The Last Will & Testament of Hypollett Mocket 1653
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC project by Justin Standfield
THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF HYPOLLETT MOCKETT (1653) OF LONG BREDY
In the name of God amen. I Hyppollett Mockett of Long Bredy in the county of Dorsett being sick of great age but of perfect memory doe make my last will and testament as followes.
First I bequeath my soule into the hands of my maker desireing mercy and forgiveness of my sins for Jesus Christ's sake, my only saviour and redeemer, and I desire my body may bee buryed in the church of Long Bredy at the end of my own seate.
My worldly goods I bestow in this manner. Imprimis, I give unto the church of Long Bredy twenty shillings to bee bestowed in a pulpitt cloath.
I give for the use of the poore of Long Bredy fivety pounds and for the use of the poore of Winterborne five and twenty pounds and for the use of the poore of Litton five and twenty pounds and for the use of the poore of Easter Lopton five and twenty pounds, all the severall summes of money my will is to remayne in the hands of my overseers during theire naturall lives or in the hands of such persons as my overseers shall thinke fitt, they paying the interest allowable by law. And after the death of my overseers then the severall summes of money belonging to those severall parrishes to bee disposed of into such hands as the Parson and overseers for the poore of the respective parishes shall judge fitt uppon good and sufficient security and the interest of all the said summes to be paid every halfe yeare unto such poor of the severall parishes as shall bee conceaved to be in greatest necessity by the said Parson and overseers of every the said severall parishes. And my will and desire is that this course be held for me the prencipall money still remayning in a stocke for the use of the poore of the said severall parishes respectively and their better livelihood.
Item, to my sister Thomasine Craft I give the use of interest of fifty pounds to be paid quarterly immediately after my decease by my executors during her naturall life and after her decease my will is that the said fifty pounds be thus disposed viz.: ten pounds thereof unto Agnes Symonds and forty pounds between the three sonns of the said Agnes or to theire children if any of them shall happen to dye or to the survivor of the said sonns dying without issue.
Item, I doe release and acquitt James Craft of sixteen pounds which hee doth owe unto mee and I doe give unto the two sonns of the said James forty pounds to bee equally devided between them.
Item, I give unto John Craft twenty pounds and to his sonn tenn pounds.
Item, I do release and acquitt my brother Thomas Bartlett of thirty seaven pounds which I laid out for him in repaireing the parsonage house of Litton and of sixty pounds which I paid for him to Mr Burbage and of tenn pounds which I paid for him to church, I also give unto him a cowe. Unto my sister Grace Bartlett I give twenty pounds. I give unto Francis Bartlett twenty pounds. And for all that estate I have in a certaine meadow lying in Litton and is part of the tenement of Thomas Bartlet, I give it unto Francis Bartlet to have and to hould dureing his naturall life and after his decease the remainder of that estate unto Hypollett Bartlet his sonn and in case the said Hypollett should dye without issue then to bee to the heires of the said Francis. I give unto Elizabeth the wife of the said Francis Bartlet twenty pounds and to Rachell his daughter ten pounds. I give twenty pounds to bee equally devided between Edith and Elizabeth the two daughters of John Boylon. To Mellien Bartlet I give one hundred pounds.
Item, I give unto Symon Bridle twenty pounds, to Grace Bridle twenty pounds, to Ann Bridle twenty pounds, to Jane Bridle thirty pounds, to Grace Ily I give the interest of fifty pounds to bee paid quarterly by my executors immediately from and after my decease dureing her naturall life and after her decease my will is the said fifty pounds shall be unto her child or children if she shall have any lawfully begotten and in case that she shall not have any such child or children that then the said fifty pounds bee equally devided between Jane and Ann Bridle and theire children. I give to the foure children of Thomas Bridle twenty pounds.
Item, I give unto John Adams the elder forty pounds, to John Adams the younger twenty pounds, to Elizabeth the daughter of John Adams forty pounds. I give unto Andrew Samway twenty shillings, to the children of William Mockett five pounds.
Item, I give unto Grace Angell forty pounds, unto Gilbert the younger sonn of Ralph Ironside of Long Bredy twenty pounds and to Robert Bartlet my boy five pounds, to John Samwayes the sonne of John Samwayes forty shillings.
Item, I give my bed and bedsted and the furniture belonging to them unto Thomasin Angell and all the rest of my householde stuffe I give to bee equally devided between the said Thomasin and Grace Angell.
Item, I give more unto the three sonns of Agnes Symonds twenty pounds to bee equally devided amongst them. To the three children of Nicolas Angell I give six pounds to bee equally devided amongst them. To Henry Edwards of Long Bredy I give five pounds. All the rest of my goods and chattells whatsoever not before in this will given and bestowed or by mee to be given and bestowed in a certaine scedule annexed unto this will and signed with my hand, I doe give unto Symon Bridle of Broadway and Thomasin Angell of Long Bredy whome I doe make and appoynt the joynt executors of this my will and I desire my neighbours and friends Mr John Hurdinge and Mr Ralph Ironside to bee the overseers thereof.
In witnesse of the promisses I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the twentieth day of September one thousand six hundred fifty three, the marke of Hyppollett Mockett. Signed and sealed in the presence of us: Gregory Strode, Henry Edwards, Ralph Ironside and Mary Ironside.
This will was proved at London the twentieth day of May one thousand six hundred fifty six before the judges for probat of wills and granting administrations, lawfully authorised by the oathes of Symon Bridle and Thomasin Angell joynt executors named in the said will, to whom administration was granted they being by Commission first sworn truly to administer.
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