George Shuttlewood of Holwell 1674 Will
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1674/53
In the name of God Amen the one & twentieth Day of July in the five & twentieth yeare of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Ld King Charles the 2d Over England &c Annoq Dni 1673 I George Shuttlewood of Holewell in the County of Leister Gent: being weake in body but of good & perfect memory (blessed bee God for it) Doe make & ordeine this my last Will & testament in maner & forme following
First I comend my Soule to God that gave it hopeing through the merritts of Jesus Christ to bee partaker of Everlasting life; my body I bequeath unto the Earth decently to [“be” missing] interred at the discretion of my Executrix hopeing for a joyfull resurrection
And as for my estate Goods & Chattells which it hath pleased God to lend me I devise & bequeath as followeth
First I devise & bequeath unto my brothers in Law William Perkins gent & William Coles Clerke & to theire heires and assignes All those two Cottages tenements or dwelling houses with theire & either of theire appurtenances scituate & being in Scalford in the County of Leister aforesaid, now or late in the Occupations of Thomas Awood & Thomas Burbidge with all lands leyes meadowes Comons comons of Pasture comodities & profitts whatsoever to them or either of them belonging, To hold the same premisses to them theire heires & assignes to the intent & purpose that they or the Survivour of them or the heires of such Survivour shall as soone as conveniently may bee after my decease sell & convey the same premisses to the best advantage that may be & the moneyes thereof & thereby raised to distribute & pay equally amongst my Children George Gertrude Robert & Charles when they shall severally attaine theire Severall ages of twenty & one years & that those of them that are under age shalbe educated & brought up out of their dividend & proportion & if any shall dye before they attaine their full age of twenty & one yeares then the proportion or dividend of him or her soe dyeing shall be payd amongst the Survivors of them
Alsoe I give & bequeath unto Gertrude my loveing wife all my Goods chattels & cattles whatsoever, except such houshold Goods as shee brought with her att her marryage with mee & foure Cowes, upon this provisoe & trust & confidence in her deposed that she shall sell & dispose the same to the best advantage that may bee within twelve monethes next after my decease & the moneyes thereof & thereby made & raised to pay & divide amongst my sd children at theire severall ages of twenty & one yeares & in the meane time those that are under that age to bee maintained & educated out of theire dividend & proportion & my will is that if any of my sd children dye before they come to theire severall ages of twenty & one yeares the dividend or proportion of him or her soe dyeing shalbe equally divided amongst the Survivors of them
Alsoe I give & bequeath unto my sd wife all the sd houshold goods which she had at her marriage with mee, & over & above four of my best dairy Cowes & I doe hereby make & ordaine her the sd Gertrude full & sole Executrix of this my last Will & testament revoking all others whatsoever by me heretofore made
And lastly I give unto the poore of Holewell & Scalford fourty shillings to be pd within one yeare after my decease
In wittnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the day & yeare within written
George Shuttlewood
Signed Sealed & Dd in the presence of us
William Holt his marke
John Corner
Copy will, original delivered to Gertrude Shuttlewood executrix 20 June 1674 in accordance with an Interloquatory Decree of Commissary of Archdeaconry of Leicester
Gartrude Shuttlewood
Probate 20 June 1674
