Marshall Will 1736

Will of Marian Marshall

of High Halden, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 16/401 M/3 or: PRC 17/90/9f
Submitted by Keith Marshall
In the Name of God Amen I Marian Marshall of the Parish of High Halden in the County of Kent Widow and relict of Thomas Marshall of the said Parish, Gent, deceased; being in good Health of Body and of perfect mind and memory (praise be therefore given to allmighty God) do make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in Manner and form following, Vis.
First and principally I commend my Soul into the Hands of almighty God hoping through the merits, Death and Passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have Pardon and forgiveness of all my Sins and to inherit everlasting Life and (my) Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named and for the disposal of such temporal Estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and dispose as followeth

First I will that all my debts and funerall Charges shall be paid and discharged
Item I give unto my Daughter Nowers and to my Daughter Holfnorth all my wearing Apparrell both Linen and woollon to (be) equally divided between them

Item I give unto my Daughter Marshall and my Daughter Longley, my Daughter Nowers and my Daughter Holdsworth five Pounds apiece to be paid to each of them by my Executor for their own proper use

Item I give to my Grandsons Thomas Nowers and John Nowers five pounds apiece to be paid them at three Months after my decease if both living, if not, the Survivor to have the whole ten pound
Item I give unto my Grandaughters Mary Holsworth and Elizabeth Holdsworth five pounds apiece to be paid to them at the Age of Eighteen years and if one should dy before then the whole ten Pound to be paid to her that surviveth

and I do constitute and make Mr. Thomas Wilmote of the parish of Bethersden in the County of Kent full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament which I also Charge with the Payment of my said Debt and Legacies and for his trouble in Executing the same I do hereby give unto him the sum of three pound over and above allowing him reasonable expence for his trouble

Lastly I desire that if anything remain after all my Debts, Funerall Charges, legacies and Executors Charges are all paid, I give it between Thomas Nowers, John Nowers and Elizabeth Holdsworth equally to be divided between them,
Elizabeth Holdsworths to remain in my Executors hand till She attains to Age of Eighteen Years and then to be paid to her with the five pound before given to her

And I do hereby revoke, disannul and make void all former Will and Testaments by me heretofore made
In Witnes w[h]ereof I the said Marian Marshall to this my last Will and Testament being contained in one Sheet of Paper have set my hand to the bottom of the Sheet and set my Seal Seal to the Top and bottom the fifth day of January 1736 [1735-6]
Marian Marshall

Sealed published and declared by the above named Marian Marshall for and as her last Will and Testament in the presence of us
John Yate, Daniel Bircher

The above registered Will of the said deceased was proved twenty Fifth day of August 1736 before the Reverend Henry Shove, Clerk, lawfull Surrogate to the Worshipful George Lee, Doctor of Laws, official General to the Rev: the Archdeacon of Canterbury, lawully constituted by the Oath of Thomas Wilmatt the Relict of the said Executor named in the said Will, to whom Adminstration of the Goods, Chattles and Credits of the said Deceased was committed, He being first sworn duly to perform the said Will

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 17th October 2021


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