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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 to my said daughter Hannah Bulwer for the terme of her naturall life And after her decease I will and appoint that the same shall remaine and come equally to and betweene the daughte rof my said daughter Hannah Bulmer now lyving and such child or children whereof or wherewith my said daughter is now ensenite and with child and the heires of the bodyes of the said daughter and child or children of may said

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daughter in equall proportions But in case of the death of any of those children of my said daughter Hannah Bulwer without issue then the whole to remaine to the survivor of those children and the heires of his or her body And after the determinacon of those Estates I give the said premisses to all the children of my said daughter Hannah Bulwer which shall be lyving at the time of her decease and the heires of theire bodyes issuing And for default of such issue To the heires of the body of my said daughter Hannah Bulwer lawfully begotten

And for defalt of such issue Then I give and devise my said Messuage in William Sharkeleys possession to my said cosen George Gardiner and the heires of his body aAnd for default of such issue to my owne right heires forever

And as to the said messuage wherein I now lyve and my said Lands in Hertfordshire after the determinacon of the estates thereof by mee herein before given I charge the same with the payment of Six hundred pownds to the Two daughters of my said sister Jane Beane Mary ?Evetson and Sarah Beane in equall proportions which I will shall be raised out of the same and paid to them accordingly And so charged with the said Six hundred Pownds I give and devise the same to myTwo Nephewes George Papley and Peryer Paplex and the heires of theire bodyes in equall proporccons And for default of such issue To my owne right heires forever

ITEM I will that my mannor and Lands in Montgomeryshire in Wales purchased by mee in the names of Henry Boswrth M:r Hartshawe and M:r Beane shall be sold by my Trustees at the direction of my said Executrix and the moneys thereby raised I Give to my said Executrix to be at her owne disposition But I pray hereto dispose of somuch thereof as shee shall think good betweene her Mother M:rs Pearce and her brother M:r Edward Pearce and his Childrena nd her brother M:r John Pearce and his children in such prroporccons as shee shall think fitt leaving it wholy to herself what part thereof shee will so dispose and to which and how many of them and in what proportions shee pleases And I further declare that what peeces of Gold moneyes medalls rings Jewells or other things of that nature I have formerly given to my said wife is not to be accompted or looked upon as my personall Estate or any part therof nor to be inventaried as any part thereof I having given them and doe hereby give and confirme them to her to and for her owne use and proper benefitt forever

And I revoke all former Wills by mee at any time heretofore made declaring this to be my last Will and Testament

IN WITENES whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale and also putt my seale to the Labell wherewith theseffower sheets of Paper wherein my Will is conteyned are affixed together the Seaventeenth day of August 1670:

Geo: Peryer

Signed sealed and published by the above named George Peryer as his last Will and Testament in in the p:rsence of ffr Pemberton Hen: Bosworth Him: Harthaws Joseph Beane

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