Gabriel Caunt of Stathern 1590 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1590/77
A narrow strip is missing down the left-hand side of this will until the last three lines. This is indicated […] with likely words in the brackets if they can be deduced following the usual format of Wills of the period.
Anno Regii Elizabeth xxviith
[…] day of Jenuarie and in the yeare of our lord god 1584 I Gabraell Caunte of Stathorne of good [minde and] Remembrance laud and praise be unto allmightie god, yet uncertayne when yt shall please god to visit […] me to his mercie Therefore I ordeane & make this my last will & testamente in manner & forme [following
Imprimis I] bequeth & committe my Soule to allmightie god, the maker of me, and all men kynd by whose death [and passion I] truste to be Saved, and my bodie to be buried in the earth from whence I came
Ite I [give to the] mother churche of Lincoln iid
I give to the churche of Stathorne iis
I give to my Sonne George […] John ether of them a yew sheppe
I give to my brother Richard Caunte my best Jacket
I give [to my] Sonne John Caunte v l
I give to my Sonne Mathew Caunte v l
I give to my Sonne […] Caunte v l & to my Sonne Thomas Caunte v l
Allso I give to Doritie Wattes my wifes [probably “daughter”] v l & to my daughter Margarete Caunte v l & I give to Emmet Caunte my daughter v l
[It I] will that my wife shall have … peare of shettes v peare of flaxen & v peare of harden […] cloaths to give to whom she will, the whiche shettes shall be taken out of the howle goodes
[It] all the Rest of my goodes boeth moveable & in moveable, my deptes beinge paied of my howle goodes [my funeral] expences and bequeithes discharded and paied I give & bequeith to my said wife Ales & to [… my] Sonne Equalie to be devided bitwixte them without any … or let acccordinge to my will & meaninge [whom I make] my Lawfull executors to performe this my last will & testemente
Furthermore it is my will [and mind] that my wife Ales shall have her mete, drinke, & ledginge be honestleye used with my Sonne [… during] her natural life, if she will not like of her usinge then to take her porcon of good […] to what child she will like of
And all other willes heretofore made I utterlie forsake [and acknowledge] this to be my last Will & testament and allso I make William Caunte my brother supervisor of this my last will & testament & I give unto him xiid
In wittnes whereof I the forsaid Gabriel Caunte have put to my hand to this my last will & testament & will that all thinges according to the true meninge of this my will shall be performed made the vith daye of Jenuarie anno dni 1584
Gabriell Caunte [his mark]
Wittness
William Caunte
George Caunte
Raufe Wilson
Richard Newton
Richard Caunte
Probate 28 March 1590
