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Will detail

Will of John Hornbee of West Tarring

Date signed: 04 Mar 1654, Probate date: 14 Jun 1654

In the name of God Amen the fourth day of Marche in the year of our Lord God 1654. I John Hornbee of West Tarring in the County of Sussex Taylor being sick in body but in good and perfect Remembrance praise be to Almighty God Doe make this my last will and Testament in manner and form following

ffirst I comend my soule into the hands of Allmighty God my Maker trusting in the merrits of Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer to have forgivenesse of all my Sinns and to be made partaker of the kingdome of heaven And my body to be buried in the Christian buriall of Tarring aforesayd

Item I give and bequeathe unto ffrances Hornbee my oldest Daughter thirty pounds of good and lawfull money of England to be payed unto her within one month after my decease

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Hornbee the ffeather Bedd and the ioined Chest in the Chamber and the ioyned table in the hall

Item I give and bequeath unto Joane Hornbee my middle Daughter fifty shillings out of the Rents of my Lands yearly and every yeare to be paied unto the said Jone Hornbee or her Assignes by mine Overseers hereafter menconed untill Elizabeth my youngest Daughter accomplish and come to the full Age of two and twenty years But if it come to passe that Jone my middle Daughter die and depart this present world before Elizabeth come to the Age aforesaid that then my will and intent is that the stocke or portion of the said Jone soe dyeing shalbe and remaine to ffrances Hornbee her oldest sister surviving

All the Rest of my Goods and Chattels not given and unbequeathed my Debts and Legacies paied and my funerall charges borne I give unto Joane Hornbee my midle daughter aforesaid whome I make my whole Executrix of this my last will and Testament

And I desire Curtis Moncke Thomas Moncke junior & Samuell Lover to be Overseers of this my last will and Testament And I give unto them for theire paines three shillings six pence a peece and theire Charges borne

And lastly I desire my daughter Elizabeth and her or Thomas Monke to use my Land

In witnesse whereof I the said John Hornbee have hereunto sett my hand & Seale the Day and yeare first above written

John Hornbee witnesses hereunto John Dollegge

The fourteenth Day of June in the year of our lord God one thousand six hundred fifty four issued forth a Comission to Curtis Monke Thomas Monke Samuell Lover ye Overseers named in and of the last will and Testament of John Hornbee of West Tarring in the County of Sussex Taylor late deceased to administer the Goods Chattels & Debts of the sayd deceased according to the tenor and effect of the sayd Will during the minority And to the only use and behoofe of Jone Horneby the Daughter of the sayd deceased and sole Executrix named in the said Will They the sayd Curtis Monke Thomas Monke and Samuell Lover being first sworn by Comission well and faythfully to administer the same.

Transcribed by:

Mary Connaughton.

Notes about this will:

John Hornbee, father of Elizabeth Hornsby who married Richard Lusher in Broadwater in 1664, was my 8th great grandfather.

Source:

Perogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers.

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