Tools: PROB 11/296/306 Will of Humphry Hardwick, Merchant of London 08 December 1659
PROB 11/296/306 Will of Humphry Hardwick, Merchant of London 08 December 1659
Editorial history
14/04/14, CSG: Transcribed probate record and item posted to MarineLives-Tools wiki
Contents
Abstract & context
Digital Image
Suggested links
To do
Transcription
Humphrey Hardwick [LH MARGIN]
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
trhe first day of September in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand
six hundred ffifty and Eight I Humphry Hardwick of London Marchant
being I praise God in perfect health of Bodie and of sound minde
and memory: knowing that I must Certainly dye though undertaine
when doe make and declare this my last Will and Testament as
followeth (that is to say) ffirst and principallie I Committ and
Commend my Soule unt o the hands of Almighty God my Creatour
Redeemer and Sanctifyer the Holy and blessed Trinitie in Unity
The ffather sonne and Holy-Ghost Trusting only by the merritts of
my loving Saviour Jesus Christ to have free pardon of all my
Sinns and to inioy life everlasting And my Body to the Earth
from whence it Came which I appoynt according to the direc
=tion of myne Executors hereafter named) to be decently buried
in the parish Church of Much Hadham the County of Hertford
neare the bodyes of my ffather and Mother whoe lye there
interred And as touching such Wordly Estate as God of his
goodnes hath made mee Steward f in this life I give and dis=
=pose the same as followeth (videlicet) Inprimis I give and bequeath
all and every my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Hadham
aforesaid and elsewhere unto my loving brother Thomas Hardwicke
and his heries And I alsoe give unto my said brother Thomas
Hardwicke the summe of One Thousand pounds
Item I give and
bequath unto my loving brothers Jispeh Hardwicke Benjamin
Hardwicke and E[?ssex] Hardwicke the severall like Summes of
One
[NEW MANUSCRIPT PAGE]
One Thousand pounds a peece
Item I give and bequeath unto
Edward Hicks and John hIcks my sisters Children to be paid unto them
severallie and respectively when they shall have accomplished thire
severall and respective ages of ffower and Twentie yeares the severall
Summes of Two hundred pounds a peece And my will and mea=
ning is that in the meane tyme the same shall from time to tyme
be putt forth att interest by myne Executors and the Survivours and
Survivour of them att the Hazard of the said Edward and John And
that such interest be paid and disbursed for the maintenance and education
of them the said Edward Hicks and John Hicks:
Neverthelesse my
further will intent and meaning is that if either of them shall depart
this life before he shall have attained the said age of ffower and twenty
yeares Then the whole ffower hundred pounds shall be paid unto the
Survivour of them the said Edward and John when he shall have
attained to his said age of ffower and Twenty yeares and that in
the meane time the same shall be putt forth att interest as aforesaid
for the maintenance and education of such Survivour
Item I give and beq
Notes
Possible primary sources
TNA
Chancery
PROB
PROB 11/296/306 Will of Humphry Hardwick, Merchant of London 08 December 1659
