Marvodia [: being an account of the last illness of James I and of the post-mortem examination of his body] / by William Munk.

Date:
1885
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Credit: Marvodia [: being an account of the last illness of James I and of the post-mortem examination of his body] / by William Munk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    body*to the earth to bee buryed ia decent manner by my Executrix hereafter named Item I give to the poore of the parish of Honiton tenn pounds Item I give to every servant that shall bee dwelling in house with me at the time of my death five pounds Item I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my Cousin John Marwood eldest sonne of my Vncle John Marwood deceased and to his heires and assignee for ever the Manner of East Meare lying and being within the parish of Tiverton in the County of Devon aforesaid with all and every of its appurtenances and the Revercon and Kevercons rents suites and Services thereof from the day of my death Item I doe give unto my said Cosin John Marwood and to his heires and assignee for ever all other my Lauda and Tenements whereof and wherein I stand seised in possession or have any expect- ancy of revercon of any estate of Inheritance or ffee Simple and alsoe I doe give and bequeath unto my said Cousin John Marwood his Executors and ossignes all my Chatties estate in Honiton and elsewhere and all the Table boards Chairea Stooles and laetlsteeds which now are in and which were belonging to the house wherein I now live in my ffiither’s lifetime and one bed performed in the Parlour Chamber which was my brother Henry Marwoods late of London deceased and the Chaires Sutable to the Curtaines of the bed and Six Drum Chaires Item I give unto my Cousin John Ham sonne of William Ham late of Hnlberton Gent deceased three hundred pounds and to the three daughters of the said William Hame one hundred pounds a peece to bee paid them by my Executrix as bee and they shall attaine their severall ages of one and twenty yeares and in case that either of them doe dye before they a^ttaine their age of one and twenty yeares then the Legacy given him or her shall remiiine and bee. to the Survivors of them equally to bee divided betweene them Provided allwaies and my will is that if he the said John Ham within six Moneths after hee shall attaine the age of one and twenty yeares as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to make and to deliver to my Cousin John Marwood aforesaid a full cleare and absolute release of all right title interest clayme and demand whatsoever which hee or his heires may or might have or pretend to have of in and to the mannor of East Meare aforesaid or of in and to any part parcell or member thereof by reason that William Hum ffatlier of the said John Ham did purchase the said Manner of East Meare for mee with my mony and to my use but in his owne name and shortly after dyeing did not before his death by any witeing under his hand regraut and assure the said Mannour unto mee and my heires as he ought and intended to have dune ns by divers depositions taken did Appeare or if the heires of the said John Ham in case hee shall happen to dye before hee attaine the said age of one and twenty yeares shall within the time aforesaid neglect or refuse to make and deliver to the said John Marwood a full and absolute release of all title claime and demand whatsoever of in and to the said Mannor of East Meare as aforesaitl that then the said Legacye and Legacies given them and either of them shall not bee paid by my Executrix but the said legacies to all and every of them shall bee utterly frustrate and void Item 1 give unto firauces MarwfXKl my Aunt forty shillings and to James Thomas Benedict and Bridgett Children of the said ffrances fforty shillings a peece to bee jaud them within six monethes after my decease if they bee of the age of one and twenty yeares or us soone ns they or either of them shall attaine that age Item I give unto Peter Elizabeth and Mary ths three children of my Cosin Peter Cole one hundreil pounds a peece to bee paid them by my Executrix jis they shall attaine their age of one and twenty yeares and in case that either of them doe dve before they shall attaine their said age of one and twenty yeares then the Legacy hereby given him or her shall remaine and bee to the Survivors or Survivor of them Item I give unto Ellen® * the now wife of Edward fforward one hundred and ftifty pounds to bee paid within one yeare next after my decease Item I give to Mary now wife of David Abbott Sixty ixjunds and to Hugh Baker of Honiton thirty pounds and to my Cosin Daniell Marwood tenn pounds and to JP Joseph Northcote tenn pounds and to William Levermore Apothecary tenn pounds all which Legacies my will is shall bee paid by my Executrix within one yeare after my decease and my will and desire is that David Abboti my Tenant shall have six mqnths time after my decease for the Hidauce and Carying away his goods all the rest of my goods moneys and Chattels after my debts and Legacies paid and funendl jjerformed I doe give and bequeath unto my Cosin Mary Goldsworthy now wife of Samuell Goldsworthy of Honiton whome I doe make and ordaine whole and sole Executrix of this my last will and testament desireing her to perform the same In witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seide the day and yeare first above written—John Marwood.