Will of Sebastian
Darknall of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, 1625
In
the name of God Amen The eighteenth daie of
September In the first yere of the Raigne of our Soveraigne lord Charles by the
grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland ffrance and Ireland defender of the
faith.
I Sebastian Darknall of the pish of St
Clement Danes in the County of Midd, Grocer, being sicke in body but of good
and perfect minde and memory thankes bee to allmightie God Doe make and ordayne
this my last will and Testamentin manner and forme following, that is to saie
ffirst I commit my soule into the hands of allmightie god my maker, Trustinge
and assured by beleeving that through the merritts death and passion of my lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ after this transitory life ended I have and shall have
everlastinge icy [?] and felicity in the kingdome of heaven And my bodie I
commit to the earth to bee buried in the Churchyard neare the Channcell wall
one the Parson's side
And concerning the disposicon of the
Transitory and wordly goods and substance I possesse I doe order dispose and
bequeath the same as followeth, That is to saie
ffirst
I give and bequeath to my Cosin Jasper Darknall my blacke payre of silke
stockinges and my Silver girdle with silver buckles of English worke
Item I give and bequeath to my loveing
wife Jane Darknall 40l p anno dureing her life and after her decease to bee
payd to my two Daughters
Mary and Hester equally to bee devided betweene them
I doe give to my Two Sonnes in Lawe Willm
Price and ffrancis Phillipes the some of Ten pounds to bee payd to them by 50s
the halde yere vizt to the said William five & twenty and to the said
ffrancis five and twenty shillings The first payment to bee made thereof and
beginne within seaven daies next after the expiracon of one halfe yere to bee
accounted from the daie of my death and consequently to each of them five and
Twenty shillings apeece every halfe yere one succeeding another till the said
legacie or bequeast of Ten pounds bee payd to the said William & ffrancis
parte and parte like
Item I give and bequeath to my said
kinsman Jasper Darknall my Brother Thomas Whyte and my kinsman Walter Bunnell
Two bedsteeds Two ffeatherbeds two payre of blanckets
Two pillowes
two
boulsters Two ruggs with the Curtaynes and vallance in trust for the use and
benefit of my said Daughters and on them to bee bestowed equally, and in noe
wise to come into the disposeing of theire said husbands
Item I give to my Brother Edmond Moldeyne
my best paire of russet silke stockings
Item I give to my Brother Thomas White my
other payre of Russet silke stockings Together with my girdle with silver
buckles Duchworke
Item I will that the house wherein I
dwell that it bee sold to Mr Linzey for one hundred and forty pounds whereof I
have allready recd one hundred and Twenty pounds, and I will that the residue
thereof bee payd unto my said wife And my desire is that my said sonne in lawe
ffrancis Phillips will Choose my said kinsman Jasper Darkenall his Guardian
till he come of yeres, and for his care and paynes therein to be taken to bee
allowed 20s p anno
I will my Cosin Thomasin Darkenall to
beee Executrix of this my will, if shee bee alive otherwise my Cosin ffaith her
Sister
And I make and appoynt my said Brother
Thomas White and ..? kinsmen
Jasper Darkenall and Walter Bunnell the Overseers of this my will intreating
them to bee paynfull therein and as a token
of
my love I give to every of them five shillings to buy them gloves
In witness whereof I the said Sebastian
Darkenall have to this my last will and Testament set my hand and Seale and
pronounced the same as my last will the daie and yere first above ..........? parties here undernamed beinge witnesses by mee thereunto
especially appoynted Sebastian Darkenall Thomas Colbron John Cressett
My desire is that my Cosin Mris Rose
Darkenall and Ann Darkenall William Thomazine and ffaith Darknall and my Cosin
Mris Bruen and my Cosin Bunniel's wife Owen and Thomas Clayton and
my
late man Willm Johnson shall have each of them a pre of gloves of Twelve pence
Decimo tertio die mensis Octobris Anno
domini millimo Sexcentesimo vicesimo quinto Emanavit Comissio Jaspero Darkenall
patri naturali et ...timo Thomazine Darkenall executrix nominat in testamento
sive ultima voluntate dicti defuncti hentis ..? ad administrans bonaiura et Credita eiusdem defunti iuxta
tenorem et effectum Testi sine ultime voluntatis ipsius defuncti (duran minore
etate presate Thomazine executrisis in eodem Testa nominat) De benect fideliter
dministrande eadem ad santa dei Evangelia Jurat Jana Darkenall relic Dicti
defuncti ex certis
cansis eam
ut ann..? suid in eapte moven oneri adnis bonorum
inrium et Cred liquet et apparet.