MRP: Thomas White junior will
Thomas White junior will
PROB 11/342 Pye 53-118 Will of Thomas Whyte, Merchant of Porto 03 June 1673
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01/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
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Abstract & context
Thomas Whyte, merchant of Oporto, was the brother of Stephen White (alias Whyte) [junior] and a self-declared kinsman of Sir Stephen White. All three were merchants.
Thomas Whyte describes himself as Sir Stephen White's servant, and may well have been his Oporto factor. Stephen White [junior] was also involved commercially with Sir Stephen White.
Suggested links
See Sir Stephen White will ("my kinsman")
See Stephen White will (presumably also a kinsman)
See Oporto
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(1) Transcribe this will
Transcription
THOMAS WHYTE [Written in LH margin]
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Thomas Whyte of O Portto English Merchant being sicke on Bed But (by Gods grace enjoying my Perfitt sense) doe make this my Last Will and Testament Wherein I bequeath my soule to God my Creator Jesus Christ my Redeemer and to the Holy Ghost my sanctifier begging
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Pardon forall my most haynous sinnes and offences And doe Committ my body up to the yearth in hope of a Joyfull and glorious Resurrection Amen
IMPRIMIS To the most necessitated and vertuous people the poore of this Citty who shalbe well knowne to be of honest Reputacon) the somme of Twenty ?milreis The distribution whereof I leave unto the discretion of my Executo:rs
ITEM I give unto my Servant Isabell fferara the summe of Tenn ?Milreis
ITEM to my servant Grigorio Da Costa Tenn Milreis
ITEM to my English Servant Thomas Row The summe of Twenty Milreis
ITEM I give (as a Remembrance) unto my hon:ed and deare mother Twenty pounds Starlinge per Anno To be paid her in Colchester per my Executo:r during her life
ITEM I give unto my honoured Kinsman S:r Stephen Whyte Knight the summe of Tenn pounds Sterling desireing his worshippe to be pleased to weare a Blacke Cloake in Remembrance of his poor servant
ITEM I give to my Loveing Brother Stephen Whyte and my sister heaster his wife the summe of Tenn pounds Sterling each of them desireing them to ware mourning in Remembrance of their dyeing Brother
ITEM I give to my cousin Sarah Colburne daughter to my late sister Sarah Colburne deceased the summe of one hundred pounds Sterling To be paid att her day of marriage or at her age of Twenty one yeares which of them shall ffirst come And in case it should soe happen to dye before she should come to the tyme aforemenconned Then the said hundred pounds Starling to remayne unto my deare brother John Whyte English Merchant now Resident in this Citty O Portto Who I doe hereby Constitute and ordaine my true Lawfull and onely Executo:r and Administrato:r giveing and bequeathing unto him (as my sole heir) All goods Chattles shipps money wares householdstuffe debts That is and shall be found belonging unto mee giveing full power and authority to Recover all debts belonging to my selfe or Correspondents And haveing recovered Then to pay all debts lawfully demanded And that with the greatest speed That possible can bee
ALSOE I request my brother John White to give me an honourable Interment according to the Custome of this place And I desire my honoured ffreinds (Requesting them) Walter Morgan and Thomas Gill to assist my deare brother the abovesaid Executo:r in all that concenes this my Last Will and Testament And doe hereby give and bequeath to each of them Twenty Milreis in my Remembrance to weare mourning
AND I desire my aforesaid heire and Executo:r my Brother to accomplish this my will And doe for me as I deserne And in this manner I hold said will for ended
Dated in O Portto this ffifteenth day of Aprill In the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six hunded and Seaventy One And att the same tyme Signed by my hand and seale.
Signed and sealed in the presence of us Walter Morgan Edward ??Marcott Samuell Palmer Thomas Gill
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