Will of Mary Fall of Addington, spinster, 1726/7 (proved 1729/30)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D/A/Wf/77/196

In the Name of God Amen I Mary Fall of Addington in the County of Bucks Spinster (hereby revoking all former wills by me made) do make & ordain this my last will & testament in manner following First I remitt my Soul into the hands of God my Creator hopeing thro the alone merits of my blessed Savior & Redeemer Jesus Christ to obtain eternal happiness And my body I comit to the Earth to be decently & privately buryed at the discretion of my Exec(utor) hereinafter named in the parish Church of Addington aforesaid as near the body of my dear departed Mother as the same can conveniently be placed And as for such temporal Estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me I give & dispose thereof as followeth Imprimis I give devise & bequeath All my estate of what nature kind or quality soever the same be unto my Brother Thomas Mayne of Dunton in the said County of Bucks gent his Exec(utor)s and Adm(inistrator)s & Assignes whom I likewise nominate & appoint sole Exec(utor) of this my will Upon the several Trusts Uses intents & purposes hereinafter mencioned & to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever (that is to say) First I will & desire that my debts & funeral expences be paid & discharged. Item my will is & I do hereby desire that my said Exec(utor) shall from time to time as occasion shall require at his discretion place out at Intrest all such sume & sumes of money as I shall dye possessed of on the best security he can procure for the same Item my will is & I do hereby desire that my Exec(utor) shall pay or cause to be paid unto my Nephew John Markham the sume of twenty pounds within one year next after my decease And also I give to the said John Markham one silver plate to be deliverd to him imediately after my decease Item my will is & I do hereby desire that my said Exec(utor) shall pay to my Nephews Alexander Markham & Robert Markham the several sumes of ten pounds a peece to be paid them within one year after my decease Item my will is & I doe hereby desire that my said Exec(utor) do pay or cause to be paid unto my Neice Mary Mayne the sume of two hundred & fifty pounds of lawfull money at her Age of eighteen years or day of marriage which shall first happen And further my will is that untill such time as the said sume of two hundred & fifty pounds shall become due & payable as aforesaid my said Exec(utor) shall pay the annual Intrest & proceed thereof from time to time as the same shall grow due unto my said Neice Mary Mayne whose Rec(eip)t shall be a Sufficient discharge to my said Exec(utor) for the same Item I give to my said Neice Mary Mayne my Sett of Dressing plate also my Mohair Bed Curtains and Vallens & all the Beding thereto belonging together with my Hangings and one Moyety or halfe part of my Household Goods Linnen to be deliverd to her by my said Exec(utor) at her said Age of eighteen Years or day of marriage which shall first happen Item my will is & I do hereby desire that my said Exec(utor) shall pay to my neice Susanna Mayne the sume of one hundred & fifty pounds of like money at her Age of Eighteen Years or day of Marriage which shall first happen And in the mean time I will that the Intrest & proceed thereof shall be paid by my said Exec(utor) unto my said neice Susanna Mayne in manner & form aforesaid And also I give to her the said Susanna Mayne one Large Silver Cup & Salver & the other halfe of my said Household Linnen to be deliverd at the same time Item my will is & I do hereby desire that my said Exec(utor) shall pay or cause to be paid unto my Nephew William Mayne & to my neice Anne Mayne All the rest of my money not herein otherwise disposed of to be equally devided between them And all the rest of my household goods I desire shall be equally devided And also the rest of my plate shall be also equally devided amongst the said four Children of my said Exec(utor) And I give to my said Exec(utor) twenty pounds for his trouble & desire that he may repay himselfe out of my said effects all such sumes of money as he shall expend in the execution of the Trusts aforesaid And my will is that he shall not be charged or chargeable with any involuntary loss which may happen by reason of the Trusts aforesaid In Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale this three & twentieth day of March one thousand seven hundred & twenty six

[signed] Mary Fall [seal]

Signed sealed published & Declared by the said Testatrix in the presence of us who have sett our names as witnesses in her presence

[signed]
Mary Mayne
Susanna Benson
J Egerton

[Probate 7 Feb 1729 before William Mason clerk surrogate of the Venerable John Bettesworth LLD commissary and official of the Archdeaconry of Bucks to Thomas Mayne gent brother-in-law [Levir'] of the deceased and executor. Mo inventory.]

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Notes

"Mrs Mary Fall of Woning" was buried at Addington on 13 Jan 1729/30. She was the daughter of Mary Fall (d.1724), and sister of "Sarah Mayne wife of Thomas, Gent of Dunton" who was buried at Addington in 1726. Thomas Mayne (then described as of Hoggeston) married Sarah Fall at Chetwode in 1715. Another sister, Philippa, married John Markham (d.1746), lawyer of Winslow, at Hinton in the Hedges in 1712.

Philippa was baptised in 1685 at St Giles in the Fields, daughter of "William Fall Gent and Mary his wife". The baptisms of the other sisters haven't been traced.

The will was apparently written by the Buckingham lawyer John Egerton, son of the late rector of Adstock Thomas Egerton.