MRP: Christopher Yardley will
Christopher Yardley will
PROB 11/307 Laud 1-52 Will of Christopher Yardley, Merchant of London 28 January 1662
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Christopher Yardley marchant of London being in perfect mynd and memory doe make this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following
FFIRST I bequeath my soule to the Almighty God of heaven and Earth who created mee and hath blest me to this day hopeing to receive mercy and foregiveness from him for all my sinns
NEXT my body to be desposed and buried att the discretion of my Executo:rs Rebekah Yardley my deare and Lovinge wife and Robert Yardley my onely sonne who I make Joyntly and severally Executo:rs of all my Estate What ever
AND to S:r George Blundell and to my daughter Elizabeth Blundell his Lady I give ffifty pounds to buy them mourning
IN WITNESS whereof I have here sett my hand and seale this Six and Twentieth day of september In the year of our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and one That in the second Lyne Two words as blotted out before the sealing of this
Chr. Yardley
Signed sealed and delivered with XXXX XXX XXX WalXXX Henry Jackson
PROBATUM FUIT Testamentum suprascriptum apud LondXXX XXXX XXXX vivo iatobo Masters Legum Doctore Surrogato ven:blis et EgreXX XX XX William MXXX Militis Legum etiam doctoris Curiae Prerogative XXX magno Custods save ComXX XXXX constututo viresimo oXXXXX die Mensis JXXXXX Anno due Mullimo Sixtcentesimo XXXsimo Primo Juramente Rebecca Yardley Relicta dete defuncti et Roberti Yardley ffily dele defuncti et ExXXXX in honXXX testo nominate Quibus Commisa fuit Administrand ead XXXX dei Evangelia Jurat.
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C 6/44/135 Short title: Yardley v Aldworth. Plaintiffs: Christopher Yardley. Defendants: Richard Aldworth. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1660
