20 March 1741 Will of Joseph Pyke of Tiverton, Devon, clerk (proved 25 August 1742)

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In the Name of God Amen
I Joseph Pyke of Tiverton in the County of Devon Clerk
being through Mercy of sound understanding (tho' weak in
Body) Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament
in manner and form following having first sincerely and
solemnly committed my Soul to the peculiar charge of my God
in Covenant and in hopes of Eternal Life through Jesus
Christ my adorable Advocate Imprimis I ordain that all my
just Debts be paid as soon as convenient Item I ordain and
appoint that the Two hundred pounds stipulated in Sister
Churly's Marriage Articles to be left to her after my decease 
as part of her Fortune be paid at the time therein agreed
on by my Executors Item I give and bequeath to my
Brother Bhurly my Mahogany chair with its Implements 
Item I give and bequeath to my dear Sister Eliz: Churly one
of the Silver Salvers Item I immediately lend to my dear
Brother Oliver Pyke of Exon Soapboiler the sum of one
hundred pound for which he is to pay four and a half per Cent
Interest every half year to my beloved Wife Mary Pyke
during the term of her natural Life and then the principal


to become his Item I give and bequeath to my dear Brother
Oliver Pyke of Exon Soapboiler his Heirs Executors Admors
or Assigns the Sum of One hundred pound to be paid by my
Trustees hereinafter named within a year after my decease 
I likewise give him my Woollen wearing Apparel Hat and
Wiggs and my New Mare or Old one as Mrs Pyke pleases
Item I bequeath unto his Wife Hannah Pyke the fellow
of the Silver Salver bequeathed to Sister Churly Item I give
and bequeath to my Niece Eliz: Pyke (Daughter of my Brother
Willm Pyke) now living with Mr Odling Junior at Exeter in
New England the Sum of One hundred pounds when she
comes to the Age of Twenty one The Interest of the said 
hundred pounds in the meantime to be paid to my dear 
Wife Item I give and bequeath forty of the best of my
English Books to my dear Wife which she may choose out for
her own Study Item I give to my Coz John Rudge all the
rest of my Books Pamphletts Controversial Writings and 
Sermons except those that are old and the Writing decay'd
with all my Book Cases and Desks on condition none be printed
Item I bequeath unto my Coz John Rudge five pounds to buy
a black Suit of Mourning and all my wearing Linnen Apparel
with the Ring left me by Mr Euchmarch and my Watch Item 
I give and bequeath ten pounds to ten poor people of the Church
of which I am the unworthy pastor to be paid out of the first 
Arrears that shall be received from the Church Item I give
and bequeath to each of my two Servants now living with me
Eliz: Langdon and Mary Cross Three pounds to put themselves
into Mourning Item convincd of the vanity of pompous and
expensive Funerals 'tis my Will that I be buried privately
in the new Church yard in a new Grace Six foot deep at six
of the Clock in the Morning and that I am carried by six
Men only (without upper Bearers) who are to be paid five
shillings each and to have Gloves that the Minister whose
week it is to read prayers and the Revd Mr Saml Westcott
have Hatt bands and Gloves Item I give and bequeath unto
the Revd Mr Saml Westcott my Silver Tobacco box and desire
him to preach my Funeral Sermon the Lords Day after my
Interment on those Words of the Apostle No Man liveth to
himself &c  Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife
all my Household Goods Rings and plate not disposed of
above And Whereas by Articles made at my Marriage with
my said Wife the Sum of Two thousand pound was agreed
to be laid out in the purchase of an Estate or on such 
Securities as are therein mentioned and the yearly produce
thereof to be for my said Wife's Jointure in case she
survived me but having by bad Debts lost Fifty pound of
her Money and One hundred pounds being spent in
buying her Wedding Cloaths &c in consideration of which 
last Article one hundred pound in Million bank was added
to the Jointure 'tis my last Will that the following Sumx Vizt
Ninety pounds in the Hands of Mr Enchmarch one hundred
and fifty in Mr Hooper's fifty in Mr William Jones's of 


Bristoll Fifty in Farmer Maunder's Fifty in Mr Rudge's four
hundred in Mr Igrrit Smith's three hundred in Mr Daniel Saunder's 
one hundred in Mrs Frances Yerbury's and Fifty pound which
being paid in and applyed to my use I ordain to be paid her by
my Trustees herein after named out of the money in Million bank
which stands in my name in all twelve hundred and forty pound
All which sums I give devise and bequeath unto my very good
Friends Thomas Enchmarch and Richard Enchmarch Merchants
To hold to them their Executors Administrators and Assigns for
Ever Subject nevertheless to and by and under the several Trusts 
and provisoes and to and for the several uses ends intents and
purposes hereafter mentioned and declared that is to day
In Trust that they the said Thomas Enchmarch and Richard
Enchmarch and the Survivors of them their Executors Admors
do and shall within Six Weeks after my decease by a Deed of 
Assignment or other sufficient Conveyances Transfer and
make over to my said dear Wife her Executors Administrators
all the said forementioned Sums to her own and their proper
use and behoof      that she dispose of       call in
or put out to Interest as she pleases as her own property
Item I give to my very good Friends Thomas Enchmarch
and Richard Enchmarch aforesaid wt remains the sum of
seven hundred pounds that lye in Million Bank part of Mrs
Pykes Jointure In Trust that they or the Survivors of them do
receive the Annual products of it or any other moneys that 
remain in Stock or out at Interest not disposed of by virtue of
any Letter of Attorney which I desire my good Friends Mr
Nathaniel Butler and Mr Samuel Jacob Merchant in whose 
Names the stock stands to grant unto them and that they pay 
the said products to my said Wife during the Term of her 
natural Life desiring them in case any Sum or Sums of Money
in Stock or Bonds Mortgages or any other Securitys are offered
to be paid in to receive and dispose of it to the best advantage
or if there be any real or apparent hazard of loosing it to call
it in and place it out again on other Securitys as they shall
Judge proper And from and after the Death of my dear Wife
then in Trust that the said Money in Million Bank that was
part of her Jointure with any other Sums that may remain 
shall be applyed to the uses and idisposed of in the manner and
form following that is to say I give and bequeath to my good
Friend Mr Nathaniel Butler Clothier in Warminster his 
Executors Administrators or Assigns the Sum of One hundred
pounds Item I give and bequeath unto my good Friend Samll
Butler Malster in Warminster his Heirs Executors and Admors
the sum of fifty pounds Item I give to my dear Sister Churly
One hundred and fifty pounds Item I give to my Brother Oliver
Pyke two hundred pounds Item I give to my Niece Eliz: Pyke
in New England aforesaid two hundred pounds If any other
Moneys remain to be divided share and share alike between
the three last

provided always and my Will and desire is That my said


Trustees and their respective Heirs Executors and Administrators
out of the principal Interest profit and product of the said 
trusted premisses or by or out of all or any part of the moneys
that shall come to their Hands by virtue or on Account of 
the said Trust in the first place from time to times and at all
times reimburse and make themselves satisfaction respectively 
for all such Cost Charges Damages and Expences as he they any
or either of them shall sustain or be put to in the Execution
of this my Will And my Will further is that my said Trustees
and their respective Heirs Executors or Administrators shall not
be charge or chargeable with or accountable or responsible for
more money than they shall actually respectively receive nor
for the Acts Deeds or defaults of each other nor chargeable or
lyable to make good any Loss or Losses that shall happen in the
management or disposal of all or any part of the said trusted
prmisses he and they respectively acting bona fide according to
the best of his and their Judgement And lastly I do hereby make
constitute and appoint the said Thomas Enchmarch and Richard
Enchmarch Executors of this my last Will and Testament In Trust 
as aforesaid and hereby revoke all former Will and Wills by me
heretofore made In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Pyke
the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament set my Hand
and Seal this twentieth Day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred forty one two Joseph Pyke Signed and 
Sealed published and declared by the Testator above named as
and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us Thomas
Mason Thomas Cooke

	The Twelfth Day of August 1742
Which Day appeared personally John Rudge of Tiverton 
in the County of Devon Clerk and Richard Enchmarch of the 
same place Merchant and severally made Oath upon the Holy
Evangelists as followeth to wit That they these Deponents have seen
and carefully perused the paper writing hereunto annexed
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the Reverend
Joseph Pyke Clerk of Tiverton aforesaid (who dyed about the
eighteenth Day of Mary last) contained in one side and an half
of a sheet of paper beginning thus (In the Name of God Amen I Joseph
Pyke of Tiverton in the County of Devon Clerk" and Ending thus
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Pyke the Testator have to
this my last Will and Testament Set my Hand and Seal this
Twentieth Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and forty one two" and signed and subscribed 
thus Joseph Pyke" And this Deponent John Rudge by himself
saith that the Legacy appearing to be written and to begin in 
the middle of the eighth Line of the second and last side or page
and which is immediately following the Legacy made or bequeathed 
to Mr Nathl Butler in these Words to wit I give and bequeath
unto my good Friend Samuel Butler Malster in Warminster


his Heirs Executors and Administrators the sum of fifty pounds
And that the Erasure appearing to be made in the ninth Line of 
the said Second page or side of the deceased's Will and that the 
Word (one) appearing to be made or written on the said erasure 
and the Words (and fifty) interlined over the Words (hundred
pounds) in the same Line were therein so made by this Deponent 
Rudge at the request and by the express order and direction of 
the said Testator Joseph Pyke who was then present and dictated 
and afterwards read the same himself And the said Richard 
Enchmarch who's one of the Executors mentioned in the said
Will by himself saith that he was present at the Testator's House
the next Day after his Death when the said Will was produced 
and delivered to him and he read it and saith that the same Will
and the severall additions Erasures and Interlineations therein
now appearing were then in the same plight and condition as 
the same now are and that this Deponent doth verily believe the 
same were so made by the said deceased or by his express 
Order or directions John Rudge Richard Enchmarch

On the Twelfth Day of August 1742 The said John Rudge and Richard 
Enchmarch were duly sworn to the Truth of the attestation before
me John Gilberd Curate of Tiverton

This Will was proved at London on the twenty
fifth Day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand seven 
hundred and forty two before the Right Worshipfull John Bettesworth
Doctor of Laws Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted By the Oaths of Thomas 
Enchmarch and Richard Enchmarch the Executors named in the said
Will To whom administration was granted of all and singular the
Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased being first sworn by Commission
duly to Administer the same



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