Bridget Pate of Ab Kettleby 1603 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/I/225
The 23 of October 1603
In the name of god amen I Brydgett Pate of Okettelby in the countye of Leic wyddow being well in bodye & of perfect remembrance god be praysed therefore do make my last wyll & testament in maner & forme following
First I bequeath my soule to the Almyghtye god hoping to be saved by thonlie merites & mercie of my saviour Chryst Jesus & to follow the words of the … wyll
Whereas at my ernest request my brother Charles Bussye [?] dyd take upon him the Administration of the goods of Henry Pate my welbeloved husband deceased to the use of the last wyll & testament of my sayd husband att which goods or the most part of them have … in my hands and government … order should be taken for the surrendering the same over or … above according to … for them in the hands & government of my brother Francis & Christopher Bussye & other to the use of the sayd last wyll and testament of my sayd welbeloved husband which yett Being unperformed & lest that mortalytye should faule upon me whyle the sayd goods are in my sayd governance & to make a … to the course taken for the honest and upright performance of my sayd husbands last wyll & testament to the … of my pore fatherless Chyldren I therefore thought good to seale sign & delyver a byll [?] of debt whereby I dyd & do acknoledge to owe unto my sayd brother Charles … … … his the sayd goods in my keeping by … … unto which … or byll [?] of debt my wyll & mynd is should be honesty discharged or payed unto the sayd Charles out of all the goods in my keeping & government according to the agrement … … me from … heretofore paid & made And if it be so that upon accompte heareafter to be made it be found that a gretter some is or shale be due unto the sayd Charles for the sayd goods then is expressed in the sayd wyll then my wyll is & I … desyer he be fully satisfyed the … … out of the … goods in my hands which reasonable consideratione for the tyme I have had the use of the sayd goods to be employed to the use of my Chyldren according to the wyll of my sayd deceased husband
All which … & acompts cast up & all which debts payed togeather with all expenses discharged (if the sayd goods amount unto more then I wyll that the surplus therof togeather with all other my goods & Chattells except my houshold stuffe & houshold furniture which I bequeath unto my sone Edward Pate shale be & be … equally devyded amongest the rest of my Chyldren and my son Edward to have no part thereof
And I make & ordayne my welbeloved mother Elyzabeth Bussye and wellbeloved brother Richard Waldron my executors of this my last wyll & testament earnestly desiring them to see my wyll performed acording to my honest & upright meaning
In wyttnes wherof I have sett my hand & seale to theis presents
BP
Itm and besyde all that which is before expressed I geve unto my welbelvoed mother my velvet cloke & my … … & my black patten …
Itm to my servant the … a ringe with a pearle in yt
Itm to my lovinge syster Waldron my best gowne & my mantle
Itm to my syster my Brother Francis … his wyffe my second beste Taffita Gowne & a Ta… velvet …
Itm I geve unto my fyve Brothers & my Brother Waldron & to my Syster … evrie of them a rynge of gold of Twelve shillings pryce
Itm to my syster … my grene clothe gowne
Itm to my syster A… my … of … with the … to yt
Itm to my dawghter J… all my lynen which dothe belonge & is to be used in & aboute my chyld bed & to her more a pet[rest of word missing, probably “petticoat”] of grene & whyte taffita
Itm I geve & bequeath unto my dawghter Elizabeth all my … gold … … … …
All the rest of my wearing lynen my wyll is to be deveded between my two dawghters and to my daughter Elizabethe my … … taffita … and my … … gold ringe to my dawghter Jone
Itm to my neece Anne … my ch… gowne a peticote of yelow … my … & …
Itm to my servant Joyse one heffer & a payre of … flaxen shetes & one payre of harden shetes a blanket & a Bolster
Itm to my servant Abigayle my … gowne & my black clothe gowne and to the rest of my mayde servants everie of them fyve shillings a peece
Item to my servants … … Henrie Wylford Roger Be… & Wm … evrie of them xxs & besyds their wages and to Nycholas Thomson xs & to the rest of my men servants fyve shillings a peece
Witnesses as well to the former as to this … … annexed
Richard Colbrande
Wyllyam Alkym
… …
Probate 2 November 1603
