Will of Robert Busbridge of Haremere, Sussex 1667

Date: 1667 to 1667
Location: Etchingham, Sussex, England
Surnames/tags: Temple Busbridge

Robert Busbridge will 1667^[1]

This is a transcription of the register office copy of Robert BUsbridge of Haremere, Etchingham, Sussex. It was written on 10 JUne 1667 and passed probate on 13 November 1667

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Where present, the obsolete letter Thorn has been rendered as th, and ff has been rendered as F
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Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Persons mentioned

• Robert Busbridge testator
• Nicholas Ashton dear friend and executor, cousin
• Joseph Busbridge brother of testator
• Margaritt Howling neice of testator
• William and Margaret Howling children of testator's niece Margaritt Howling
• Jeane Temple niece of testator
• James Temple nephew of testator
• Thomas Temple nephew of testator
• my deare Brother James Temple now a prisoner in Jersey married to testator's sister Mary
• Thomas Coggers servant of testator
• M^rsKatherine Ayloffe deare friend of testator
• M^ris Katherine Darnecombe testator lodges with her in Covent Garden
• my brother Busbridges his children names not given
• my nephew John Temple and my'deare neece
• my deare neece Susan Temple niece of testator
• my deare neece Mary Ashton niece of testator

June the Tenth, one Thou=
sand sixe hundred sixty and seaven The last will and Testament
of Robert Busbridge esquire of Haremer in Sussex, Being in
perfect health and memory Blessed be my good God. Into whose
hands I doe committ my soule humbilly begging for my sinnes
. and Transgressions relying wholy on the merritts of my Saviour
Jesus Christ My last will and Testament is that disanulling any
other formerly made making my dere friend M^r Nicholas Ashton
my sole and only executor who I am confident wilbe .... on ....
perticular. I thus despose of wjat I have being at present Thir=
teene hundred pounds in good Bonds

To my deare Brother Jo=
seph Busbridge Two hundred pounds To be paid in six monthed
after my decease>

To my neece Margaritt Howling? Two hundred
pound and to her Boy William Howling and to her Girle Margaret
Howling

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Howling a hundred pound each of them, her two hundred pound to bee
paid to her six monthes after my decease. The two childrens hundred
pound a peece to be in my cousin Ashtons hands till the boy is one &
twenty and the Girle is she continue unmarried soe long the intereste
to be paid yearly to their mother towards their maintenance as long
as their mother liveth, in case she dyes my cousin Ashton to take ...
some other honest friend ...... it for the childrens use likewise one hun=
dred pound to my neece Jeane Temple and one hundred pound to my
Nephew James Temple and fivety pounds to Thomas Temple my nephew
alsoe, and forty pound to my dear brother James Temple now a
prisoner in Jersey.

Tenne pound to Thomas Coggers my servantThese
sommes to be paid in six monthes after my decease. Two hundred and
fiftie I geve to my dearly beloved friend M^rs Katherine Ayloffe with
my watch rings plate and jewells to be paid in six monthes as others

Fiftie pound to M^ris Katherine Darnecombe? where I now lodge
in Covent garden.

To my cousin Nicholas Ashton twenty five pound

To my brother Busbridges his children twenty shillings a peece to bee
laid out for mourning rings

To my nephew John Temple and my
deare neece forty pound to buy mourning for them selves

The remain=
der to my funerall charges which I desire may be plane and decent
some fivety pound

And tenne pound to my deare neece Susan
Temple to buy mourning givern under my hand and seale this
tenth of June one Thousand six hunrded sixty and seaven Robert
Busbridge Thomas Cogger his marke. The marks of Thomas Raweley

Twenty pound I give to my Ensignes in case I dye.

What money or debts
I have nowe then here in my will I have sett downe or can sett
downe I give equally to my neece Jeane Temple and my neece Susan
Temple and my deare neece M^rs Mary Ashton Confirm what con=
ernes my Company my Ensignes will honestlly direct you some
tenne pound and fortie pence is due to terme of my old odde agreements? to there of forever more
The rest the master rolles with
my Ensignes helpe will .... directe not much due to them. There
is three hundred and fivety pound in my closett In my little
Trunke are all myy bonds and Master Rolles Robert Busbridge

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: 325
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #684129 (accessed 25 November 2022)
   Will of Robertj Busbridge, granted probate on 13 Nov 1667. Died about 1667 in Haremer, Sussex, England.