Will of Charity Lee widow of Newington, Surrey 1699

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Newington, Surrey, England
Surnames/tags: Lee Eldred Rivers

Will of Charity Lee^[1]

THis is a transcription of the register office copy of the will of Charity (Rivers) Eldred (abt.1632-abt.1699) Written on the 16 November 1695 and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 25 May 1699

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Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Persons mentioned

• Charity Lee of Newington in the County of Surrey Widow
• my daughter Jane Mitchell the wife of M^r John Mitchell
• my Grandchild Charity Eldred daughter of John Eldred
• my son James Lee by second husband Thomas Lee
• my son John Eldred
• wife of John Eldred not named
• Dorothy Eldred and son John Eldred daughter and son of John Eldred, testatrix's grandchildren
• my son Lancelot Lee by second husband Thomas Lee
• my son Thomas Lee by second husband Thomas Lee
• my friend Lancelot Baugh
• M^rsMagdalen Ash rents property from testatrix
• Rich.Blowe James Bisse Tho ....per witnesses to will

[page 1 folio 257 verso] In the name of God Amen
I Charity Lee of Newington in the County of Surrey Widow being
of perfect mind and disposing memory Do make this my last Will and
Testament in manner following

First I bequeath my Soul to God
that gave it me hopeing for a joyfull resurrection in and through the
sole merits and mediation of my Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ
My body to the ground to be decently buried by my Executors
hereafter named in the Church of Newington aforesaid And I
desire to be laid in the grave of my late husband M^r Lee And I
give to the poore of Newington aforesaid ten pounds

Item I give
to my daughter Jane Mitchell the wife of M^r John Mitchell
nine hundred pounds to make up her fortune given by her father
fifteen hundred pounds

Item I give her my said daughter
Mitchell my Necklace of pearls my Diamond Ring my gold
Spoon a hundred broad pieces which I have by me in a purse and
all my silver plate wahtsoever not hereafter disposed of by this
my Will

Item I give to my Grandchild Charity Eldred the
ffourteen pounds a year which I have put into the Exchequer
for her life

Item I give my said Grandchild Charity Eldred three
hundred pounds in money my lesers? pair of Silver Candlestick
my lesers Salvar my Tea pott a Silver porringer my little silver
Cup a dozen of Silver Spoones and my old Silver plate

Item I give
to my son James Lee and his Assignes the fourteen pounds a year
which I put into the Exchequer for his life

Item I give to my son
James Lee his Ecec[utors] and Assignes all my right title and INterest
in all the Lands I have in Somersetshire To have and to hold to
him his Executors and Assignes for all the residue of my term
[illegible] therein unexpired which Land is mortgaged to me for ninety

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nine years or some such term and I have let out the same to M^rs
Magdalen Ash for a term of year rendering a small Rent determined
on three lives then in being

Item I give to my son John Eldred one
hundred pounds and to his wife fifty pounds and to his daughter
Dorothy Eldred and son John Eldred twenty pounds a piece

Item I
give to my son Lancelot Lee twenty pounds and to my son Thomas
Lee twenty pounds and to my friend Lancelot Baughten pounds

Item
my further will is that my household linen be divided by two indifferent
persons one halfe whereof which my said daughter Mitchell shall choose
I give to her and halfe the other moiety I give my Grandchild Charity
Eldred and the remaining moiety I give to my said daughter Mitchell

Item I give all the rest and residue of my Estate both reall and personall
to my said daughter Jane Mitchell and my said Grandchild
Charity Eldred And I do make my said daughter Mitchell in her own
right and my son John Eldred in trust for his daughter Charity
Eldred Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I do herevy
revoke all former Wills by me made In witness whereof I have
herunto set my hand and Seal the Sixteenth Day of November in the
year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred ninety five Charity
Lee Signed Sealed published and delivered as the last Will and
Testament of the aforesaid M^rs Lee the words aforesaid by my
said daughter Mitchell Mitchell being first interlined in the presence
of us all then subscribing our names in the said M^rs Lees presence
Rich.Blowe James Bisse Tho ....per

Sources

1. ↑ Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 450
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #979828 (accessed 30 December 2022)
   Will of Charitatis Lee, granted probate on 25 May 1699. Died about 1699 in Newington, Surrey, England.