Will of Edward SADLEIR of London 1692
National Archives Reference PROB 11/409/264
I Edward SADLEIR of London [?] being in perfect memory and remembrance praised to God for it Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following. First I bequeath my soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Maker hoping that through the meritorious death and passion of Jesus Christ my only Savour and Redeemer to receive free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and as for my body to be buried in Christian burial at the discretion of my executrix hereinafter nominated.
I give to my daughter BEALE and my Daughter FOSTER to but them and their husbands [?] eight pounds apiece they having had their portions already. I give unto my daughter Susanna and daughter Anne all my concern in Bread street and Basing Hall street to be divided between, on Susanna to have her choice whether she will have my concern in Bread Street or in Basinghall Street and the other my daughter Anne is to have. Also my Will is that my daughter Anne should have no profit by her portion till she comes to the age of twenty two years old but my wife to
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Receive the whole income of it till she attains to that age she finding her meals drink cloths lodging and all other things necessary for her.
I give to my brother FOSTER five pounds.
I give to my sister ELLIS twenty shillings to buy her a ring.
I give to my wife all my money plate jewels debts together withal my moveable goods whatsoever to her forever. I also give her all my lands leases that is not willed away during her natural life, desiring her to pay all my lawful debts and after her death to be divided between as many of daughters as are then living and if any of them should be dead and should leave a child or children behind that child or children come in for a share with my daughters and if it happens my wife should die before she hath paid my debts then my will is that before there is a dividend made of my estate they shall be so much money raised out of it that will pay all my debts. My Will further is that what comes to my daughter BEALE may be so settled that her husband may have no power to take it from her.
Of this my Last Will and Testament I make my wife sole Executrix renouncing all former wills, witness my hand and seal this Edw. SADLEIR sealed and delivered in the presence of Rob DAWSON [?] DAWSON
The eleventh day of April AD 1692 upon which day appeared personally Robert DAWSON of the Parish of St Mary Colechurch citizen and ? of London aged about fifty nine years and Newcombe DAWSON of ST Mary Cole Church aforesaid Sugar Refiner of London aged about nine and twenty years and did make Oath that they well new and were acquainted with Mr Edward SADLEIR the testator deceased and that they were by him respectively requested to be witnesses to his Will and that about Michaelmas in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and eighty nine [1689] as they suppose but do not now well remember the exact they then (exact ? the time of the publication of his said Will in the dwelling house of the said Edward SADLEIR situate in Bassinghall alias Bassinshaw Street London, he the said Edward SADLEIR did then and there so they believe desire them to be witnesses to his Will and he the said Testator being then and there as they believe in health and of good understanding and memory did himself produce and duly subscribe his name to the said Will and also put his seal thereunto in manner and form as is now be seen thereon and he did then publish and declare the same for and as his Last William and Testament in the presence and hearing of these deponents and they the said Robert and Newcombe DAWSON did at his request (then and there) respectively subscribe their names at the bottom of the said Will as now is to be seen thereon which they very well know having seen the said Will contained in one side of half a sheet of paper now produced and shown unto them and hereunto annexed and seeing their names to the same respectively subscribed which they well know to be of their own proper hand writing Robert DAWSON Newcombe DAWSON. 11th April AD 1692
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… 1708 …Susanne SADLIER ……
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Probatum ….. [in Latin]
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