Henry Timberlake Will

I, Henry Timberlake, of Chilling in the parish of Tichfield, county Southampton, gent., being sickley in body and lame in my limmes, this 10th day of July 1625, make this my last will and testament; Poor of Tichfield Ł3. To Thomas Timberlake, my oldest son and his heirs all such lands and tenements and shares or parts of land as I am no seised to in the Somer Islands of Virginia in the parts beyond the seas, and one parcel of land called Hobbs or Madam Land lying in Barking, Co. Essex. To Henry Timberlake my youngest son and his heirs one cottage and parcel of land called Mount Harsh lying in Prickleswell, county Essex, and two cottages in Lambahith Marsh near London, and as touching my goods and chattels, personal estate and adventures beyond the seas, whereas I am indebted in divers great sums of money for most of which my friend Arthur Bromfield, Esq., standeth bound, and whereas Sir William Cope of Hauwell, county Oxon, Knight and Bart, is indebted to me in 13, 947, for the securing of which he did convey unto me certain lands in the said county and in Essex, and whereas in respect of some defect in the title of said lands I have obtained a Decree in Chancery for receiving the said debt out of lands due unto thi said Sir William out of Custom House Key, London, now my will is that out of the same my debts shall be paid and Arthur Bromfield be discharged of his undertaking and that Sir William be reassured of the said lands.

I give unto Sarah, my daughter, new wife of Timothy Blyer of Tichfield clert, Ł200, to my daughter Hester, now wife of Thomas Williams, for the better maintenance of her and of Thomas and Judith Michell two of her children living with her, Ł30 yearly out of my leasehold tenements in London to the said Judith Michell Ł120, to John Michell her brother, my grandchild Ł120 and to Thomas and William Michell her brothers Ł20 apiece in addition to the 50 each given unto them by the will of my said daughter Hester's former husband - all these legacies to my grandchildren be paid to their respectives ages of one and twenty years.

To Benjamin Borrowes and Katherine his wife, my sister Ł10 yearly as long as they shall live together. To Rebecca, daughter of my said sister and now wife of Ralph Radford Ł10 and to Henry Burrows son of my said sister Ł20 and to Michael Burrowes her son, if he be now living Ł10.

Legacies to Samuel Breach, Agnes Ratcliffe, Richard Falder, Margaret Dodd, Arthur Bromfield my godson, William Bartnell my godson, and Timothy Blyer the younger, my apprentice the Company of Browne Bakers whereof I am a member, Margaret Copland my servant, Henry Copland, her brother, Henry Laundy my godson, Mary wife of Arthur Bromfield, Elizabeth his daughter, William Beeston gent., and my Kinsman Jasper Bartnall and wife. to Dorothy Pescod, a poore innocent that I keepe, Ł5 and my executors shall provide some fitt place for her, that she may neither wander nor begge. Old servant Joan Riever, a ____. Kinsmen beyond the seas (line not legible). Inner Temple, gent.

Overseers Arthur Bromfield, Esq., and William Beeston., gent. Witnesses; Arthur Bromfield and Anthony Bromfield, Thomas Greenhill, William Styant

Commissary of London VOL29, f.211