MRP: Richard Holworthie will
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 and to their heyres upon trust & confidence to be by them XXXned & sould and the proceed thereof to be imployed 6 disposed to and amongst my children by such parts and porcons and in such manner & forme as I by my last will & testam:t should limitt & appoint I doe therefore give 6 devise my said house & p.rmisses to my said Overseers and their heyres after my wives decease and doe hereby limit & appoint y:t yf my wife shalbe content to ioyne in the sale thereof & shall soe ioyne that then shee shall have to her owne use the moyetee or one half of the moneys & consideraccon for w:ch the same house shalbe soe sold and theother moetie or half part shalbe equally devided amongst my eight children herein after named to have each a pte of y.e remainder of myne estate. But yf my wife shall rather choose to keepe the said house for her life, and soe not ioyne the sale, then I limit & appoint that the moneys & consideracon to be had by myne overseers for the said house by the sale thereof shalbe by them devided equally amongst my said eight children
ITEM I give to my wife the remainder of the terme w:ch I have to come in the eight part of the ?pcell XXX to taken in the port of Bristoll and the remaynder of my terme of yeares in knoll farme, And alsoe I give to her all my householdstuff & all her rings XXXes & jewekks & ornam:ts of her
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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.
- ↑ '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
