Will of Robert Scrope 1649

Date: 1649 [unknown]
Location: Lewknor, Oxfordshire, England
Surname/tag: Scrope

Contents 1 Introductory Notes 2 Persons Mentioned 3 Transcription conventions 4 Transcription 5 Sources

Introductory Notes

Will of Robert Scrope^[1]

Possibly Robert Scrope but require changes to generally accepted dates of death of both the testator (bring date from 'about 1660' to 1649) and his grandfather Robert Scrope Esq JP (change date of death from 1630 to after 1649).

Persons Mentioned

• Jeffery Goodchild and Mary his wife: Servant to Robert Scrope grandfather
• Robert Scroope: Grandfather to the testator
• John Walker: Boy working for Robert

Transcription conventions

Spelling, punctuation and line breaks are as per the original document.
Crossings through have been included struck out
Where present, the obsolete letter Thorn has been rendered as th, and ff has been rendered as F
Abbreviations and breviographs have been expanded in [square brackets]
The image quality was good and the writing legible.
Non standard spelling as per usual for this time period, which has been transcribed verbatim.

Transcription

In the name of God Amen I Robert
Scrope Jun of Wormesley in the parish of Lewknor in the County of Oxford
Esq. Being weake and infirme in body but of a p[er]fect and disposeing minde thank bee
to the Almightie and knowing the certaintie of death and the uncertainty of the time
and manner of it and that wee are all borne to dye and as there is but one way to bee
borne but many wayes to dye doe therefore hereby make my last will and testament in
mannor following vizt first I commend and committ my soule (being my better part) into the hands of my
Lord god, who made me and fashioned me in my mothers wombe, making me a reasonable
creature nothing doubting but on the last day of the generall resurrection I shall by the
[…] and mercies of Christ have Salvation. And as for my body I commit it to the earth
from whence that came to be decently buried according to the discretion of my Executor here
after named, and as for my worldly goods I dispose of them as followeth. Item first I give
and bequeath unto Jeffery Goodchild and Mary his now wife (for the service which they
have done unto me) being servante unto my most loveing Grandfather Robert Scroope of
Wormsley aforesaid Esq. the sume of threescore pounds of good and lawfull money of
England to be paid unto them or one of them by my Executor within one yeare after my
decease. Item I give and bequeath unto John Walker my boy the sume of tenn pounds
to be paid unto him by my said Executor when he shall accomplish the full age of one
and twenty yeares or sooner at the discretion of my said Executor. All the rest of my goods
rents arrearances of rents cattell chattells and all other my moveables I give and bequeath
unto my most deare grandfather Robert Scroope of Wormesley in the County of Oxon
Esq for the payment of my debts legacies and funerall expences whom I doe hereby
constitute ordaine and declare and publish to be the sole Executor of this my last will
and testament, unto which I have sette my hand and seale the fifth day of Aprill
one thousand six hundred forty nine. Robert Scroope. These being present Jeffery
Goodchild. The mark of John Walker Sen. The mark of Thomas Janes

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Robert Scrope or Scroope of Lewknor, Oxfordshire. 2 June 1649. PROB 11/208/319