MRP: Nicholas Cooke will
Nicholas Cooke will
PROB 11/344 Bunce 1-53 Will of Nicholas Cooke of East Greenwich, Kent 22 January 1674
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Abstract & context
The London merchant Nicholas Cook described himself as "Nicholas Cook the Elder of East Greenwich in the County of Kent Esquire," when he made his will in July 1673. He was eighty-three years old.
Sixteen years earlier he had been a subscriber in the SVJS
He was the father-in-law of William Buckeridge, whose ?brother, Nicholas Buckeridge, who was a frequent correspondent with Sir George Oxenden. His daughter, Elizabeth Cooke, had married William Buckeridge. When Nicholas Buckeridge returned briefly to Persia in late 1663, it was Nicholas Cooke who stood £2,000 security for him.[1]
Nicholas Cooke's house in East Greenwich was on East Lane West, where it was listed in the 1664 Hearth Tax returns as having thirteen hearths. Other East Greenwich residents who appear in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence include Benjamin Glanvill,[2] whose twelve hearth house was on Duck and Taverne Row, and XXX. Captain Cocke, a commercial partner of Sir William Ryder in his naval contracting work, lived on nearby Crane South, in a house with fifteen hearths.[3] Cocke was friendly with Glanville, and the two of them, together with another Glanville friend, John Fenn, often dined on Throgmorton Street with Sir George Smith, Glanville's brother-in-law.[4]
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Nicholas Cooke [in LH margin]
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN this ffifteenth day of July 1673 I Nicholas Cook the Elder of East Greenwich in the County of Kent Esquire being of perfect memory and undestanding In due Consideraton of human frailty being Eighty Three yeares of Age doe hereby make and declare this my last will and testament in manner following
FIRST, in all humility and devotion of a Contrite heart I heartily begg of God pardon and Remission of all my sins for and through the merritt and mediation of my alone Saviour Jesus Christ In this I hope I render up my soul with Comfort into the mercies of God the ffather through the merritts of God the sonn, in the Love of God the holy Ghost And I humbly pray that, most Blessed Trinity Our God to prepare me for and preferre me in that power of my dissolution And then to receive me to that Rest which he hath prepared for all them that love and feare his name Soe Amen Lord Jesu Amen ffor my body I leave to the Earth where it was taken in full assurance of the Resurrection of it This Resurrection I Constantly beleive my deare Saviour Jesus Christ will make happy to me his poore and weary servant
And for my burriall I leave it to my Executors discretion
ffor my worldly Estate I will my debts if any to be pressently paid
AND WHEREAS Nicholas Buckeridge Marchant stands bound to me and my sonne in Lawe William Buckeridge for the payment of ffive hundred pounds The debt is due to me And I have receaved Two hundred pounds thereof I give the said Remaining debt Together with two hundred pounds more out of my personall Estate To my daughter Elizabeth Buckeridge to her own use and dispose not doubting of her husbands allowing her soe to doe
ITEM I give to my said sonne in Law and daughter Elizabeth Buckeridge his wife during their naturall lives and the life of the longer liver of them All those my Three parcells of Lands with their appurtanencies conteyning by estimaccon Thirteen acres of there abouts lying and being in the parish of Stepney in the County of Middx now or late in the tenure
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Tennc:e or occupaccon of Richard Hopper or of his assignees And also my Two Messuages or Tenements with their appurtenances scituate in Sething Lane in the parish of St Olaves Hartstreete in London the one in the Tenure of Armold Griffith and the other in the tenure of [space left blank in will] Phillips or their severall assignees
ALSOE all that Messuage or Tenement with thappurtenances scituate in ffiday streete London knowne by the signe of the ffryar and now in the tenure of [space left blank in will] Deering or of his assignes And from and after their decease I devise the same all before given them unto such oldest sonne of my said daughter as shall be then living after their deceases and to his heires for ever
ITEM I give to every one of my Grandchildren one hundred pounds a peece to be paid unto the sonnes att their severall and respective ages of one and Twenty yeares if they shall attaine to such age and not otherwise And to the daughters att the age of Eighteen or day of Marriage ffirst happening and not otherwise
ITEM I give and bequeathe unto my daughter in Lawe Anne ?Tooker widow for and during the terme of her naturall life one Annuity or yearly Rent of Tenn pounds of Lawfull English money And to my Neece Elizabeth Abbott widow for and dureing the terme of her naturall life the like Annuity or yearly Rent of Twelve pounds of like money the same severall and respective Annuities to be issuing receaved and taken out of all those my Twenty and Eight Acres of meadow or pasture ground or thereabouts and the Stable and Cow house with the appurtenances thereupon standing lyeing and being att Mile End in the parish of Stepney aforesaid now or late in the tenure or occupaccon of John Wright or of his assignes And to be paid unto them respectively and severally by Quarterly payments att the ffoure most usuall ffeasts of St Michaell the Archangel the Birth of our Lord God the Annuntiaton of the blessed Virgin Mary and the Nativity of St John the Baptist or within one and twentye dayes next ensueing every of the said ffeasts by even and equall portons The ffirst payment to begin at that ffeast which shall ffirst happen after my decease if either of them shall then be liveinge or within one and twenty dayes then most following with power of distresse according to Law upon failure at any tymm
ITEM I give and bequeath unto the said Elizabeth Abbott tenn pounds in money And to her daughter Archer and her husband tenn pounds a peece
ITEM whereby Robert Browne deceased husband to my neece Elizabeth Browne also deceased By his will amongst other things gave and bequeathed unto his sonne William Browne three score and tenn pounds of lawfull English money And to his daughter Mary Browne fforty pounds of like lawfull English money And to his daughter Anne Browne fforty pounds of like lawfull money for all whose respective education and maintenance I have been att Charges yet without defalcation or abatement I will that my Executor shall with their portions make up and pay unto each of them (vizt.) unto William Browne one hundred pounds unto Mary Browne one hundred pounds And unto Anne one hundred pounds Besides one hundred pounds more due unto her from me as Administratrix of John Browne her brother lately deceased In all two hundred pounds to the said Anne And I will the said Respective summs to be paid unto them (vizt) To William Browne att his age of one and twenty yeares And to Mary and Anne att thier Respective dayes of marriage or age of one and twenty yeares ffirst happening
ITEM I give and bequeath to Roman Price Six Pounds
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Pounds thirteen shiilings and ffoure pence of lawfull English money And I give to his two daughters Mary and Susan Threescore pounds a peece to be paid unto them respectively when they and either of them shall attaine one and twenty yeares or be married ffirst happening
ITEM I give to St Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke and to Bridewell Hospitall London ffifty pounds a peece in money to be paid within one yeare after my decease If I shall not after the date of this my will give it in my life tymm
ITEM I give to my late servant ?Jane Stevens ffive pounds in money
ITEM I give the summe of ffive and twenty pounds in money To be distributed according to the discretion of my Executor And the vicar Doctor Plume Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore of the parish of East Greenwich aforesaid (vizt) To ffoure score poore men and women of the said parish and two shillings six pence to twenty poore people of the Queens Hospitall within the said parish And the other ffifty shillings amongst the other poore people there
ITEM whereas I had an interest in a Lease of certaine Landes held from Jesus College in Cambridge which is now enjoyed by my sonne in Law William Buckeridge and his wife I doe give and bequeath unto them all my right tith and Interest therein
ALL my Reall Estate unbequeathed Charged as above I devise and bequeath to my sonne Nicholas Cook and his heires for ever
AND I give unto him All the Residue of Personall Estate my debts Legacies and ffunerall Expenses ffirst discharged And I make him my full Executor of this my last will and testament And I doe hereby revoake all former wills and bequests whatsoever
IN WITNESS whereof I have to each side of Paper subscribed my name and subscribe for sett my seale the day and yeare about written
NICHO: COOKE
Acknowledged by the Testato:r to be read by him And then sealed Subscribed and Published to be his last will and Testament in the presence of us
FFRANCES PRIMROSE
MAR: ?COTTLE
MEMORANDUM I doe herby make this as a Codicill To be Annexed to my Will and that whatsoever I shall hereby take from my will or whatsoever I shall hereby add or give to any person shall be performed as my will And ffirst I give unto Doctor Plume ffive pounds for to Preach my ffunerall sermon and for mourning.
NICHO: COOKE
In the presence of us
PRIMROSE
MAR: ?COTTLE
MEMORANDUM whereas the said deceased after the date of his will and before his death desired his sonne to pay unto St Thomas hospitall the summe of ffifty pounds towards the Reliefe of the poor there And to the Hospitall of Bridewell ffifty pounds more Both which somes were by his sonne paid in the said deceaseds life tyme according as he desired And when he had notice that both the somes were paid he the said deceased declared in the presence of the witnesses hereunder subscribed That the same moneys were in full of the same sommes given by his will And his Executor to be lyable to pay noe more
WM: BUCKERIDGE
Signum ANNA BROWNE
PROBATUM FUIT
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Notes
Possible primary sources
TNA
See PROB 4/14279 Cooke, Nicholas, of St. Gyles without Cripplegate, Mdx. 1675 16 July
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 16, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 713), in Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford (1922), pp. 366-367
- ↑ Benjamin Glanville was a long term resident of Greenwich. A son of his was buried at the old church of Greenwich in 1656, and it was from Greenwich that he addressed a letter dated July 20th, 1672, to Joseph Williamson, the Secretary of State. See also March 1662/63, Letter from Benjamin Glanville to Sir GO
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