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In
the name of God: Amen: The fifteenth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God
one thousand six hundred fifty and five I Samuell Chambers of Swaffham
Prior in the County of Cambridge yeoman being sicke of bodye but of good and
perfect minde and memorie (thanks be to Almightie God for it) doe make ordaine
institute and apponit this my last wills and testament in manner and forme
followinge ffirst I bequeath to my soule into the hands of Almightie God my
maker hoping through the merits of Jesus Christ my saviour to have remission of
my sinnes And my bodie to be buried in the parishe of Ste Maries accordinge to
the disrection of my executors in honest and decent Christian buriall IMPRIMUS I
give and bequeath to Robert Chambers my
eldest sonne the house which he nowe hath, the last yeares and plowe
groundes now in the use and possession of the said Robert
Chambers And twelve pounds of lawfull money of England To be paid within one
month after my decease ITEM I give and bequeath to Samuell
Chambers my grandchild sonne of Robert Chambers fower acres and a roode of
arrable lands to the onely use and behoose of the said Samuel Chambers and his heirs for everITEM I give and and bequeath
to Mary the wife of Anthony Rowe
ffive pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid to the said Anthony within
tweleve months after my decease ITEM I give and bequeath to Anthony
Rowe my sonne in law the best cowe of the five hundred that are in the farm
presentlie after my decease ITEM I give and bequeath unto Anne
the wife of Robert Ragness five pounds of like lawfull money of England to
be paid five yeares after my decease ITEM I give and bequeath to Richard Chambers my youngest sonne the house which I nowe live in
with all and singular the appertenaures there to adjoyninge And one acre of
arrable land lying in the Dale field with all my landes and tennements hereby
not bequeathed to the onely use and behoose of the said Richard Chambers and his heirs for ever ITEM I give and bequeath to
my executors hereafter named the use benefit ? the cropp growing and ffarming of
the thirty acres of arrable land belonginge to my sonne Robert and now in my owne occupation and lyinge in the ?
all fieldes of Swaffham Prior cum Reach for during the whole six monthes next
after my decease All the rest of my goodes and chattles unbequesthed I give to Anne
my lovinge wife and Richard my sonne
whome I make my joint executors of this my last will and testament paying my
debts and legacies, and bringinge my bodie to the ground In witness whereof I
have hereunto left my hand and soale the day and year first above written 1656
The mark of Samuell Chambers Sealed and delivered in the presence of us, and
these wordes before enter ? betweene the lynes of thirty and thirtye one to witt
belongine to my sonne Robert and nowe in my present occupation was underlyned
before the ensealing thereof ? that my will and meaning is that if my sonne
Robert or any other persons by his ? or ? shall disturbe any of my ex? in the
quiett asigment of such landes tennements or goods as by this my last will and
testament I have bequesthed or in the due ex? of the same that then the fower
acres and a roode of land bequesthed to my grandchild Samuell and his heires
shalle and ? to my said sonne Richard and his heires for ever. Ro: Rant,
Henry Parsly, Henry Collis.
Probatum:
Proved
in London on the 27th January 1656 by the oath of Richard Chambers and Anne
Chambers.
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