1673 Will - Grace Reeve

Introduction

Dated: 4 Feb 1667/8, High Easter, Essex
Probated: Bishop of London: Peculiar of Good Easter, 5 May 1677

Transcript

In the name of God Amen the five & twentie day of February in the fower and twentie yeare of ye Reigne of our Sovraine Lord King Charles the second King of England Scotland France & Ireland &c and in ye yeare of our Lord God 1672 I Grace Reeve of Good Ester in the Countie of Essex widd though weake in bodie yet of sound and perfect memorie praised be Allmightie God doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament renounsing all other former wills and first I comend my soule into the hands of Almightie god my most gratious Creator trusting throw ye meritts of Jesus Christ my redeemer to obtaine mercie, And my bodie to the earth to be decently buried at the descretion of my excetors hereafter named And as for that temporall estate that god of his mercie has lent me I despose of it in manner & forme following And first I give and bequeath unto my sonne Isack Reeve five and fiftie pounds of lawfull money of England to be paied to him by my executos when he shall ataine to ye age of one and twentie yeares. Item I give and bequeath unto Joseph Reeve my sonne, the like sume of five and fiftie pounds of like lawfull mony of England to be paid to him by my excetos when he shall ataine to ye age of one and twentie yeares. Item I give and bequeath unto Sara Reeve my daughter ye like sume of five and fiftie pounds of like lawfull mony of England to be paied to her by my said Excetos when she shall ataine to ye age of one and twentie years. And if it shall hapen that any of my said three children ye is to say Isack Reeve Joseph Reeve and Sara Reeve shall dye before their said monies shall become due to them that then my minde & will is that the portion of portions and every part and penie their of shall be paied unto the servivor ir survivors of them, equally devided and if it shall hapen they shall all due before their respective portions shall become due and paiable bequeathed in this my last Will and Testament that then my minde and will is that their said portions & every prte their of shall be paied unto my eldest sonne William Chalke his heirs exectos or administrators. Item I give and bequeath to my said sonne William Chalke five shillings of lawfull money of England, & to my Brother George Burrell five shillings of like lawfull money of England to be paied to them by my exectos within one month next after my decease. And further my minde & will is that my movabe goods within my house or without my house and also what moies shall be over pluss my funerall discharged & the probate of this my last will & Testament, shall be equally devided betwixt my three youngest children, Isaack Reeve Joseph Reeve & Sarah Reeve And I doe make and ordaine my well beloved friend and neighboure Stephen Chopnie of good Easter in ye Countie of Essex yeoman sole excetor of this my last will and Testament, And I desire my loving friend Mr William Hall minister of good easter & James Scrbin Grocer of Highester to be over seers of this my last will and Testament to see it be truly performed according to ye true meaning of it In witnesse whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seal the daye yeare first above written
The marke of Grace Reeve

Signed Sealed published
& Declared to be ye last Will
& Testament o ye testator
in ye psence of
Abraham (the marke A of) Claxton
Thomas *the marke B of) Burles
James Scrubie

Source

Essex Archives - D/APgW 1/36