John Tredway Will 1610, England

John Tredway Will
11 May 1610
Donated by Jared Treadway

Easton Myxta Stamford, County Northamptonshire, England

In the name of God, Amen. I John Tredway of Easton, Myxta, Stamford, Northampton gent. the Eleventh Daye of May one thousand sixe hundred and tenne do make and ordaine this my last will and testament as followeth:

First I bequeathe my soule to Almightie God my Savyoure and Redemer and my bodye to the Earth to be buryed in such a decent manner as to my executrix hereafter named shall seeme fitt and to my temporale estate wherewith yt hath pleases God to bless me my will is as followeth:

ffirst I give unto my welbeloved wife Elizabeth Tredwaye besides the Lande she is estated in Ketton one yearlie rent of three score six poundes thirteen shillings four pence yearlie during her life to be payed yearly And allso fyve hundred poundes in money.

Item: I give to my sonne Edmond the somme of one thousand poundes to be payed when he shall accomplish the age of twentye four? years And in the mean tyme I will that he shall have and revyve yearly for his mayntenance during the first three years fortie poundes per Annum and during the ____ of the meantyme fifteen poundes per Annum to be quarterlie payed unto hym.

Item: I will and bequeathe unto my fyve daughters viz: Elizabeth Cara Mary Cycley and Alice fyve hundred poundes apece. And yf any of them shall severall and respectively accomplish the age of eighteen years. And yf any of them shall dye before their said age of eighteen years I will that fyve hundred poundes of the portion lymited to her so dying shall cease and shall extrigm? th__ And thyre share shalbe equallie divided amonst the surviving gifted. All the sommes and portions in this my will my minde ys yf they shalbe caused, fourthe of the estate I shall leave and fourthe of the profittes of suche land as I and my brother Robert Waller have leased unto my brother Humfrey Tredway Humfrey Cardwell Henry Lorte? and Henry Tredway for the terme of three fyve years

Allso I will that after all things in that will performed that the payed Leases and profittes thereof shall remayne to my eldest sonne Robert: And in the meantyme that there shalbe payed unto hym yearlie during the first three years for the ____ per Annum And afterward fiftie poundes per Annum until the said leases shall come unto hym

And I make and appoint Elizabeth my beloved wife sole and only executrix hoping that she will be careful to see all my children well brought up. Cealed and Delivered in the presence of William Potter Knight, Humphrey ff___ ____, Henry Lorte?, John ____, ____. In witness