Repository
Name |
Public Record Office |
Repository
Reference |
PROB11/252 folio 116r |
Probate
Court |
Prerogative
Court of Canterbury
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Anne Ballard |
Trinity, London |
Will
dated |
6th January 1655/6 |
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Will
probated |
26th January 1655/6 |
The last will nuncupative of
Anne Ballard late of the Parish of Trinity in London, Spinster deceased
according as she expressed the same several times as also in the time of her
sickness on Sunday last being the sixth of this instant January as followeth one
thousand six hundred fifty five. Imprimis she gave to her cousins John,
William and Thomas Ballard her brother Robert Ballard's children five
pounds apiece the monies for the younger (videlicet William and Thomas) to be
paid to them when they shall accomplish their respective age of one and twenty
years. And also she willed that her executor hereafter named should forthwith
buy her said cousin Thomas Ballard a new suite of clothes with her money she
left and also that her executor do pay to her <senior?> cousin Master
William towards having him taught to write seventeen shillings and sixpence also
she gave to her cousin John Ballard the son of her
brother John Ballard of London five pounds the same to be paid out by her
executor towards putting him forth apprentice. Also she gave to her cousin Thomas
Venables her sister's son five pounds if he comes to demand the same and
in case he be dead or shall die before he hath received the same then the same
to go to and be paid to and amongst the four children of her sister <Eves
?> hereafter mentioned equally and proportionally part and share alike also
she gave to Rebecca Abbott daughter of her sister
<Eves ?> in money twenty pounds to be paid out for her use by her
executor and that her husband was not to intermeddle therewith but that the same
should be solely disposed of by her executor for the good of her said cousin
Rebecca Abbott. Item she also gave to her cousin <Eves
?> one of her said sister <Eves ?> son five pounds which said
legacy she willed that the same should be paid by her executor into the hands of
his two brothers Edward and William Eves and that
they therewith should buy the said John Eves a
<Wherey> Board and deliver the same unto him in lieu of the said five
pounds. Item she also gave to her cousins William and Edward Eves five pounds
apiece. Item she also gave to Rachel Skinner ten pounds in gold and her best
night waistcoat and a sheet of her best linen. Item she also gave to the poor of
the Parish of Saint Gregory by Paul's London five pounds the same to be
distributed to and amongst the poor at once according to the discretion of
Master Henry Wilsonne Woolen Draper and Parishioner of the foresaid Parish. Item
to Widow Barrison of Trinity Parish in money ten shillings and to Mistress
Robinson in Little Trinity Lane two shillings and she gave to her cousin
Elizabeth Rydings twenty shillings in money and her best scarf and a sheet of
her best linen. Item she gave to Edward Eves wife abovesaid her Bible a silver
spoon and a suite of her best linen and to John Eves wife aforesaid a suite of
her best linen. And all the rest of her wearing apparel as well linen as woollen
she willed and gave the same to Rebecca Abbott aforesaid. Item she gave to
Mistress Grace Pondarbey five pounds in money. Item she gave to Robert Baxter
twenty shillings. Item she gave to Richard Edwards her executor hereafter named
for his pains to be taken as his being made executor five pounds. Item she
willed the legacies abovesaid being paid and her funeral expenses discharged the
rest of her estate she willed should go and be given to her brother John Ballard
Coach Maker. Item she made and willed that the said Richard Edwards do be
her executor to see and dispose of all things according to this her will and
meaning.
The will nuncupative was
probated LONDON the twenty sixth day of January in the year of our Lord God
according to the <Accom??at??s> Computation of the Church of England one
thousand six hundred fifty and five before …… to Richard Edwards.