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Help to decipher this please
« on: Wednesday 29 March 23 15:40 BST (UK) »
Hello, am new here. I can read some of this Will but struggling with parts and hoped you might be able to help me pick out the names and what was left to them in this Will please. Would be very grateful for any help.


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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 30 March 23 00:17 BST (UK) »
Welcome Gusto, I hope you don’t mind me suggesting that you approach this a different way, so that someone is more likely to assist.
1/   Provide the exact details / names / place / dates of the document you are trying to decipher.
2/   Type up and post what you have worked out already and leave  ---- or ?? where there are words you cannot work out.
3/   Provide images of the document which are large enough to read. You might need to do this over a few posts. The ones you have attached are far too small to read (at least for my eyes).
Good luck.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 30 March 23 09:28 BST (UK) »
I'm using a magnifying glass so I will start things off just to bump the post up a bit.
This is only from the second picture which comes before the first one.
The testator wants to be buried in the chancel of St Peter [somewhere] next to his father. He leaves ten shillings to the poor of St Peters, and ten shillings for funeral expenses. He mentions brother William Blount (with a connection to Barbados). His sister Margaret gets ten pounds but I am stuck with her surname. His brother John Blount gets twenty shillings.  I can't make out the relatiosnip to Ann Barnett? daughter of Thomas Barnett? Francis and John Jarvis children of his said sister Margaret [surname] to get fiftie shillings apiece. Living children of his brother John also get fifty shillings.
This isn't as easy as it looked - I'll leave the rest for someone else!

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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 30 March 23 13:09 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much Garden Genie, much appreciated  :)


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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 30 March 23 13:35 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your help with this everyone.

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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 02 April 23 12:49 BST (UK) »
I find handwriting guides from the time period with each letter of the alphabet helpful. I think that you are looking at a document written in Secretary or Working hand:
https://theironroom.wordpress.com/tag/palaeography/
Here is the actual set of letter examples:
https://theironroom.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/picture-1-palaeographic-alphabet-1.jpg
Here are few other examples of different scripts (one from 1571):
http://www.handwriting.org/handwriting-styles-16th-17th-century.html
I hope this helps!
Carey, McCabe, McKinnon, Barr, Curr, Templeton

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Re: Help to decipher this please
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 02 April 23 15:26 BST (UK) »
… him for ever in his kingdome  And my bodie I Com(m)itt to the Earth from whence it came to bee
buried in (Christ)ian buriall in the Chancell of the Parish Church of St Peter in Bristoll
in or near the Grave where my father lyeth buried  And as for my worldly estate that little w(hi)ch
God of his mercy hath lent mee I dispose thereof as followeth  Imprimis I give to the poore of
the Parish of St Peter aforesaid wherein I now live tenne shillings in money to bee dystributed
amongst them at the discrec(i)on of my Executo(urs)  Item I give unto M(ast)er Prichard Minister of the
said Parish tenne shillings to preach at my funerall  Item I give unto my brother William
Blount
all the goods w(hi)ch I have allreadie sent to him to the Barbadoes and which I have
in the house or elswhere readie provyded to send unto him  Item I give and bequeath unto my
sister Margarett Davyes tenne pounds in money  Item I give unto my brother John Blount
Twentie shillings in money as a token of my Love  Item I give unto my Cosens Grace & Anne
Barwicke
daughters of Thomas Barwicke to each and either of them fiftie shillings apeece
in money  Item I give unto my Cosens Francis and John Darvis* Children of my said sister
Margarett to each and everie of them fiftie shillings apeece in money  Item I give to each & everie
of my brother John Blounts Children which shall bee liveing at my decease the som(m)e of fiftie
shillings apeece in money  And my will and meaneing is That the said severall Legacies given

to the said Children shall bee paid to their respective Parents to their severall uses within three
moneths next comeing after my decease and they to give their respective Acquittances for the same
which my will is shall bee sufficient discharges to my Executo(urs) for the same against the said
Children  Item I give and bequeath unto my kinsman Henry Herring[?] seaven pounds tenne
shillings in money and my Flockbed Flockbolster and my ould Arris Coverlett on the bed
whereon I now lye  All the rest of my goods Chattells Plate Lynnen houshold stuffe & other
things whatsoever herein not before by mee given and bequeathed my debts and Legacies being
paid and funerall expences discharged I give and bequeath unto my Loving brother Hanbury
Blount
whome I doe make and ordeyne sole Executo(ur) of this my last Will and Testament
And I doe hereby revoke all former wills and Testaments either by writeing or word of mouth
by mee made  In wittnes of all which premisses I the said Robert Blount have hereunto sett my
hand and seale the daie and yeare first above written. Signum d(i)c(t)i Roberti Blount**  Signed
sealed and acknowledged by the said Robert Blount to bee his last Will and Testament the daie
and yeare first above written in the presence of Barnard Benson John Wallton George
Hartwell
Not(ar)ij Pub(li)ci

[Latin probate] Proved at London on 3 April 1635 by the executor, Hanbury Blount.

* presumably = Davyes (or variant)
** = mark of the said Robert Blount

For anyone else looking, the image is much clearer on Ancestry.