Transcript Will of Margaret HOLLINPRIEST . LONDON. 1722.

Original will copyright of TNA

In the Name of God Amen, I Margarett HOLLINPREIST of the parish of St John's HACKNEY in the county of Middlesex, widdow, being at present but in indifferent health of body but of sound mind and understanding, praised be God for the same but considering the uncertainty of this Life I doe make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following (that is to say).....
Imprimis I humbly assign my soul to Almighty God from whom I had it (trusting) him to receive it into his Bosom for the merritts of my Saviour Jesus Christ.
And my body I commit to the earth from whence it came in hopes of a happy Resurrection, which I desire may be decently buried by my late dear husband John HOLLINPREIST in the parish church of St Edmund the King in Lombard Street, London, to which said parish I give and bequeath one hundred pounds for ever to be placed at Interest which said Interest is to be disposed off Annually on Christmas Day or two or three days afterwards by the Minister and church wardens of the said parish then in being amongst five of the poorest widdows of the said parish and if there should not be so many poor widdows then as many other poor thereof shall be added as will make up that number.
Item I give and bequeath unto my cousin Margaret HESKETH wife of Mr John Hesketh one hundred pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain and to my godson Roger Hesketh, the son of the said John and Margarett fifty pounds of like money to be paid to his father for his benefitt.
Item I give and bequeath unto my cousin Richard SINGLETON five pounds of like money and to his brother John and Thomas Singleton fifty pounds apiece of like money who are now of such years that their receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executor.
Item I give and bequeath unto my cousin Joseph WILKINSON one hundred pounds of like money to be paid him in a month after my decease and to his son James Wilkinson one hundred pounds of like money to be paid himat his age of one and twenty years or when he comes out of his apprenticeshipp which shall first happen.
And to all and every other of his children as he shall have at the time of my decease twenty pounds apiece of like money, which said twenty pounds legacies as aforesaid my will is shall be applied by my Executors for putting him or her or them out Apprentices and buying them necessarys for that purpose and this I principally design and if my Executor after my decease shall find occasion to apply all or any of their said legacies otherwise which in his judgement he may think will conduce more to their particular benefitt then my will is that he may do so and my will further is that his accounts produced on this trust shall be a sufficient discharge to him.
Item I give and bequeath unto my cousins Eleanor, Martha and Mathew WATKINSON fifty pounds apiece of like money and to my cousin John Watkinson one hundred pounds of like money.
Item my will and mind is that my executor to pay unto my neice Elleanor BAYNES , the wife of Mr John Baynes, twenty pounds per annum during the term of her naturall life to be paid to her sole and separate benefitt exclusive of her said husband or any other husband that she may hereafter intermarry with and not to be subject or liable to the debts or controule of her said husband or any other husband and to be paid by equal half yearly payments and her acquittants or receipt not withstanding her coverture shall from time to time be a sufficient discharge to my Executor. And immediately from and after her decease the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Brittain shall be paid to and amongst all her children share and share alike as shall be living at her death and if any of them should be under the age of one and twenty years and of the age of sixteen years then he or she of such age giving a receipt for his or her part or share of the said four hundred pounds shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executor and if all of them should be under the age of sixteen years in such case I appoint my Executor to be Guardian to such children until they shall attain such age and my Executor is to allow them Interest after the rate of five pounds per cent per annum for their respective shares until they shall attain the age of sixteen years as aforesaid.
And my will and mind is that soon after my decease my Executor do for his security of the payment of the said twenty pounds per annum by deed under his hand and seal declare so much of my stock in the Bank of England as shall be thought reasonably sufficient at that time to pay the said twenty pounds per annum which said stock shall be liable to the payment of the said four hundred pounds by sale thereof if occasion after my said neice's decease.
And my will and mind is that if at any time the Bank should pay off any of the principall or funds thereof by payments from the Government to them. In such case my will is that the same shall remain in the Bank until it can be placed out at interest on some good security for the benefitt of the said Trust but the same is not to be placed out without the approbation of my said neice.
And my will is that my Executor shall pay unto my said neice ten pounds out of the next half year's dividend that he shall receive by virtue of my said Bank stock after my decease.
Item I give unto my cousin Ann Baynes, the daughter of the said John and Elleanor one hundred pounds of like money to be paid at her age of one and twenty years or day of marriage which shall first happen and interest after the rate of five pounds per cent per annum be paid her until her legacies shall become due.
Item I give and bequeath unto John Thomas and William BAYNES, sons of the said John and Elleanor, twenty pounds apiece of like money to be paid to their father for their benefitt if they shall be under the age of sixteen years but at that age their receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executor.
Item My will and mind is that my Executor do pay unto my neice Elizabeth NEWSHAM, the wife of Richard Newsham, the sum of ten pounds per annum during her naturall life. And for security of the payment of the same so much of my Bank stock is to be included in the said deed in proportion as to be for the payment of the said Elleanor Baynes's twenty pounds per annum and she is to receive it without controle of her said husband or any husband she may hereafter intermarry in the same manner as my said neice Elleanor Baynes is to do. And this Trust stock is to be settled and managed in the same manner as the said other Trust stock is to be without any variance. And from and after her decease the sum of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of Great Brittain shall be paid to and amongst all her children share and share alike and to be paid them in the same manner as my said neice Elleanor Baynes's are to have said four hundred pounds.
Item I give and bequeath unto the said Richard NEWSHAM twenty pounds of like money and to his son Lawrence and daughter Ann twenty pounds apiece of like money to be paid to their said father for their benefitt if under the age of sixteen years but if at that age their receipt shall be sufficient discharge to my Executor.
Item my will and mind is that my Executor do pay unto my neice Elleanor FRANKS ten pounds per annum during her naturall life and if she is now married or hereafter shall be married it is to be paid her without her husband by her receipt alone for he is much to be debarred from intermeddling therewith as any of the husbands of my aforesaid neices and a proportionable part of my bank stock as in the other cases is to be included in the said deed for the payment thereof. And what may hereafter be paid off by the said Bank as is mentioned may be in the said other trust stock my said Executor is to receive it and place it out at interest as he shall think proper towards payment of the said ten pounds per annum and after her decease this Trust stock shall be to the sole use of my Executor as likewise if there should be any surplus of the aforesaid and other Trust stocks after discharging the severall trusts thereupon charged shall go to him.
And my will is that when this deed is executed I intend no other part of my estate shall be liable to the performance of the severall trusts herein as in the said deed to be mentioned.
Item I give and bequeath unto Margaret WALKER, widdow and to Elizabeth her sister twenty pounds apiece.
Item I give and bequeath unto Mr John BAYNES, son aforesaid twenty pounds of like money.
Item I give and bequeath unto my old acquaintance Sarah COOKFIELD, five pounds of like money and to her daughter, Catharine TAYLOR widdow and daughter Deborah five pounds apiece of like money and to her youngest daughter Sarah fifty pounds of like money.
Item I give unto Mr John AUSTIN of the parish of Great St Hallows in Bishops Gate Street, London, the sum of four hundred pounds of like money to be paid him on my decease and this I desire of him that if at any time any of my relations should have occasion to apply to him to assist in relation to the performance of this my will that he would give it them to the best of his judgement.
Item I give and bequeath unto my nephew John BAMBER Junior one hundred pounds of like money who by other wills I had given much more but by his committing many disorderly things he hath incurred my displeasure.
Item I give and bequeath unto (blank space left) Bamber, Mother of the said John Bamber Junior twenty pounds of like money.
Item my will is that the severall legacies herein devised shall not be payable until twelve months after my decease except such as are herein mentioned to be paid sooner or otherwise. And my meaning for this is that notwithstanding my estate is amply sufficient to pay them but the same, mostly consisting in stocks I give my Executor this time that he may look into the same to manage them for the most benefitt he can to himself.
Item whereas severall of my relations are indebted to me in severall sums of money by Bond, Bill or otherwise now I do hereby release and discharge all and every one of my relations of and from the severall and respective debt and debts and sums of money by them and each of them and I do order my Executor to deliver up their respective securities to be cancelled.
Item my will and desire is that the aforesaid deed be registered in the Bank that so much stock therof as shall be included in the said deed may be separated from my remaining part of my Stock there which in the said Bank Books to be signified as Trust Stock.
Item I give and bequeath unto such maid or maids servants as shall live with me at the time of my death five pounds apiece.
Item all and singular the rest and residue of my estate of what nature or kind soever the same may consist and be I give devise and bequeath unto my nephew John BAMBER senior, Chyrurgeon. And do make nominate and appoint him sole Executor of this my last will and testament and I do revoke all wills by me formerly made and declare this to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I the said Margaret Hollinpreist have to this my last will and testament being contained in four sheets of paper, sett my hand and seal to the last sheet thereof the seven and twentieth day of August Anno Domini 1722. And in the ninth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George by the Grace of God of Great Brittain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith etc

The mark of Margerett Hollinpreist signed sealed published and declared by the said Margarett Hollinpreist as her last will and testament after the alteration of the year of our Lord and the year of the reign in the presence of Martha ROADS, Mary THOMPSON, Elizabeth CURTIS.
 

Proved at PCC London 3rd January 1722/23