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John Blissard of Laverton, Buckland, Junior

 

In the name of god, Amen, I John Blissard of Laverton in the prish of Buckland and County of Gloucr Junior, sick in body but sound in mynde & memory blessed be god, doe make & ordayne this my last will & Testament in mannr & forme following. fyrst I bequeath my soule to my Redeemr Christ Jesus, & my body to the earth &c. Touching my substancs in the world, I dispose them thus, fyrst to the Churches seates florring, I bequeath xxd, & to Brants laynes mendyng, xxd. Item to ech cottager in the parish of Buckland (John Bushell excepted) I bequeath one hoope of wheat. Item I do gyve & bequeath uno Christian Wheeler twenty pounde in mony. Item I gyve unto the other six children of Thoms Wheeler (videlicet, Thoms, Elizabeth, Ann, Richard, John & Mary) ten pounds apiece. & my will is, that the one half of these ther portions shalbe payed unto them on the feast of St John the Baptist after my death, & thother half therof, that day twelve monethes after, in the Church porch of Buckland afforesayd. Item I bequeath unto my daughter Anne Wheler, the some of twenty nobles, of good & lawfull mony of England. Item I do gyve & bequeath unto my sonne Thomas Fowke alias Wheeler, one cow, to be delivred unto him by wife. Item to my now foure srvantes, Richard Whittle, Robt Honibourne, John Tidcott, & Margaret Harbertt, I bequeath & gyve foure eves, even to ech of them one. After wch legacyes payed, I bequeath to my sonne Wm Blissard of Hardwick half my goods remaining towards the tayking of my lyving for himself & John Blissard his sonne. The rest of my goods & cattles (moveable & unmoveable) I bequeath unto Alic Blissard my wife, whom I make sole executrix of this my last will, this fift day of Sextember, 1620.

 

By mee John Maltbee

 

Witnesses hereunto

Thomas Fowke als Wheler

William Blissard 

 

Probate granted at Goucester 25 May 1621 (GRO Reference 1621/50)


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