Coveney Will 1655

Will of Ambrose Coveney

of Tewdley, Kent


Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB11/249/647, Probate 23 May 1655
Submitted by Mary Connaughton
Ambrose Coveney of Tewdley, Yeoman, will dated 26 June 1654
My bodye I commit to the earth in decent manner to be buryed at the discretion of myne Executrix hereafter named
As concerning the disposicion of that temporall estate which it hath pleased God to lend me here on earth I will and dispose of the same as followeth, that is to saye

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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