The Will of
William HOLLOCKE
(c1630-1671)
PROB 11/334 - 13 March 1671 - William Hollcke, yeoman of South Malling,
Sussex
In the name of God Amen the twentieth day of January in the yeare of our
Lord one Thousand six hundred and seventy I
William Hollocke of
Ramscombe in the Parish of South malling in the County of Sussex Yeoman
being weake in body but of good and perfect memory thanks bee to Almighty
God doo make consititue ordaine and declare this my last Will and Testament
in writing in manner and form following Revoaking and annulling by the [---]
All and every Will and Wills by me heretofore made And first I comitt my
Soule into the hands of Almighty God hopeing assuredly to attaine absolion
in and throught the [---] of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my Body to
be decently buried in the Churchyard of the parish of Glynde in the County
of Sussex aforesaid And now for the settling of my Temporall Estate as it
hath pleased God to send mee hereon Earth I give and dispose the same in
manner following that is to saye First I give and bequeath unto my brother
Jeremy Hollocke and his heires All my lands lying in the Parish of
Westham after my decease Also I give and bequeath unto my eldest sister
Joane Grover the sume of Twenty pounds of good and lawfull money of
England Also I give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Hollocke
the sume of Twenty pounds of like lawfull money of England to be paid unto
them within one yeare after my decease But if in case any of my three
sisters should happen to dye then my will is that halfe of the said sume or
sumes of Twenty pounds should remaine in my Executors hand hereafter named
and the other halfe to be equally divided between the survivors of my three
sisters And I doo make and ordaine my Brother Jeremy Hollock my sole
Executor of this my Will and I devise my Brother in Law William Grover
and Thomas Fowle of Glynde and Edward Pollington of
Willmington and William Balldy of East Dean in the aforesaid County
of Sussex yeoman to be Overseers of [---] to this my last will In witnesse
whereof I have sett to my hand and seale the day and yeare first above
written William Hollocke signed and sealed in the
presence of us Robert ?ancy his marke Thomas Brooke his marke
Transcribed by me, Mandy Willard, on 29 March 2006, from a digitised copy of
the original document.
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