{"id":4559,"date":"2020-02-11T20:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teresa-goatham.me.uk\/genealogy\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:44:40","slug":"christopher-bedlake-1653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teresa-goatham.me.uk\/genealogy\/probate\/christopher-bedlake-1653\/","title":{"rendered":"The will of Christopher Bedlake ( -1653)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher<\/a> was a 9 x great grandfather of mine.<\/p>\n

He wrote a simple will, leaving almost everything to his wife for her lifetime and then equally between his four daughters. The one exception was that eldest daughter Mary was to receive one bedsted and a table. He allowed for the possibility of a dispute between his daughters or their husbands, and said that any starting a suit would get just five shillings.<\/p>\n

In the name of God Amen<\/b><\/span>\n

this sixteenth day of September in the yeare of our Lord Sixteene hundred Fiftie
\nand three [16 Sep 1653] &c I Christopher Bedlake of the Parish of Deale and County of Kent Tailor
\nbeing sicke of body but I praise the Lord of perfect health of memory have thought good
\nby the providence ^ {of God} to declare and publish this my last will and Testament to the veiwe
\nof all the world in manner and forme following. Firse I bequeath my Soule into the handes
\nI Allmightie God my Creator. And to Jesus Christ my Redeemer by whose meritorious
\ndeath and passion I hope to obtaine Everlasting Salvation. And my body I recomend
\nunto the Earth from whence it came. for dust I am and to dust I must returne. And
\nafter my naturall death and my Tabernacle of clay dissolved my body to be buried in
\nsuch decent manner as shalbe by my Executrix thought requisitt and fitting And
\nfor all my worldly goodes landes howses houshold Stuffe or other wherewith the Lord hath
\nendued me with I give and bequeath to my frendes as Followeth Imprimis I give
\nand bequeath unto Mary<\/a> my now wife All and singuler my reall and personall Estate
\nof howses landes goodes moveable and immoveable bedding lynnen wollen Clotes purse
\nand girdle and all other my Estate or Estates to rest remayne and be to her sole and
\nproper use and uses dureing her naturall life. And after my decease and the decease
\nof Mary my now wife. my will and pleasure is that all and singuler my howses land
\ngoodes Cattelles or Chattelles howsholdstuffe pewter brasse beadstedd bedding tables formes
\nstooles and all other materiall or improvements that shalbe thereunto added or
\nimproved after my decease. And Mary my now wife my will and pleasure is
\nthat all my reall and personall Estate shall imediatly after my decease and the
\ndecease of Mary my wife returne to the use and benefitt of my fower daughters
\nMary<\/a> Bennett<\/a> Sisillia<\/a> and honor<\/a> to be equally devided betweene them by even and
\nequall portions or devision. And if they my fower daughters Mary Bennett, Sisell –
\nand Honor shall dye without issue male or female or any of them to returne after
\nperticipation made to the joynt heires of the residue of theire ofsprings or heires male
\nor female that are then liveing and soe to continue to longest liver of theire
\ngenerationes and not to be alianenated sould or any wayes Estranged by any fine
\nof Recovery or otherwise. And further I give and bequeath to Mary my eldest
\ndaughter one bedstedd and table I late purchased of Richard Blinke Further I constitute
\nand appointe Mary my now wife full and sole Executrix of this my last will and
\nTestament to pay my debts and funerall Charges And for and towardes her livelie
\n=hood and then to ensue and be to my daughters as abovementioned And further
\nmy will and pleasure is that if any of my above nominated daughters or any
\nother person or persons. that any of them shall hereafter combinate in
\nmarriage that if any suite of law shall be com[m]enced against any Article<\/p>\n

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\nor covenanted contained in this my last will and Testament the residue of my heires payeing to
\nthe said partie by whom the suite is soe commenced by Five shillings that partie or parties shall
\nhave noe more benefitt of this my last will and Testament but shalbe utterly hereby excluded and
\nfor ever debarred Wittnes my hand and Seale interchangeably the day and yeare First above
\nwritten Christopher Bedlake her marke Sealed and delivered in the presence of us William
\nMatthews his marke Nicholas Sharpe Se[nio]r<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Probate statement<\/h3>\n
\n

This <\/b><\/span>will was proved att London the thirtieth day of November in the yeare of our Lord
\nOne thousand six hundred Fiftie Five [30 Nov 1655] before the Judges for probate of Will and granting
\nAdministrations lawfully Authorized by the oath of Mary Bedlake the Relict of the said
\ndeceased and sole Executrix named in the said will, To whom was Committed Administration
\nof all and singuler the goodes Chatteles and debts of the said deceased she being First legally
\nSworne (by Comission) well and truly to Administer the same \/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source<\/h3>\n

This is a transcription of the reigster copy of the will, which was proved in the Court which took the place of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury<\/a> during the interregnum, and is held with PCC<\/a> wills at the National Archives. TNA<\/a> ref:<\/strong> PROB 11\/251\/718<\/a> (as well as direct from TNA<\/a> images of this will can be seen and saved from Ancestry.com or TheGenealogist).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher wrote a simple will, leaving almost everything to his wife for her lifetime and then equally between his four daughters. The one exception was that eldest daughter Mary was to receive one bedsted and a table. 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