National Archives File C6-97-88
Partial Transcript. Wanborough = Wanborough Wilts (Wiltshire)
The several answers of Abraham Goodings Gent. one of the defendants to the bill of compliant of Mary Goodings
The said defendant now and at times hereafter saving and reserving to himself all manner of advantages of exception to the many untruths and other imperfections in the said complaint’s said //
bill of compliant contained to the same or to so much thereof as is material for any way .. him this defendant (as he is advised) to make answer unto his answereth and sayeth that he knoweth nothing to the //
contrary but the said Complainant Mary GOODINGE may be executrix of the last Will of Henry GOODINGE her late husband in the Bill for that purpose named and beleiveth that Henry GOODINGE esquire in the said bill named .. .. //
to the said Henry GOODINGE deceased was seized of an estate of inheritance and in the manor of Wanborough in the said Bill mentioned and in diverse messuages lands and tenements there unto belong which may be of the //
yearly value of six hundred pounds or thereabouts and believeth that the said Henry GOODINGE the father did about the time in the said Bill mentioned settle and .. the greatest part thereof to and upon his eldest son and //
heir George GOODINGE in the said bill named and since deceased and this defendant beleiveth and doth acknowledge that produced to the said Settlement by indenture bearing date on or about the tenth day of August then before the //
said Henry GOODINGE the father did join in a lease unto Richard SPOMER Richard WHITEHEAD Valentine WAKELING and William WAKELING in the said Bill named of the several meadows in the said Bill mentioned for the term of two //
thousand years or some such long term in trust for and to the benefit and behoof of him the said Henry GOODINGE the Father his executors administrators and assigns or such other person or persons as he should at any time by //
deed or his last Will in Writing nominate and appoint to the like effect but in all things relating to the said deed this defendant answereth himself to the same when it shall be produced and this defendant saith that he doth believe //
that the said Henry GOODINGE the Father might have a love and affection for John GOODINGE in the said Bill named who was his eldest son by a second wife but this defendant doth not believe that the said Henry GOODINGE the Father //
did intend the said meadows for his said son John in such a manner as it might be in the power of his said son to dispose thereof specially in case he should not attain his age of one and twenty years. Neither doth this defendant believe //
or have he over heard that he the said Henry GOODINGE in his life time did order. declare. Neither doth this defendant know or over heard otherwise then by such persons who would pretend to .. under the said John that //
the said Henry GOODINGE did settle convey and .. the said meadow grounds or the messuages or tenements there upon .. to or upon his said son John GODINGE his executors administrators
term of two thousand years or to that effect or that that the said Henry GOODINGE did thereby or by other .. or by other ways or means declared the right of the said