MRP: Thomas Finch will
Thomas Finch will
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Thomas ffinch of London Merchant being in perfect health minde and memory thanks be to God therefore and calling to minde the fraile estate of mankind and now especially that I am agoeing a Journey and yoyage into Ireland and to prevent any Law suites or difference that may arise betweene my relations about the disposeing of my estate which God of his infinite mercy Hath been gratiously pleased to give mee in this life I doe therefore declare this to bee my last will and Testament and Committing my Soule to God who gave it trusting in the meritts of my Blessed Saviour Christ Hesus to obtaine odon for all my Sinns and to see my God in the Land of the Liveing my body I Committ to the earth to be decently buried as my Executors shall thonke convenient, and them whom I desire to take this trouble and to see that this my will be complied with is my Brother M:r George ffinch and my nephews M:r Henry and M:r Thomas ffinch whom I appointed my Executors viz:t
ITEM I give to my brother M:r Geo: ffinch Two hundred pounds
ITEM to my brother M:r William ffinch his Children viz:t Henry Thomas Anna Maria and Samuel ffinch One hundred pounds each to buy them A diamond Ring a peece with this motto (MEMENTO MORI)[1]
ITEM I give unto my Brother M:r Henry ffinch his Children being five in number whose names I doe not perfectly know, One hundred pounds a peece
ITEM I give to my good sister M:r Geo: ffinch his wife ffifty pounds for a ring and her two daughters Mary and sarah, One hundred pounds a peece
ITEM I give to my Ant Bowing and her Two daughters Twenty pounds a peece
ITEM I give to my Cus: Henry sadler Twenty pounds and to Cus: Jer: ?Elsing Tenne pounds
ITEM I give to my Loveing Couz: Mary ffinch and her two daughters Tenne pounds a peece
ITEM I give to my Neice Margaret
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Maiher Twenty pounds
ITEM I give to the poore of the parish of Barking Twenty pounds
ITEM I give to the poore of the citty of London and the prisons thereof one hundred pounds to bee distributed as my executors shall see convenient
ITEM I give to my good freind Mr: ffran: Penr?ice Twenty pounds for a ring
ITEM I give to M:r Robert Abdy Tenn pounds for mourning
ITEM to M:r Smitsone five pounds
ITEM I give to my owne servants and to my Brother Geo: ffinch his serv:ts that are with him at this time Twenty shillings a peece
my iust debts which are but few and small with my funerall charges I desire may with all puctualitie bee discharged and then the remainder of my estate which I hope will be very considerable I give the one halfe thereof to my bro: Geo: ffinch and the other one halfe to my nephews Henry and Thomas ffincg this I designe as my last will and testament untill I can have more time to draw it out in a better forme
London the one and twentieth September One Thousand six hundred seaventy nine
ITEM I give to my bro: Geo: ffinch his Child with which his wife is now very bigg One hundred pounds
ITEM I give to Doctor Pelling Tenne pounds
THO: ffinch
15: Aprilis 1686
WHICH day appeared personally Robert Smythson of S:t Giles Criplegate Merchant aged about ffifty six yeares and Jeremy Elsing of S:t Buttolphs Bishopsgate London Merchant aged about twenty wight yeares and by virtue of their Oaths did depose that they very well knew Thomas ffinch of London Merchant deceased and were very well acquainted with his Character and mannor of writing haveing often seen him write and that haveing now seene and perused the will of the said Thomas ffinch deceased hereunto Annexed and considered of the Character and manner of writeing thereof They doe verily beleeve in their conscience that the same is all wrote with the proper handwriting of the s:d Thomas ffinch deceased
ROBERT SMYTHSON JERE: ELSING
PROBATUM fuit hummoi testamentum Londini Coram venti viro
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- ↑ Thomas Finch's brother, William Finch, made a similar request in his will: "ITEM I leave Fiftie pound to be laid out in Twentie rings to be given to my principall Factors with this motto: MEMENTO MORI" (William Finch will)
