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Will detail

Will of George Palmer of West Chiltington

Date signed: 04 Jul 1715, Probate date: 18 Jan 1734

In the Name of God Amen the fourth day of July in the first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George by the grace of Gof of great Britain and Ireland king Defender of the Faith c And in the year of our Lord Christ One Thousand Seven hundred and Fifteen I GEORGE PALMER of the parish of CHILTINGTON in the County of Sussex Cordwainer being well stricken in years and of sound and perfect mind and memory and being in health of Body praised be Almighty God for the same Do make and ordain this my my last Will and Testament in manner following vizt First I Comend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it my body I Commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named and as for my temporall Estate I dispose thereof as followeth vizt

Impr[im]is I will that my Debts and Funeral Charges should be paid and discharged by my Executor hereafter named Item I do give unto ELIZABETH my beloved Wife the Sume of one pound and Ten Shillings a year of good and lawfull money of great Britain to be paid unto her yearly and every year by my Executor during the Terme of her naturall Life to be paid unto her in Lieu and full Satisfaction for her Dowery and Thirds and Further more my Will and true meaning is that if the aforesaid ELIZABETH my Wife should refuse to take the aforesaid Sume of Thirty Shillings yearly as aforesaid in full sattisfaction for her Dowery or Thirds whatsoever but should require demand require and receive any money more than the aforesaid Thirty Shillings yearly as before to her given that then and from thenceforth after such demand made or money thereafter to her paid for her Dowery or thirds that then the said Sume of Thirty Shillings so before given to be void and no longer to be to her payd by my Executor as aforesaid

Item I do give and bequeath unto my Grandson GEORGE PALMER my greatest joyned Chest

Item I do give devise and bequeath unto my Son GEORGE PALMER All that my Copyhold Lands and p[re]mises with the Appurtenances c lled GREEGS lying in the parish of THAKEHAM in the Mann[er] of HAYBROOK in the County aforesaid containing by Estimac[i]on Thirty Acres of Land more or less To have and to hold the said Copyhold Lands and p[re]misses with the Appurtenances unto the said GEORGE PALMER my Son his Heirs and Assigns for ever according to the Custom of the said Mannor of HAYBROOK to impower me to make such devise I have Surrendred the aforesaid Copyhold Land and p[re]misses in to the Hands of the Lord of the said Mannor unto such use and such uses as I should in my last Will and Testament declare lymitt whatsoever

Item I make constitute and ordain my aforesaid Son GEORGE PALMER of ANGMERING in the County aforesaid Mercer and Salesman sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament to whom I give all the rest and residue of all my moneys Goods Chattles and personall Estate whatsoever revoking and disanull all former and other Wills by me made whatsoever I do declare that this shall stand and by my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal the day and year First above written – GEORGE PALMER – Signed Sealed published and declared by the aforesaid GEORGE PALMER to be his last Will and Testament in the p[re]sence of us who hath subscribed our names as Witnesses in the p[re]sence of the Testator – STEPHEN GREEN [blank] LUDGATER and THO LUDGATER

This will was proved before Mr THOMAS BALL Clerk Master of Arts Surrogate &c the Eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1734 by the oath of GEORGE PALMER naturall and lawfull Son of the said d[eceased] and Executor to whom &c well and truly &c sworn & [....?] &c

Transcribed by:

Norma Podesta.

Notes about this will:

Chichester ArchdeaconryCourt – STCI/35 f 366

Source:

Unknown.

This will also mentions these parishes:

Thakeham, Angmering.

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