I will give and bequeath unto my five daughters Joane, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary and
Barbara the sume of �20 a peece of lawfull money of England to be paid unto them by myne
Executrix as and when they shall attaine their severall and respective ages of one and twenty yeares
And if any of them shall dye before the said age then I will the legacie and legacies of such
and soe many of them soe dyinge under the said age shall remaine and be to the onely use of mine Executrix
Item if my wife be with child and shalbe delivered of a man child Then I will to such
manchild the sume of �40 of lawfull money of England to be paid unto him at his age of four
and twentie yeares if he shall live to attaine that age, by mine Executrix
And if my wife be with child and shall be delivered of a daughter then I will to such daughter
the sum of �20 of lawfull English money to be paid unto such daughter at her age of one and
twenty yeares if she shall live to attain that age, by mine Executrix.
Item I will my Executrix shall with convenient foode apparrell and other necessaries and good discipline educate, maintaine and bringe up all my said children until their said respective ages not diminishinge their legacies before bequeathed
Item I make and ordeine Elizabeth my deere and loveinge wife to be the full and sole Executrix of this my Testament and last will And to enable her to pay my debtes and legacies and to see my bodie decentlie buryed and this my will duely proved I give and leave to the said Elizabeth my wife all my goods, Cattle, Corne, householdstuffe and Chattles whatsoever
In wittnes whereof I the said Ambrose Coveney have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day
and yeare first above written
Ambrose Coveney
Read, sealed, published and declared by the said Ambrose Coveney to be his Testament and
last will in the presence of
John Manning, Robert Day and George Cooper, the mark of Thomas Towne
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