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In the name of God
Amen. The fourth day of October in the thirtieth year of the reigne of
our Sovereigne, Lord King Charles the second
by the grace of God of England ,Scotland, France & Ireland,
King defender of the faithe Anno Domini 1679
I
Raph Sympson the Elder of Hanley in the Pish of Stoke upon Trent
Countie of Stafford Earth
Potter , being weak in body but of good and perfect memory and
disposing mind praise be to God for the same , doe constitute ordaine
& make this my last will & testament in manner & forme
following, ffirst & chiefly I committ my Soule unto Almighty God
my creator assurdly believing that through the meritts
of my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ ,I shall receive
remission of all my sins & with him enjoy Eternal life .And my
bodie I commend to Christian buriall at the discression of my executor
herein hereafter named : And as to the ordering, Devising &
disposing of my temperall estate ,I give bequeath & devise the
same as following.
Ffirst
I give & bequeath to my daughter Jone wife of John Bramhall
,and to my daughter Jane now wife of Thomas Keeling to each one of
them one shilling in full discharge & satisfaction of their merit
of their several third part & potion of all my goods &
chattells & Estate whatsoever.
Also I devise give & bequeath
unto my sonne Raph Sympson & his heirs & assignees for
ever, all that my now dwelling house situate in Hanley aforesayed ,
together with the garden thereinto belonging and all my now workhouse
warehouse potery. All other buildings whatsoever of me the sayed Raph
Sympson situate in Hanley aforesayed, and all my good debts owing to
me Cattle, chattells & household stuff instuments and materials
for pot making & all my personal estate
whatsoever upon this Express Condition nevertheless and to the
end and purpose that my sayed sonne Raph Sympson shall and may Sustain
maintain & keep my loving wife Jone Sympson with good &
sufficient wholesome meat drink lodging washing & apparell during
all the time & space of her naturall life. And in case my sayed
wife Jone Sympson shall at ant tyme during her naturall life by reason
of any disquitness or other misbecoming
behaviour of my sayed sonne Raph Sympson
towards her desire her to part from the sayed Raph Sympson my
sonne .Then my minde & will is that my sayed loving wife Jone
Sympson shall have during such time as she shall live apart from my
sayed sonne all that bay of building with the chimney in it standing
at the end of my workhouse, & also shall have my cow or the value
of her as she shall be prized after my decease ,at the choyce of my
wife, and alsoe shall have things of my best bedd & all bedding
belonging to it & of all such other household goods as shall be
needful for her during all such time as she live apart from my sayed
sonne Raph Sympson anything in these cons………ed to the contrary
hereof not withstanding.
And I further will & ordaine that my
sayed sonne Raph Sympson shall
paye unto my sayed wife in Discharge of her maintenance and keeping in
case she shall live away from him
the full smme of thirtie shillings of lawfull money of England
by four quarterly payments in everie year for such and soe many years
during her naturall life as
she shall live apart from him, but if my wife shall be visted with
sickness or otherwise & disabled so that she cannot with the sayed
thirtie shillings get her own livelyhood
then my will and desire is that my sayed sonne shall legally
maintain her during such her visitaion :
And lastly I constitute and
make my sayed sonne Raph Sympson my sole executor if he shall first
give his sufficient bond of fforty pounds to my nephew Samuel Sympson
that he will fully & forme this my last will which if he shall
refuse to doe , then make my loving wife my sole Executrix of this my
last will & testamnet : In witness whereof
I have hereunto put my hand and seale. Dated the day & year
first above written.
Sealed
signed & published & declared to be the last will of the sayed
Raph Sympson in the presence of.
Samuel
Sympson
Christopher
Talor
William
……
Henry
Wright.
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