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George Peryer will

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See Thomas Massam will (Thomas Massam and George Peryer were scriveners, and former servants of Sir Martin Noell)
See Martin Noel will (Sir Martin Noell mentions George Peryer in his will)

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, This is the last Will and Testament of mee George Peryer of London Esquire concerning my estate reall and persoanll wherewith it hath pleased God to blesse mee

IMPRIMIS I doe declare that I have fully advanced my daughter Bulwer with a great and considerable Portion by mee given to her in marriage with her now husband and therefore shee nor her husband are not to expect any thing more out of my Estate by the Custome of the City of London

In the next place I doe declare my intentions to be and I hereby charge my Executrix herein after named to see the same accordingly performed that all my debts by mee iustly owing shallbe truly really and honestly paid and in case through any unexpected Accident which God forbid my persoanall Estate should not prove effectuall and sufficeint to pay the same I hereby in the first place subiect my reall Estate and lands of Inheritance to make such payments good as to what my personall Estate should so fall short and therefore appoint my wife to make sale of such part of the Inheritance of my reall Estate as shee shall think fitt for the supply of what my personall Estate by such Accident should fall short to pay of my debts

And after my debts paid I leave my wife to take such share of my persoanll Estate as shee by the Custome of the City of London whereof I am a freeman ought to have And out of the residue of my personall Estate I give these Legacyes following

That is to say I give and bequeath to my daughter Bulwer the summe of ffower hundred Pounds which I entreat her husband that shee may have the sole dispose of and that it may be applyed to such purposes and for such uses as shee by any writing under her hand shall direct and appoint

ITEM I give ato her husband my sonn in Law Edward Bulwer Esquire the summe of One hundred Pounds

ITEM I give and bequeath to my ffower sisters M:rs Margarett Hunt M:rs Jane Beane M:rs Elizabeth Leach and M:rs Rachell Papley the summe of

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ffyve and Twenty Pounds a peece Viz:t To each of them ffyve and Twenty Pounds

ITEM I give to Thomas ?Piarre my brother in law Tenn Pounds

ITEM I give to my Cosen George Gardiner ffyfty Pounds which I have formerly promised to give him

ITEM I appoint my Executrix to lay out ffyfty Pounds in binding out my Cosen George Papley an Apprentice to some good Trade and to lay out Tenn Pounds or so much thereof as shee (sic) shall think fitt in clothing him for that purpose when he shall be fitt to be bound out

ITEM I give and bequeath to my Cosen Anne Pearce daughter of my brother Edward Pearce Tenn Pounds as a Legacy from mee over and above what my wife shall think fitt to allott her out of the moneyes arising out of the sale of my estate in Montgomery shire here in after mencconed

ITEM I will and appoint that my Executrix shall lay out fforty Pounds in binding out my Cosen Edward Pearce sonn of my brother Edward Pearce an Apprentice to some good Trade

ITEM I give and bequeath to M:r Henry Bosworth Tenn Pounds And I give to Humphrey Hartshawe Joseph ?Beane and Daniell Alford ffyve Pounds a peece viz:t to each of them ffyve Pounds

ITEM I give to M:r Thomas Cole Minister of the Ghospell (sic) Tenn Pounds

ITEM I give to my Brother in law M:r William Papley and to M:r Joshua Peryer the summe of ffyfty Pounds to be disposed of by them amongst the poore People of Godalmine in the County of Surrey where I was borne in such manner and to such of them as they shall think fitt

ITEM I give to the Poore of the Parish of Saint Margaretts Lothbury where I now lyve the summe of ffyve Pounds To be distributed to such of them and in such manner as my wife shall think fitt

ITEM I give to my loving wife Alice Peryer the summe of ffyfty Pounds to be disposed of by her in such manner to such persons and in such proporccons as I shall direct her And I declare my will to be and doe hereby direct that my funerall and interment shall be private in the Parish Church of S:t Margarett Lothbury where I now lyve and that there shall be no Pomp at my funerall nor no Rings given to any person or persons All the rest and residue of that part of my personall Estate which I have to dispose of after my Legaces paid I give to my most deare and intirely beloved wife Alice Peryer whome I make the sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament And I appoint the said Henry Bosworth to be Overseer of this my Will

And as to my Lands Messuages Tenements and Hereditaments wherein I have any estate of Inheritance Saving allwayes the Charge which I have thereupon laid in case there by any such Occasion as aforesaid towards the payment of my debts I dispose thereof in manner following

That is to say I give and devise to my said loving wife Alice Peryer for the terme of her naturall life my Two houses in Lothbury in the City of London. In the one of which I now live and inhabitt and the other of them is in the occupacon of one William Sharkerley And also all my ffarme and Landes in Marston in the County of Hertford and all other my Messuages Lands and Tenements in the City of London and County of Hertford wherein I have any Estate of Inheritance And after my said wifes decease I give the same messuages Lands and Tenements

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