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Description: | To his wife Selina and his mother, Jane Williams, all the house, yards, gardens and orchards at Denton where he dwells, to be equally divided between them and to be at their equal charge in maintaining the same, and six score couple of conies which he has paid out of his coney warren at Wyville, yearly to be divided equally between them. His wife is to have her part of the premises during her widowhood only, his mother to have hers for life.
To his wife the use of all the furniture in the chamber over the entry towards the east.
To his three younger sons, George, John, and William, £200 each at the age of twenty-one, and in the meantime they are to be educated and brought up at the cost of his executors.
To daughters Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and Jane £200 each at the age of twenty-one, and in the meantime to be educated and brought up at the cost of his executors. Residue of lands, tenements, and hereditaments in Denton, Wyville and Hungerton, and the reversion after the death of his mother and wife to cousin Beamont Pight of Denton, gent., and Thomas Stephens of Denton, husbandman, until testator's son Richard Williams or such other of his sons as shall be his heir shall attain the age of twenty-one. Such son to be allowed maintenance until he reaches twenty-one. The residue of the profits to be used for raising portions for testator's younger sons and daughters, and for paying for the wardship of his son to his own use. Provisions for ensuring the payment of the legacies to younger children.
His wood and timber to be kept until his son Richard is twenty-one, and not wasted. To cousin Beamont Pight 10 couple of grey rabbits to be paid yearly to him out of cony warren at Wyville until Richard Williams comes of age.
To Thomas Stephens and his wife the farm in which he lives, for their lives, after the death of testator's mother, Jane Williams, paying the rent which she paid, and then to William Stephens, their younger sons, for ten years.
To servant George Goarton, after death of testator's mother, the farm he now dwells in, paying the same rent, so long as he shall live there and do testator's son Richard service; also gives him his scottish falcon.
Other small bequests, some for rings.
To cousin Bennet Sherrard, testator's younger colt.
Son Richard Williams sole executor.
Probate at Lincoln. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 10 Aug 1627 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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