William Stonell
Prerogative Court of Canterbury will made: 29th April
1691
Probate Date: 14th May 1691
Proved by Martha Taylor & Sarah Peirson
National Archive Catalogue reference: PROB 11/404
The original document is in the custody of the National
Archives
Transcript
In the Name of God Amen the nine and twentieth day
of Aprill in the third yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord
and Lady William and Mary by the grace of God of England Scotland
France and Ireland King and Queene Defenders of the faith &c.
Annoq[ue] Domini one thousand six hundred ninety one I William
Stonell of Laighton Bussard in the County of Bedford Bricklayer
being sick in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be therefore
given unto Almighty God and calling to mind the uncertainety of
this present life doe therefore make and ordaine this my last Will
and testament in manner and forme following that is to say first
and principally I doe commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty
God my Creator hopeing assuredly through the only merritts of Jesus
Christ my Saviour and Redeemer to bee made partaker of Everlasting
life for my body I doe Committ the same to the earth in decent
manner to bee buried And for such worldly goods and estate as it
hath pleased Almighty God of his goodnesse to lend mee I doe give
will devise and bequeath the same as followeth Inprimis I doe give
will and bequeath unto Robert Nash my brother in Law of the parish
of Aston Clinton in the County of Buck[ingham] Husbandman the Sume
of ten pounds of Lawfull money of England to bee paid unto him
by my Executrixes out of my personall Estate within one yeare next
after my decease Item I doe give will devise and bequeath unto
William Nash my kinsman and sonne of the said Robert Nash my brother
in Law and to the Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes
of the said William Nash for ever All those my two acres of Arrable
Land by estimation bee they more or lesse with their appurtenances
which I late had and purchased of Richard Allen dispersedly lyeing
and being within the parish and feilds of Soulbury in the County
of Buck[ingham] and alsoe all that one yard of meadow ground with
th'appurtenances which I late had and purchased of Francis Whittchurch
and lying in the Parish of Hulkott in the said County of Buck[ingham]
to have hold and enjoy the said two Acres of Arrable Land and one
yard of meadow ground with their appurtenances unto the said William
Nash my kinsman his heires Executors Administrators and Assignes
forever or if the same premisses shall bee Leasehold then for and
dureing all such terme and number of yeares yett to come and unexpired
Item I doe give will and bequeath unto the said William Nash my
kinsman the summe of one hundred pounds of Lawfull money of England
to be payed unto him his Executors Administrators or Assignes by
my Executrixes out of my personall Estate within one yeare next
after my decease Item I doe give will and bequeath unto Thomas
Nash my kinsman one other of the sonnes of the said Robert Nash
my brother in Law the summe of fifty pounds of Lawfull money of
England to bee payed unto him his Executors Administrators or Assignes
by my Executrixes out of my personall estate within one yeare next
after my decease Item I doe give will and bequeath unto John
Nash my kinsman one other of the sonnes of the said Robert Nash
my brother in law the summe of fifty pounds of lawfull mony of
England to bee payed unto him his Executors Administrators or Assignes
by my Executrixes out of my personall estate within one yeare next
after my decease Item I doe give will and bequeath unto the Children
of the said William Nash my kinsman which shall bee liveing at
the time of my decease the summe of forty pounds of Lawfull money
of England equally amongst them to bee devided share and share
alike and to bee payed unto them or the Survivors of them by my
Executrixes out of my personall estate when and according as they
shall accomplish their severall and respective ages of one and
twenty yeares Item I doe give will and bequeath unto the Children
of the said Thomas Nash my kinsman which shall bee liveing at the
time of my decease the sume of thirty pounds of Lawfull money of
England equally amongst them to bee devided share and share alike
and to bee payed unto them or the Survivors of them by my Executrixes
out of my personall estate when and according as they shall accomplish
their severall and respective ages of one and twenty yeares Item
I doe give unto Oliver Taylor thelder of Laighton Bassard aforesaid
Glasier the summe of forty shillings of Lawfull money of England
to bee payed unto him by my Executrixes within one yeare next after
my decease Item I doe give will and bequeath unto Oliver Taylor
the Younger my Godsonne the summe of five pounds of Lawfull money
of England to bee payed unto him by my Executrixes out of my personall
Estate within one yeare next after my decease Item I doe give unto
Jane Goodes John Taylor Joseph Taylor Benjamin Taylor and Daniell
Taylor children of the said Oliver Taylor thelder the summe of
forty forty shillings a peice of Lawfull mony of England to bee
payed unto them or the Survivors of them when and according as
they shall accomplish their severall and respective ages of one
and twenty yeares by my Executrixes out of my personall Estate
Item I doe give unto Anne Peirson Thomas Peirson and Henry Peirson
children of William Peirson late of Leighton Bassard aforesaid
yeoman deceased the summe of twenty shillings a peece of lawfull
mony of England to bee paied unto them or the Survivors of them
when and according as they shall accomplish their severall and
respective ages of one and twenty yeares Item all the rest and
residue of my money goods Chattells and personall Estate whatsoever
unbequeathed my Legacies as aforesaid are xpressed and my funerall
expences there out deducted and discharged I doe give will and
bequeath unto Martha Taylor now wife of the said Oliver Taylor
thelder and Sarah Peirson of Leighton Bussard aforesaid widdow
equally betweene them to bee devided And I doe ordaine and make
the said Martha Taylor and Sarah Peirson to bee joint Executrixes
of this my last will and testament and I doe hereby revoke and
make void all former wills by mee made and doe pronounce and declare
this present to bee my last Will and Testament In witnesse whereof
I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale the day and yeare first
above written William Stonell his marke Sealed acknowledged and
declared in the presence of J[oh]n Ashwell Oliver Taylor Francis
Taylor Jane Gugges Mary Hogge
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