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Will of Wentworth Bradbury, Vicar at Wickham Bonhunt.

(In transcribing this Will we have ensured that each line of the original Will is on a separate line in the transcription).

The Will was made on the 21st December 1763. 

In the name of God Amen

I Wentworth Bradbury Rector of Wicken Bonunt in the County

of Essex do make this my last Will & Testament in manner

following viz First I give to my dear and loving wife Ann

Bradbury the profit of whole estates both real and personal

during her natural life after my wife's decease I give to my

daughter Knight ? and to her heirs all that my estate both free 

and Copyhold lying in the parish of Mildenhall in the county of

Suffolk and in the tenure of William Elliot which said Estate I give

to her to dispose of as she shall think proper. I likewise give

to my son Wentworth Bradbury after my Wife's decease all that

my Estate at Wicken Bonhunt aforesaid part in the tenure of

Henry Aylett and part of Edmond Bond.  I give likewise to my

said son Wentworth over and above what he has before of me

the sum of three hundred pounds to be paid by my surviving executor

within six months after my wife's decease or as soon as conveniently

may be after that and Will is that my Executor shall pay him

interest at the rate of four pounds percent to commence from the

first quarter day after my wife's decease till the principle is

paid.  I likewise give to my son Thomas Bradbury over and above

what he has already had of me five hundred pounds to be paid

within six months after my wife's decease or as soon after that

as my Executor can conveniently raise it with Interest at four

pound percent till the principle is paid. I likewise give to my

son William Bradbury and his heirs all that my estate at

Arkesdon in the county of Essex that I lately bought of Thomas

Ponslade esquire called Fullwell Hall and in the tenure of John

Morris and I do subject that Estate and what money I shall

leave at my death to the payment of the above sons of three

hundred pound Wentworth, and five hundred pounds to

my son Thomas and of all other legacies in this Will and of

my funeral charges and of all other debts whatsoever and I do

give to my dear wife all my household goods to be sold or

otherwise disposed of as she shall think proper. And I give my

study of books to be equally divided between my two son Thomas

and William Bradbury except such of them as my dear wife

shall think fit to reserve to herself. My Will and meaning is that

my dear wife shall enjoy the profits of my whole estate during

her natural life . And lastly I do nominate , constitute and

appoint my dear wife Ann Bradbury and my son William

Bradbury as Executors of this my last Will & Testament revoking

all other former Wills by me heretofore made in Witness whereof

I  hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first of December 1763. 

Wentworth Bradbury Signed sealed and published as the last

Will & Testament of the within named Wentworth Bradbury in

the presence of us whose names are here under subscribed at the

      and in presence of the Executor George Shelley John

? and Thomas Buck

This Will was proved at London the fourteenth day

of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and

sixty six before the right Worshipful George Hay Doctor of

Law master Lawyer or Commissary of the Prerogative Court

of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the Oath of the Reverend

William Bradbury the son of the deceased and one of the

Executors named in the said Will to whom Administration was

granted of all and singular the goods chattels and of the

said deceased he having been first sworn by Commission duly to

administer  (power reserved of making the like grant to Ann

Bradbury Widow the relict of the said deceased and the other

executor when she shall apply for the same).

 

 

 

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