Archive:Cheshire CRO, Rachael Whitney, 1685
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Will & Inventory of Rachel Whitney
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In the name of God Amen the fifth day of March in the first yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland Ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the Ffaith etc. and in the yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Ffoure I Rachel (Wife of Hugh Whytney of Coole Hall in the Parrish of Wrenbury & County of Chester Gent) being weake in Body but in perfecte minde and Memory, praise bee therefore given to Almighty God doe make and ordaine this my Present last Will and Testament in Man(n)er and forme following, Ffirst mend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the Merits of Jesus Christ, to have full and free Pardon of all my Sins, and to Inherit everlasting life, And my Body I Commit to the earth to bee decently buryed at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, and as touching and concerning my Temperall Estate as It hath pleased Almighty God to Bestow upon mee, I having (by certaine deeds made & executed before the Solemnizing of Marriage Betweene mee and my deare and loving Husband Hugh Whytney afores(ai)d) full Powerto mee given and thereby reserved to dispose of ye same at my will and Pleasure, as by the sa(id) Deed being thereunto had more full and at Large doth and may appeare, and in Pursuance of my s(ai)d Power I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth ; Ffirst I give and bequeath unto Sir Robert Cotton of Combermere in the County of Chester afores(ai)d Kt. Bart. The Sume of Twenty Pounds If ye Same will bee Recover’d & had of Mr Owen ; Item I give and bequeath unto Dame Hester Wife of ye s(ai)d Sir Robert One Pound Item I give and bequeath unto Hugh Calveley Cotton, Thomas Cotton, George Cotton, Hester Lacon, Mary Ffowler, Elizabeth Glegg, Anne Taylor and Sydney Cotton The Sons and Daughters of the s(ai)d Sir Robert and Dame Hester the Sume of Twenty shillings aPiece, Except to Anne Taylor and to Her I give and bequeath ye sume of five Pounds ; Item I give unto my Kinsman Charles Hussey the sume of Ffive and Twenty Pounds Item I give unto Mary Griffies of Sallopp the sume of Ffoure Pounds and Ffive shillings Item I give and bequeath unto any other Person or Persons that have any Right or lawfull Interest to lay any Claime to any p(ar)te or p(ar)cell of my Estate hereby given and bequeathed the sume of one shilling aPiece, Lastly all the Residue and Remainder of my Personall Estate goods & Chatells whatsoever I doe give and bequeath unto my deare and loving Husband Hugh Whytney whom I appoint full and Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Putt my hand and seale the day & yeare first above written. Sealed Deliver’d and Published in the Presence of us two words being raised out in the twenty third line Robert Browne Samll Smith Thomas Chester Rachel Whitney
A True and p(er)fect Inventory of all and singular the goods credits And Chattles of M(istres)s Rachell Whytney late Of Coole Hall within the parish of Wrenbury and diocese of Chester Taken and Apprised the twenty third day of April In the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred Eighty and five by us whose names are subscribed as followeth.
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Imp(rimi)s All the plate 13 00 00 Item Money oweing by specialty 35 00 00 Item Money oweing without specialty 35 17 06 Item Ffoure Gold Rings 02 00 00 Item one Cabbinett 02 00 00 Item Three Looking glasses 00 10 00 In the Chamber over the Hall Item Ffive pictures 01 10 00 Item one feather bed, one boulster and two blankets 03 00 00 In the Buttery Chamber Item one feather bed 01 00 00 Item seaven pictures 01 00 00 In the Kitchin Chamber Item Three feather beds, foure boulsters Three pillows Two coverlids and three blankets 12 00 00 Item one sett of old Curtains & vallans 00 16 00 Item Three odd Curtains and one vallan 00 12 00 Item one old Counterpaine 00 02 00 Item one sidesaddle, one bridle & furniture 01 06 08 Item one Clock 01 00 00 Item All the Linnen and Nappery 40 00 00 Item Ffive Joyned Chaires 01 00 00 Item one Joyned bedsted 00 13 04 Item Three Tables 02 00 00 Item one Mault Mill 01 06 00 Item one Joyned Presse 01 06 00 Item severall boards with other timber 03 13 04 Item all the Chaires and Stooles in the Hall with foure Cuissons 03 13 04 Item All the Brasse 12 00 00 Item All the Pewter 06 06 08 Item All the Iron ware 04 03 04 Item Ffive pictures in the Hall 10 00 00 Item All the Coopery ware 05 00 00 Item All the Chests Trunks & boxes 03 00 00 Item One still and one Limberke 02 06 08 Item one hackney saddle with two pillins & two cloaths 02 05 00 Item Att Burledam foure Chaires, two Stooles foure Cussins one Iron pott and two tables 01 13 04 Item Two Joyned beds and one truckle bed, two feather Beds two blankets one Cover one Kneading Turnill & two tables 06 13 04 Item Curtains & vallans for the best bed 08 10 00 Item The Library of Bookes 12 00 00 Item The Deceadents wearing Apparrell 20 00 00 Item one silver watch 02 10 00 Item the Deceadents first husbands wearing Apparrell 06 00 00
Sum tot 267 05 10
Robert Wilson Robert Hassall Apprisors 27th May 1685
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