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Deciphering a 1719 Will

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 Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 2 Mar 2009 03:31

To Enter would be to make a list or inventory of everything he owned
and pay all the bequests within 3 years.

Carole

Carole Report 2 Mar 2009 00:53

I need to work out the meaning of a few phrases in a 1719 Will. Is there anyone out there who can help me with this?
I am trying to establish if the son Robbart benefited from the will. On the face of it, it appears not: he certainly wasn't amongst the 28 persons named to receive money ... but one or two phrases puzzle me and I wonder if they MEAN that he got EVERYTHING apart from the specific bequests? This information would greatly help us to link the correct father and son.
I am unsure about putting the entire will on the internet because of copyright restrictions but I hope that if I just transcribe excerpts and blank out surnames, there will not be a problem?
In the following excerpts, the phrases in brackets are the ones I am unsure about and I would greatly appreciate other members opinions as to their precise meaning. ... I have left the spelling as in the original Will.

"William - - - - - , I sett and bequeath my soal unto god all mighty and my body to be berryed with in the ground deassondly; ..... maybe deassondly is decently? ..... and my son Robbartt - - - - - to be my exsecittor [ and to enter all that ever I have; ] an for my daugh elizabeth mary - - - - - - , the sume of tenpound and John - - - - - and his wife either of them on shiling, and their thre childer twelfpence apeise ......... "

After this there follows a list of small bequests of one shilling or twelve pence to 26 people and one bequest of two 'ginnes' I assume 42 shillings?

Then there is a further reference to Robbartt, the son:-

".... and the said Robbartt [ is to have thre years time to paide in ]"

.. "and to ENTER all that ever I have" ... What can it mean?

Thanks for thinking
Carole