To Elizabeth my loveing wife I give and devise one Third parte of all my Messuages Lands and
Tennements whatsoever and wheresoever To have and To hold to her and her Assignes for and
dureing the Terme of her natuall life And to her my said wife I give my best feather bed boulster
pillowes and bedding thereunto belonging one paire of the best sheets three paire of Tow sheets two
paire of pillowcoats one Table Cloath and six napkins one brass skillet and one iron pott
And my mind is that my wife shall have her meate drinke fireing and lodging in the dwelling house
with my Executors soe long as shee pleases to live with them And if shee doe not live with them
Then I order my Executors to pay to her yearly dureing her life five pounds of lawfull money
And to my sonne William Russell I give and bequeath the summe of fifty pounds of
lawful money of England to bee paid him within one yeare next after my decease
And to Elizabeth my daughter the now wife or Robert Swift I give and bequeath twenty pounds
of like money to bee paid unto her within one yeare next after my decease
And to my daughter Mary the now wife of Thomas Hickmott I give and bequeath Twenty pounds
of like money to bee paid her within one yeare next after my decease
And to my daughter Anne the widdow of Allen Syms I give and bequeath tenn pounds of like money
And to Elizabeth Baker my Granddaughter tenn pounds of like money
The said tenn pounds bequeathed to the said Anne to bee paid her within one yeare next after my decease
And the said Tenn pounds to my Granddaughter when shee attaines the age of One and Twenty yeares
And to my sonne John and his heires I give and devise All that my Messuage or Tenemet Garden and foure peeces of Land with the Appurtenances scituate lyeing and being in Wadherst [Wadhurst] in the County of Sussex and now in the occupation of Richard Sharpe or his Assignes upon Condition that hee or his heires pay unto my sonne Stephen his Executors or Assignes forty pounds of like money within two yeares next after my decease
And if default shall bee made in the payment of the said forty pounds Then I give unto my said sonne Stephen his Executors Administrators and Assignes full power and Authority to enter into and upon the said Messuage and Lands and the same To have hold and enjoy untill the said forty pounds with the Charges of recovering of the same bee unto him or them paid and satisfied
And unto my said sonne Stephen I give and bequeath Tenn pounds of lawfull money of England
And to my two Godsonnes and Grandsonnes Thomas Russell and Thomas Hickmott tenn shillings
apeece to bee paid unto them respectively within one moneth next after my decease
And to my sonne Thomas Russell I give and bequeath twenty shillings of like
money to bee paid within one moneth next after my decease
And to my two Sisters Mary Beale and Hannah Chamberlyn I give and bequeath tenn shillings
apeece to bee paid to them respectively within one moneth next after my decease
And of this my Will I make my said two sonnes John and Stephen Executors And to them I give and bequeath All the rest of my Personall estate not before bequeathed
And In Witnesse thereof to each sheete of this my Will being two in Number have subscribed my
name and to the top of the first sheete thereof I have set my seale
Thomas Russell his marke.
Signed Sealed Published and declared to be the last Will and Testament of the said Thomas Russell the Testator in the presence of
Stephen Batt - Henry Dawson - William Gibb - Tho. Martin
Probatum fuit: [Latin] at London, 7th March 1686/7, to John Russell.
Exd.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 28th August 2020
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