Reference
AN28/4
Title
Will of Thomas Peirce of Little Barford, yeoman
Date free text
30 January 1659 [1660]
Production date
From: 1660 To: 1660
Scope and Content
“feeling in my selfe a great weaknesse and conceiving that yt may be a forerunner of my change owt of this lyfe”;
- bequeathing his soul “into the hands that gave yt” and leaving his body to be buried in Little Barford church;
-devising real estate in Little Barford and Tempsford to his son John;
- devising the lease of “Steeles Farme” to his son Thomas “after fowre yeares” to enter at Lady Day 1664 of which lease he already had 40 acres of arable in possession which he should enjoy for his maintenance in the meantime; until the whole Lease shall come into his hand”;
- “yt is my will that he shall inioye those two acres of Meadow which he hath already in possession and an whole part of Lott grasse and foure Cowcomons paying eight pounds a yeare”;
- willing that his executor pay to his daughter Elizabeth £100 within five years of his death, in the meantime paying her £6 per annum;
- bequeathing £5 to his daughter Cecily Fage;
- appointing his John as his executor;
- testator signed by mark;
- witnesses: Robert Payn and Samuel Perry
Level of description
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