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The Will of Henry Heighes
In
the name of God Amen I Henry Heighes of East Worldham
in the Countie of Southton, Gent and being infirm and weake in body but of
sound perfect and disposing minde and memory (thanks be given to God)
be this present fifteenth day of Januarie Anno Domini One Thousand
Six Hundred Eighty and in the two and thirtieth year of the now
? reign King Charles the second over England
so make and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner
and form following (vis) Imprimis I command my soule unto God my
Creator hopeing through the merritts of Jesus Christ my Saviour to receive
and pardon for all my sins and to be made
partaker of life
everlasting and my body I commit to the earth whom it so as made to be
devoutly interred at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named.
And as to that Estate who so withit hath pleases God to intrust mee
I give and devise the same as followeth (vis)
I Will that all my just debts bee payd and satisfied as soone as
with and convenience may be done.
Item
I give and bequeath unto my foure younger daughters Elizabeth, Lucy,
Maria and Dorothea
Heighes three hundred pounds a piece of lawfull money of England to
bee payd them within three years after my decease or at their respective
dayes of marriage which shall first happen provided that they do marry
with the good liveing and consent of Mary Heighes their Mother if
she be then liveing And if either of them happen to dye before the said
Legacys shall become due and payable
Then I will that the portion of such so dying shall be equally
divided amongst the survivor and survivors of them
And my Will and meaning is that the said several and respective
legacys shall be raised out of my stock goods chattels and personall
estate and by sale thereof and if that be not sufficient to do the same
then I do hereby charge all my part and share of the Lodge Lands Grounds
and Parke called Worldham Parke all my terms rest in forest and
Estate therein situate in East Worldham in the countie of Southton
and also all the tythes of corn comming arising and increasing within the Parish
of East Worldham aforesaid with them and everie of their appurtenances
and all my Estate and Terms therein with the payment of the residue And do
hereby give and grante unto my Executors herein after named full power and
authorisation to make up the said portions three hundred pounds a piece
out of the rents issues and profit of the said grounds and Tithes and to
take and apply the terms for that purpose.
And I do hereby devise my said Executors to add one hundred and
fifty pounds a piece more to each respective daughter for increase of her
said portion incase my said Executors can or shall receive the same out of
the rents issues and profits of the said parke grounds and tythes in the Parish
of East Worldham aforesaid.
Item I give and devise unto my sonne Henry Heighes
and his heirs and assigns All the tythes of corn and grayns arising
recurring and increasing within the Tything of Oxenbourne part of
the Rectoree in East Meon in the said Countie of Southton which I
hold by a Lease for lives from the Lord Bishop of Winchester and
all the ?
lands and appurtenances thereto belonging and all my rights tithes
terms and Estate therein.
Item I give and devise unto my said sonne Henry
Heighes and his heirs all my messuage or Tenement with the land
thereto belonging situate and lying in Alton in the said Countie of
Southton late in the ?
or occupation of Richard Fisher and now in the possession of
William Markes and John Morgan.
Item I give and devise unto my loveing wife Mary Heighes and
her assigns during the term of her natural life the messuage and lands
which I hold by lease from the College of Winchester and after her
decease I Will the same shallbe and remaine unto my grandchild Edward
Heighes for the remainder of my terms therein then to come.
But if he should happen to dye without issue before the said Mary
Heighes his grandmother then I give the said College Lease and
promises after the decease of the sayd Mary Heighes unto my sonne Henry
Heighes his Executors Administrators and Assignes with the full
benefitt of the receiving thereof.
Item I give and devise unto my oldest sonne Edward
Heighes and his heirs all those four acres of Arable land be they more
or lesse lying in Hartley Mauditt in the Countie of Southton.
Item I give and devise unto my Executors herein after named and
their heirs All those lands lying neare Riverhill in the Parish
of Binstead in the said
Countie of Southton which I lately purchased from Nicholas Hurst
and William Venables upon trust that my said Executors or the
survivor of survivors of them make sale of the same towards the raising of
my said daughters portions.
Item I will and devise that after my debts and Legacys shall be raised fully satisfied and payd the said Lands and
grounds called East Worldham Parkes and my part and share
therein shallbee and remains unto my sonn Henry Heighes his
Executors and Administrators for the remainder of the terms therein
thoucome and ? And my
tithes corns and grains in East Worldham aforesaid shall goe and
remaine unto the said Mary Heighes my wife for her life for the
better ? and support of her so keeping for her selfe and
children And after her death I give the said Tythes and the Lease thereof
to my said sonn Henry Heighes his Executors and Assigns for the
remainder of my Terms and Estate therein And I doe hereby make and ordayne
my said loveing wife Mary Heighes and my two sonns Edward
Heighes and Henry Heighes Executors of this my last Will and
Testament (hereby revoking all former wills by mee made)
and I doe devise my worthy friends Sir John Norton Barrton
Samuel Woodford Horton of Divinitie
William (?)indott Esq. and my brothers in law Mr Henry
Christmas and Mr Charles Cheney to be sponsors thereof and to
be ayding and assisting to my said wife and children and for their care
therein I give unto both of them twentie shillings to buy them rings.
Item I give to the poore of the Parish of East
Worldham aforesaid ffourty shillings and to each of my grand children
five shillings a piece. In
Testemonie whereof I the said Henry Heighes have to this my last
Will and Testament contayned in two sheets of paper sett my hand and seale
the day and yeare first above written Henry
Heighes signed sealed and declared by the said Henry Heighes
his testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of Charles
Cheney, Eli Shelley, Richard Redmond, the mark of William Hickory
A
Codicil to be added to my Last Will and Testament and to
be taken as part thereof Imprimis I do hereby give and bequeath unto my daughter Anne Braman for her sole and separate use and benefit without her husband the sum of one hundred pounds to be payd unto her if living if not her children out of my part of the Parkelands after her sisters have received all their portions if her husband Thos Braman do upon demand give my Executors ? not to ? therewith if not, the said one hundred pounds not to be ? now payd at all. Item is hereas I have given by my Will unto my sonn Henry the ? of the said parkelands paying his sisters portions I do hereby declare and this my now intend and meaning that if my sonne Henry do not pay them attending to my Will together with the one hundred pounds above mentioned then my Executors shall have liberty to pay the same. And I give unto my Executors the ? thereof paying the said Legacys in the Will and the said ? above mentioned And my Will and Meaning further is that incase my personal Estate not bequeathed will not hold out to pay my Legacys of three hundred pounds a piece to my daughters then I do hereby direct and appoint my Executors to receive the rents and profits of the said Parkelands until they have raised the same before my daughter Elizabeth do receive any. Item I give unto my sisters tenn shillings a piece to buy them rings and the like to my loveing friends Matthew Hawkins and Widdow Marks ? ? to buy them rings and do order and appoint the two hundred pounds and Interest due from my cousin Mary Heighes on her coppihold to be received and go towards payments of my Legacys in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the foure and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred Eighty Anno (Latin) Henry Heighes sealed delivered published and declared in the presence of the marke of Thomas Smith the marke of William Piper.
Probate in
Latin granted in
London to Maria Heighes
Edward Heighes Henry Heighes
This Will was kindly transcribed and sent in by Anne. If you feel that any of the persons named in the above will is a person that you are researching, then you can contact Anne by Email
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