MRP: Philip Strode will

Philip Strode will

PROB 11/303 May Quire Numbers: 1 - 53 Will of Phillipp Strode, Merchant of Aleppo 20 March 1661

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo The twenty ffifth day of July in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred fifty and Nine doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament

FIRST I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and Redeemer confessing my manifold sinnes for which if god should enter into Judgment with mee I were never able to abide it ?But my onely prayer and hope is that God will pardon my sinnes through the meritts death and mediacon of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour into whose holy hands I Commend my spiritt besseching him to receive it to eternall happines my body I give to bee buryed in Christian Buryall decently accordinge to the rites of the Churche of England and pray to God to give mee a joyfull resurrection

my Worldy goods I dispose as followeth

FFIRST I give and bequeath unto my Brothers X M:r William Strode and M:r Nicholas Strode and my sister M.rs Elizabeth ??Hazlarkonden Twenty pounds stearlinge to each of them to buy mourninge

SECONDLY I bequeath and give unto my old ?Nurse Goodwife ??Gronestead Thirty pounds Starlinge and if shee bee dead to bee equally devided betweene her children

THIRLDY I give and bequeath to M:r Robert fframpton Minister in Aleppo one hundred ??Rix ??dollrs

FOURTHLY I give and bequeath to my brother in lawe M.r Richard Holworthie Thirty poundes Starxx to buy him mourninge

FFIFTHLY I give and bequeath to my deare sister M:rs Mary Holworthy one Third part of my estate my debts and the aforesaid legacies beinge first paid

SIXTHLY I give and bequeath to my sisters M:rs Rebecca ??Harvey and M:rs Anne Crisp one Thirde part more of my estate to bee equallie devided betweene them still provided that all my debts and legacies abovewritten bee first satisfied excepting that to my sister M:rs Mary Holworthy

SEAVENTHLY I give and bequeath to my Brothers M:r John Strode and M:r Edward Strode the remaininge third part of my estate to bee shared equally betweene them with the same provisoe misXXXXX in the foregoinge legacies (alsoe I desire that these my legacies may bee paid in two yeares time after my decease to the respective persons mentioned herein but if any of them should happen to depart this life before that this my will is that it shalbee equalie devided amongst their children But if they have no children That then it shall fall to my sister M:rs Mary Holworthy onely what legacies are to bee paid in Aleppo I desire then may bee satisfied immediately upon my death

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EIGHTLY I doe constitutre and ordaine M:r Thomas Stanton my Assigne and lawfull attorney to take into his possession all goods and moneys belonging unto mee either by consignacon or otherwise to dispose of these which are for principalls accompts according to their order received or hereafter to be received And for my proper estate in the Country to give accompt thereof to my Executor hereafter named and to follow his order the disposall thereof

Lastly I doe ordaine and appoynt my brother M:r Richard Holworthy my sole Executor of this my Will

In Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare aforesaid utterly renouncinge and avoydynge all other and former wills by mee made and establish this onely as my last Will and Testament being all written with my owne hand all contained in ffifty six lynes without any thinge interlyned or blotted out

PHILLIP STRODE

Signed and sealed in the presence of us

HENRY HUNTER JUN:R JOSPEH CAREW RICHARD ?SPRIGNEIL

ADDIITONS MADE BY MEE PHILLIP STRODE to my will above written in the yeare of our Lord 1660 Oct: 24

IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath to ?Naomn my warehouse man Twenty Ryals 8/8 and forgive him what he owes mee in accompt

SECONDLY I give and bequeath to George my Cooke Tenne Ryalls 8/8

THIRDLY I give and bequeath to my servant ??Naomn the younger Tenne Royalls 8/8

FFOWERTHLY I give and bequeath to Ramadan my ?sise tenn Royalls 8/8

FIFTHLY I give and bequeath to Abdalla ?M:r Sprigneils warehouseman five Royalls 8/8 provided hee first payes what hee oweth mee on accompt

SEAVENTHLY I give and bequeath to the poore of Aleppo Twenty Ryalls 8/8 and order it to bee distributed by M:r Robert fframpton

EIGHTLY I order M:r Thomas Stanton my Assigne to pay Naomn my warehouseman for one yeares washings Alsoe to pay George my Cooke and Naomn the younger what I owe them upon accompt These Addicons were all written by M:r Robert fframpton and acknowledged by mee Phillip Strode

The marke [Mark is reproduced in copy of will] Phillip Strode

Signed and sealed in the presence of us Thomas Betton Thomas ??Whaitop

FURTHER whereas it was my minde before I sealed those addicons to make M:r Hawly Bishop Joynt Assignee with M:r Stanton for all the purposes aforesaid Namely to take care of my whole estate with the estates of all my principalls to pay all the debts I owe and call in those which are owing to mee I declare by these presents that I doe constitute and ordaine the said M:r Hawley Bishop Joynt Assignee with M:r Stanton for the purposes aforesaid

Writt by the same M:r Robert fframpton and acknowledged by mee The writinge of Phillip Strode

M:r Phillip Strode

Signed and sealed in the presence of us Thomas ?Beton (Or Betcon) ?Ed: Bovey William Ashitie

WEE BENJAMYN LANNOY Consul for his Majestie of Great Brittain in Seria Palestina &c. Doe hereby ??conceive, whom it may concern that the writeing afore menconed is a true coppy of the originall last Will and Testament of M:r Phillipp Strode deceased and entered in our Consellarie at the request of M.r Thomas Stanton and M:r Hawley Bishop Merchants given under our hand and seale at our residence in Aleppo The Twenty Ninth of October one Thousand six hundred and Sixtie

BENJAMIN LANNOY

PROABTUM fuit Testamentum suprascriptum Apud London coram venerabili vire ??quilesimo Mericke legimi doctore Juria Prerogative Cant Magisters XXXXX comsarris legitime constituto diresimo die ??mensis Marty Anno dui iuxta ?Cursum Et computarornden  ?Stlia Anglicasa

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Millesima XXXXXXXXXXXX sexagesiXXX Juramento Richard Holsworthy Executoris in XXXX testamenta XXXXat XXX comissa fuit Administraco ommium et singularum bonorem XXXX et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fidliter Adminsitrand eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia in deXXX Juris XXXX Jurat x:r

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Notes

IGI

(1) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Richard Hollworthy, birth: abt. 1630. SPOUSE: Mary Strode Marriage: 16 FEB 1652 St Dionis, London Saint Dionis Backchurch, London

(2) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mary Strode BIRTH: 08 OCT 1632, London

(3) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mary Strode, birth 8 Oct 1632, London; chr. 16 Oct 1632, All Hallows Ch., London; Burial 1676; FATHER: George Strode MOTHER: Rebecca Crispe MARRIAGE 1: Essex Strode (sic), aft 1659, of London MARRIAGE 2: Richard Holworthy, 16 Feb 1652

(4) POSSIBLE RELATED RECORD: George Strode, birth abt. 1583, of Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire; death: 1663, ? London Marr. Rebecca Crispe, 11 Feb 1615, All Hallows Church, London, Middlesex; Burial: 2 June 1663, St James Church, Clerkenwell, Middlesex

(5) POSSIBLE RELATED RECORD: Rebecca Crispe, birth 1597, All Hallows Chur, London, Middlesex; chr. 17 Jul 1597, All Hallows Chur, London, Middlesex FATHER: Nicholas Crispe MOTHER: Rebecca Pake; SPOUSE: George Strode, marr. 11 Feb 1615, All Hallows Church, London, Middlesex

(6) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mathew Hollworthy, christ. 03 May 1659 Saint Olave Hart Street, London FATHER: Richard Holworthy MOTHER: Marie

(7) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Richard Holworthy Birth: 08 Jul 1660 Chr: 17 Jul. 1660 Saint Olave Hart Street, London

Mary Strode

"Essex Strode...married...Mary Strode, dau. of Sir George Strode, knight, and widow of Richard Holworthy; bur. in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London, 30 May 1676. Administration granted 7 June 1676 to her husband, Essex Strode. Will dated 14 May 1676 (P.C.C. 9 Hale) 20 January 1676/77, by her husband, Essex Strode. (see page 147)"

"Essex Strode, bapt. at Shepton Mallet. co. Somerset, 7 November 1646; mentioned in his father's will 10 June 1665; living 22 May 1688; M.P. for Stockbridge, co. Hants, 15 February 1689/90 and 16 March 1684/85 (see page 47)"

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Possible primary sources

TNA

C 6/112/88 Short title: Strode v Colwall. Plaintiffs: William Strode. Defendants: Thomas Colwall, Sir Nicholas Crispe kt, John Wood and Nicholas Strode. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: two answers. 1650
C 6/584/155 Short title: Strode v Crispe. First plaintiff: Strode. Defendants: Crispe. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]

C 9/403/282 Baily v. Strode and Clutterbucke 1657
C 9/405/4 Clutterbooke v. Strode 1658

C 10/4/38 Richard Culme v John Veale, Edward Moulton, Adam Strode and Moses Goodyeare: money matters, Devon 1647

PROB 11/145 Clarke 1-63 Will of Jeffery Strode, Gentleman of Shepton Mallet, Somerset 31 January 1625
ROB 11/213 Pembroke 110-156 Will of Sagweridis Strode, Clothier of Warmewell, Dorset 04 July 1650
PROB 11/267 Ruthen 311-358 Will of Anne Strode, Widow of Shepton Mallet, Somerset 11 September 1657
PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Sir George Strode of Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex 03 June 1663

PROB 11/373 Drax 52-101 Will of Sir Nicholas Strode of Chevening, Kent 30 August 1683