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Location: Norwich, Norfolk, England
Surname/tag: Cocke
This is a transcription of the original will of Charles George Cocke of Norwich, 1682. [1]
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I Charles George Cocke of the Citty of Norwich desirous to dispose of that estate where with itt hath
pleased Almighty God to intrust mee doe in his feare & with the uttmost consideracon of my
duty both as A man & as A Christian in the most prudent & impartiall manner I cann &
as fair as in mee layes desirous to a said future controversyes knowinge by manifold experiences
how little care or shrift there is for ought that come? the Soule heaven and el? where
there arre greate discoveryes discourses of itt butt the mane inde?r is for the world, castinge
therefore my selfe upon the free grace of God in & through the sole meritts & mediation of
[line has a fold through] my [illegible] the Lord Christ Jesus by whome I hope only for Salvation, I require (as a
testator husband father or in any other relation ) that my buriall be as private as may be
and my interm[en]t without any funerall pompe I have longe seene the vanity of itt & would not
have that att my owne buriall which in my life time I never approved seeinge the will? thereof
and therefore desire thoseintrusted will observe my order & directions therein For the temporall
estate wherewith God hath blessed mee I dispose & confirme the same as followeth, that
estate which was my fathers as that which I purchased of my Cozen Thomas L?don and
Christopher Cock & Robert Browne & others in Forncett Asherton Bunwell Charlton & other townes
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