Item I will and give to Twenty ancient poore people of Wye aforesaid The summe of Tenne shillings That is to each of them 6d
apeece to be distributed by William Fenby and Thomas Masters of the said parish
Item I will and give to the other poore people of the said parish soe much bread as shall amount to the summe
of Ten shillings
Item I will and give to Thomas Gutteridge the summe of Forty shillings To be
paid to his mother Susan Masters to be laid out in Stocks for his use
Item I will and give to the said Susan Masters the summe of Ten shillings
Item I give to Elizabeth Samson my late servant the summe of Ten shillings
Item I give to Mary Samson my servant the summe of Ten shillings
Item I will and give to my hounoured and much respected friend John Naylor of Ashfored one gold ring to the value of Ten
shillings
Item I will and give to John Wade of Ashford gent my Cane with a silver handle
Item I will that the legacyes aforesaid be paid and delivered within one moneth after my decease by my executors
Item I will and give to my sonne John Rutton the summe of Twenty poundes to be paid by my executors within Twelve moneths after my decease
All the rest and residue of my ready money debts plate and personall estate whatsoever to me belonging at the time of my death I will and give the same to my two sonnes Isaac Rutton and Thomas Rutton equally to be divided between them my debts legacyes and funerall expences being first by them satisfied and paid out of the same
And I doe nominate and appoint my said sonnes Isaac Rutton and Thomas Rutton executors of this my last will and testament
desiring my friend John Wade of Ashford gent to be overseer of this my last will and testament to see the same fully performed
according to the intent thereof
This is the last will and testament of me Thomas Rutton whereunto I have set my hand and Seale the Ninth day of February In the Five and Twentieth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of god of England Scotland France & Ireland King defender of the faith etc Annoq Domini 1672 T Rutton
Sealed and published as my last will and testament in the presence of Thomas Masters
The marke of John Lowis - Wm Fenby
14o die Februarii 1672 iuxta etc coram magistro Willimo Lovelace cleric Surrogato etc peticione me Paulo Lukin notarii publici Probatum & Juramentis Isaaci Rutton et Thoma Rutton filiorum dicti defuncti et Executorum in dicto testamento nominat Ac inde approbatum & ….etc dictis Executoribus Comissum fuit prius resp .. iurat salvo iuro etc
Transcribed by Rosie Ansell February 2020.
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