| In the Name of God Amen I William Hatton of Tewkesbury
in the County of Gloucester Gentleman being sick and weake in body but
in good sound and disposing mind and memory Praised by Almighty God therefore
Considering with my self the uncertainty of this transitory life and that
as nothing is more certeine then death so nothing is more uncerteine then
the time when doe therefore make and ordeine this my last Will and Testament
in manner and forme following That is to say First I commend my Soule into
the hands of Almighty God my onely maker and Creator hoping assuredly through
the alone meritts of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to be made partaker
of everlasting happines And my body I Committ to the Earth from whence
it came to be decently and in Christianlike manner interred by and at the
discretion of my Executor hereafter named And as touching all such Estate
as well reall as personall which it hath pleased God of his mercy to make
mee a disposer of I doe give devise bequeath settle order and dispose of
the same in manner and forme following That is to say Imprimis whereas
I doe owe and stand indebted by Bond unto my sonn-in-law Thomas Trotman
Citizen and Haberdasher of London The summe of Fower Hundred Pounds
now for and towards payment and satisfacion of the said summe of Fower
Hundred Pounds and all interest due and to grow due and payable for the
same I give devise and bequeath All that my Messuage Tenemt
or Inne with appurteneces called and known by the name or signe of the
Ram now in the occupacion of William Roberts or his assigns situat
in Tewkesbury aforesaid in the said county of Gloucester And also all that
Peece or Parcell of Pasture Ground thereunto belonging conteyning by estimation
One Acre be the same more or less now in the occupacion of the Widdow
Collyer or her assignes situat lying and being in Oldbury field in
the Burrough of Tewkesbury aforesaid unto my said sonn in Law Thomas
Trotman his heires and assignes forever Item I give devise and bequeath
All that my Messuage or Tenement with thappurtenences with the Orchard
Garden and backside thereunto belonging and all my right of Commonage now
in the tenure or occupacion of the Widdow Profitt or her assignes
situat lying and being in the Parish of Trinley alias Turley in the said
County of Gloucester unto my sister Anne Tench To hold the same
unto my said sister Anne Tench From the day of the death or decease
of mee the said William Hatton unto the end and tenure of Three
years And from and after thend and expiracion of the said tenure of Three
yeares I give devise and bequeath my aforesaid Messuage or Tenement with
the appurtenences with the Orchard Garden backside and right of Commonage
thereunto belonging unto my Grandsonn William Hatton his heires
and assignes forever And as touching my personall Estate I dispose thereof
as followeth Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my sonn William Hatton
all and every of my houshold Goods which are remayning and being in
the hands Custody or Possession of Bartholomew Read and John
Hall and of either of them in the said County of Gloucester Item I
give and bequeath unto my said Grandsonn William Hatton Tenn Pounds
to putt him forth Prentice All the rest of my personall Estate I give leave
and bequeath unto my said sonn in law Thomas Trotman whome I make
and ordeine my full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
And I doe hereby revoke and make void all former Wills In Witnes whereof
I the said William Hatton have to this my last Will and Testament
conteyned in Two sheets of Paper with this present sheete to each sheete
sett my hand and seale the One and Twentyth day of November Anno dni 1677
And in the Nyne and Twentyth yeare of the Raigne of our souveraigne Lord
King Charles the second over England &c William Hatton Signed
sealed published declared and delivered by the Testator as and for his
last Will and Testament the day of the date hereof in the presence of Allen
Love George Savage Edmo: Wynch Sir Geo: Mastfield his servant
Probate granted to Thomas Trotman at London 20 February 1679/80 |