Edward Barnard (abt 1550-1627)

Notes:

1. The LW&T and Inventory of Edward Barnard are dated in the Archives as 4 Oct 1627. There are two pages: one single-page LW&T and a very long single-page Inventory. The LW&T is English (with a date in Latin numbers in April 1627). The Inventory list is in English but the values are in Latin; it does not seem to be dated. There is a probate date of October 1627 on the LW&T.

2. The date of death is assumed to have been about June 1627.

3. The transcriptions have not been cross-checked or reviewed. Square brackets – eg [ ? ] – are used where a word is too difficult to decipher or where there is some doubt.

4. Spelling has been updated to modern usage where appropriate; similarly, punctuation and paragraph breaks have been added for ease of understanding.

LW&T of Edward Barnard

In the Name of God Amen, the [24th ? ] day of April in 1627 , I, Edward Barnard of Sutton Benger in the County of Wilts and Diocese of New Sarum, being sick in body but thanks be given unto God, of good and perfect memory, do make and ordain this my present last will and testament in manner and form following.

That is to say, first I commend my soul into the hands of God, my heavenly father ….. [ ? ] and my body to the earth from where it came, to be buried in the churchyard of Sutton Benger aforesaid.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my wife one [ … bed … ? ] … [ ? ] all his furniture [ ? ] her life, and after her decease to remain to my Executors.

And I give to my wife a [ ? ] … [ ? ] and one acre of corn at Barrett Lee, leaving to my Executors another acre … [ ? ] … crop of beans for her life.

And I give unto my daughters Joane and Barbara each of them a bushel of barley, and my will is that the corn in the barn shall spend [ ? ] amongst them.

All the rest of my goods moveable and immoveable I do give and bequeath unto my daughters Ellinor, Alice and Sara, whom I do make and ordain to be my whole and full Executors of this my [ ? ] last will and testament.

I do appoint to be my [ appraisers ? ] John Barnard and Leonard Ferris.

Witnesses

John Barnard [signed]

Leonard Ferris [signed]

Probatum

[Two lines in Latin at foot of LW&T, with a date in Latin):

Probatum … Malmesbury … October 1627