesty be troubled with matters of this world but to applye my minde and meditaccon uppon better things I doe therefore this Thirtieth day of November One thousand six hundred thirtie make and declare this my last will and testament in manner following
FFIRST I commend my Soule into the hands of God my maker and Redeemer not relyinge one my owne workes but assuredly trusting and beleeving by and through the meritts and passion of Jesus Christ to be ptaker of the ioyes and the eternall happiness of heaven And my body I desire may be buried in the parish church of St James Clerkenwell as neare the place where William Dallison Esquire my ffather and Dame Paulina Dalison my first wife were buried as mybe wch was under or by the Communion table there
ITEM I will that my Executo:rs doe pay all my debts, legacies and funerall expences
ITEM I doe give to my daughter Penelope nyne hundred pounds to be paid her by my Executo:rs within six months after my death And I give Seaven hundred pouns to my daughter Theodora To be imployed for ?hr benefitt either in purchasing of lands or leases or otherwise according to the discrecon of my Execut:rs Ans my said Execut:rs to be accomptable to her for the same at her age of Eighteene yeares
ITEM I doe give to my sonne Phillip Dallyson three hundred pounds To be imployed for his benefitt either in purchasing of lands or leases or otherwise accordinge to the discrecon of my Executo:rs And my said Executo:rs to be accomptable to him for the same at his age of one and twentie yeares
ITEM I doe give more unto my sonne Phillip the lease of two tenements in Rochester which was assigned unto mee by John Haggatt, The profitts thereof to be taken by my Executo:rs untill my said sonne shall come to the age of twenty yeares And then my said Executo:rs to accompt to him for the same
ITEM I doe give to my sonne Arthur Dallison Three hundred pounds To be imployed for his benefitt either in purchase of lands or leases or otherwise according to the discrecon of my Executo:rs And my said Executo:rs to bee
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accomptable to him for the same at his age of one and twentie yeares
ITEM I doe give to my sonne John Dalison three hundred pounds To be imployed for his benefitt either in purchasinge of lands or leases or otherwise according to the discrecon of my Executo:rs And my said Executo:rs to be accomptable to him for the same at his age of one and twentie yeares
ITEM I give to my sonne Spencer Dallyson three hundred pounds to be imployed for his benefitt either in purchasinge of lands or leases or otherwise according to the discrecon of my Executo:rs And my said Executo:rs to be accomptable to him for the same at his age of one and twenty yeares And if either of my daughters dy before the tyme of payment of the foresaid legacie given to her My other daughter and my younger sonnes shall have the said legacie equally devided amongst them And if any of my younger sonnes dy before the tyme of payment of theire respective legacies Then I will that his and theire legacies which shall soe dy shalbe equallie devided and paid to the residue of my younger sonnes then liveing And if all my younger sonnes dy before theire respective tymes of payment of theire said legacies Then the same shall goe to my sonne Williams children (if hee have and, And if he have none, then to my daughters
ITEM I doe give to Dame Marie my wife all wearing apparrell, ringes and Jewells, my Coach and Coachhorses, and one hundred pounds in mony To be paid her within sixe months after my death And I doe will and appoint That my said wife shall duringe solonge tyme as she shall live unmarried and noe longer have the wearing occupacon and use of my lesser bason and Ewre one tankard, one colledg pott, and two beere, two Saucers and sixe Spoones, And also sixe of my silver dishes such as my Executo:rs shall appoint all of silver And all my furniture householdstuffe and implements of household at my house in St John Streete with the use and occupacon of the said house payinge the rent thereof to the lessor And after her death or marriage which shall first happen, my said plate goods, householdstuffe and lease shall goe presently to my Executo:rs And they to sell the same and the money thereby raised to be imployed for the benefitt of my younger sonnes, To be imployed at the discrecon of my Executo:rs And the same shalbe payd by equall porcons to my fower younger sonnes at theire respective ages aforesaid And if either of them die before the other to have his or theire partes so dying And I doe will that my wife within sixe monthes after my death put in securitie by bond of five hundred pounds to my Executo:rs for the leaving & delivereinge of the said plate, goods and householdstuffe and lease to them at her death or marriage wch shall first happen
ITEM I doe desire and wish that my Executo:rs so soone as conveniently they may after my death doe and shall sell all the residue of my silver vessells and plate for the best benefitt they can towards the performance of this my will
ITEM I doe give to my sonne William all such householdstuffe as shalbe in my house at Hawling at the tyme of my death (the best bedd and furniture thereunto belonginge only excepted) At the eleccon of my said wife wch I give unto her
ITEM I doe desire and appoint that my daughters Penelope and Theodora if it shalbe convenient shalbe brought upp by my wife untill the severall and respective tymes of payment of theire severall portions as aforesaid, my said wife haveing allowance from my said Executo:rs for theire dyett And I do desire that my Executo:rs from tyme to tyme will doe mee the favo:r to have a care to the bringing upp and educatinge of my sonnes and daughters untill the severall and respective tymes of payment of theire severall porconns as aforesaid, and pay for either of theire respective educaconns out of the profitts to be respectively raised out of his or her porconns given them by mee, And I doe leave it to the discrecconn of my Executo:rs to educate my three younger sonnes in what course shall seeme, to them convenient And I doe appoint my said Executo:rs to be the Guardians of my said younger Sonnes and to have the tuitonn and government of them and theire estates as well touchinge theire severallporconns in money hereby bequeathed ?paid for the profitts of such lands as I have conveighed to them And that in case any of my said younger sonnes shall prove refractory and shall not be advised and governed by my said Executo:rs Then I will that his legacie shalbe voyd, and the same to be devided amongst my other younger sonnes then livinge
ITEM whereas John Dulinge & John ?Roadestand bound to mee in one hundred and twentie pounds by obligaconn dated the Eight day of december in the fourth year of his Maties raigne for payment of threescore and tenne pounds upon the feast of the Nativity of our Daviour Christ wch shalbe in the yeare, One
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