1612 Will, Arnold Hope - where is he from please?

[emjsw]

Hello,

I just wondered if anyone can help decipher the words in Arnold Hope's will please. I believe he lived in Gloucestershire but I can't read the place name in the first line. I also can't read the names of his family or what he left (or pretty much any of it!!). It is a bad reproduction and also is quite squwirly!

If anyone could help I would be really grateful.

Best wishes,
Emma

PS I am not sure how to cite the image, it was downloaded from Ancestry, Gloucestershire, England, Wills and Inventories, 1541-1858

[horselydown86]

...of the p(ar)ishe of Week Risington [= Wyck Rissington] in the
county of Glouc(ester)...

[Galium]

I think it is Week (Wick) Rissington.   Compare the initial W with that in the word 'will' on the line below.

I think there's a daughter Alice, and sons named Robert and Peter. His wife is named Katherine. If you look at the next page there seems to be another version of the will, in which his wife's name is spelled Catherine.

[horselydown86]

Here are the main bequests, trimmed of the standard formalities.

...Item I give my daughter one Cowe Robert Sheaperdes wife not of

my best or worst to be deliv(er)ed assoone as my will is proved It(e)m Igyv to

Alice my daughter v^li and a Cowe to be deliv(er)ed to her after the death

of my wife my Executrix  It(e)m Igrant and give to petr my sonne

tenn yeares longer to dwell in of his howse after thend and expirac(i)on

of his lease nowe in possession in as ample and [large?] manner as he

nowe hath and to his children xij^d a peece...


Notes:

In relation to the first bequest, I presume the one Cowe should come after the word wife, and that the daughter is Robert's wife.

His wife Katheryne is appointed Executrix.

ADDED:

Jasper Merrick and Gyles Bidle appointed overseers.

Jasper, Gyles (here spelt Bidell) and Thomas Peete are the witnesses.

[emjsw]

That is wonderful, thank you both very much for your time.
Best wishes,
Emma