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Richard Holworthie will

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Editorial history

30/11/11: Created page and posted very incomplete transcription

Abstract & context

See Sir Mathew Hollsworthy/Holleworthy will

Transcription

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN The tenth day of October AnnoDom 1643. Anno ?13 regnin ?Rx Caroli xr. Xxr I Richard Holworthie marchant one of the Aldermen of ye Citty of Bristoll being sick in bodie but of sound & pfect memorie (thankes be given to allmightie god therefore) doe make & ordaine this my last will & testament in manner & forme following (that is to say)

ffirst & principally I commend my soule into the hands of allmightie god my most mercefull father & Creator hopeing to be saved only thoroagh the death & passion of Jesus Christ myne only Saviour and redeemer, & my body to thearth from whence it came to be layed in Christian buriall at y:e discrecon of my wife theare to remayne untill the resurrecon of the iust att w:ch tyme (as I stedfastly hope) the same shalbe raysed a body mortall & glorious and w:th my soule shall merit eternall life w:th my saviour & blessed Saunts & Angels

ITEM as touching such worldly estate as god of his great mercie hath given me I dispose thereof as followeth

WHEREAS I have by deed indented setled the estate of all such Mannors messuages lands tenem:ts & hereditam:ts whereof I am seized of any estate of inheritance or freehold amongst w:ch I have conveyed my dwelling house in Small streete in Bristoll to my wife for her life, the remaynder to certaine frends being the Overseers hereafter in these p:rsents named of this my will

Commentary

The Bristol alderman Richard Hallworthy is listed in an ordinance of May 1643

- For Bristoll, Richard Allworth Major, Ioseph Iackson, Hugh Brown, Sheriffs, Richard Hallworthy Alderman, Luke Hodges, Henry Gibbs.^[1]

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.

1. ↑ 'May 1643: An Ordinance for the speedy raising and levying of money thorowout the whole Kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales for the relief of the Common-wealth, by taxing such as have not at all contributed or lent, or not according to their Estates and Abilities.', Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (London, 1911), pp. 145-155. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=55812 Date accessed: 02 March 2011