1590 Will of Nicholas Fatter

1590  Will of Nicholas Fatter        IC/AA1/31/202 (W3/202)   2 pages   IC/AA2/33/30 (R33/30)

In the same of God amen the 30 day of March in the 32 year of the reign of our

Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Quene Defender

of the faythe etc., in the year of our Lord God  v(5) thousand fyve hundred and nyntye

I Nicholas Fatter of Waldringfield in the county of Suffolk husbandman being sicke in

bodye but holl in mynd& of good & p[er]ferke remembrance thanks be gyven to God for that

doordeyne and make my last will & testament in manner &formefollowinge first

and above all thinges I give and bequeath my souleuntoallmighty God my creator & maker

& to Jesus Christ my redeemer &savyourthrough whose  most precious blood sheddnge

I have to be pardoned&havefore remission of all my sinnes and to be an inheritor of the

Kingdom of heaven And my body to the churchto be buried in Christian burriall

Wheaneytshall pleasegodI give and bequeath to Christian my wife all my

houses and lands wyth there appurtenences belonging situated and being in Waldringfield

aforesaid fortearmeof her natural lyfecondytionaly that she payd or cause

to be payde unto Rachell my daughter yearely sixe shillings eyght penne of lawfull

English money for longe as the sayd Christian my wife shall live the first payment

to beginwythin one full yeare next after my decease.  Item I will and bequest unto Christian

my daughter sixe shillings and eyght pence of lyke money yearelye to be payd by Christian

my said wife and the first payment to begin wythinfive hollyeares next after my

decease.  Also I bequeath the like summe of money that is to saye sixe shillings

andeyght pence unto Susan my daughter to be paydyearely by Christian my sayd wife

during her natural life of the said Christian and the first payment to begine within

sevenhollyeares next after my decease.    Item my mynde is &by this my will I do

ytdeclare that yfChristian my wife doedep[er]t this brief  lyfe before Susan my

daughter  shall have accomplished  the age of fifteen yeares then my will is that my aforesaid

houses and lands shall remayne to  JoshuaHarlinge of Martlesham in the county  abovesayd

yeoman for the  bringing uppe of my children until the sayd Susan shall have

accomplished the age of fyfteneyeares as aforesaid provided the sayd Joshua paye  or ca[use]

to  bepayd unto Rachell my sayd daughter sixe shilling andeyghtpennsyearelyeof lawfull English

money until Susan my sayd daughter shall have accomplished the age of fyftene years

as aforesaid Allsoe my will is that when Susan my sayd daughter shall have accomplished

the age of fifteen years as aforesaid then my houses and lands shalleleaten by the sayd

Joshua Harlingeuntill Susan my sayd daughter shall have accomplished the age of

xxi (21) yeares and thefearme to be equally devyded amongst my three daughters All charges

due to the p[re]mise and the Lord of the manour and for the reparacons of the sayd houses and lands

Deducted out of the saydfearme   Item I will and bequeath unto Christian my wife

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my moveable goodestoward the bringing uppeof my children  shepayinge

my debts and seinge my bodye buried and my funeral expenses discharged  Item

I doeordeine and make Christian my sayd wife my sole executor to execute my

Will  (blot)snge to my free intent and meaning   Alsoe I  doeordeine Joshua

Harlynge Aforementioned to be my supravyseur to see that my last will p[er]formed

According to the truste I commit unto hem  witness hereof I have put to my

hand (and seale) the yeare and thymabove sayd

(in margin) sugned?  Nicholas Fatter his mark

These be witnesses    Thomas Goslinge  hismarke

John Toftie?

Probate was made to this testator  —– 19 day of the month

Of Ffebe    [15]90 – or  —  —– the