11-0323-349_DorothyCradocke_1667
In the name of God Amen, I Dorothy CRADOCK of Covent Garden in the County of Middlesex, widow being of great age and very weak and sick of body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to Almighty God, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form folllowing, that is to say, first I commend my soul to Almighty God hoping that after this painful life ended I shall live and reign with him in glory; and my body to the dust to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor hereafter named; and as to that worldly estate which it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with all, I do appoint and dispose of the same in manner and form following (that is to say) whereas upon the death of my brother Isaac APPLETON Esquire the third part of the capital messuage called Barknam House with the lands thereto belonging in the County of Norfolk (amongst other lands which I have disposed of) descended and came unto me as one of his three sisters and co-heirs and whereas I and my brother FAIRBEARD and his wife did contract and agree with Mr Richard Marriott for the sale of each of our third parts of the said premises to him for eleven hundred pounds apiece, one hundred pounds apiece whereof he paid us in hand, and there having been some differences touching the same lest the said agreement should prove invalid I have conveyed my interest therein to Ambrose Butler of the Inner Temple London, Gent, in trust for my brother in law John BUTLER Esquire for the sum of one thousand pounds who has made me a lease of one thousand years of the same premises for security of payment of the said one thousand pounds with further covenants that if the agreement with the said Mr Marriott be performed then the said Ambrose Butler is, and I do hereby desire him, to convey the same to the said Mr Marriott or to whom else he has appointed, and whereas the said John Butler is desirous to relinquish his bargain and that the said Ambrose Butler should reconvey the same premises and the inheritance thereof back to me again to which desire of his I am willing to consent, and I do hereby give and devise my third part of the said capital messuage and premises to my executors hereafter named and their heirs in trust for the purposes hereafter mentioned, that is to say, that my executors shall as soon as they can get a purchaser for the same for the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England or for whatever else they can get for the same, and I do charge and desire my brother in law John Butler and Ambrose Butler, Gent and my son Robert Craddocke, Citizen and Vintner of London to do all lawful and reasonable acts and things that shall be required of them or either of them in order to () the sale of the third part of the premises aforesaid, and upon this further trust and confidence that my executors shall within one month after the sale of the aforesaid premises put out on good security two hundred pounds part of the purchase money to be raised bybsale of the said premises for the use of my two grandchildren, daughters of Dorothy Goodbody deceased to be equally divided between them, which security shall be taken in my executors name, and the interest shall be employed towards their maintenance and education till their respective ages of one and twenty years, and then I appoint the said money to be paid to them respectively, provided that if one of my said grandchildren shall die before payment of the said legacy according to this my will, then I appoint and give the whole two hundred pounds to my surviving grandchild, and if it shall happen both my said grandchildren shall die before payment of their said legacy according to this my will, then I give the said two hundred pounds to them formerly given to my son Robert Cradock if he shall be then living, and if he be dead then to such child or children as he shall leave behind him equally to be divided between them, and upon this further trust and confidence in my said executors (reposed) that within the time aforesaid they do pay and dispose of two hundred pounds unto my daughter Anne Garway and also put out one hundred pounds more on good security in my executors’ names for the sole and separate use of my said daughter Anne Garway and her children in the interest whereof I appoint to be paid her during her now husband’s life and after his death the whole one hundred pounds to be paid to her and be at her disposal, and if she dies before her said husband then I appoint the said one hundred pounds to the children of my said daughter Garway equally to be divided between them, and for want of her leaving of a child or children I give the said one hundred pounds to my said son Robert Cradock, and upon this further trust and confidence in my said executor reposed that they shall within the time aforesaid out of the money that shall be raised by sale of the aforesaid premises, pay all such debts as I stand bound in for my son Robert Craddocke amounting as I believe to three hundred and fifty pounds or thereabouts and shall also out of the aforesaid money pay the sum of fifty pounds and the interest thereof due upon a bond wherein my son in law John Garway is bound for my son Robert Cradocke, and whereas I am engaged for my son in law John Garway for several sums of money who has for my counter security confessed a judgement to me in one of his (ma.. courts) in West inter for one thousand pounds debt, I do hereby appoint the same and all my interest in and to his estate after such time as all such debts as I am engaged for him shall be paid unto and for the benefit of my said daughter Anne Garway and her children. ITEM; I give to my executors hereafter named the sum of forty shillings to buy them rings. ITEM; I give to the poor of the parish where I shall die the sum of forty shillings. ITEM; I do hereby make nominate constitute ordain and appoint my loving friends John Garway of London, Vintner and Baron Turner of London, Goldsmith executors of this my last will and testament, desiring them to see the same faithfully performed. ITEM; I give unto my daughter Anne Garway my wearing apparel, linen and woollen. ITEM; all and singular other my estate real and personal, my debts and legacies aforesaid and the sum of thirty pounds for my funeral expenses being paid, I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Craddocke in full satisfaction of his portion and I require him to be ready to join in the sale of the aforesaid premises if he shall be thereunto desired, and I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I, the said Dorothy Cradocke to this will containing two sheets of paper have set my hand and my seal to both the said sheets the second day of December in the eighteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second AD 1666. ITEM; I give and bequeath unto Robert Smith of Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex the sum of twenty shillings of lawful money of England to buy him a ring which said last legacy I make part of my will – the mark of Dorothy Cradocke – signed sealed and published in the presence of us Thomas Pene, (the mark of) Elizabeth Prasley, Robert Smith
Proved 27th March 1667