Will of Anne Earle ( – 1632)

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Badburgham, Cambridgeshire, England
Surnames/tags: Earle wills

Will of Anne Earle
This is a transcription of the register copy of the Will of Anne Earle of Badburgham in the County of Cambridge. It was written on 1628 and proved at London on 27 October 1632.^[1][2]

Transcription conventions:
Spelling, punctuation and line breaks are as per the original document.
Crossings through have been included struck out
Paragraph breaks at change of bequest, and bold text are my own for ease of reading.
Where present, the obsolete letter ff has been rendered as F.
Abbreviations and breviographs have been expanded in [square brackets]
The image quality was good and the writing very legible.
Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Persons mentioned

• Anne Earle, Testatrix
• Elizabeth Dauies, my sister
• Alice Browne, my sister
• Master? Tobie Pallavicine
• Thomas Earle, my brother
• Richard Earle, my brother
• William Earle, my brother
• Edward Dauies, my brother in law
• Thomas Browne, my brother in law
• my brothers and sisters Children
• Richard Maynard, Executor
• Witnesses: John Wells, Edward Mathew

Transcription

[Page one] T. Anne Earle

In the name of God Amen The Seuen and Twentieth
daie of June in the yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of
England Scotland France and Ireland king defendor of the Faith .. the Fourth one thousand
six hundred twentie Eyght I Anne Earle of Badburgham in the Countie of Cambridge ~
Singlewoman being sicke in bodie but of perfect remembrance thankes bee to God therfore doe
make this my last Will and Testam[en]t in manner following

First I Commend my soule to ~~
Allmightie God my Creator and Redeemer stedfastly hopeing through the meritte of Jesus ~~
Christ to haue pardon for my sinnes and to bee accounted one of the Elect Children of God And ~
my body to the Earth from where it first Came And as touching that small portion? of wordly
goods I possesse in this transitorie life I giue and dispose of them thus

I will and giue vnto my
Sister Elizabeth Dauies and to my Sister Alice Browne all my Wearing apparell and all my ~
lynnen my brasse and my two trunkes equallie to bee deuyded betweene them by my Executor ~~
herein following named and appoynted And also my embroydred Cushions and a Carpett and an
embroydred Cubbard cloth six playne Cushions and a greene Rugg likewise equallie to bee ~
devyded betweene them

Item whereas my Master Tobie Pallauicine Esquire oweth vnto mee ~
upon his bond Four score pounds and vpwards My Will is that if my Executor shall procure & come
on the said money Then I will and dispose of the same as followeth

I will & giue vnto my M..

[Page two]

Pallavicine Fiue pounde thereof to buy her a Ring to weare my remembrance of mee

Item I will
and giue vnto my said M.. fiue Children to either of them twentie Shillings

item I will and giue
vnto my brother Thomas Earle tenne poundes to bee paid vnto him withyn one Moneth next after my
Executor shall receiue the said money oweing vnto mee of my said Master

Item I will and giue vnto
my brother Richard Earle likewise tenne poundes to bee paid vnto him at the said tyme

Item I will
and giue vnto my brother William Earle tenne poundes to be paid at like tyme

Item I will & giue
to my said two sisters likewise out of the said som[m]e of money to either of them tenne poundes to bee
paid to bee paid at like tyme aforesaid

Item I will and giue to euery one of my said brothers and
sisters Children twentie shillings to bee paid vnto them Generally? at like tyme aforesaid

Item I will
and giue vnto my two brothers in law Edward Dauies and Thomas Browne to either of them Fortie
Shillinges out of the foresaid som[m]e of money at like tyme as aforesaid

All the rest of my goods ~
Chattells and mouevables whatsoeuer is myne not afore giuen I will and giue vnto my fellow ser....
Richard Maynard whom I make and appoynt sole Executor of this my said last Will & Testament
to the end hee shall bring my bodie tot he Earth as a Christian and that hee shall performe all ~
things herein willed according to my mynd
In wittnes hereunto I haue sett my hand and Seale the
daie and yeare first abouewritten The marke of Anne Earle These persons being Wittnesses
John Wells Edward Mathew./

Probate 27 October 1632

Probate in Latin
Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascriptum apud London Coram Magistro ~~ Willielmo Mericke Peyun drowe? Surrogato venerabilis viri Henrici Marten militis Pegu? ..... Dicesimo Septimo die mensis Octobris Anno D[o]m[ini] Millesimo Sexcentesimo tricesimo Secundo ~~

Research Notes

Badburgham is now called Babraham.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858", database with images, The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 162, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 5111 #998870 (accessed 8 August 2023), Will of Anna Earle, granted probate on 27 Oct 1632. Died about 1632 in Badburgham, Cambridgeshire, England.
2. ↑ Will of Anne Earle

   Reference: PROB 11/162/461

   Description: Will of Anne Earle, Single Woman of Babraham, Cambridgeshire

   Date: 27 October 1632

   Held by: The National Archives, Kew

3. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, Babraham, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (accessed 8 August 2023).