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1633: JOHN DANE of Worth, brewer being sick but in perfect memory the Lord be praised doth make his will and testament; I make my wife DOROTHIE [Dorothy] full and whole executor. ITEM; I give my son JOHN six pounds at one and twenty years of age. ITEM; my son THOMAS six pounds and to have at one and twenty years of age. ITEM; I give my daughter MARGETT six pounds and to have it at seventeen years of age. ITEM; my daughter DOROTHIE six pounds and to have at seventeen years of age. ITEM; if any of them should die before they come to age his stock shall be equally divided amongst the rest. That child which my wife goeth by I give six pounds and if it be a son he is to have it at one and twenty years of age and if it be a daughter at seventeen; and if this child die before it come to age it is to go to the mother; Annis Dane the wife of James Coulman I give ten shillings; I give unto the poor five shillings and I make THOMAS DANE my brother and JOHN [DAVIES] my brother in law overseers to this my last will and testament – John Dane – his hand and seal; witnesses Thomas [Broucher], John [Gerard], Nicholas Field
Proved 26th March 1634 (1635) by Dorothy Dane relict and executrix
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