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Dr William Burnett will
PROB 11/444 Lort 45-91 Will of Doctor William Burnett, Doctor of Medicine and of the College of Physicians in London 16 March 1698
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MY LAST WILL AND TESTAM:T WILLIAM BRNETT Doctor of Medicine, and one of the College of Phisitians in London gaveing the perfect use of my reason and understanding as much as ever I had in all my life before and being able to goe about all business (through the goodness of God to me) both at home and aborad Doe this day being the sixth day of November one thousand six hundred ninety six make this my last Willa nd Testament That my body may be buryed privately with as little charge as possibly may be And I doe leave unto my deare and loveing Wife Ursula Burnett (who hath alwayes been very tender and carefull of me All my householdgoods and lynnen and plate and money that shall be found by me both gold and silver all this I say I leave unto her except what is hereafter excepted and otherwise disposed of by me Alsoe I doe leave and give unto her two partes of three of all my printed books which I desire may be prized by able and skilfull men and that she may have two thirds of the value of them And my will is that she may take and be put in the possession of all that I leave her as soone as possible after my buryall is over And my will is that she may never be questioned as to what I have formerly given her for what I have formerly given her my will is that she may still retaine the same I leave alsoe unto her during her life or pleasure the two pictures viz:t mine and the other Doctor Burnetts but after her death I will that my son Obadiah may have them both
To whom even unto my son Obadiah Burnett I give and leave as followeth viz:t My Dyamond Ring which I have worne for many yeares on my finger as alsoe my iron chest with the wooden chest which was made for it and in which it is under my table in my closett as alsoe the little silver porringer which was his Mothers and is marked with her husband Brownes name and hers the which I designed to have given his brother Browne if he had out lived me but now I reckon it mine to dispose of for I am sure I have purchased it deare enough .- therefore my will is that my son Obadiah may have it as alsoe my silver tobacco box and silver inkhorne (as they call it) both which have the Burnetts Arms engraven thereon I give him alsoe the Burnetts Arms which hang in the Dyneing roome being stiched worke which after my death is his by right for I was obliged when first I had it to leave it to him I give alsoe to my son Obadiah the other third parte of my bookes I meane my printed bookes with the third parte of the cases they stand in (as for the other two partes of my cases they are to goe to my Wifes share and I will that they be hers) I give alsoe unto my son Obadiah all my Manuscript bookes both Greeke Latine and shorthand amongst which there is one stiched up ready for the press which perhaps he may have an opportunity to put in print but I leave this matter wholly to him As for my other son ??Nathaliah Burnett my will is that his Brother Obadiah shall pay him out of his owne third share of my bookes soe soone he can dispose thereof the summe of ffifteene pounds lawfull money As alsoe if he find amongst my papers a bond of his wherein he obligeth himselfe to pay me ffifty pounds that he deliver it up to him for I forgive him that debt As for all my wearing clothes my silver watch and a few burying rings my stick or cane or staff or whatever else which is not menconned before which were for my use I desire they may be sold and bestowed to make up my funerall charge that is laid out which if it be expended of the money by me then it is for my loveing Wife
And lastly I make and constitute my loveing Wife
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Wife Ursula Burnett and my beloved son Obadiah Burnett joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I desire and pray that all things may be done and managed with all love and tendernesse imaginable and with sich XXXXX and peace as that the god of peace may be with them both
Written with my owne hand and subscribed and sealed the same day and yeare above written
W.BURNETT
And declared to be my last Will and Testament in the presence of the Witnesses following
Moses Lowman Edm: Borrowes John ffollwell
PROBATUM fuit hummoi Testamentum apud London coram XXXXX
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PROB 11/444 Lort 45-91 Will of Doctor William Burnett, Doctor of Medicine and of the College of Physicians in London 16 March 1698 (7 hearths, Doct William Burnett, Doctor of Medicine and of the College of Physicians, 'Hart Chand Corte,' St Katherine Coleman, London (1666)
