Will of Frances Meakes of Addington, widow, 1699 (proved 1702)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies D/A/Wf/60/152

In the Name of God Amen

I Frances Meakes of Adington in the County of Bucks Widdow being in good health of Body & of sound & perfect minde and memory praise be therefore to Almighty God do make and ordain this my present last Will and Testament

And as Touching the disposition of all such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased the Almighty God to bestow upon me I give and bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth viz.

Item I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Meakes of Adington in the County of Bucks spinster the use of Fourscore pounds of Lawfull money of England during her Natural Life & after her decease I give the said fourscore pounds equally between too of my Grandsons that is to say Fourty pounds to John Meaks son of my son Thomas Meaks & Fourty Pounds to Joseph Meaks son of my sonne Joseph Meaks, and if it happen that either the said John or Joseph Meaks shall die before my said Daughter Elizabeth Meakes then the said Eighty pounds shall be to the survivor of them

Item I give all my Goods Chattles & houshold stuff equally between my sonne John Meaks & my said Daughter Elizabeth Meaks

And of this my Last Will & Testament I make and appoint my Trusty & wellbeloved sonne Francis Meaks overseer, and I do make my sonne John Meaks my full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby revoke dissanul and make voyd all former Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made and thi[s] and none other to be my last will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hearunto set my hand & seal the one and Twenty day of October Anno Dom 1699 & in the Eleventh year of our soveraign Lord William the third by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith &c

the Mark of Francis [sic] Meaks [seal]

Signed Sealed, published pronounced and declared by the said Francis [sic] Meaks to be her last Will & Testament in the presence of us.

[copy signatures] Mary Meaks and Mary Bowden

[Probate 8 May 1702 before Mr Isaac Lodington clerk MA surrogate of the Venerable Thomas Ayloffe LLD commissary and official in the Archdeaconry of Bucks. Administration of the goods according to the will of Frances Meakes late of Addington widow granted to Joseph Meakes her natural and legitimate son, saving the right of anyone, John Meakes the executor dying before taking on execution and Elizabeth Meakes the daughter and legatee declining to take on execution.]

Notes

Frances Meakes was buried at Addington on 24 Oct 1699, three days after making her will, and her son John was buried on 7 Oct 1701. Frances was the widow of John Meakes (d.1689). The children named in the will are:

Copyright 4 February, 2026