Verrier Will 1672

Will of William Verrier

of Northbourne, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC/17/73/226a
Submitted by Pam Woodruff

In the Name of God Amen I William Verrier of Finglesham in the parish of Northborne in the County of Kent yeoman being sick and weake in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory (praise be therefore given to Almighty God) doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner and forme following, that is to say,
first and principally I comend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my heavenly father trusting and assuredly beleeving through the merritts death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgivenesse of all my sinns and to Inherritt everlasting life And my body I comitt to the earth to be decently buried att the discretion of my executor here after named in the Church yard of Northborne And as touching the disposicion of such Temporall estate as God hath blessed me withall I give and dispose thereof as followeth

First I give and bequeath unto my sonne William Verrier thirty pounds of Lawfull money of England to be paid unto him by my sonns Richard and Benjamine Thomas and Henry and by every of them parte and parte alike out of the lands here after mentioned to be given unto them
and my mind and will is the said thirty pounds shall be paid by all my said sonnes to my said sonne William by three pounds by the yeare yearely untill the said thirty pounds shall be fully paid the first payment to be made within twelve monthes after my decease

Item my mind and will is that my said sonne Richard shall within twelve monthes after my decease well and truely pay or cause to be paid unto my two daughters Sarah Verrier and Marah Verrier thirty pounds a peece of lawfull money of England according to the condicion of an obligacion bearing date the twelveth day of November Anno Domini 1663 wherein the said Richard is bound in one hundred and twenty pounds for the payment thereof

Item I give devise and bequeath unto my said sonns Richard Banjamine Thomas and Henry All my lands and tenements scituate lying and being in the parishes of Northborne and Sholden or elsewhere in the County of Kent and to theire heires and assignes forever to be equally parted and devided btweene them parte and parte alike; they my said sonns Richard Benjamine Thomas and Henry well and truely satisfiying and paying unto my said sonne William the thirty pounds before given to him in manner and forme as aforesaid

All the rest and residue of my goods and Chattells whatsoever and wheresoever I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Richard
And I doe make and ordaine my said sonne Richard full and Sole executor of this my last will and testament

Item my mind and will is that In case any of my said sonns Richard Benjamine Thomas or Henry shall dye without issue that then the parte of the lands hereby given unto him or them soe dying shall come and descend unto the survivor and survivors of my said last foure mencioned sonns and not to my said sonne William

In witnes whereof I the said William Verrier have hereunto sett my hand and seale this third day of May Anno Domini 1672 And In the foure and twentieth yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord King Charles the second of England etc.
The marke of William Verrier the testator

Signed sealed published and declared in the presence of
William Slachlen (?) - Peter Bridger

Probate granted 5th June 1672 to Richard Verrier

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