Frances Stokes of Hose 1660 Will

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1660/126

In the name of God Amen I Frances Stoakes of Hose in the County of Leicester widdow being weake in body but of perfect memory (praised be God) doe ordaine and make this my will and testament in manner and forme following

Imprimis I commit my soule to Almighty God my Maker and Redemer and my body to be buried in the Churchyard of Hose aforesaid

Ite I give unto my Sonne George Stoakes and Mary his wife twenty shillings

To my Sonne Richard Julian and Anne his wife twelve peece [sic] and to their two daughters three pounds to bee equally divided between them

To my Sonne John Senescall and Elizabeth his wife twelve pence and to their two children forty shillings to bee equally divided betwixt them

To my Soone John Dixon and Frances his wife twelve pence and to their five children foure pounds to bee equally divided amongst them

To my Sonne William Stoakes five pounds

To my Sonne John Stoakes his two children five pounds to be equally divided betwixt them

To my Sonne John Thoroton and Mary his wife twelve pence and to their nine children ten pounds to bee equally divided amongst them

To William Nicholsons foure children thirty shillings to bee equally divided amongst them

To John Trinsleyes children of Harby ten shillings

To the poore of Hose twenty shillings

To George … and Elizabeth his sister two shillings

To Thomas … [same surname as last mentioned George] my godsonne ten shillings

To Henry Deane and Richard Deane to each of them twenty shillings

All which above said summes my will is shalbe paid within one yeare and a halfe next after my decease

Ite I give unto Roger Stoakes the Sonne of George Stoakes my Sonne the summe of five pounds to be paid at the end of his Apprenticeshippp

Ite I give unto Frances Stoakes daughter of John Stoakes my Sonne my beadstead and fether bed

I give unto Elizabeth wife of John Stoakes my Sonne twenty shillings

It I make Gregory Julian and Richard Julian of Hose in the County of Leicester yeoman supvisors of this my will and Testament to whom I give forty shillings to bee equally divided betwixt them

All the rest of my goods debts cattells and Chattells whatsoever unbequeathed I give unto my Sonne John Stoakes of Hose aforesaid whom I make mine executor my debts and Legacies being first paid and my funerall expences discharged

In Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett mine hand and seale the day and yeare first above written

                                                                                                         Frances Stoakes

Sealed in the presence of

Robert Burton his marke

Geo: Bristow his marke

Probate 21 March 1660