Whitehaven Record Office Frame 372 of film MM2158 / MF.COP72
In the Name of God, Amen, The eleventh Day of September and in the year
of our Lord Christ One Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty nine, I Edward Hartley
of Padack-Wray, Yeoman, in Eskdale in the Parish of St. Bees, and County of
Cumberland, being very sick and weak in Body, but of Perfect Mind and Memory:
Thanks be given unto God: Therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body
and knowing that it is appointed for all to die : Do make & Ordain this my
last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally, and first of all, I give &
recommend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God, that gave it, and my Body,
I recommend to the Earth, to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Dis:
Cretion of my Executor : Nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection,
I shall receive the same again, by the mighty Power of God : And as touching
such worldly Estate, wherewith it hath please’d God to bless me in this Life, I
give,
Demise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
Imprimis, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Susan Hartley, the Wife of
Daniel Hartley
The sum of Eighty Pounds of good British Money, Forty Pounds of it to be paid at
the
Years End after my Decease to the said Susan, her Heirs or Assignees and the
other
Forty Pounds at the Death of her Mother, to her, or her Order, but the said
Susan,
Her Heirs, Administrators or Assignees shall pay to my beloved Wife the Sum of
One
Pound yearly during her natural Life as interest for the forty Pounds first
mentioned.
Item, I give to my Beloved Wife, four Pounds yearly or her Widdow-Right, whither
she
chooses, during her natural Life, and Ten Pounds upon demand, and half the Bees.
Item, I give Sarah Tyson of Keyhow ten shillings. Item, I give to Susan Stable
the
Wife of Wm Stable ten shillings. Item, I give Ruth Robinson of Ambleside, Widow,
two
shillings and sixpence. Item I give John Tyson of Chris-Cliff an Oak Chest
now in his Possession. Last of all, I make my son Henry Hartley my whole and
sole Executor of all the rest of my Monies, Chattles and moveable Effects, he or
his Order paying all my Debts, Legacies and Funeral Expences, likewise, I do
constitute
make and ordain him my sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, of all
and
singular, my Lands, Messuage, and Tenements, now in my Possession, and all and
every
thing belonging to me, by him freely to be possess’d and enjoy’d : And, I do
hereby utter
ly disallow and disanull all, and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies
and
Bequests and Executors by me in any Ways before nam’d, willed and bequeathed,
ratify
ing and confirming this, and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In
Witness
whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written
Sign’d, Seal’d, publish’d, pronounc’d and declared
} his
by the said Edward Hartley as his last Will }
Edward Hartley EH
and Testament in the presence of us the }
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On reverse
September 25th 1770
Henry Hartley sole Executor in the written written [sic]
Will named was sworn well and truly to execute the same
and so forth Before me Murthwaite Surrogate
Notes
1 Relationships to Edward Hartley mentioned in will
Wife Not named
Daughter Susan Hartley, wife of Daniel Hartley
Son Henry Hartley
2 Other individuals named
Susan Stable, wife of William Stable (Susan was the daughter of John Hartley, ie Edward's sister)
Ruth Robinson, widow of Ambleside
Sarah Tyson of Keyhow
John Tyson of Chris-Cliff