MRP: George Cock will
George Cock will
PROB 11/359 King 1-65 Will of George Cock, Merchant of Greenwich, Kent 03 April 1679
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04/12/11, CSG: Restructured headings
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Abstract & context
See Sir William Ryder will
See Sir George Smith will
See Charles Porter will (Not clear this is the correct will for George Cocke' s friend)
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Transcription
In the Name of God Amen
I George Cock of Greenwich in the County of Kent Merchant being Sickly and weake of body but of Sound and perfect mind & memory (thanks be to God for the same) doe make and ordaine this my last Will & Testament.
And first I humbly resigne my Soule into the hands of Almighty God my maker and Redeemer and my body to the grave to be decently Interred
And for my worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I devise the same in manner following
First I give and bequeath to my eldest Sonn John Gerrard Cock and his heires for ever both my Messuages and tenements in Broad Garth in the town of Newcastle upon Tyne now or late in the Severall tenures or occupations of Robert Johnson and Henry Watson or theire Severall assignes
ITEM my will and desire is that out of the rest of my estate, All my just debts should be paid and Satisfyed with as much Speed as conveniently may be
ITEM I give unto my said Sonn John Gerrard Cock Six hundred pounds And my will is that untill the said Six hundred pounds can be raised out of my estate and shall be paid to him my Executrix doe pay him the lawfull Interest thereof yearly by four quarterly payments at the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St John Baptist St Michael the Archangell and the birth of our Lord God by equal portions the first payment to begin and to be made at such of the said Feasts as shall first happen next after the day of my death, But if it shall happen my said Sonn John Gerrard shall dye within three yeares next and immediately after the day of my death then my will is that the said Six hundred bequeathed to him as aforesaid shall be paid & divided to & amongst all the rest of my children which shall be living at the time of his death by equall Shares and proportions
ITEM I give and bequeath to my said Sonn John Gerrard Cock Sixteen pounds a yeare to be paid to him by my Executrix by four quarterly payments in such manner and at such times as the Interest of the said Six hundred pounds is before limited to be paid to him Nevertheless my will and meaning is that the payment of the said Sixteen pounds a yeare shall be continued and paid to him during the life time of his Grandmother Mrs Joane Solomons now living and residing at Dantzick in Prussia and for six months after her death and noe longer For that my said sonne hath the expectation of a considerable livelyhood from and after the death of his said Grandmother and may then well Spare the said sixteen pounds a yeare
ITEM I give to my said sonn all my bedding Stools and other furniture which he shall have in his Chamber at the Temple at the time of my death, and I desire my Executrix to give him whatsoever else is necessary for his chamber and furnish him with convenient Linnen for his bed till he shall have continued eight yeares at the Temple from the time of his being entered and admitted into that Society During all which time I desire my executrix to furnish him with two handsome tablecloths one dozen of Napkins six Towells or as much more and whatsoever else my said Executrix & my friend Mr. Charles Porter shall think necessarily and conveniently fitt & decent for his Chamber to be used when he have occasion for the same and also a Silver Porringer & five Silver Spoons for his constant use
ITEM I give to my Sonn George Cock Seaven hundred pounds to be paid him at three severall yearly payments by equall portions within three years after my death the first payment to beginn & to be made at the end of the first yeare after my death, Nevertheless my will and meaning is that if it shall happen that my said Sonn George shall happen to dye before the end of the said three years next after my death that then such part of the said Seaven hundred pounds as shall not have become due and payable to him in his life time shall be paid to and divided amongst all the rest of my children by equall Shares and proportions
ITEM I give to my said sons John Gerrard Cock and Georg Cock all the debt which is due to me from Peter Van Prebends in Cassavia[1] which was in the Administration [Persia]
ITEM I give to my Sonn Mattew Cock eight hundred pounds to be paid or disposed of for his use as soone as my estate can conveniently be gotten in which I desire my Executrix and the overseers of this my will hereafter named to take part may be done with as much Speed as conveniently they can unless they shall think fitt to continue the said summe in my trade of Tanning which I conceive the best use can be made thereof if it shall please God to continue it amongst us
And whereas I have received two hundred & Seaventy pounds or thereabouts which was left and given to my said Sonn Mathew by his Godfather Mr. Mathew Wiem (?) my will is that the said two hundred & seaventy pounds be also paid to him over and beside the said eight hundred pounds
And my will is that out of the Interest of the said Eight hundred pounds & two hundred and Seaventy pounds & also of thirty pounds or thereabouts residue of the moneys given to my said Sonn Mathew by the said Mr Mathew Wiem still remaining in the hands of his Executors there be some convenient part or portion thereof paid to my deare & most loving wife for the maintenance & education of my said sonn Mathew which said part or portion of Interest to be paid for his maintenance & education my will is shall not exceed five and thirty pounds a yeare untill my said Son Mathew shall attaine to the age of five years and afterwards untill he shall attaine to the age of Sixteene years the part of the Interest which shall be paid & allowed for his maintenance and education shall not exceed fourty pounds a yeare, My will and meaning being that the rest and residue of the Interest of the said Severall Sums in all amounting to eleaven hundred pounds should be saved and reserved for the putting my said Sonn Matthew out to be an apprentice or else for his maintenance at the university when he shall be fitt to be sent thither
And if it shall happen that my said Sonn Mathew Cock doe dye before he attained to the age of one and twenty years then my will is that the said eight hundred pounds herein before bequeathed to him shall be paid to and equally divided betweene my Sonns John Gerrard Cock & William Cock
ITEM I give to my said sonn Mathew Cock all my books in case he attaine to the age of one and twenty years, But in case he dies before his age of one and twenty years then I give all the said books to my said Sonn William Cock
ITEM I give and bequeath to my youngest sonn William Cock eight hundred pounds which said eight hundred pounds I would have continued & used in my tanning trade so long as my Executrix & the overseers of my said Will shall finde it profitable, in case it shall please God to continue peace amongst us And Frances Hale my Tanner shall live
ITEM I give and bequeath to Robert Temple[2] & Mary Temple my sonn and daughter in Law to each of them fifty pounds a piece to be paid to them by my Executrix theire mother within one yeare next after my decease
ITEM I give and bequeath to my brother Philip Wheeler to provide some way of Livelyhood for himself twenty pounds And if my deare Wife his sister[3] shall aprehend & hope or believe that he will become Sober and carefull and she shall think fitt to continue my Tanning works she may send him to Limerick in Ireland and there employ him only to take care there be noe embezelment to oversee the workmen & Labourers that they Loyter not, to see all hydes bought and Leather Shipt out expertly weighed and to be a Cheque over Davis and the whole work
ITEM I give to Philipp Beaumont fourty pounds and also five pounds to buy him mourning and desire him to continue with my Executrix and to take the care of her business and the Management of his tanning trade which he is sufficiently able and knowing how to doe she allowing him what is fitting for that service which he knowes may be dispatcht in part of two dayes in every week, And if he continue a Single man and will live with her then I desire he may have his Dyet and Lodgings at her house
ITEM I give unto my said deare and Loving wife over and beside the moneys secured to her by a judgment acknowledged to Mr. Charles Porter in trust for her use and benefitt all my household goods and Stuffe of what nature or sort soever the same be except what I have before devised to my Sonn John (John sic.) Gerrard Cock And all my plate whatsoever desiring her if the times continue peacable that the moneys soe secured to her may be continued and employed in the tanning trade which is likely to bring her the best and greatest encrease for the same
And for the better and more certaine securing the profitts of the said Trade to the end my children may not loose the benefitt of theire severall Legacies before bequeathed to them and be thereby left destitute of a comfortable Subsistance I doe will and desire that all Adventures thereof till theire severall Legacies be raised and paid or secured to them or for theire use be from time to time ensured according to the Custome of Merchants in the Insurance Office in London
But if it shall soe fall out that there be warrs either with France or other Countries soe as a trade with them cannot Safely be managed and driven on then I doe desire that my Childrens money may be employed by way of Exchange which I conceive if well managed ay raise a much greater profitt than putting the same at Interest can bring to them
ITEM I give and bequeath to Letitia Porter[4] the daughter of the said Mr. Charles Porter and my Goddaughter fifty pounds to be paid to her at her age of Seaven years if she soe long live But if she happen to dye before she attaine to the age of seaven years then I give to Frederick Porter her Brother thirty pounds in case he be living at the time of her death
ITEM I give to my said Friend Mr. Charles Porter five pounds to buy him a Ring and to his wife and to Mrs. Whitton twenty shillings a piece to buy each of them a Ring
ITEM I give to my Lord Brouncker[5] to Mrs. Johns (?) and to Mrs. Anne Lyte twenty shillings a piece to buy each of them a Ring
ITEM I give to Mrs. Bortman [Check this is not an transcription error by me for Mrs Portman] Plutarch’s Lives and a decent hansome walking Cane which I would have my Executrix buy for her, I having long since promised her one
ITEM I give to my Uncle and Aunt Tindall fourty shillings a piece to buy each of them a Ring
ITEM I give to Mrs.Dobson and to every one of the maid Servants of Mr. Charles Porter twenty shillings a piece in case I shall happen to dye in London
ITEMI give to my maide Sarah Fifty shillings and to every one of the rest of my maid Servants of my house at Greenewich Fourty Shillings a piece
ITEM I give to old Dutch Margarett thirty pounds to beare her charges unto her own country she upon the receipt thereof discharging my Executrix of all Demands whatsoever which she can or may claime at the time of my death
ITEM I give to Mrs. Glanvill twenty shillings to buy her a Ring and to my Goddaughter Ann Glanvill the daughter of the said Mrs. Glanvill foure pounds to be disposed of for her use and benefitt by her mother as she shall think fitt
ITEM I give to Mr.Jonathan Prickman twenty pounds he dischargeing my Executrix of all Demands for Broakeradge or otherwise due to him to the day of my death.
And my will and desire is that I may be buried in the Parish Church of St. Peters Poore in London towards the Northeast part of that Church by my first wife Anna Maria Cock & to be carried thither in a Herse privately by night with about three or foure coaches & noe more I much disliking the Vanity of Publique Burialls
And if any of my friends to whom I have given Legacies shall make use of these Coaches to accompany my body to the Grave then I give to each of them that shall soe accompany me two pairs of Gloves & noe more nor would I have any more company to follow me to the grave
And I doe make and constitute my deare and loving wife Mary Cock Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and my good friends Mr. William Glanvill and Mr. William Porter overseers thereof to whom I give fourty shillings a piece and desire them to be aiding and assisting to my wife in the Execution and performance of this my will, And I desire my said wife to take theire advice in the management of that estate I shall leave
In Witness whereof to this my last Will and Testament contained in four Sheets of paper I have to every Sheet hereof sett to my hand and to the last Sheet my hand and Seale the ninetenth day of February in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred seaventy and eight and in the one and thirtieth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second over England
GEORGE COCK
Signed Sealed and published in the presence of
William Porter Thomas Swinnerton Hector Lane
Notes
Activities in Ireland
Short entry in DNB on GC
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TNA
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
C 6/196/24 Short title: Earl of Cardigan v Gower. Plaintiffs: Robert Brudenell Earl of Cardigan, Mervyn Touchet, William Talbott, Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Gilbert Crowch and Richard Coxeter. Defendants: John Gower, Charles Porter, Lettice Porter his wife, Edward Wainwright, Bartholomew Collingwood, William Sadler and others. 1671
C 6/550/295 Short title: Porter v [unknown]. First plaintiff: Sir Charles Porter. Defendants: [unknown]. Document type: bill only. 1690
PROB 11/359 King 1-65 Will of George Cock, Merchant of Greenwich, Kent 03 April 1679
London Metropolitan Archives
- ↑ Cassavia was XXXX. CHECK TRANSCRIPTION ACCURACY
- ↑ Presumably Robert and Mary Temple were the children of George Cocke's wife Mary, by an earlier marriage to XXX Temple. It is possible that his wife had been married to James Temple, a London merchant, who is identified as the second first party with George Cock in a charter party drawn up on November 1st, 1667, with Thomas Hobart (alias Hobard), the master of the William, as the second party (See C6/36/21 f. 1). George Cocke's first wife was Anna Maria Cock (née possibly Solomons), beside whom he wished to be buried in St. Peters Poore, London
- ↑ Presumably George Cocke's wife was born XXXX Wheeler, and subsequently married Mary Temple, was widowed, and then married George Cocke
- ↑ See C 6/196/24 Short title: Earl of Cardigan v Gower. Plaintiffs: Robert Brudenell Earl of Cardigan, Mervyn Touchet, William Talbott, Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Gilbert Crowch and Richard Coxeter. Defendants: John Gower, Charles Porter, Lettice Porter his wife, Edward Wainwright, Bartholomew Collingwood, William Sadler and others. 1671
- ↑ Lord Brouncker. Possibly Henry Brouncker, viscount Brouncker, of Sheen, Richmond, Surrey (see PROB 5/711 BROUNCKER, Henry, viscount Brouncker, of [Sheen in Richmond, Surrey] [Registered will: PROB 11/392] [Sentence: PROB 11/393] 1688)
