16 March 1670 Will of John Eyres (likely of Worth Matravers) (proved 1671)

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of P???????? Countie of ????????? as followeth vizt
First of all I comend my soule into the handes of my gratious god who created it & redeemeth it by the prtious bloud of his ownne sonn Jesus Christ
Also I comend my body to the earth whence it was taken in assurance of the resurrection thereof unto glory
Also I give to the poore fortie shillings to bee distributed att my funeral wth speciall regard to bee had to the pare of Worth
	att the discretion of mine executor & overseers 
Also I give to my loving wife fiftie pounds to bee paid unto her within twelve moneths after my decease ????? the other monies wch
   I covenanted in marriage to give her ?????????? & also I give to her my wearing goldring
Also I doe give to my sonn John Eyres in lieu of my promise made to him att the time of his marriage concerning a tenement in Kimbridge 
   my farme of Kingswood hee paying the Annuity I have granted out of it for the better livelyhood of my wife 
Also I doe give to my daughter Alice Dolling fiftie pounds & to her & to her husband & to their eldest sonn Henry to each a gold ring
   of tenn shillings price & to their five younger sonns to each tenn pounds
Also I doe give to my daughter Sarah Collins my watch & to her & her husband to each a goldring of tenn shill????????
Also I doe give to my daughter Dolling & my daughter Collins to each of them a Fetherbed & Boulster 
Also I doe give to my daughter Collins her three daughters Elizabeth Martha & Mary to each five pounds to be p??? at their marriage 
   or att their age of one & twentie yeares which shall first happen
Also I doe give to my grandaughter Joyce Tito five pounds to be paid to her att her age of eighteene yeares if then living 
Also I doe give to my wifes children vizt to her owne sonns to each of them a gold ring of tenn shillings price, to her daughter 
   Elianor a gold ring of tenn shillings price, & to her younger daughters five pounds each, & if God should please that my wife 
   should decease before mee then I doe give to her two daughters Ann & Elizabeth Man to each seventie pounds more
Also I doe give to my daughter in law Sarah Eyres a gold ring of tenn shillings price, & to my grandsonn John Eyres fortie pounds
   and my Silver Inkecase
Also I doe give to my grandchildren Mary Eyres Sarah Eyres & Samuel Eyres each twentie pounds 
Also I doe give to my two grandaughters Sarah Haich & Mary Culliford to each a gold ring of tenn shillings price 
Also I doe give to Richard Adams twentie shillings, to Steven Udall twentie shillings, to William Fardin tenn shillings, to Robert
   Phippard tenn shillings, & to all my household servants that shall bee living with mee att my decease to each of them tenn 
   shillings, all which to bee paid within twentie moneths after my decease
Also my will is that if any of my grandchildren dye before their legacies become due that then it shall be equally divided
      betweene their brothers & sisters surviving
And it is my intent & meaning that all the legacies above menconed, to which noe perticular time of payment is prefixed, shall bee
   paid within three moneths after the expiracon of my lease in Remscombe farme, which I now hold, only that the Interest shall bee paid
   for them, when twelve moneths are expired after my decease 
As touching the residue of my goods & chattles not given & bequeathed wherewith it hath pleased God to endue mee my iust debts & legacies first 
   executed of this my last will & testament And I doe make & ordaine my sons in law Mr Henry Dolling & Mr William Collins
   to bee my overseers, & that they will bee pleased to see this my last will & testament performed according to my true intent and
   meaning, & for their paines therein, I doe give to each of them fortie shillings to bee paid within three moneths after my decease 
And in testimony that this is my last will I have hereunto putt my hand & seale the sixteenth day of March &c  the yeare 
   of our lord one thousand six hundred & seventy

									John Eyres

Sealed in the prsence of
	Fra: Lewis
	Eliz: Man


Memorand?? that I John Eyres the above menconed testator doe by these prsents declare that it is my mind & meaning That in case my
goods & chattells wch I shall dye possessen of Obesides the lease of Kingswod Farm shall not upon a iust account of my executor bee
found sufficient to discharge & pay all the legacies herein by mee bequeathed when my debts and moderate Funerall expences
are first discharged, then the Generall Legatees above mentioned shall receive each of them a propertionable part as
farr as the said goods & chattells shall ex????? & nore more

									witnese my hand		John Eyres
									M???? 5 1671

	In the prsence of
	Fra: ????
	Eli??????

			Juract dictam Johannen Eyres exnem
			dicti defuncti ix die mensis ixbris
			anno dni 1671 coram Mr Lymdesay
			??????????????

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