The National Archives of the UK (TNA): PRO Reference – PROB 11/576 SIG 220 1720 OCT MDX
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I Henry RAWORTH of Knights in the parish of South Mims in the county of Middlesex spent revoking and making all former Wills by me at ant time heretofore made do make this my last Will and Testament in as followeth. My Will and desire is and I do hereby order and direct that in case I shall happen to die in or near the City of London that I be buried at South Mims aforesaid but if it shall so happen that I die anywhere else being ten miles distance from the said City of London then and in such case my Will is that I be buried in the parish wherein I shall so die.
And whereas I am possessed of interested in or intituled unto several messuages or tenements lands and hereditaments situate lying and being in or near the parishes of Belton and Bradwell in the County of Suffolk. And also of and unto one third part or share of and in diverse messuages or tenements lands and hereditaments situate lying and being in or near the several parishes of Flixton and Blumpon or one of them in said County of Suffolk and also of in and in the manors of Kenton and Wangford in the said county of Suffolk together with the several messuages or tenements lands and hereditaments situate lying and being in or near the parishes of fields Territories or precincts of Kenton Debenham
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and Wangford or some or one of them in the said County of Suffolk and also of in and unto one third part or share of and in the ??? of Mourning Thorp and Fritton in the said County of Norfolk together with the several messuages or Tenements lands and hereditaments with the appurtenances and members belonging situate lying and being in the several parishes or ? territories or precincts of Mourning Thorpe and Fritton aforesaid some or one of them in the said County of Norfolk and also of and in one other third part or share of and in several other messuages lands tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in the several parishes Handlotte? or precincts of Uxbridge Hillingdon and Denham some or one of them in said Counties of Middlesex and Bucks or one of them
And also of ? one Capital messuage or Mansion House situate lying and being in the parish of South Mims aforesaid in the said county of Middlesex together with the tenements houses lands and hereditaments there unto belonging ? I do hereby devise and bequeath all and singular the said several manors messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances and all my right title ? claim and demand whatsoever of in or to the same or any of the ? part of them unto my Brother John RAWORTH his heirs and assigns forever .
Then I give and bequeath unto Mary WALLACE whose Mothers name was Mary JACBSON the sum of twenty pounds
And my Will is that all servants that shall be in my service at the time f my decease shall have paid unto them one years wages over and above the wages which have been paid unto them respectively (I mean each of domestic servants) which said years advance wages I do hereby give and bequeath unto them and each of them respectively. And I do hereby further give devise and bequeath unto my brother John RAWORTH his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for ever all the rest residue and remainder of my estate both real and ? whatsoever and wheresoever of what nature find or quality soever the same both or may consist at the time of my decease and I do hereby ? constitute and appoint my said Brother John RAWORTH the sole executor of this my last Will and Testament
But I do hereby further declare my Will and mind to be that in case my said Brother John RAWORTH shall happen to depart this life out of England then and in such case all and singular messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premises all and singular other my estate and estates both real and personal herein and hereby before given devised and bequeathed unto my said Brother John RAWORTH shall and is by me intended to and belong unto my Nephew William BERNERS the second son now living of my brother-in-law William BERNERS late of Much Hadham in the County of Hertford Esq. Deceased.
And then and in such case but not otherwise I give devise and bequeath the same unto my said Nephew William BERNERS his heirs executors administrators and assigns forever. Subject nevertheless to the other Legacies in and by my said Will given and bequeathed if the said William BERNERS shall live to attain his Age of twenty one years and not otherwise. And in such case I make him the said William BERNERS sole Executor of this my Will.
But I do hereby further declare it to be my Will true intent and meaning that if it shall so happen that my said Brother John RAWORTH and my said Nephew William BERNERS now living shall both of them depart this life in manner aforesaid (that is to say) my Brother John RAWORTH out of England and my said Nephew William BERNERS he before he shall attain the Age of twenty one years then and in such cases and not otherwise, I give devise and bequeath all and singular
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my said Manors messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances unto my Nephew Henry BERNERS the younger son of the said Wm. BERNERS deceased his heirs executors administrators and assigns forever subject likewise to the said other legacies in my said Will and in such case make the Henry BERNERS sole executor of this my Will.
And lastly if it shall so happen that my said Brother John RAWORTH shall die out of England before – my said Nephew William BERNERS shall have attained his age of twenty one years and – in case of the decease of my said Nephew William BERNERS as aforesaid before his Brother Henry BERNERS shall have attained his age of twenty one years. Then and in either of the said cases but not otherwise, I hereby make ordain and appoint my sister Elizabeth GOSTHIN the now wife of Charles GOSTHIN Esq. Sole executor of this my last Will and Testament during the minority of such of my said Nephews William or Henry BERNERS as shall so happen to be intituled unto the several estates and premises hereby given devised and bequeath as aforesaid.
In witness whereof the said Henry RAWORTH the testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained [on n ?] sheets a half of paper affixed my seal and to each of the said sheets I have signed my name this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and nineteen. Henry RAWORTH. Signed sealed published and declared by the said Henry RAWORTH the testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of said Testator John EVANS, Tho ANGEL, Jno TAYLOR.
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