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Will of William Rampley 31 January 1602 (proved 21 November 1603)

SRO Reference: IC500/2/45
Book: J545/23
Date: 1603
Page: 284

///In the name of God amen///
the last day of Ianuary In the yeare of our lord god
one Thousand six hundred and two And in the fiue and
forteth yeare of the rainge of our soverainge lady Elizabeth
by the grace of god Queene of England France and Ireland defender
of the faith etc ///I William Rample/// of Vpper Ricking-
hall in the county of Suffolk husbandman being of good and perfect me-
mory thankes be vnto all mightie god doe ordaine and make this my pre-
sent Testament and last will in this manner and forme followinge
First I bequeath and comend my sowle into the handes of all mightie
god my creator and reedemer, and my bodie to the earth in True
and certaine hope of resurrection to eternall life thorough Iesus
Christ our only lord and saviour Item I geve and bequeath vnto
Alice my wife all that my tenement and messuage wherein I
dwell with the yard and backside thereto belonging conteyning by
estimation three Roodes of ground being copy hold holden on the manor
of Fitz Iohn in Rickinghall aforesaid, To haue and to hould all my
said Tenement with the yard and backside thereto belonging with
all and singular thappurtenances vnto the said Alice my wife and her
Assignes during all the Terme of her naturall life keping my
howses in good and sufficient reparations And after the death of
the said Alice my wife, I geve and bequeath all my said copy hold
Tenement with all and singular Thappurtenances vnto my said sonnne Willi
am Rample To haue and to hould vnto the said William my sonne
his heires and Assignes for ever by copie of court rolle according
to the custome of the said manour vpon this condition followinge
that is that the said William his heires Executors or Assignes
doe pay

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doe pay or cause to be paide vnto his two sisters Dorathie and Anne
to ech of them fowre poundes in manner and forme followinge that is
at Michaelmas one wholle yeare next after the death of the said
Alice my wife to Dorathie my daughter Twenty shillinges And vpon
Michaelmas day next after that to An my daughter Twenty shillinges
And so forth yearly vpon the said day called Michaelmas day Twenty shillinges
a yeare to the oldest first and the next yeare after to the other vntill
the said somme of fowre poundes to ech of them be fullie satisfied, And the said
money to be allwaies paide at or in my said Tenement wherein I
dwell Prouided allwaies that if the said William Rample ... ... ... his
heires Executors or Assignes shall refuse to pay this said ... ... or to
eyther of them their said severall legacies of Fowre poundes a peece
Then I will that my said daughters their heires or Assignes shall haue
authoritie By vertue of this my last will and Testament to enter into
my said Tenement and ground thereto belonginge, And shall leaue
the same and take the farme thereof yearely arisinge and pay themselues
their said Legacies of Fowre povndes to ech of them Prouided alsoe
that if eyther of my said daughters shall depart this world without
yssue of their bodie lawfullie begotten and before their said legacie
be due vnto them, Then I will that their said guifte shall die alsoe
Item I will that if the said William my sonne shall depart this world
before Alice my wife and without yssue of his bodie lawfullie begotten
Then I will that my said Tenement with the ground thereto belonging
shall remaine to my said daughters their heires and Assignes, And
they to enter into yt after the death of the said Alice my wife
Item I giue and bequeath vnto the said Alice my wife all my goodes
moueables, housholdstuffe, brasse, and pewter of what kind soever they
be to her and to her heires for ever Item I doe constitute and ap-
poynt the said Alice my wife to be my soole Executrix of this my
last will and Testament ///In wytnesse/// hereof I haue set my
hand and seale to this my last will In the presence of Robert Dowe
clarke Robert Dowe the Younger Thomas Shepard and others
///Memorandum/// that the surrender of my copy hold Tenements with the yard
and backside thereto belonging was geven into the handes of Robert Dowe
the Younger copy hold Tenement of the manor of Fitz Iohn In the presence
of Thomas Shepard alsoe copy holder of the said manour for the vse of
this my last will and Testament witnesse alsoe Robert Dowe clarke