Will of Thomas Shuckburgh (1670) PROB 11/334/67

Date: 1670 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: Shuckburgh

Will and Codicil of Thomas Shuckburgh

This transcription is taken from the probate record of the will held in the National Archives. The National Archives reference PROB 11/334/67.^[1]

The will names the following people

• Rebecca, sister, wife of Richard Potter
• Anne, sister, wife of [Doctor Offley?]
• Joyce, sister, wife of John Easton
• Mary,sister, wife of Wilshorne [Wellesborne] Sill
• John, brother
• George, brother
• Richard, brother
• Anne (Yorke) Bray, mother, wife of Richard Bray
• Elizabeth, sister, unmarried at time of codicil
• Doctor Offley, brother in law
• John Shuckburgh, brother, and his wife
• Henry Shuckburgh, brother, and his wife
• John Sill, son of Mary
• Frances Lawrence
• John Francis of London, saddler
• Jane Trissell Lawrence
• SIr John Lawrence and his lady
• Mr Isaack Lawrence
• Thomas Lawrence, son of Isaack
• Dame Jane Cheney and husband
• Dr Wilkinson and wife
• Edward Cox
• Frances Guilford
• John Rose of Bourton
• Mrs Dickson
• Mary King, wife of John King
• Thomas Colborne, Attorney

Spelling as in TNA document. Paragraphs have been entered to separate legacy items.

I Thomas Shuckburgh of Chelsey in the County of Midx Esquire doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following.

• Imprimio I give and bequeath unto my Sister Rebecca wife of Richard Potter gent foure hundred pounds of Lawfull English money.
• Item I give and bequeath to my Sister Anne wife of [blank] Three hundred pounds of like Lawfull money.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Sister Joyce wife of John Easton gent the like some of three hundred pounds of like lawfull money.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Sister Mary wife of Wilsborne Sill Esquire the Some of two hundred and fifty pounds of like lawfull money.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my three Brothers John, George and Richard two hundred and fifty pounds a peece of like lawfull money.

All which said legacies my meaning is shalbe in lieu and full satisfacion of all such legacies and porcons which were menconed or intended to bee given to them and every of them by my late father John Shuckburgh Esquire by his last Will and Testament. And my further will and meaning is that the said legacies herein bequeathed shalbe paid to the said respective legatees their respective Executors administrators or assignees within twelve months next after the decease of my Mother Anne wife of Richard Bray Esquire. Alsoe I give and bequeath to the said legatees respectively their respective executors, administrators and assignees soe much money yearly as the interest of their respective legacies shall yearly amounte to after my decease untill their said legacies shalbecome due and paiable. Provided that if the said legatees shall not support reasonable sign ?? will and sufficiently release and acquite my heirs executors and administrators of and from their said legacies or porcons so menconed to bee given to them respectively by my said father by the said will as aforesaid then the legacy or legacies herein before menconed by mee to bee given shalbe void and null to such refuseing or neglecting legatees only as if noe such legacy had been to him or her herein before given. And provided alsoe that if the said Mr Welsborne Sill his heirs executors administrators or assignees shall not upon like request pay the one hundred pounds which one Mr Francis and my selfe stand bound for do suretyes for and with the said Mr Sill the one hundred pounds parcel of his said wives legacie herein before given togeather with the interest thereof shall cease and become void.

• Item I give and bequeath to my sister Elizabeth fifty pounds to bee paid unto her heir, executors, administrators and assignees within twelve monthes net after my said Mother her decease, together with interest for the same as the before mentioned legatees are to have.
• Item I further give and bequeath unto my said sister Elizabeth tenn pounds per annum for and duringe the naturall life of my executor hereafter named.
• Item I further give to my brothers George and Richard tenn pounds a peece per annum for and during the naturall life of my said executor.
• Item I further give to my said sisters Rebecca and Anne the like somes of tenn pounds a peece per annum for and during the naturall life of my said executor.
  

Which said legacies of tenn pounds and five pounds shalbe paid to the said legatees their executors and administrators by my said executor halfe yearly, the first payment of every of them to beginn at the end of six months next after my decease.

• Item I give and bequeath unto my Mother, my Brothers and their wives and my Sisters and their husbands tenn pounds a peece to buy them mournings.
• Item I give and bequeath to the poor of Birdingbury in the County of Warw tenn pounds to bee divided, remaine as a stock or otherwise as my executor appoints.
• Item I give and bequeath unto the poore of Chelsey aforesaid tenn pounds to bee divided amongst them as my executor shall appoint.
• Item I give and bequeath to the poore of Bourton and Draycott in the said county of Warw tenn pounds to bee paid and divided at such tymes and in such manner as my executor shall direct.
• Item I give and bequeath to the three poore men liveing neere Chelsey whome I have used to give some clothes to, twenty shillings a peece to bee disposed of for their benefitt at such tymes and in such manner as Mr Frances Lawrence shall appoint.
• Item I give and bequeath to Thomas Lawrence sonne of Isaack Lawrence Esquire the first presentation or Turne to the Church of Bourto aforesaid after the said church shalbe come voyd and the said Thomas in a capacity to officiate there.
• Item I further give and bequeath to the said Thomas Lawrence tenn pounds and will that his mother dispose of and lay out the same at such tyme and in such manner as she shall think fitt.
• Item I give to Mr Frances Lawrence tenn pounds in gold.
• Item I give to Jane Trissell Lawrence, Sir John Lawrence and his lady and Mr Isaack Lawrence and his wife forty shillings a peece to buy each of them a ring.
• Item I give & bequeath to Dame Jane Cheney and her husband twenty shillings a peece in gold to buy each of them a ring.
• Item I give and bequeath to Doctor Wilkinson and his wife twenty shillings a peece in gold. And further to the said doctor cloth for a mourning (coat?)
• In case I depart this life at Chelsey, Item I give and bequeath to Sir John Lawrence his eldest sonne fower of the best bookes hee shall choose out of all my bookes.
• Item I give and bequeath to Edward Cox and Francis Guilford tenn shillings a peece to buy them rings.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my brother in law Doctor Offley and my sister his wife, to my brother John Shuckburgh and his wife and to my brother Henry his wife five pounds a peece in gold.
• Item I give and bequeath to John Francis of London, sadler, twenty shillings.
• Item I give and bequeath to all the servants of the Lady Lawrence and Mrs Lawrence liveing with them at the time of my death tenn shillimgs a peece.
• Item I give and bequeath to John Rose of Bourton fifty shillings and doe desire my executor to bee helpefull to him hereafter if he shall continue to dis[??]e well or shalbe in want or necessity.
• Item I give and bequeath to my attorney Thomas Colborne fifty shillings.
• Item I give and bequeath to Mrs Dickson and Mary King wife of John King twenty shillings a peece.
• Item I give and devise to my brother Henry Shuckburgh from and after the decease of my Mother all that my manor of Bourton with all its rights members and appurtenances and alsoe all the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments thereto belonging. And all that close called the Thornee Close in Franckton. To have and to hold unti the said Henry Shuckburgh and his heires and assignees forever, from and after the decease of my said mother.
• Item I further give and bequeath unto my said brother Henry all my goods cattle, chattles, money, bonds, specialtys and securityes for moneys and all other my personal estate whatsoever to the intent and purpose that hee shalbe the better enabled to satisfy and pay all my debts and all the legacies and bequests herein before expressed according to my true meaning expressed in this my will.
  

And of this my last will and testament I doe constitute and appoint my said brother Henry whole and sole executor. In witness whereof I have this my will conteyning five sheetes and parte of another sheete of paper put my hand and seals the fifteenth day of February in the fourteenth yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne lord, king Charles the Second over England. Thomas Shuckburgh
Signed sealed published and declared in the p[resen]ce of Jan: Wyttar, Tho: Colborne, Grissell Dickinson

This Codicil or writeing I the said Thomas Shuckburgh doe hereby owne and declare to bee part of my will to which it is annexed

• Imprimis I doe give and bequeath unto my sister Offley the sume of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to the intent that she shall dispose thereof unto and amongst her children as she shall think fitt. And until the said two hundred pounds shalbe paid unto her my will is that my executor before named doe pay unto her interest for the same halfe yearly. And this I doe give unto her in lieu of all other legacies by mee before given to her, the tenn pounds for mourning only excepted.
• Item I doe give unto my sister Elizabeth in lieu of all other legacies before by mee given unto her (mourning excepted) the sume of three hundred pounds of lawfull english money the interest of which to bee paid halfe yearly unto her by my executor whilst she shall remain unmarried and the principall upon the day of her marriage provided she marry with the consent of Doctor Offley and my brother Henry or oether of them.
• Item whereas I have given unto my sister Sill wife of Wellesborn Sill Esquire five pounds per annum during the life of my executor, now my will is and I doe hereby give unto her the summe of tenn pounds per annum during her owne naturall life to be paid unto her halfe yearly from the tyme of my decease. The legacy of five pounds before by mee given unto her inconsideration thereof to bee void.
• Item I doe give unto John Sill sonne of my said sister ten pounds yearly duringe his life to be paid unto him half yearly.
• Item whereas I have given unto my brother Richard an annuity of ten pounds a yeare dureing the life of my executor O doe hereby give and bequeath the said legacy or annuity of tenn pounds per annum unto him during his owne naturall life to bee paid unto him by my executor half yearly.
• Item whereas I have likewise given unto my sisters Rebecca and Anne the annuity or sume of tenn pounds a peece to be paid unto them during the life of my executor I doe hereby give and bequeath unto them the sume of tenn pounds a peece yearly to be paid unto them respectively for and duringe their owne naturall lives by half yearly payments. The first half yeares payment of all and singular the annuities and legacies before menconed in this codicil I doe hereby order to bee made the day six months after my decease and soe to bee accompted afterwards.
• Item whereas I have given unto Mr John Frances twenty shillings I doe hereby give in lieu thereof two peeces of gold.
  

On witness whereof I have to this codicil sett to my hand and sealed the nine and twentieth day of September at twelve a clocke at noone in the two and twentieth year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord King Charles the second over England, Anno Do[min]i 1670. Tho: Shuckburgh. Signed sealed and declared by the said Thomas Shuckburgh as part of his will in the p[resen]ce of John Francis, Thomas Whitfield.

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Thomas Shuckburgh or Suckburgh of Chelsea, Middlesex. 08 October 1670. PROB 11/334/67