- WILL OF FRANCIS CLOPTON 1630
In the name of God Amen, the eight daie of November, in the sixt yere of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord King Charles, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., annoque Domini, 1630, I Francis Clopton of Liston, in the Countie of Essex, gentleman, heing sick in bodie, but of good and perfect memory, thankes be unto Almightie God therefore, revokeing all other testamentes and wills by me at any time heretofore made, doe now make this present wryting to bee and containe my true last will and testament in manner and forme following.
First and principally, I bequeath my soule unto Almighty God, hoping and most steadfastly beleiving to be saved in the day of the generall resurreccion and judgement by the onely merittes of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
And as concerning my body, I doe committ the same unto thearth whereof it came, to be buried in decent manner at the discrecion of mine executor hereunder named.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Anne my daughter, now wife of John Cooke, ten shillinges.
Item, I give and bequeath unto William Clopton my sonne, ten shillinges of lawfull money of England, to be paid unto him by mine executor, within six monthes next after the daie of my decease.
Item, I give and bequeath imto Thomas Clopton my son, ten shillings of lawfull money of England, to be paid unto him within one yere next after the daye of my decease.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Richard Clopton my sonne, xv.s. of lawfull money of England, to be paid unto him at his age of one and twenty yeres, or within three monthes then next insueing.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Hanna Clopton my daughter, now the wife of Peter Devoreux, xiii.s. iiii.d.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Margaret Clopton my daughter, now wife of William Elliston, five shillings, to be paid unto her within one yere next after the day of my decease.
Item, and in sted of all my goodes unbequeathed given to my executor, I doe give to every grandchild xx.s. a peice.
Item, I give and bequeath to Grisell my daughter, the wife of Laurence Write, 4.s.
Item, I will to the poore of Liston xxvi.s. viii.d. ; and in the parish where it shall please God to call me from this life, xiii.s. iiii.d.
And all my money, plate, jewells, bondes, billes, debtes, goodes, chattells, cattell, housholdstuff, and utensills, and furniture of houshold and husbandrie, not otherwise before in this my will given and bequeathed, I give them all wholly unto Francis Clopton my sonne, for and towardes the payment of my debtes, performance of my legacies, the charges of my funeralls, and probate of this my last will and testament. And I doe hereby ordaine, constitute, and appoint him the same Francis my sonne, to be the sole and onely executor of the same.
In witnes whereof I have to every sheete or leafe (being three in number), of this my last will and testament, subscribed my name with mine owne hand, and in the last sheete or leafe, as also in the head or top of this present writeing, I have sett my seale the day and yere first above written.
Francis Clopton.
Sealed and published in the presence of the witnesses whose names are hereunder written the sealing and publishing hereof, Ralphe Harwood his marke, Roger Herrington his marke, per me Abrahamum Alston.
(Proved at Bury St. Edmund's, January 21, 1640.)
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Abt 1578 - 1639 (61 years)