MRP: Humfry Browne will
Humfry Browne will
PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of Humfry Browne, Merchant of London 17 November 1670
Editorial history
29/11/11, CSG: Posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Humfry Browne was a brother of the SVJS subscriber Edyn Browne, and was father of the Smyrna merchant, Mun Browne
See Edwin Browne will
See Mun Browne will
Transcription
Humfrus Browne
IN NOMINE DOMM MEIVIT OMNE MALUM Strictly taken as very profane I will and doe begin In the Name of God Amen I Humfry Browne of London Merchant not weak in body (my age considered) but of good health and memory (Thanks be given to God) Doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following
FIRST I give and bequeath my soule to God that gave it And my body I Comitt to the Earth whereof it was made not doubting According to the Article of my ffaith at the great day of Resurrection to receive it again not a Corruptible and vile body as now it is But uncorrupt like to the glorious body of my Lord and our Saviour Jesus Christ
And as to the worldly Estate which God hath left and blessed me with I give and bequeath To the poor of the parish where I shall depart this life ffourty shillings
ITEM I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Boutra (?) my servant ffive pounds the bequest of my wife deceased and other ffive pounds my own Legacie In all Tenn pounds
ITEM I give and bequeath to my Cosen Giles Congreve ffive pounds the Bequest of my wife And other ffive pounds my owne Legacie in all Tenn pounds
ITEM I give and bequeath to my Nephew and Sonne in Law Mr John Congreve Twenty pounds The bequest of my wife and Tenn pounds my owne Legacie in all Thirty pounds
ITEM I give and bequeath to my Sonne in Lawe M:r Lawrence Loe Twenty pounds the bequest of my wife and Thirty pounds my owne Legacie, in all ffiftie pounds
ITEM I give and bequeath to my daughter M:rs Loe Twenty pounds mw wifes bequest and Thirty pounds my owne Legacie in all ffifty pounds
THE REMAINDER of my estate haveing paid my debts in my life tyme my burying duty discharged
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(which I desire may not exceed Twenty pounds) And Apothecaries Bill paid I doe give and bequeath unto my sonne M:r Mun Browne whom I make sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And doe appoint and constitute my Sonne in Lawe M:r John Congreve overseer And In Case I should depart this life before my Sonne returne into England To execute on his behalfe and to his onely use And if he should not live to returne (which God fforbidd) I make appoint and ordaine my foresaid daughter M:rs Loe to reteine whatsoever And all that I have bequeathed to my said good sonne Mun
AND now haveing given away soule body and all my Estate what remaines But to give the world an account of my ffaith And to witnes with me that I dye a sonne of the Church of England, in the ffaith and Religion of my fforefathers not because it was their faith but because their ffaith was the true natural and Appostolick Catholicke ffaith for Dxxxx and worshipp And for discipline and Example To all the reformed Churches of Christendome Because I had forgott it before I appoint my Executor to buy Eighty Gold Rings of Eight Shillings p Ring for Eighty ffreinds to be given att my buriall or otherwise as I shall hereafter direct in a list of their names
WRITTEN with my owne hand this seventeenth day of December Anno Dom 1668 The Twentieth yeare of the Reigne of King Charles the Second And of my Age the 78
Signed sealed and declared to be the last Will and Testament of me Humfry Browne
In the psence of Rxxxxx Mellnish (?) Ann Lucy Elizabeth Benton
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