Henry Tredway Will – 1678
21 Sep 1678
Donated by Randy Treadway
London, Co. London, England
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN on the one and Twentieth day of September In the Yeare of our Lord One Thousand and Six Hundred Seventy and Eight And in the Thirteenth Yeare of the Reigne of our Souveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. I Henry Tredway Citizen and Slothworker of London being sick and weake in body but of good sound and perfect disposing mind and memory (thanks be to Almighty God for the same) and calling to remembrance the uncertaine estate of this transitory life and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please God to call Doe make constitute ordaine and declare this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following revoking and adwilling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments Will and Wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word by word or by writing And this to be taken only for my last Will and Testament and none other And ffirst being penitent sorry From the bottom of heart for my sins most humbly desireing foregiveness for the same I give and comit my soul unto Almighty God my Creator in whose mercy and by the merritts of Jesus Christ my blessed saviour and Redeemer I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins And that my soule with my body at the generall day of resurrection shall rise again with Joy and through the Merritts of Christs Death and passion possess and inheritt the Kingdome of Heavene prepared for his Erect and chosen And my body I comit to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buried in the church yard of Bethelem London And I doe hereby order and appoint the sume of Tenn pounds of lawfull money of England to be expended and laid out in and about my buriall And likewise I doe hereby order appoint and desire my loving Brother in Law Anthony Stevens Citizen and Tallowchandler of London to have and take the full and sole care oversight and management of my said buriall And now for the settling of my temporall and such goods chattells and debts as it hath pleased God (farr above my deserts) to bestow upon me I doe order give and dispose the same in manner and forme following (that is to say)
First I will that all those debts and duties as I owe in right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever shall be well and truly contented and paid by my Executors hereafter named within convenient time next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved mother Martha Kingfield the sume of fforty pounds of lawfull money of England
Item I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Mary Tredway the sume of fforty pounds of lawful money of England
Item I give and bequeath unto John Stevens the sonne of my aforenamed Brother in Law Anthony Stevens the sume of Tenne pounds of lawful money of England
Item All the rest and residue of All my singular my Goods and chattles reall and personall plate ready money Estate and Substance whatsoever and wheresover herein and hereby not given and bequeathed (After my Debts said funerall charges discharged And this my last Will and Testament in and by all things performed)
I give devise and bequeath the same unto my said loving wife Mary Tredway
And lastly I doe hereby make ordaine nominate constitute appoint and declare my said loving Brother in Law Anthony Stevens and my loving wife Mary Tredway joint Executors of this my last Will and Testament desireing them and requiring them in the name and feare of God to see the same in and by all things performed according to my intente and plaine meaning herein expressed
And I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my said Brother in Law Anthony Stevens the sume of Twenty Shillings of lawfull money of England to buy him a ring for his care and paines to be taken in the promised
In Witness Whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament putt my hand and Seale the day and yeare first above written