MRP: Charles Porter will
Charles Porter will
PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Will of Charles Porter, Gentleman of London 31 December 1688
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It is unlikely that this will of Charles Porter, gentleman of London, is that of Charles Porter the lawyer, who corresponded with Sir George Oxenden.
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In the name of God Amen
I Charles Porter of London in the County of Middlesex Gent. Being of perfect mind and memory but considering the uncertainty of this life doe make this my Last Will and Testament in forme following
And First I Commend my Soule into the hands of Allmighty God my Creator trusting through the meritorious passion of Jesus Christ to receive remission of my sinns and Eternal salvation
And my body I Commit to the earth to bee decently buried by my Executor hereafter named desiring my Body may be buried at Islington Church neare my late deare mother Anne Fitzherbert
And as concerning my Temporall Estate consisting cheifly in money to the value of thirteene hundred pounds and somewhat more late in the hands of my Uncle Robert Bretton deceased and more in the hands of the Executors of my said Uncle Robert Bretton my mind and will is and I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Nicholas Bretton sonne of the said Robert Bretton the summe of fifty pounds to bee paid at his age of one and twenty yeares
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Elizabeth Bretton daughter of the said Robert Bretton the summe of fifty pounds to be paid at her age of one and twenty yeares or day of marriage which shall first happen
And if either of the said Nicholas or Elizabeth die before his or her respective age or day of payment of his or her fifty pounds then the fifty pounds of him or her soe dyeing to bee paid to the longer liver of them two
And if both the said Nicholas and Elizabeth shall die before the dayes of payment of the said legacyes that then the said legacyes shall bee void and sink into the estate of my Executor hereafter named
Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing Aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Kempson widdow the summe of One hundred and fifty pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen William Kempson the summe of fifty pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Katherine Kempson the summe of one hundred pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Anne Kempson the summe of One hundred pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Robert Bretton sonne of my Uncle Richard Breton hereinafter named the summe of One hundred pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Elizabeth Windon the summe of One hundred pounds
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen William Windon the summe of fifty pounds to be paid at their respective ages of one and twenty yeares or dayes of marriage of the said Elizabeth Windon and William Windon which shall first happen
And if either of them shall happen to die before the said age or dayes of marriage that then the said fifty pounds of him or her soe dyeing shall be paid to the survivor And if the said Elizabeth Windon and William Windon both die before the said dayes of payment of the said legacies that then the said legacies shall be void and sink into the estate of my Executor hereinafter named
Item I give and bequeath unto my loveing and kind father in law William Fitzherbert Esq unto my Uncle Richard Breton and to my said loveing Aunt Elizabeth Kempson and unto my Aunts Eliz Breton widdow and Maria Adriana Breton wife of the said Richard Breton tenn pounds unto each of them to buy mourning
Item I give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Wood my sisters Anne Fitzherbert Martha Fitzherbert Frances Fitzherbert and Mercy Fitzherbert and to my said Cozens William Kempson Katherine Kempson and Anne Kempson unto my said Cozens Nicholas Breton and Elizabeth Breton and Robert Breton to each of them twenty shillings to buy rings in remembrance of mee
Item I give and bequeath unto my Cozen Thomazine Windon unto Madam Christian Derney Anthony Fitzherbert Gent. And his wife and unto the Minister of the Towne where I am buried to each of them tenn shillings to buy rings to weare in remembrance of mee
Item I give and bequeath to Alice Severne five pounds
Item I give and bequeath to my servant Thoms Pegg twenty pounds if living with mee at the time of my decease
Item I give and bequeath to the Poore of the Towne where I am buried the summe of five pounds to bee disposed of as my Executor shall thinke fit
All the rest and residue of my estate after my debts funerall chages and legacies aforesaid paid and discharged I give and bequeath unto my Uncle Richard Breton
And I doe nominate and appoint my said Uncle Richard Breton sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
And I doe hereby revoke all former Wills by mee at any time heretofore made
In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the twenty eighth day of November in the third yeare of the Reigne of our Soereigne Lord James the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith etc. Anno Domini One thousand Six Hundred Eighty Seaven.
Charles Porter
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by mee above named Charles Porter as for my last Will and Testament
In the presence of Edwin Wiat, John Allen, John Steed
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C 6/168/57 Short title: Graves v Marsh. Plaintiffs: William Graves. Defendants: Richard Marsh, George Marsh, William Goldsbrough and Charles Porter. Subject: property in Limehouse, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1664
PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Will of Charles Porter, Gentleman of London 31 December 1688
