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Medieval &
Later Kent P.C.C. & C.C.C. Wills
Wills of 17th Century Gentlemen of Chatham
1647-1698
Thomas
WILSON 1676
A Thomas Wilson is
mentioned in Pepy's Diary, may be two individuals? In 1665, a Thomas
Wilson was Surveyor of Victualling at the Port of London and in
1667 a Thomas Wilson is Store Keeper at Chatham Dock Yard
In the Name of God Amen
I Thomas Wilson of Chatham in the County of
Kent Gent being weake and infirme of Body but of sound and disposing
mind and memory praised be God for the same and calling to mind the
frailty and incertainty of this mortall doe therefore for the quieting
of my mind and settling that temporal Estate wherewith it hath pleased
Almighty God of his mercy to bless me make and declare this to be my
last Will and Testament in manner and forme following
And First as for my
personall Estate and the disposition thereof I give and bequeath unto my
honoured Father in Law Richard Beckford of London Esquire
the sume of One hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be by him
divided given and distributed to and among himself and all his sonnes
and daughters viz of & by summes and shares respectively as to
himself in his owne pleasure and discretion shall find expedient which
Legacy my mind will and meaning is shall be paid by my Executrix
hereafter named within Two monethes next after my decease And til after
my ready money debts Leases Plate Jewels household Goods Chattels and
personal Estate of what nature or kind soever
I give and
bequeath unto my dearely beloved wife Mrs Jane Wilson whom
I doe hereby nominate and appoint to be my sole Executrix of this my
last Will and Testament To whose discretion alone I comitt the Charge
Care and Management of my Funerall desiring her that my Body if it may
be done without soe great inconvenience to her may be interred in the
Parish Church of Allhallows Barking in Tower street London
And as
touching and concerning my reall Estate I doe charge give and devise the
same in manner and forme following
First I give
and devise unto the poor of the aforesaid Parish of Allhallows Barking
in Tower streete London for ever one Annuity or yearely Rent Charge of
Five Pounds of lawfull money of England per annum to be ever issuing and
goeing out of all that my messuage or Tenement with it's appurtenances
commonly called or knowne by the name or signe of the Three Crownes
situate and being in the Parsh of St John's Walbrooke within the City of
London and lately ? and
now or late in the tenure or occupation of one Mr John Smith?
or of his assignes or undertenants which said Annuity or Yearely Rent
charge my will is shalbe yearely paid into the hands of the
Churchwardens for the time being of the Parish of Allhallows Barking
aforesaid for the use of the said poore of the same Parish on the Feast
Dayes of the Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Nativity
of St John the Baptist for even portions for ever The first payment
thereof to begin and be made on the said Churchwardens at that Feast day
of the Feasts aforesaid which shall next happen (save one) after my
decease and not before And for the more certaine payment of the said
Annuity or yearely Rent Charge of Five Pounds from time to time
according to my mind will and meaning I do hereby will give and grant to
the said Churchwardens for the time being such full and ample power and
authority from time to time to distraine and take further course at law
for the recover of the said Annuity and all arrerages thereof if the
same shall not be paid on the respective dayes for that purpose
before ? as to Grantes
of Annuity and Rent Charges is commonly ? granted And it is my further
Mind Will and desire that the said Annuity or yearely sume of Five
Pounds be from time to time laid out on bread and distributed on Sundays
to and amongst the Poor of the said Parish of Allhallows Barking at the
discretion of the said Churchwardens for the time being
Item all the
rest residue and remainder of the said Messuage or Tenement with the
appurtenances in the Parish of St John Walbrooke aforesaid And also all
those my Two Messuages or Tenements with all and singular their
appurtenances situate and being at the lower end of Cannon streete
London neere Dawgate and now or late in the tenure or occupation of John
Butts or his assignes orundertenants and all other my messuages
Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with their appurtenances whereof
I am either seised or possessed of any state either in possession or
Reversion And all my Estate right title and interest of in and to the
same I give and devise unto my said deare and loving wife Mrs Jane
Wilson for and during the terme of her naturall life And from and
after her decease I give and devise the same Messuages Tenements
hereditaments and premises aforesaid and every of them with theire
appurtenances to such Son or Sonnes of mee the said Thomas Wilson
as shall be lyving at the time of my decease and to the heires of said
Son or Sonnes forever And for default of a Son or Sonnes lyving at the
time of my decease I give and devise all the same Messuages Tenements
and hereditaments last before mentioned with theire appurtenances after
the decease of my said wife Jane Wilson to such Sonn and
Sonnes for ever if such Sonn or Sonnes shall happen to outlyve and
survive my said wife Jane But if it shall happen that at anytime
of my decease I shall have no Sonn or Sonnes lyving and that my said
wife Jane shall not be then bigg or ensient of or with a Sonn or Sonnes
and that such Sonn or Sonnes being borne after my decease shall happen
to depart this life before my said wife Jane Then my Will is and
I doe hereby give and devise all my said Messuages Tenements and
hereditaments with theire appurtenances before mentioned to be devised
by my said wife for her life as aforesaid to my deare and loving wife
Mrs Jane Wilson and to her heires and assigns for ever in
Fee Simple Anything aforesaid to the Contrary thereof not withstanding
And
lastly I doe hereby revoke annull and make void all former or other
Wills by mee made and published at anytime before the day of the date of
these presents
In Witness
whereof I the said Thomas Wilson have to this my last Will and Testament
conteyned in Three sheets of Paper to every sheete thereof sett my hand
and to the first and last sheets thereof have sett my seale the Fower
and Twentyth day of September In the Two and Twentyth yeare of the
Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second over England etc
And in the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred and Seaventy
1670 T. Wilson Signed sealed and published
by the above named Thomas Wilson to be his last Will and
Testament in the presnce of Tho. Curtis Hen.
Sheafe
Proved 3rd May 1676
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