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In the Name of God Amen. The sixt day of December Anno domini 1634 I Richard Adams of Cleobury Mortimer in the County of Sallop and Diocesse of Herefford Butcher being sicke in body but of good and perfecte memory praysed be God doe ordayne and make this my Last will and Testament in writeing revokeing hereby all former wills whatsoever in maner following First and principally I Commende and Committ my Soule into the mercifull handes of Almighty God my most mercifull maker and of Jesus Christ my most Righteous Redeemer by whose all sufficient merrittes & precious bloud sheeding I trust and hope assuredly to be saved and made partaker of everlasting Life and Salvation And my body to Christian buriall.
Item I give and bequeath unto Joyce Beavan the daughter of Thomas Beavan and Jone Beavan his wife my sonne in Law and daughter Thirty three shillinges wch. is due debt and oweing me by John Beavan of the Broomehall being grandfather also unto the sayd Joyce Beavan.
Item I give and bequeath unto Jone Beavan my daughter afforesayd the wife of Thomas Beavan the bede whereon I Lie and allthings thereunto belonging And also one brasse Caudron wch. I use to scalde porkes with the same to be delivered after the death of my now wife Ales Adams & my mind and will is that my wife Ales Adams shall have the use of the sayd bedd and bedding during her Life.
Item I give and bequeath after the decease of my sayd wife unto Ellenor Yorke the wife of Richard Yorke who dwelleth in house with me one bedd & all thinges thereunto belonginge standing in the upper seller over my shopp and also one ioyned Cubbert standing in the hall house & the Table boord & frame in the hall house also standing and my mind is that Ales Adams my sayd wife shall have the use of all bequeathed to Ellenor Adams during her Life and after her decease to come and remayne to Ellenor Adams my said daughter
The rest of all my goodes debtes Chattells & Cattell moveable and unmoveable whatsoever or in whose hands soever my debtes Legacies and funerall expences being first payed and discharged I give and bequeath unto Ales Adams my now wife & make her whole and sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testament to see the same performed in all respectes accordingly
These being witnesses John Barker clerk, William Newall, William Norgrove The marke of Richard Adams Testator
debtes oweing the sayd Testator vidzt.
Item John Beavan oweth me Thirtie three shillinges wch. I gave to our grandchild Joyce Beavan by will Also he oweth me for other reckoninges Thiteene shillinges ten pence
Item William Whittingsloe my brother in Lawe oweth me upon divers reckoninges wch. he had of me and I payed for him the summe of �v
Item Thomas Whittingsloe his sonne oweth me Twenty shillinges
Item John Piper of the Hurst oweth me nine shillinges six pence
Item John Farmer of Priseley oweth me nine shillinges six pence
Item Henry Trowe of ye wood oweth me xxjd
Item Richard Rea of Overwoodes Common oweth me two shillinges eight pence
Item Thomas Adams my kinsman the Smith Eight shillinges And also he promised me to paye me for a quarter of Biffe wch. his father bought & had of me at xiiijs price
Item John Jonson oweth me foure shillinges ten pence
Item Thomas Wattmore of Curdall oweth me six shillinges
Item John Dudlick of Withypoole oweth me five shillinges
Item Thomas Wynwood of the lower streete oweth me five shillinges
Summa �xiij xijd
These debtors and the severall summes of money as debt wch. the sayd Richard Adams Testator sayd was due unto him at the making & writeing of the said will before us & was sett downe etc. in our presence
John Barker cler.
William Newall
William Norgrove
Probatum fuit testamentum retroscriptum apud Ludlowe tertio die mensis Martij Anno domini etc. 1634 coram magistro Tho: Colbatch artium magistro surrogato etc. iuramento Aliciae Adams Executricis in huiusmodi testamento nominate Cui Commissa fuit et est administracio omnium et singulorum bonorum etc. Salvo Jure cuiuscumque etc. et exhibuit Inventarium extendens ad summam �24 12d
Pertinent entries from Cleobury Mortimer Parish Registers
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ADAMS, RICHARD of Cleobury Mortimer butcher
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Burial
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1634/1635
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Feb 5
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Analysis
Richard Adams married Aliciae Whittingsloe (sister to William Whittingsloe)
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