MRP: Sir Orlando Bridgeman will
Sir Orlando Bridgeman will
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronett this present Nineteenth day of ffebruary 1673stilo Anglia Anno Regnia Caroli secundi Regis viresimo Sexto revoking all Wills by mee made before the day of the date of these presents and most humbly recommending my Soule through the merry:s and mediation of
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Jesus Christ to God who gave it and my Body to be buried with Christian Buriall according to the Rites of the Church of England neare the place where I shall dye without Pompe and without any solemnity but such as is absolutely necessary doe make this my last Will and Testament as tocuhing that worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to intrust mee beseeching him for Jesus Christs sake to pardon all my sinnes in the acquiring mispending or not spending it or any part of it as I ought and to blesse what I have given or left to my Children in giving them Grace to use it aright to his service and Glory Amen.
WHEREAS upon my marriage with my deare wife I did agree to settle upon her Two hundred Pownds a yeare for her life and as part thereof I setled part of ?Wolvesarre house and demesne and ?Milns and since then I bought of the Earle of Leicester and his Lady the other Moyety which I also settled or did intend to settle upon her for her life My Will is that aswell the same premisses as also all my other Lands and Hereditaments in fflintshire and in Wigland in the County of Chester shall be a security to her for Two Hundred Powndes per Annum for her life free from all Taxes and other charges to be paid to her by my sonn Orlando or other Owner thereof for the tyme being half yearely
