Henry Allen

Will

Memorandum that on or about the tenth day of April Anno Domini One thousand Six Hundred forty Henry Allen of ye parish of St.Michael in Queenehithe London clothworker beinge of perfect mind & memory though sickein body did make and declare his last will & testament Nuncupitive or by word of mouth in manner& form followinge or to the like effect Item appoynted his bodyto be buried in the charnell of the parish Church of St. Michael Queenehithe above said And his worldly goods & Estate be disposed as followeth Item first he gave &bequeathed all thathis customary or coppy hold tenement & ye barnes stables Gardens banksides &nyne Acres of Lands with the______ there unto belonginge _______lyeing and beinge within ye parish of Denham in ye county of Bucks holder of ye mannorof Denhamin the county of Bucks there in ye ________ compound of Thomas__________ and he the said Henry Allen bought & purchased of William Codman deceased unto ye six children of his sister Susan Willmott ye wife of Edmund A. Willmott. Item William,Edmund, Richard, George, Susan & Ann Willmott and to their heirs and assigns forever and he willed and appoynted that ye said Edmund Willmott and Susan his wife their father & mother should from ye tyme of his decease receive ye Rents and profitte of ye said tenement & Lands to & for yeuse of their said children. And to be by them employed for theire best benefitt & advantage until they should attaine their severall & respective ages of one & Twenty years for the better raisinge of pounds for them. And ye said Testator then declared that he _______ (if it should please god to permitt him) to surrender his said tenement & lands to the use of his said will to the end ye same might owe to ye said children according to his said intente & bequest Item he ye said testator did recind & forgive unto his brother George Allen (unto whome he ________his said tenement and landes would come by the custome of ye mannor whereof they are holden in case he should not live to surrender the same to the use of his said will) All such debts and somes of mony as he should owe unto him the said testator at the tyme of his decease by bond specialty or otherwise howsoever upon _______only & soe as his said brother George Allen ____ his said Tenement and land should fall unto him for want of such surrender to be made by the said Testator as aforesaid Doe and shall surrender the same Tenement & Lands to ye use of his said sisters children & their heirs according his __is t bequest thereof made to them as above said and in case his said Brother upon request to him in that behalfe made should refuse to surrender the same as afore said. Then he gave and bequeathed to his said sisters children equally to be divided amongst them all such debts & somes of money wch his said Brother George Allen should owe unto him at his decease And in that case he wills his Executrix should doe her best indeavor to recover ye said debts for ye said children by course of lawe so soone as possible she could. Item he gave & bequeathed to his cosen Joseph Usher sonne of his late sister Joane all that his lease estate interest & terms of yeares to come of in ___ ye shopp & warehouse in Townesend Lane within ye parrish of St.Michael in Queenhithein London aforesaid wch he bough[t] of William Graves for a certaine time of years Then & yet inducting at the Rent of a pepper corne or soupon ________ & so as he the said Joseph should within six monthes next after decease of him the said Testator pay unto his ye said testators brother John Allen ye some of Twenty &six pounds of Lawfull mony of England wch if the said Joseph shall not accordingly pay then ye said testator willed & appoynted that ye said lease & interest should come & be to his Executrix she paying ye said Twenty & Six pounds to his said brother John Allen wch if she refused to doe then he gave ye same lease and in interest to him the said John Allen his Brother to make the best thereof for his own benefitt & use Item ye said testator gave and bequeathed to ye poor of the parish of St. Michael Queenehithe aforesaid ye some of Ten pounds to be paid within one month next after his decease to be distributed unto & amongst ye same poore where most needs should bee accordinge to ye disecions of ye Church wardens & Sidemen of ye said parish Item he gave to Mr. Bill Parson of ye said parish Three pounds for his serman to bee preached at his burial & he gave to Mr. Glover Curate of ye said parish Twenty Shillings. The rest and residue of all and singuler his leases plate moneyes debts goods chattelles whatsoever after his debts and legacies aforesaid & his funerall expenses were paid & discharged lawfully and wholly gave and bequeathed unto Susan Allen his wife whome he made and now instituted the full & sole executrix of his said last Will and Testament and ye said Testator being then of good and perfect memorie did give directions and instructions to have his said will _______________ in all perticulers as is above expressed or to ye very like effect there beinge then present______ & well observinge ye ______ _______ Glover Curat _______sancti (?) Michaelisad______ Reginalem (?) Alexander C______ Senr /

Source:

• The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England, PROB 11/183/352