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Will of Dame Dorothy BATHURST of Woodstock ex-GLS Lechlade
Will 15 Jan 1683/84 Codicil 15 Jan 1683/84 Probate 2 Apr 1684 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Probate 2 Apr 1684 London (PCC) ... John Cary the Executor ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Translated and paragraphed. with some of the standard preamble and "legalese" removed. Go to Glossary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
... I Dame Dorothy Bathurst now of Woodstock ... widow ... under some little distemper of body ...
Codicil 15 Jan 1683/84 (same day)
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the Fifteenth day of January In the five and Thirtieth year of the raigne of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles the second and in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred eighty three I Dame Dorothy Bathurst now of Woodstock in the County of Oxon Widdow being sensible of the uncertaine and fraile estate of mans life and of my owne condicion being under some little distemper of body at this present though blessed be God I am of sound minde and memory and of perfect knowledge and understanding Doe make this my last will and testament in manner following In the first place I humbly recommend my soule into the hands of my ever blessed God Assuredly trusting in his free grace and mercy in and through my gratious Saviour Jesus Christ to obtaine remission of all my sinns and finde everlasting happynesse and salvation my body I committ to the earth to be buried in a decent manner at the parish church of Spelsbury according to the discretion of my Executor And for the disposall of my estate I desire it may be as followeth First I give to Sir Edward Bathurst the summe of Tenne pounds And I give to Mrs Maria Bathurst Tenne pounds and I give to Mrs. Mary Cooke the daughter of my deare husband Sir Edward Bathurst deceased Tenne pound and I give to the foure other Daughters of my said deare husband which are Mrs. Gibbs Mrs.Orchard Mrs. Kingston and Mrs. Willett to each of them forty shillings to buy them Rings And I give to Mr. Thomas Cooke the sonne of the said Mrs. Mary Cooke the summe of five pounds And I give to my good friend Mrs. Mary Sayer Twenty pounds And I give to my brother Mr. Thomas Nash the summe of Thirty pounds And I give to Mrs. Margarett Lloyd and to Mrs. Katherine Terrell to each of them forty shillings to buy them rings And I give to my Couzen Mrs. Mary Dipple the summe of five pounds And I give to the poore of Lechlade the summe of five pounds and to the minister there Forty shillings I give to the poore of Woodstock where I now live forty shillings and to the poore of Spelsbury where I desire to bee buried fifty shillings And I doe appoint my Executor hereafter named to bestow upon my funerall expences the summe of Twenty pounds I give to Mr. Edward Loveden and his wife to each of them twenty shillings to buy them rings And I give to my servant Elizabeth Lovesey foure pounds and my wearing Apparrell linnen and woollen that I shall not otherwise dispose of by this my will And I doe further give to my good friend Mrs. Sayer my silver Cup and Cover that is now in her Custody and my greate Bible And I give to Mr. John Sayer her sonne my silver Tankard All my other little parcells of plate I give to my good friend Mrs. Margaret Lloyd and my bookes and my blacke satten petticoate and my Linnen that is not wearing Linnen I give to my good friend Mrs. Harford my black satten mantle and the new Screene and Table in my Chamber I further give to Mrs. Marya Bathurst my flowered satten petticoate and my black gawes petticote and my muffe and my allamode scarfe and Two paire of holland sleeves I further give to my good friend Sir Edward Bathurst my wedding ring And lastly I give to my good friend Mr. John Cary of Woodstock the summe of Twenty pounds And I doe ordaine constitute and appoint the said Mr John Cary the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament I doe hereby revoke all other and former wills by mee made whatsoever [ .two lines with no words ] In witnesse whereof I have to this my last will and Testament sett to my hand and seale the day and yeare first above written D. Bathurst signed and sealed and published to be my last will and testament in the presence of John Simmons John Lovesey Edmund Huckwell January 15th 1683 I further desire as a Codicill to my will to add this following I give to Mr Edward Bathurst of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge the summe of forty shillings to buy him a Ring D Bathurst Witnesse Edmund Huckwell John Simmons John Lovesey PROBATUM fuit huismodi testamentum apud London [ ..] secundo die mensis Aprilis Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo octogesimo quarto Coram venerabili et egregio viro Domino Leolius Jenkins Milite legitime Doctore Curie Prerogative Canturariensis magistro custode sive Commissario legitime constituto Juramento Johannes Cary Executoris in dicto testamento nominat Qui Commissa fuit Administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum dicti defuncti De bene et fidelitur Administrando eadem ad Sancta Dei Evangelia vigore Commissionus Jurate etc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||