The Document Chest
1694 Will of Jane Beale
Widow
In the name of God Amen
I Jane Beale of
Yeovill in the
County of
Somersett Widdow
being at present
sick and weake
in body but of
sound and
disposing mind
and memory doe
this third day
of July in the
Yeare of our
Lord God one
thousand six
hundred Ninety
Fower make and
declare this my
last will and
testament in
manner and forme
following (that
is to say) first
and principally
I com[m]end my
Soul into the
hands of
Allmighty God my
Creator
stedfastly
beleiving to
receive full
pardon and
remission of all
my Sinns through
the merits death
and passion of
my Saviour and
redeemer Jesus
Christ and to
bee made
pertaker with
him in life
everlasting in
the Kingdome of
Heaven and my
body I comit to
the Earth from
whence it came
to bee decently
interred at the
discretion of my
Executrix
hereinafter
named in
convenient time
after it shall
please God to
call mee out of
this vane and
transitory Life
And as for such
worldly as I now
am possessed of
I give and
dispose of the
same as
followeth First
my will is that
two hundred
pounds shall
remaine and bee
in the Hands and
custody of my
Executrix
hereinafter
named her
Executors or
Assignes to and
for these
following uses
(that is to say)
the lawfull
interest thereof
to and for the
use of my
daughter
Margarett for
and during her
naturall life
And if it shall
happen my said
daughter
Margarett to dye
without lawfull
issue of her
body then my
will is that
Fifty pounds
part of the said
Two hundred
pounds shall
then ymediately
bee paid to my
Granddaughter
Jane Barwick And
incase my said
granddaughter
shall not bee
then living then
my will is that
the said Fifty
pounds shallbee
and remaine to
my great
granddaughter
Jane Barwick her
Executors of
Assigns and
Fifty pounds
more to my
Granddaughter
Margarett Caine
and the other
one hundred
pounds residue
of the said Two
hundred pounds
to bee equally
divided amongst
my Five
granddaughters
unmarried but if
it shall happen
my said daughter
Margarett to
marry and have
issue then my
will is that the
whole two
hundred pounds
shall be paid to
my said daughter
Margarett Item
whereas my Sonn
in Lawe Mr
Morgan Lodge is
behind and in
arrears of the
Annuity hee owes
mee two and
thirty pounds
and tenn
shillings and
which was due
the Fower and
twentieth day of
June last past
tenn pounds
whereof my will
is shall remaine
and bee to my
Daughter Lodge
to buy her
mourning and the
remainder of the
said two and
thirty pounds
and tenn
shillings to my
Executrix Item I
give to my
grandson John
Came my Silver
Tankard Item I
give to my great
granddaughter
Jane Barwick
Five pounds to
bee paid her
within Six
monthes after my
decease and one
of my best
Holland Sheetes
to bee delivered
her within one
Month after my
decease Item I
give a Jacobus
peece of gold to
each of my
grandsonns John
and Thomas
Bealewith all my
[latine ?] books
to bee equally
divided between
them Item I give
to my said
daughter
Margarett my
wedding and
greene stone
rings with my
two truncks of
linnen now at
new house and my
best bed will
all the
furniture
thereunto
belonging Item I
give to my
Kinswoman Mary
Woodbury Forty
shillings Item I
give my
Neighbours Mrs
Austin and Mrs
Allambridge ten
shilling apeece
to buy them each
a Ring Item I
give to the poor
of the parish of
Yeovill three
pounds to bee
distributed at
the discretion
of my Executrix
And lastly all
the rest of my
goods Chattells
debts credits
ready money and
goods whatsoever
not herinbefore
given I hereby
give and
bequeath the
same to my
daughter Jane
Came Widdow whom
I make and
constitute sole
Executrix of
this my last
will and I doe
revoke all other
wills In witness
whereof I have
hereunto set my
hand and seale
the day and
yeare first
above written
Jane Bele
Signed sealed
published and
declared in the
presence of us
Samuel Gundry
Elizabethe
Howell
Proved
at London in
1694
Transcribed by Bob Osborn
