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-==Richard Holworthie will==
+'''Richard Holworthie will'''
 PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Richard Holworthie, Merchant, Alderman of Bristol, Gloucestershire 09 December 1645 (See also PROB 11/100 Montague 44-83 Sentence of Robert Holworthie of Bridgwater, Somerset 02 December 1602)
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 The Bristol merchant and former mayor of Bristol, Richard Holworthie, was the father of Sir Mathew Hollsworthy, the London based merchant and a major subscriber in the ''SVJS''.  The Holworthie/Hollsworthy family came originally from the port town of Bridgewater in Somerset.
 See [[MRP: Sir Mathew Hollsworthy/Holleworthy will|Sir Mathew Hollsworthy/Holleworthy will]]
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+===Alderman & mayor===
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 "Richrad Holworthie (Holworthy), sheriff, 1621-1622: mayor, 1635-1636: Master of the Merchant Venturers, 1635-1636: died, October, 1643 (Beaven, ''Bristol Lists''). In 1632 he was one of the two representatives sent by the Merchant Venturers to the Council to oppose proposals to regulate the French trade.  The Society's correspondence shows that it was not entirely satisfied with the way its representatives handled its case (McGrath, ''Merchant Venturers'', p. 209 ff).<ref>Married to James Croft, former factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 3, p. 145</ref>
 The Bristol alderman Richard Hallworthy is listed in an ordinance of May 1643
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 Note that Edward Ash was one of the commissioners for Wiltshire named in the same ordinance, and that Sir Basil Dixwell and Sir George Sands were named for Kent.
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-'''James Croft (alias Crofte), son-in-law'''
+===James Croft (alias Crofte), son-in-law===
 "James Crofte was admitted to the freedom of Bristol as a merchant on 17 November, 1631, as the apprentice of Mr. Richard Holworthy (''Burgess Book'', 1607-1651, fo. 210v).  He was admitted as a Merchant Venturer on 20 April, 1639 (McGrath, ''Merchant Venturers'', p. 41). He was Treasurer of the Merchant Venturers, 1647-1648 and sheriff, 1650-1651."<ref>Married to James Croft, former factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref>

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	'''Alderman & mayor'''		'''Alderman & mayor'''
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		+	"Richrad Holworthie (Holworthy), sheriff, 1621-1622: mayor, 1635-1636: Master of the Merchant Venturers, 1635-1636: died, October, 1643 (Beaven, ''Bristol Lists''). In 1632 he was one of the two representatives sent by the Merchant Venturers to the Council to oppose proposals to regulate the French trade. The Society's correspondence shows that it was not entirely satisfied with the way its representatives handled its case (McGrath, ''Merchant Venturers'', p. 209 ff).<ref>Married to James Croft, former factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 3, p. 145</ref>
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	The Bristol alderman Richard Hallworthy is listed in an ordinance of May 1643		The Bristol alderman Richard Hallworthy is listed in an ordinance of May 1643

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 ITEM  I give to my daughter ??Cam twenty pounds
-ITEM I give to my daughter Croft<ref>Married to James Croft, fromer factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref> xx:li
+ITEM I give to my daughter Croft<ref>Married to James Croft, former factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref> xx:li
 ITEM I give to all my grandchildren ten pounds a peece to be payed to y:e sonnes at their age of one & twenty yeares respectively and to y:e daughters at y:e age of xxiij:th yeares or day of marriage respectively as shall first happen
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 ITEM I give to my Man ??Arnby five pounds, To my mayd Susan three pounds, and to my other maid servant?s ffortie shillings
-ITEM I give to my sonne Mathew Holworthie my XXX scabberd w:ch I had when I was Maior
+ITEM I give to my sonne Mathew Holworthie<ref>The future Sir Mathew Hollsworthy, London merchant, who was a major subscriber to the ''SVJS''. See [[MRP: Sir Mathew Hollsworthy/Holleworthy will|Sir Mathew Hollsworthy/Holleworthy will]]</ref> my XXX scabberd w:ch I had when I was Maior
 ITEM I give to my sonne Thomas Holworthie my white mare
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 '''James Croft (alias Crofte), son-in-law'''
-"James Crofte was admitted to the freedom of Bristol as a merchant on 17 November, 1631, as the apprentice of Mr. Richard Holworthy (''Burgess Book'', 1607-1651, fo. 210v).  He was admitted as a Merchant Venturer on 20 April, 1639 (McGrath, ''Merchant Venturers'', p. 41). He was Treasurer of the Merchant Venturers, 1647-1648 and sheriff, 1650-1651."<ref>Married to James Croft, fromer factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref>
+"James Crofte was admitted to the freedom of Bristol as a merchant on 17 November, 1631, as the apprentice of Mr. Richard Holworthy (''Burgess Book'', 1607-1651, fo. 210v).  He was admitted as a Merchant Venturer on 20 April, 1639 (McGrath, ''Merchant Venturers'', p. 41). He was Treasurer of the Merchant Venturers, 1647-1648 and sheriff, 1650-1651."<ref>Married to James Croft, former factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref>

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 ITEM  I give to my daughter ??Cam twenty pounds
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+ITEM I give to my daughter Croft<ref>Married to James Croft, fromer factor of Richard Holworthy (Patrick McGrath, ''Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol'' (XXXX, 1955), fn. 4, p. 147</ref> xx:li
 ITEM I give to all my grandchildren ten pounds a peece to be payed to y:e sonnes at their age of one & twenty yeares respectively and to y:e daughters at y:e age of xxiij:th yeares or day of marriage respectively as shall first happen
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 The Bristol alderman Richard Hallworthy is listed in an ordinance of May 1643
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 Note that Edward Ash was one of the commissioners for Wiltshire named in the same ordinance, and that Sir Basil Dixwell and Sir George Sands were named for Kent.

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	Note that Edward Ash was one of the commissioners for Wiltshire named in the same ordinance, and that Sir Basil Dixwell and Sir George Sands were named for Kent.		Note that Edward Ash was one of the commissioners for Wiltshire named in the same ordinance, and that Sir Basil Dixwell and Sir George Sands were named for Kent.
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 ITEM I doe ordaine and appoint my loveing frend M:r Richard Long Alderman and my sonne in Lawe M:r James Crofte and my loveing firend M:r William ??Yeomans gent to be overseers of this my last will & testam:t & to be assistant to myne executrix in the execucon thereof as alsoe in the breeding of my children that they may be vertuously brought up in the feare of god, and to dispose of them in such callings as shalbe fittest for them w:ch I desire them to performe  And I give them as a remembrance towards their paynes twenty nobles a peece;
-All the rest & residue of my goods chattles
+All the rest & residue of my goods cattlles chattles moneys debts & other estate not herein before given or bequeathed my debts & legacies being payed and funerall expence discharged I will shalbe devided into ten equall parts whereof I will that my Wife shall have two of the said parts and myne eight children viz:t Mathew Richard John Thomas Joseph Nathaniel Samuel & Sarah to have each of them one of the sayd ten parts, And I will that the parts belonging to my X younger children not yet of age shalbe imployed and disposed for their good by my wife dureing her widdowhood in such manner as myne Overseers or the greatest number of them shall approve of; But after her
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