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John Morewood will
PROB 11/204 Essex 53–107 Will of John Morewood, Gentleman of Oaks in Bradfield, Yorkshire 11 May 1648
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Et Executricis in eodem Testaments nominat Qui Domini Sea fuit Admini Sunto omnium et singulorid Bonorom furium et Creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fidelit Admini strondo endem ad Sancto Dei Evangelis furat Exe
And exe in same Will in the name of which Lord ? was ?administered will be all and singular Good ? and creditor said deceased for good and faithful adminstration to holy God angels
In the Name of God Amen The seventh day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1647 I John Morewood of the Okes in the Chapellry of Bradfeild and County of Yorke gent being sickly of body but of good remembrance praised be God therefore doe ordayne and make this my last will and testament in manner and forme following hereby revoking and making void all former wills and testaments whatsoever by mee made In wa?mis I commend my soule to God in the obedience and satisfaction of Christ Jesus my Lone Saviour And I will that my bodie shall be buried in the Chancell or Quire of the Church or the Chapell of Bradfeild aforesayd And I do nominate ordayne and make Gilbert Morewood my brother Rowland Morewood my eldest sonne and heyre Andrew Morewood my Sonne and John Marriott the elder of Oghill yeoman Executors of this my last will and Testament which sayd executors my will and mynde is shall from and after my decease ta?thes hereafter expressed and only upon trust and confidence to be disposed so in this my last will is appointed receave have take sue for and recouer all and every summe summes of money due to me or to any of my children hereafter named upon any bills bonds specialties and securities made to me or any of my children or without specialties And for the better enabling my sayd executors in that behalfe and upon the trust aforesayd I doe hereby devise give and bequeath to my sayd executors all my goods chattels and chattells moveable and unmoveable Alsoe my further will and mynde is that my sayd executors the survivor or survivors of them with the money to be receaved of and for such thinges as I have given to them upon trust and confidence shall pay or cause to be paid all such debts as I owe to any person or persons And shall discharge my funeralls Mortuarie and all things hereunto belonging and further shall
paye and discharge all legacies and bequests hereafter by me devised given or bequested to any person or persons And first I doe hereby give and bequeath the summe of Ten pounds of lawfull money to be bestowed towards releefe of the poore of the Chapellrie of Bradfeild to be distributed at the discretion of my sayd executors within one yeare next following my decease And I doe hereby further ratifie and confirm the deede by mee formerly sealed delivered and lawfully executed of all the Messuages Tenemts Lands grounds and hereditaments with the appurtences situate lying and being in Brough Thornehill and Hill in the County of Derby hereuntofore granted to me and to my heyres for ever by Gilbert Morewood and Andrew Morewood my brothers and by William Fox my sonne in Lawe three of the executors of Rowland Morewood my late brother deceased (whose right the sayd premises were to will by a condition shall the sayd last specified premisses after my decease unto Francis Morewood Gilbert Morewood Benjamin Morewood and Joseph Morewood of my younger sonnes and to their heyres and Assignes for ever as part of the Childs parts and portons of my sayd fower younger sonnes forty of my personall estate as in the sayd deede is alsoe mentioned
And my will and mynde further is for the fower younger sonnes forty of my sayd personall estate that whereas there was disbursed by me for the purchase of the sayd last mentioned permitted the summe of sixteene hundreth pounds that the sayd rate and price computed and rateath allowed foronde the Child fytes and persons of my sayd fower younger sonnes so will the summe if fower hundreth pounds to each of them my sayd trusted Executors shall paye to each of my sayd fower younger sonnes as he or they shall allay?? their seuerall and respecting ages of twenty five yeares soe much moneys more forth of my personall estate as shall make up the sayd fower hundred pounds rated in the price of the remitted to every of my sayd fower younger sonnes And the Cleere Rents and profitts of the sayd ?misses with meanes ?pace becoming due to each of my sayd fower younger sonnes (upon a fust ?trconyte by each of them to be given to my sayd Executors of all disbursements and charges in the in the meane space paid and disbursed about the?xremisses whereof noe benefitt accrued to the sayd fower younger sonnes) the summe of seaven hundred pounds to every of the sayd fower younger sonnes in full satisfaction and discharge of every their Childs fyle and person forty pf my personal estate and my will is that u sayd trusted Executors shall pay and satisfie to the sayd Francis Morewood my late deceased brother And I doe hereby further devise give and bequeath unto my sonne Antony Morewood five hundred pounds in full satisfaction & discharge of his filiall child syte and porton And unto my sonne Andrew Morewood three hundred pounds more in full satisfaction and discharge childsyte and porton And my will and mynde alsoe is and I doe hereby give and bequeath to Susan Morewood Mary Morewood Sara Morewood and Priscilla Morewood my daughters yet unpreferred in marriage to every of them five hundred pounds to witt soe much money to every of them as will make the bills and bonds and respectively taken in every of their names allready the sayd summes of five hundred pounds a peece for and in full satisfaction of their and every of their childsrants and portons And my will alsoe is that my sayd Executors shall pay to the sayd Susan Morewood my daughter the summe of one hundred pounds being a legacie to her bequeathed by the last will and testament of the sayd Mr Rowland Morewood my late deceased brother And I doe further give and bequeath to John Morewood sonne of Rowland Morewood my eldest sonne and heyre fortie shillings and unto Anne Foxe my daughter twenty Shillings in full satisfaction and discharge of her Childsparte and porton And twelve pounds more To her be by her bestowed upon her now sixe children And I give unto Grace Pickforth my daughter wife of James Pickforth twenty shillings in full satisfaction and discharge of her childshate and porton and forty pounds nire by her to be bestowed upon her ?siexefiece? children And to Elizabeth Stopford my daughter wife of James Stopford Tenn pounds in full satisfaction and discharge of her childsate and porton And I doe hereby make constitute and appoint my forenamed executors and the survivors of them to be guardians and Tutors unto my sayd children yet being in their minorities during the residue if their severall and respective minorities And my will and mynde us that sayd Executors and the survivor and survivors of them shall dispose and pinrsage the severall portons if my sayd children during their respective minorities to the best profitt if my sayd children during their respective minorities And my will and mynde is that the persons of my sayd daughters
shall be payd to them respectively as each of them shall accomplish their severall ages of one and twenty yeares or at the dayes of their severall and respective marriages whether shall first happen if every and each the sayd daughters respectively shall marrie by the advice and consente of the sayd executors or the survivor or survivors of them And it is my will and mynde that in case sayd executors shall perceive that the disbursements of my moneys for or on the behalfe of my sayd fower younger sonnes or any of them may conduce for the good? Of any of my sayd sonnes in their trademys? or other wife that upon such moneys as my sayd Executors shall soe disburse for any my sayd younger sonnes shall be allowed to my sayd executors in the mabeing? ex of the sayd seaven hundred pounds to each of them as aforesayd when they or any of them respectively shall attayne the age of twenty five yeares And my will is that twenty pounds be paid firth of my personall estate unto Rowland Morewood my eldest sonne and heyre being left as a legacie in my hands by Rowland Morewood my late deceased father and that they of iff thereof to will fower nobles yearly might be paied to the use of the poore people of the chapellrie of Bradfeild with sayd fower Nobles I have heretofore carefully paid and discharged accordingly And my will is that my sayd sonne and heyre shall miyleye the sayd twenty pounds and pay the sayd profitts thereof yearly as aforesayd and as is by? written by the last will and testament of my sayd deceased father And I doe further give and bequeath to Gylbt Morewood and Andrew Morewood my brothers be either of them tenn pounds And to every of their children twenty shillings in Gold for the buying of a gold ring for every of them And unto Andrew Morewood my sonne one of my sayd executors Tenn pounds as a legacie And unto John Mariott an other of my sayd Executors twenty shillings and to my Cosen Antony Morewood of Offerton five pounds and to my Cosen the wife of Godfrey Fogatt three pounds sixe shillings eight pence and to my Cosen the wife if John Harber? three pounds sixe shillings eight pence And to John Bullock sonne of John Bullock my brother in lawe twenty shillings And Unto my Cozens Reynald Eyre and Elizabeth Eyre to either of them tenn shillings and unto my Uncle Andrew Morewood twentie shillings if he survive mee And three shillings and fower pence to every servant who shall abide with me at the time of my death And it is my full will and mynde that if any of my sayd sonnes or daughters shall dye unmarried and having not received his her or their porton or portons that then the porton or portons of such sonne or daughter soe dyeing shall be devided equally amt the rest of my children then alive and which were not married And further I give unto my sayd eldest sonne and heyre as a free gift the summe of one hundred pounds in confidence reposed in him that he will deale soe kindly and respectively wit my children after my decease And all my Husbandrie geare of
wood and from the square table in the Hall two longe formes in the Parlour one great Chayre the greatest meate arke? One steep fatt and my gunne and it is my full will and mynde that wtsoever ambiguity doubt or question shall in any sorte arise teaching? any Clause or sentence in this my sayd last will and testament that the same be decided and determined by my sayd executors or the greatest parte of them or their survivors and the same to be taken to be my true meaning in that behalfe in witnesse whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seale the day and yeare first above written Memorandum That the words Tenn pounds in the second sheete were interhy noe before the sealing and was afterwards published and subscribed in the presence of Iohn Morewood
Richo Brodeley John Heyfurat Wm Molson
Probatum fuit testamentid suprascriptum apud London Curam dilecto Sub
Dito nostro Domino Nathaniele Brent Milshe legum doctore Curid Prerogative Mgro sine Custode Ultime constituto underimo die mensis May Anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo Octavo furamentis Rolandi Morewood et Andrew Morewood filisrum et duord Executorum in Testamento xisdco nominet Quibus Cemissa fuit Dominishaco omnia et singulord benord furia Et Creditora ditti defunti de bebe er fuete Domini shrando eadem ad sca dei Evangelia vigore ComMissionis in eagtra emanat inrate Referoata potostate Gilberto Morewood et Johanni MarRiott ceteris ex enitoribus in eodem Testamento nominat sum venerint seu eord alter penerit Eandem petitrm pri dobita furis admissum
- ↑ http://www.cotswan.com/johnmorewoodwill.htm, viewed 10/03/10
