1654 Will - George Ryves
Introduction
Dated: 19 Jun 1654, Old Sarum, WiltshireProbated: Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 10 Nov 1654
Recorded: Piece 234 (Alchin), folio 93
Transcript
In the name of God Amen I George Ryves of the close of Sarum in the county of Wiltes Esqr being somewhat infirme in body but of good and perfect minde and memory (God be praised for it) doe (revokeing hereby all other wills by me at any tyme or tymes heretofore made) make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme followingeFirst I commend my soule to God hopeing for salvation by the meritts of my Saviour Jesus Christ, and by body I leave to be interred in xpian buriall And as concerneing my worldly estate wherewth all it hath pleased Almighty God to blesse me; I doe dispose thereof as followeth that is to say)
First I doe declare my will and meaneing to be that all the debts wch I do owe and wch shall be oweing by me at the tyme of my decease, shall be wthin three yeares next after my decease paid by my heire out of my lands (Flush farme, and loopes farme and the lands thereof only excepted) and wth the payment thereof within that tyme I doe hereby charge all my lands tenements and hereditements whatsoever in the county of Dorst and elsewhere in England, (the two farmes aforesaid and the lands thereof only excepted) and out of the same messuage tenements and hereditements and the rents issues and profitts thereof (xcept before excepted) I doe hereby give and devise to everyone of my creditors his inst? and due principall debts and debt together with soe much interest ? for the same as shall, when the principall is payd happen to be unpaid to be paid unto them wthin the said space of three yeares next after my decease.
Also I doe give and devise unto my loveing wife Katherine Ryves in lue of the joynture by my formerly made unto her, and of all her right tytle and clayme of Dower out of my lands one hundred and fiftie pounds by the yeare to be quarterly paid unto her out of my capitall messuage and farme of Plush in the said county of Dorst and all the demeasne lands thereunto belonging wth thappurtenances. And out of all my other lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever in the county of Dorst Loopes farme aforesaid and the Coppyholds and Customary tenements thereof wth the old Rents and fines for newe estates of and in the same onely excepted) to have and to hould the same unto her, and to her assignes from and imediately after my decease for and during the terme of her naturall life, she dischargeing my other lands of the joynture wch I formerly made unto her out of the same.
Alsoe I do give, bequeathe and devise out of all my other lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever (the two farmes before named and the lands thereof only excepted) in the county of Dorst and elsewhere in England, and out of the Rents issues and profitts thereof unto my daughter Katherine Ryves the sume of two thousand pounds of lawfull english money thone halfe thereof to be paid unto her wthin twelve monthes and thother halfe wthin in two yeares next after my decease, and untill she be fully payd her said whole portion or legacy of two thousand pounds I doe hereby give and devise unto her for her better mayntenance my farme and lands thereof in the county of Dorst called Loopes farme, late in the possession of Andrew Loope to have and to hould the same unto her from and imediately after my decease untill her said Legacy or porcon be wholy paid, and wth the payment of the said two thousand pounds I doe hereby charge all my said lands tenements and hereditements whatsoever (the two farmes before named and the lands thereof only excepted) as well in possession as reversion together wth the rents issues and profitts of the same (except before excepted) and I doe hereby require and chargeg my heire to make payment of my debts and of my daughters legacie or porcon in such manner as I have before sett downe and according to my will and meaneinge herein above expressed; And then I doe give and devise unto my sonne John Ryves all my said lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever as well in possession as reversion in the county of Dorst and elsewhere in England (saveing thestates aforesaid in part thereof devised as aforesaid to my wife and daughter) charged notwthstanding and chargeable with the paymt of my debts, and of my daughters legacie or porcon before mentioned and the reversion of what is soe estated as aforesaid to have and to hould the same, charged and chargeable as aforesaid unto him the said John Ryves and to the heires of his body lawfully to be begotten, and for want of such issue, I do give and devise all my said lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever as well in possession as revertion (the said estate in Plush farme and the lands thereof to my wife as aforesaid devised only excepted) unto my daughter Katherine Ryves and to the heires of her body lawfully to be begotten charged notwthstandinge and chargeable wth the payment of my debts as aforesaid, and for want of such issue I doe give and devise the same unto my right heires forever, charged notwthstandinge and chargeable wth the payment of my debts, and of the said two thousand pounds given and devised as aforesaid to my daughter. And concerneinge my goods, plate household stuffe and other personall estate I doe gibve unto my daughter Katherine Ryves my second best bedd and bedsteed wth all beding and furniture there unto belonging, and fitt for the complete furnishing of a chamber for her and to my loveing wife Katherine Ryves I give all her owne apparell Rings Jewells and ornaments and the use of all the rest of my plate household goods, stuffe, utensills and implements of howse whatsoever during the time of her wydowehood, and after her death or marriage, I give the same unto my sonne John Ryves, whom I do constitute and appoynt to be the sole and whole executor of this my last Will and Testament And I doe committ theducation and tericon? of my daughter unto my loveing wife, and doe charge my said daughter to be obedient to her mother and to hearken to her good advise and counsell as well in the choyse of her husband as otherwise, And I doe heartily desire my wife to have an especiall care of her.
And whereas after the decease of my Aunte the Lady Dorothy Ryves the nowe wife of Thomas Tregonwell Esqr there will fall unto my heire a further estate in lands then is yet in my possession I doe more give and devise unto my said loveing wife Katherine Ryves an annuity or legacy of one hundred pounds by the yeare of good and lawfull money of England to be issueing out of those lands wch are nowe held in joynture by my said Aunte or by her said husband in her right, and out of all my other lands whatsoever to be paid unto my said wife and to be had and enioyed by her out of the same lands imediately from and after the decease of my said Aunte for and during the terme of my said wives natural life (over and besides the one hundred and fifty pounds per anum aforesaid, wch I have as aforesaid now presently given unto her upon my owne deceased) to be payd unto her quarterly at the fower most usuall quarter dayes in the yeare next after my said Aunts death during my said wives life, and wth the payment thereof I doe hereby charge all those lands wch are now held by my said Aunte, or by her said husband in her right, and all my other lands whatsoever Giveing alsoe and deviseing unto my said wife poewr to distreine for the same upon those lands in case of any faileing in payment thereof by my heire at any of the said quarter dayes.
And my will is that if my daughter dye unmarried and before she shall according to this my will receave her legacy or portion of two thousand pounds aforesaid that then the same porcon or soe much thereof as shall be unpaid at the tyme of her decease (she dyeing before she be maryed and before the payment thereof unto her according to this my will, shall ? to my sonne and executor, and not to her executors administrators or assignes
Moreover I doe give and devise unto my lov wife Katherine Ryves my house att Damery called Damery Court wth all orchards gardens closes backsides and appurtenances thereunto belonging to have and to hould the same to her and to her assignes dureinge her widdowhood In witnes whereof to this my last will and testament conteyned in theis three sheetes of paper fixed together I have set my hand and seale the nineteeneth day of June 1654.
George Ryves
Signed Sealed published and declared by the said testatr for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us Mary Miller George Best his mke Tho Shuter
This will was proved at Westminster the tenth day of November 1654 before the Judges & by the oath of John the sonne sole executor to whom Adcon was committed, he being first legally sworne truely to Adter.