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What was to happen to Mary? (excerpt from a 1669 Will)
« on: Tuesday 25 April 23 18:55 BST (UK) »
Any assistance please with this passage from a will drafted in 1669.  It concerns the wishes of the testator as to the treatment of his daughter.  I think he is instructing his son that if he wishes to turn her off some piece of land then he has to pay her recompense, but I'm not sure:
Stevens (Devizes, Calne, Wootton Bassett): Hunt (Milford/Lymington, Calne): Moore/Rudland (Ipswich): Whitlock (Pitton & Farley): Hayter (Whiteparish)

O'Reilly (Sheffield, Flint, L'pool, Co. Longford): Foxton (Sheffield, Northallerton, Thirsk): Spragg (St. Teath, Delabole, Pengelly): Stabb (Berry Pomeroy)

Gore (Newbury, Wigan): Hawkins (Gt Bedwyn/Hungerford): Massey/Wallis (Shalbourne): Mildenhall (Ogbourne): Smith/Lilley (Nhants): Wernham (Chieveley): Woosnam (Mont./Salop): Yaldwyn (Blackdown)

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Re: What was to happen to Mary? (excerpt from a 1669 Will)
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 April 23 20:25 BST (UK) »
Yes, you are right. If he does that, his son Henry has to pay Mary or her assignees £10.

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Re: What was to happen to Mary? (excerpt from a 1669 Will)
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 April 23 20:55 BST (UK) »
Thank you GR2.  Glad to have got the sense of it.  Could I trouble you or someone else for a transcription though, because I can't make out all the wording. 

With your assistance, I can now see ".. will is that if my son Henry Trippook ... the mind to put forth my Daughter Maryes ... out of my ... [pasture?] ... and shall ... it that he shall pay unto her or her Assigns the sum of ten pounds of lawfull English mony".

Any help with filling the gaps would be most welcome!

Stevens (Devizes, Calne, Wootton Bassett): Hunt (Milford/Lymington, Calne): Moore/Rudland (Ipswich): Whitlock (Pitton & Farley): Hayter (Whiteparish)

O'Reilly (Sheffield, Flint, L'pool, Co. Longford): Foxton (Sheffield, Northallerton, Thirsk): Spragg (St. Teath, Delabole, Pengelly): Stabb (Berry Pomeroy)

Gore (Newbury, Wigan): Hawkins (Gt Bedwyn/Hungerford): Massey/Wallis (Shalbourne): Mildenhall (Ogbourne): Smith/Lilley (Nhants): Wernham (Chieveley): Woosnam (Mont./Salop): Yaldwyn (Blackdown)

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Re: What was to happen to Mary? (excerpt from a 1669 Will)
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 25 April 23 21:10 BST (UK) »
will is that if my son Henry Trippooke shalbe [= shall be] at my time [= at my time of death] in
the mind to put forth my daughter Marye's Life out of my close
called [ffursy?*] close, & shall doe it that he shall pay unto her or
her Assigns The sum of Ten pounds of Lawfull english mony

*The name of the close starts with a capital F. ff is just a way of writing the capital. It looks like Fursy, but I may be wrong.


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Re: What was to happen to Mary? (excerpt from a 1669 Will)
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 25 April 23 22:25 BST (UK) »
That's great - thank you!  I think "Fursy" as a name makes sense for the area concerned which is on the edge of the New Forest and probably had/has a lot of gorse (or "furze"). 

Thanks very much for your help with this.

Stevens (Devizes, Calne, Wootton Bassett): Hunt (Milford/Lymington, Calne): Moore/Rudland (Ipswich): Whitlock (Pitton & Farley): Hayter (Whiteparish)

O'Reilly (Sheffield, Flint, L'pool, Co. Longford): Foxton (Sheffield, Northallerton, Thirsk): Spragg (St. Teath, Delabole, Pengelly): Stabb (Berry Pomeroy)

Gore (Newbury, Wigan): Hawkins (Gt Bedwyn/Hungerford): Massey/Wallis (Shalbourne): Mildenhall (Ogbourne): Smith/Lilley (Nhants): Wernham (Chieveley): Woosnam (Mont./Salop): Yaldwyn (Blackdown)