Also, if you are a male Pike/Pyke (or you know one) who may be willing to do a genealogical DNA test, then please check out the Pike DNA Project for which I am a volunteer coordinator. There are several Pike/Pyke families that are not yet represented in the project, and for whom participants are wanted.
In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Pyke widow of Peckham in Camberwell Parish in the County of Surrey being weake in body but of sound and perfect minde memory and understanding praised be God there- fore Do make and publishe this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following Imprimis I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator assuredly trusting through the meritorious death and passion of my Lord and Saviour Jesus for the salvation thereof at the last day and my body to the Earth there to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor and Executrix herein after named And as for those worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased God in his mercy to bless me withall I give bequeath and dispose of them in manner and forme following Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my sonn James Petley and my daughter Elizabeth Petley if my sonn Thomas Pyke and my daughter Mary Pyke dye before them without issue of their bodies lawfully begotten All that my Messuage or Tenement Barne stable outhouses edifices and buildings with their appur- tenances comonly called or knowne by the name of little Moreden or Darken hole and all and singuler the lands arrable pasture and wood lands therunto belonging and therewith usually lett occupied and injoyed with their appurtenances scituate lying and being in the parish of Leiah next Tunbridge in the County of Kent and now in the tenure or occupation of John Wells or his assignes I give unto them the aforesaid James Petley and Eliza- beth Petley and their heires forever to be equally divided betweene the aforesaid James Petley and Elizabeth Petley As I have a right of disposeing and as I am impowered so to doe by my Marriage Settlement made by my late husband Thomas Pyke dated on the Thirtyeth day of June One thousand six hundred Ninety and seaven Item I give unto my sonn James Petley my sonn Thomas Pyke my daughter Elizabeth Petley and my daugh ter Mary Pyke to each of them Decent Mourning I give my two wedding Rings to my sonns that which is with the two hearts united graved I give unto my sonn James Petley and the other that was inamelled I give unto my sonn Thomas Pyke Item I give unto my sister Margaret Abbis Twenty shillings for a Ring and to my sister Ley Tenn shillings for a Ring and to my sister Haydon Tenn shillings for a Ring and to the poore of Packham where I now live Twenty shillings And after all my Funerall charges legacies and debts are satisfied discharged and paid Item I give unto my daughter Mary Pyke All and singuler my goods Chattells plate household stuffe money debts dues and demands whatsoever and wheresoever And I do constitute and appoint my son James Petley and my sister Margaret Abbis to be my Executor and Executrix of this my last Will and Testament revokeing all former Wills by me made And if it shall please God that I shall dye before my daughter Mary Pyke is capable of takeing care of her selfe I desire that my sonn James Petley and my sister Abbis will take the care of her Education In witness whereof I the said Elizabeth Pyke ahve tot his my last Will and Testament sett my hand and seale dated the Twelfth day of May in the second yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord George by the Grace of God King of Greate Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the faith &c Annoq Dni One thousand seaven hundred and sixteene Elizabeth Pyke sealed signed and published to be the last Will and Testament of the said Elizabeth Pyke in the presence of us whose names are hereunder subscribed as Witnesses thereunto in the presence of the Testator A Leg Katharine Haydon Sarah Ord Probatum fuit [this paragraph continues in Latin to grant probate on 17 February 1727] decimo Septimo die Mensis Februarii Anno Domini Millesimo septingentesimo vicesimo septo [to] Margareta Abbis Executricis
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