MRP: John Riccard will
John Riccard will
Editorial history
03/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted completed transcription
Abstract & context
See Sir Andrew Riccard will (predeceased brother of John Riccard)
Transcription
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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 tomy sonn Will: Riccard Mary Riccard and Christopher Riccard after the expirationof three yeares and not before and on XXXX 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 Exxxx 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
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