MRP: William Pennoyer will
William Pennoyer will
PROB 11/335 Duke 1 - 53 Will of William Pennoyer of London 13 February 1671
Will of William Pennoyer Part I
This present Five and twentyeth day
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of May Anno Domini 1670 and in the Two and Twentyeth year of the raigne of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the second of England etc. I William Pennoyer Esq. Citizen and Clothworker of London haveing attained to a competent worldly estate and haveing noe children being desirous to make provision for Martha my dear and loveing wife daughter of John Jozcelyn late of Hidehall in Sabridgwoorth in the County of Hertford Esquire deceased and absence of my kindred And being now in good health of body of sound and perfect memory and understanding doe make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following First I give to Twenty of the parish of Whitechappl Twenty shillings apeece to be paid to such Godly honest and industrious persons as shall be thought fitt att the discretion of Richard Loton Esq Mr George Scott Mr John Wills and Mr Peter Gale or the Survivors of these And I give to every one of the Almoners in the drapers almshouses in Cronshed fryers (?Crutched Friars CHG) London (being about Tenn or Twelve men) Ten shillings apeece Item I give to William Bridge the loir (?lawyer CHG) at great Yarmouth Ten Pounds and to Mr William Greenhill of Stepney Twenty pounds and to Mr William Loton Twenty pounds and to his two sonnes John and Walter Tenn pounds apeece and to Mr Froysell of Clun in the County of Salopp Twenty pounds and to Mr Fowler Five pounds and to Sir [FIRST NAME MISSING IN ORIGINAL] Collins Ten pounds Item I give Forty pounds viz. Forty shillings a peece to Twenty poore Widdows whereof Mr Bridge and Mr Greenhill to name two apeece and Martha my wife and Mr Richard Loton to name the rest Item I give and bequeath to my loveing freinds Sir William Thompson and Sir William Ryders lady and Mr Middleton and to Elizabeth his wife (daughter of the said Sir William) Maurice Thomson Esq. Richard Loton Esquire and his wife and Edward Loton their sonne John Bathurst Esq. John Jolliff Esq. Michaell Daveis Esq. Mr Joseph Dewey and his wife Mr Samuell Crisp Mr Anthony Wilson Mr Benjamin Andrews Mr. Chas. Palmer Mr Benjamin Albin and Leonard Bates Scrivener Tenn pounds apeece for Rings to weare in remembrance of mee And I also ask that other mourning may not be Item I give to Elizabeth the wife of the aforesaid Richard Loton Esq. Tenn pounds Item I give to my Brother Joscelyn Esq Tenn pounds and to Samuell Desborow Esq. Twenty pounds and to Rose his wife (the late wife of my brother Samuell Pennoyer) Twenty pounds Item I give to my servant John David One hundred and fifty pounds of lawfull money of England Expecting and requireing that he be assisting to my wife and Executors to ?bring in my estate and he to have his Sallary therefor Item I give and bequeath to William Wale Twenty pounds stg. And to my Tennants Mr Holins Edmond XXXXX and Goodman Weber ? Three pounds apeece if they be liveing upon my Lands at my decease Item I also bequeath unto Elizabeth Cleese my kinswoman now wife of James Bray of the parish of Ashford neare Ludlow Three hundred pounds XXXXX and only a receipt under her owne hand to be a good receipt for the summe and to be wholly at her owne disposal And I give to the said John Cleese her husband fifty pounds Item I give to my Kinsman Pennoyer Cleese sonne of the said Elizabeth Two hundred and fifty pounds of lawfull money of England And I give to his brother Samuell Cleese Two hundred pounds of like money And to Elizabeth Cleese their sister Two hundred pounds of like money To be paid to the Sonnes at their respective ages of Two and Twenty years And to the daughter at her like age or marriage first happening And the income and profitt thereof till due (att the rate of five percent per annum) shall be paid to such as have the administration of them towards their better maintenance and education or towards the bynding of them out apprentices Att the discretion of my Executors or the survivor of them And if any of the said children shall dye before such age or marriage respectively The part or parts thereof of him or her or them soe dyeing to be paid equally to the Survivors and survivor of them
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Item I give and bequeath unto Thomas Edes (eldest sonne of my kinswoman Isabell Edes) the summe of Four score pounds of lawfull money of England And I give unto each other of the children of the said Isabell One hundred pounds apeece of like money To be paid to the sonnes and daughters and the Survivors of them with the interest thereof and the aforesaid legacyes are to be paid to the children of Elizabeth Cleese And I further Will and order the summe of Twenty pounds to be paid by my Executors for the putting out or Towards placing of Samuell and Richard (two of her sonnes) apprentices Item I give and bequeath unto David Butler of Dorson in the County of Hereford yeoman Fower score pounds of lawfull money of England And to his two daughters Fower score pounds apeece of like money To be paid to them and the Survivor of them with the interest thereof as to the children of the aforesaid Elizabeth Cleese Item I give and bequeath to Evan Butler of Cusopp in the County of Hereford Seaventy pounds And to his sonne Walter now at New England and to each other of his children Threescore pounds apeece of lawfull money of England which with the profitts thereof I order to be paid as the legacyes given to the children of the aforesaid Elizabeth Cleese Item I give unto Thomas Butler sonne of Thomas Butler late of Cusopp deceased Sixty pounds and to his other sister Elizabeth Twenty pounds and to their sister Mary Sixty pounds And to their sister Jane Seaventy pounds which I Will shall be paid with the profitts thereof as the legacyes is given to the children of the aforesaid Elizabeth Cleese Item I give to William Butler late of the Citty of Hereford Twenty shillings Item I give and bequeath to Toby Butler one of the children of John Butler late of Dorson aforesaid deceased Sixty pounds, to William Butler another of the children of the aforesaid John Butler Fifty pounds And to their brother Thomas Butler apprentice to one Williams a Tayler Seaventy pounds and to their sister Mary One hundred pounds to be paid unto them and the survivors of them with the profitts thereof in such manner as is before appointed to the children of the aforesaid Elizabeth Cleese Item I give and bequeath to Katherine Butler alias Roberts sister of the foresaid Evan Butler Five pounds to be paid to her own hands and her receipt to be a good discharge for the same All and every of the said severall persons of the Surname of Butler being of my kindred And I release and forgive to every of them and to all other of my own kindred and my wifes kindred Except John Hyat Stiller all such summe and summes of money as any of them shall owe unto mee at my decease Item I Will and order that the summe of eight hundred pounds shall be laid out in the best goods and merchandise fit for New England which I suppose to bee Woolen cloth and other woollen comodities and linnen All which I desire may be bought and provided by Mr Henry Ashurst Draper Mr John Langley Mr John Joliffe and Mr Benjamin Albyn or any two of them and my Executors to allow them two percent for their paines and noe more And I order the same to be sent over to the Corporation for the propagation of the gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America to be served for the purposes hereinafter mentioned And the Masters bills of ladeing of the shipps wherein the same respectively or any part thereof shall be a sufficient discharge therefore to my Executors and who shall send the same For I am not Willing to adventure the whole in one shipp And my Will is and I doe order my Executors to pay all the freight Customs and petty charges for the same here in England for the better improvement thereof at New England aforesaid for the present intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned viz To the intent and purpose that the value of Eight hundred pounds Ster. in goods and comodities of that Country may upon sale thereof be delivered to Robert Pennoyer of Stamford in New England
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for the equall use and benefit of himself and both of his children equally and indifferently part and part alike giving good security to the said Corporacion for the intent as shall be due to his said children To be paid to them and the Survivor of them To be paid at their respective ages or marriages as the legacyes given to the children of the foresaid Elizabeth Cleese And further to the intent and purpose That what shall be made thereof above the said Eight hundred pounds value in the comodityes of that country shall be and remain to his Syster Elianor Reading and her husband Thomas Reading and all the children of the said Thomas and Elianor shared equally and indifferently part and part alike And my Will is that the legacyes given to the children of the said Elianor shall be divided as the legacyes given to the children of the said Robert Pennoyer And my further Will is that such XXXXX as is shall be paid for the maintenance of the children of the said Robert Pennoyer and Elianor Reading respectively Item I give to my kinswoman Anne Cruse wife of Richard Cruse near Dorson abovesaid Seaventy pounds and her receipt under her hand shall be a good discharge for the same Also I give unto her sonn One hundred pounds which with the proffitts thereof I order shall be paid unto him att his age of Two and Twenty years And my Will is that he be putt apprentice with part of the proffitts thereof to some Trade Item my Will and meaning is that if any of the children of the foresaid Elizabeth Cleese Isabell Edes or any of my said kindred of the Syrname of Butler or of the said Anne Cruse Robert Pennoyer or Elianor Reading be of the age of Two and Twenty years (or marriage being daughters) at the tyme of my decease Then the legacyes given to them shall be paid to them respectively so soon as conveniently may be after my decease Item I declare my Will and meaning is And I do hereby appoint that the severall legacyes afore have been given to or appointed for the childrens minority shall soe soone as conveniently may be be advanced by my Executors and putt to some of the Twelve thrift companyes of London Or to any other Companyes of the said Citty att the discretion of my Executors or the Survivor of them att five percent or something lesse if my Executors see can so or upon other Mortgage or other security By such XXXX as my Executors or the Survivor of them shall think fitting which Security respectively shall be a full discharge for the same to my Executors if any XXXXX losse or casualty happen thereby or thereupon Item I give and bequeath to William Pennoyer late servant to Mr Richard Davison the summe of One hundred pounds if he be liveing at my decease Item I give the summe of One hundred pounds to be paidinto the hands of the Overseers of the poore for the time beeing of the parish of great St Hellens in London to bee by them putt out and imployed on good security for the reliefe of Three poore housekeepers there for ever Item I give and bequeath to the foresaid Martha my loveing wife All my plate Bedding Linnen brasse pewter household stuffe and implements of household in my now dwelling house or elsewhere and all my printed books and I the said William Pennoyer the Testator doe by this my last Will and Testament declare that I have already voted And I doe hereby fully and absolutely and utterly revoake and voyde all and every thereof and also trusts and confidences by in and for me reposed or settled to in or upon any person or persons whatsoever for or concerning all or any my Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements of hereditaments By any forme Will Deed or deeds of settlement or trust whatsoever And I doe hereby declare all and every the same deeds and writings to bee for the sole use of mee the said William Pennoyer my heires and assignes for ever absolutely that soe all and every my said Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements and hereditaments and and the rents and proffitts thereof aand of any part thereof respectively may remain and be sold paid and disposed of according to the true meaning of this my last Will and Testament That is to say First I give devise and bequeath unto the said Martha my wife from and immediately after my decease for and during the term of her naturall life All and every my freehold and copyhold Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever within and without the Dominions of the King of England Item I give devise and bequeath to the said Martha my wife her heires and assigns for ever All that the Farm with the house Lands Tenements and hereditaments thereunto belonging situate and being in the parish of Pulham St Mary in the County of Norflk
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now in possession of Robert Moore or his assigns lett to him att yearly rent of Fowerscore and Sixteen pounds per annum (out of which there is about Five pounds per annum issueing or payable And haveing surrendered the copyhold to the use of my Will) to the intent and purpose that the said Martha my wife by and with the consent of the maior part of my Executors and Overseers hereafter named or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the heires of the Survivor may sell the reversion thereof from and after her decease (and not otherwise) for the best proffitt thereon And I desire her to take such their consent for the improvement thereof And I will and order that the consideration to be contracted or received for or upon such sale thereof shall be paid wholly to the said Martha my wife for her own use or to whom shee shall by Will or writing under her hand and seale give or appoint the same desiring her thereout to remember her owne kindred And I leave her only and freely to her owne self to remember any of my kindred or others thereout as she pleases Being my desire to impose nothing upon her against her will Only my Will and meaning is noe one other person shall have above Three hundred pounds thereof that soe it may doe good to severall And my further Will and minde is that the rents and proffitts thereof till such sale shall be paid to the said Martha my wife her heires and assigns Which gifts and legacyes soe given as aforesaid to my said wife I doe declare to be in full satisfaction of all such dower claims and demands which she can or may have or happen by the Custom of England or of the Citty of London or otherwise in or unto all or any my Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements Hereditaments goodes thatt shasll be leased or personall estate whatsoever in any manner or wise Provided alwaies nevertheless that in case my said wife shall not freely accept thereof in full a aforesaid But shall declare her dislike in writing within One Month next after my decease Thus my Will is my said wife shall have only her dower or thirds in my landes for her life And in such case my will and mind is that the said Farme and premisses in the posssession of the said Robert Moore shall be sould for ever For raising money for payment of legacyes given by this my Will and in such case I give and devise the said Farme Landes Tenements and Hereditaments in the possession of the said Robert Moore unto Richard Loton and Michaell Davison of London Esq and their heires and assignes forever In trust to be sold accordingly as soone after my decease as conveniently may bee and my further Will is that rents or proffitts thereof shall come to any of their hands untill such sale shall be imployed accordingly And that in such case alsoo the other two third parts of the rents and proffitts of all my other Mannors Messuages Landes Tenements and Hereditaments as shall be paid in her life time to my Executors ffor or towards payment of pecuniary legacyes any thing eforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding And frrom and afte the death of the said Martha my wife Then as for and concerning the mannor or Farme called Vanners in the County of North (Norfolk) and the landes Tenements and appurtenances thereto belonging being Freehold being now lett by two severall leases the one to Mr Homes and the other to Edmond Meyes being both together of the yearly value of Two hundred ninety and Two pounds thirteen shillings and fower pence sterling in the whole and also For and concerning my fifteenth part of the Mannor of Pulham wuth the proffitts of Courtwood and tymber thereunto belonging As also for and concerning all other my Messuages Landes tenements and hereditaments in the said County of Norflk which are lett to Robert Moore at the rent of Fower and Forty pounds per annum I give devise and bequeath the same fully and wholly to Sir John James, John Bathurst John Jolliffe Richard Loton Tempest Milner William son of Sir John Langly Henry Ashurst Michaell Davison XXXX Warner Esq Mr Samuell Crispe and Mr Benjamin Albin of London Merchant their heires and assignes for ever with the XXXX and GXXXXX remainders rentes yssurs and proffitts of the same from and after the decease of the said Martha my wife In trust nevertheless and to
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William Pennoyer will transcript Part 2
to and for the severall uses intents limitations and purposes hereinafterlimitted and appointed that is to say First to the intent and purpose that Forty and One pounds per annum shall be paid from and after the decease of the said Martha my wife out of the rents and proffitts of Vanners and the lands and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto Richard Aldworth Esq Robert Vick Timothy Parker Richard Christmas Reginald Tucker Jeremy Holloway Thomas Snoopeworth Richard Cutherington Merchant William Grigg Tanner and James Freind Grocer all of the Citty of Bristol their heires and assigns forever for the uses following viz Ten pounds per annum to a Schoolmaster to teach Schollars in St Leonards parish or elsewhere in Bristoll for his maintenance for the teaching of about Twenty of the poorest boyes (fatherless if it may be) of the said Citty or libertyes to read the bible and read and write and cypher And ten pounds per annum to a sober old widdow to watch poore fatherless children there And sixteen pounds yearly to a lecturer to preach once in every week Which I desire may be Mr Paull in his lifetime And the remaining five pounds per annum to the poore of the said parish of St Leonards for ever And further to the intent and purpose that Twenty and Two pounds yearly shall be paid for ever after the death of my said wife to the poore of the said parish of St Leonards for ever And further to the intent and purpose thatTwenty and Two pounds yearly out of the rents and proffitts of Vanners to Two Widdows further such as shall be grave sober and pious viz to either of them Ten pounds apeece for themselves for teaching of about Twenty poore children ? apart in or near Whitechappel all of them to bee between the ages of foure and eight yeares old which children I order to bee of the Inhabitants of Whitechappel viz the High street Petticoat Lane and Spittlefeilds at the election of Mr Richard Loton in his lifetime And afterwards of such a person as my said Overseers their Survivors or assigns shall choose in the roome of the said Richard Loton And the other forty shillings yearely for bibles for three orphan children of either of the said schools And further to the intent and purpose that Twelve pounds per annum shall be paid for ever from and after the death of my said wife for maintenance of a School at the Hay BrickXXX where my desire is the children of the name of Butler in the parish of Cusopp and other poore children of Hay whose parents cannot pay for them may be taught free and forty shillings more yearly for bookes for the said school And further to the intent and purpose that Tenn pounds per annum shall be paid for the maintenance of the poore distressed people in the hospitall of Bethlehem at London for ever And further to the intent and purpose that Ten pounds per annum shall be paid for ever to ten of the blindest oldest and poorest Clothworkers and their Widdows viz five men and five women at the discretion of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Company for the time being And further to the intent and purpose that fower pounds yearly shall be paid for ever to the overseers for the poore for the tyme being of Pulham St Mary in the County of North to bee distributed t o the poore people there And further to the intent and purpose that Tenn pounds shall be paid yearly to the foresaid Isabell Loton or her assigns dureing the term of her naturall life And further to the intent and purpose that eight pounds yearly shall be paid the foresaid Katherine Roberts alias Butler or her assigns during the term of her naturall life And further to the intent and purpose that ffifty pounds yearly for ever shall be paid from and after the decease of the said Martha my wife for the uses following viz forty pounds per annum to place out eight poore children yearely from Christs Hospitall London as the President and Governors of the said Hospitall shall appoint, forty shillings yearely (being five shillings apeece) to buy for each of them a bible forty shillings yearely for the president to buy them gloves (?clothes CHG) in the premisses forty pounds yearely to the Treasurer of the said Hospitall for his care and paines in the premisses President and forty shillings yearely to the clerks for keeping accounts and care in performance of this XXXX Provided the said Clerk doe yearely XXXX read such of this my Will and XXXXX this legacy and what more of this my Will XXXX of the said hospitall shall XXXX fitt And further to the intent and purpose that Twenty Wolle yards yearly being divided out in Three yards shall XXXXX to the Treasury of Christs Hospitall
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aforesaid that thereout two men may be paid and their charges borne once yearely together with the said Mannor and farmes and the repairs thereof and to further improvements in the cases be performed and to further see and take care that the severall schools at Bristoll Pulham the Hay and Whitechappell mentioned in this my Will be duly kept and further to the intent and purpose that the residue and remainder of the rents and proffitts of the said Mannor or farme of Vanners shall be paid or disposed of to such persons and for such uses as I the said William Pennoyer the Testator by any writing of Codicill under my hand and seale before two credible witnesses at the least shall limitt and appoint And for want of such appointment or limitation to be paid for the placing out of more of more children from Christs Hospitall aforesaid at the discretion of the maior part of my appointed Trustees their heires Successors and assigns for my Will is all the yearely payments aforesaid shall be paid after death of my wife out of the rents and proffitts of the said Mannor of Vanners and noe part thereof out of the fifteenth part of the mannor of Pulham or the appurtenances thereunto belonging nor out of any other my landes abovementioned And further to the intent and purpose that whereas thereto now two widdows paid for teaching of fatherless children att Pulham aforesaid Now my Will and minde is the same to be continued and that from and after the decease of my said wife the whole rents and proffitts of the said fifteenth part of the said mannor of Pulham with the proffitts of Courtwood and tymber thereunto belonging shall be paid for the maintenance thereof untill there be a free school kept at Pulham aforesaid in the little Chappell near Pulham Mary to teach about Thirty or Forty Boyes of Pulham Mary Pulham Markett and the next adjacent places whereof my Tennants children to be taught free and the rest to be such whose parents cannot pay for them And after such school is kept and a sober school master entertayned and settled therein My Will is the whole rents and proffitts of the said fifteenth part of the the said Mannor of Pullham shall be paid for the benefitt of the said School And if the School doe not goe on and continue the same shall returne again and be paid to two widdows for teaching of poore children at Pullham as aforesaid And for want of a carefull performance of the said widdowes and of the said school my Will is that as well the whole rentes and proffitts of the said fifteenth part of the said Mannor As also the Fower pounds per annum given to the poore of Pullham Mary shall goe to Christs Hospitall for putting out of more poore children att the discretion of my said Trustees their heires successors or assignes And my further Will and minde is that if the rentes and proffitts of the said fifteenth part of the mannor of Pullham shall not amount to full Twenty pounds per annum then the same shall be made up Twenty pounds per annum out of the rents of Vanners and to be paid to the Master while such free school is kept and continued there and not otherwise And if there shall not be full five and thirty boyes taught at the said free school then my will is that a widdow teach girls there and she to have Fower pounds per annum part thereof yearely And the schoolmaster to have only Sixteen pounds per annum And for and concerning my other Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within said County of North lett to Robert Moore att the yearely rent of Forty and Fower pounds per annum my Will is that out of the rents and proffitts thereof Ten pounds per annum shall be paid for ever to the Corporation for propagation of the Gospell in New England and that with the residue thereof Two Fellowes and Two Schollars for ever shall be educated maintained and brought up in the colledge called Cambridge Colledge in New England Of which I desire one of them soe often as occasion shall permit may be of the lyn or posterity of the said Robert Pennoyer if they be capable of it and the other of the Colony now or later called Newhaven Collony if conveniently may be And I declare my mind to bee that Eight yeares or thereabouts(?should) suffice for duration of each Schollar respectively and above that standing others to be taken in their places wwhich as to tyme I leave to the Master and Governors of the said Colledge And I further declare my will to be that upon death of any of the forenamed Trustees or whom they shall elect to succeed them according to the true meaning of this my Will for ever the like number of new ones shall be chosen by the major part of the Survivors to succeed in the same XXXX for the uses intents and purposes aforesaid and my desire is always such new Trustees be added while there is seaven att the least of the old Trustees then liveing And the charges for writings to be paid out of the remaining Proffitts of the premisses And inlike manner my mind is that the persons aforenamed at Bristoll shall choose other in their places while five of them are liveing Item I declare my will and mind to bee that if by any losse or casualty whatsoever my estate shall fall short and not be sufficient to pay my legacyes then a proportionall abatement shall be made by each legatee unpaid at the discovery according to the quantity of their legacye And if my personall estate and Landes therein appointed to be sold amount to more the Surplusage shall be divided amongst the poore of my kindred in England As my Executors and Overseers or the greatest number of them then liveing shall think fitt And I doe hereby make name and appoint the foresaid Richard Loton Esq and Michael Davison Esq Executoors of this my last Will and Testament And I desire my freinds Mr Samuell Crisp Mr Anthony Wilson and Mr Benjamin Andrewes Brewer to be Supervisors and Overseers of this my last Will And I give to either of the said Executors undertakeing the same One hundred pounds apeece And to every of the said Supervisors thirty pounds apeece and I request and desiring said Executors and Supervisors to be assisting unto my wife in getting in her rents and what further occasion she shall have also I desire my said Supervisors to assist my Executors in the execution of this my Will And I declare my express will minde and desire to be thatt if any doubts or controversies shall arise in any kind about this my will or any word settlement or expression therein conteyned the same shall wholly be referred from tym to tym to the discretion of three persons or Arbitrators to be chosen by the maior part of my Executors and Overseers then liveing to heare and finally determine the sameAnd my Will is their award thereupon under their hands shall be binding to all parties therein concerned And that if any of my kindred shall have noe benefitt by this my Will nor otherwise in my estate reall or personall But the legacy or legacyes therein given or intended to be given to him her or them who shall bring or commence any such action or suite shall utterlly void Any thing aforesaid or any equity whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding And I the said William Pennoyer the Testator doe hereby revoke and make voyd all former Wills and Testaments by me made and doe will and ordain that this only shall be and remain and be in full force and vertue In witness whereof I the said William Pennoyer to two parts of this my last Will beeing both of one Tennor and date have putt my hand and Seale whereof either of them being duly proved the other to remain only as and for a coppy thereof dated the day and year first above written /Wm Pennoyer/ These presents being written in Seaventeen sheets of paper and this peece of a sheet by the said William Pennoyer the Testator signed sealed published and declared as and for his last Will and Testament (being of 2 parts of one tennor) dated the day and yeare first above written and then sealed in the presence of Leonard Bates Scrivener Chas Hawkeshead ? Leon Criddle his servants
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Whereas I William Pennoyer Esq have this day made my last Will and Testament in writing thereof Now I doe declare my further Will and mind to bee And I doe Will and order my Executors or the Survivor of them shall deduct the summe of thirteen hundred pounds sterling out of my personall estate and that the same money shall be paid and disposed of in this manner viz One Thousand pounds thereof by XX Owen Mr William Greenhill Mr William Hook Mr Darill Mr Knight Mr Henry Ashurst XXXXX Baker Mr Locker Mr Brook Mr Griffith Mr Loton Mr Kissin Mr William Bridge Mr Anthony Wilson and Mr William Wale or the major part of the Survivors of them to honest men in distress In Wales and in and about the Citty of London and elsewhere in England where my said Freinds shall find most need Two hundred pounds more my will is shall be paid to Mr Samuell Crispe to be by him given and disposed of within Twelve Months next after my decease to such as are prisoners or very poor and honest men And the other one hundred pounds thereof my Will is shall be paid to his Mother Mrs XXXXX in the lyke time to be by her given and disposed of to prisoners or very poore and honest men And this I declare to be part of my will But to be made use of privately at the discretion of my said Freinds And I give to all my above named Freinds Forty shillings apeece for rings to be made in remembrance of me Witness my hand and Seale to two parts of this writing being both of one Tenor and date whereof the one being performed the other to be voyd dated the 25th day of May 1670 Wm Pennoyer Witness hereof Leonard Bates Sir Cha Leasham Leon Criddle his servants
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