Katherine Bonython

Copy of Will of Katherine Bonithon, extracted from District Registry of Bodmin :

" In y® name of God, Amen. I Katherine Bonithon Widdow, late y" Wife of John Bonithon Esquire of Carclewc in the County of Cornwall beinge sik" of bodie but perfect in minde and memory, thanks be unto God, doe make this my last Will and testament in manner and forme following. First I bequeath my soul unto God my Creator and to Jesus Christ my sole and onlie Saviour and Redeemer whom I doe acknow- ledge and doe perfectly believe hath out of his free mercy and goodness by his precious bloude redeemed me and all mankind from y° tyranye of Satan and that all my sinnes comitted in thought worde or deed are by the same and noc other means soe waslied awaie as none of them shall rise in judgment against me And for my bodie I coniitt unto the earth from whence it had its beginninge and y" same to be buried in some decent manner without any extraordinary charge

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according to the disposition of my Executor. Nowe for my goods dispose in the manner followinge Im- primis I give unto my grandchild John Bonithon sonn and next heire unto my sonne Richard Bonithon Esq*^ of Carclewe in the parish of Mylor the summe of tenn pounds to be paid unto the saide John Bonithon by my Executor within one month after it shall please God to take mee out of this miserable worlde and the same to be employed by my overseare Sir Francis Vivian Knight of Trelawarren either in sheepe or what ells he shall think fit for the best advantage of my saide grandchild and not be delivered to his father. Item I give unto Francis and Peter Bonithon two other of my sonne Richard Bonithon's children two (2 ) of my cowes which are at this present in possession of Nicholas Bawden in the parish of Perran, these to be delivered alsoe by my executor within one month after my decease and the same to be left to him for there best advantage. Item I give unto my grandchilde Henry Seyntaubyn Tenn pounds to be imployed by his father Thomas Seyntaubyn for his best advantage until he shall accomplish the age of twenty and one years and then my Will and meaning is that the saide Henry shall have both the tenn pounds as the proffit thereof at his owne disposal. Item I give unto my other Grandchild Thomas Sayntaubyn one other Cowe which is in the possession of Margarett Boddy which Cowe I would have to be putt to hire for the saide Thomas Sayntauby's best advantage untill he shall accomplishe the age of twenty and one years and then my Will is that he shall have the proffitt of all that hath bin made thereof Item I give unto Zenoby Seyntaubyn one other of my grandchildren one other cowe which is in the possession of John Nicholas in the parrishe of Constenton. Item I give unto my sonne in law Thomas Seyntaubyn the younger who

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marled Katherine my sole and onlie daughter the rest of all my Goods and chatties undisposed of and doe make him sole Executor of this my last Will and doe intreate my nephew Sir Francis Vivian Knight of Trelowarren to be overseer of this my Will and to see the same to be executed as before. In witness whereof I have hereunto putt my scale and subscribed my name the twentye seven daie of May in the yeare of Our Lord 1622.

Katherine Bonithon.

Signed sealed and delivered in the presents of us

Francis Vivian John Alexander John Penhellick

Halston. Proved 25 July 1622."

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