Person:George Cooke (10)

A transcription of his will and inventory:

In the name of God Amen I George Cooke of Burbury in the County of Warwick Husbandman being at this time Infirm in body but sound in mind and memory (thanks be to god for the same) Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament in form following First I commit my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my creator humbly hoping for the pardon of all my great and manifold Sins & obtain Eternal Salvation by the Death and passion of Jesus Christ my most Gracious and merciful Redeemer And as to those worldly goods I enjoy wherewith it Hath pleased God to Intrust me I dispose of them as follows First my will is that all my Just Debts and funerall Charges shall be paid and Discharged and as to that yard Land I bought of my nephew John Cooke I dispose of as following my will is that my Dear and Loveing wife shall have & be paid Her yearly & every year Dureing her natural Life and of my said yard Land four pounds in Lieu of her third by Half yearly payments the first payment to be at six months and after my decease(?) and I Do hereby charge subject and make Lyable the said yard Land for payment of the same [lines crossed out] In case she shall keep herself unmarryed but if she marries my will is that then and from that time the payment of four pounds yearly of of my yard Land which way in Lieu of her thirds shall cease and she shall have no more then her thirds of my said yard Land and I do farther give to my Loving wife the use of all such of my Household goods as she shall have a desire to keep for Her natural Life in case she keeps her self unmarryed but if she marryes my will is that then and from that time(?) the said Household goods shall be to my son George Cooke except one bed and the Beding thereto belonging which I give to my Dear wife forever All the rest of my real and personall Estate goods chattels Rights Creditts Ready money and moneys Due upon securityes and all groweing(?) Interests and all other my Effects whatsoever & wheresoever I give into the Hands of my Brother Thomas Cooke of Rugby and John Pitts of Burbury aforesaid In trust and confidence(?) nevertheless and to the only end Interest and purpose that they the said Thomas Cooke and John Pitts and the survivor of them their Executors & administrators shall from time to time during the minority of my son George Cooke Dispose manage and employ the Land and every part and parcell thereof to and for the sole Benifitt of my son George Cooke and for such manner as they and the Survivor of them shall think fitt and Expedient for the advancement of my son George Cooke in the world according to the true Intent and meaning of this my Last will and testament And my will farther is that in case my son George Cooke shall Dye before he shall attain the age of Twenty one years I give all my real and personall Estate that shall then be in the Hands of my Brother Thomas Cooke and John Pitts and all other my Effects whatsoever or wheresoever found unto my Brother Thomas Cooke and His Heirs for Ever And I Do nominate constitute and appoint my Brother Thomas Cooke and John Pitts Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And I do hereby revoak all former wills by me Heretobefore made and Do Declare the [...] to be my last Will and Testment In witness whereof I the said George Cooke the Testator have sett my Hand and Seale this fifteenth Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred forty and two

The mark of George [X] Cooke

Signed sealed published and declared by the said George Cooke the Testator as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us (who at the request and in the presence of the said Testator and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesss thereunto) the Razures in the nineteenth Twentieth and Twenty first Lines being first made

Hannah Masters Mary Maunten J Pitts

[...] the 15th Octr 1756 Let a Probat of this will be made to Thos Cooke one of the exrs --- the other being dead. The said Thos Cooke being sworn before me Thos White [...]

An Inventory of the goods of George Cooke deceased

For grain --------------------------------------------------------------------------------8:0-0

For hay-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------1:10-0

For goods in the Parlour ---------------------------------------------------------------1:10-0

For goods in the house -----------------------------------------------------------------1:0-0

For goods in the far chamber ----------------------------------------------------------1:0-0

For wool ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------2:0-0

For goods in the other chamber -------------------------------------------------------0:15-0

For goods in the Dairy ------------------------------------------------------------------0:5-0

For a cow ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------2:0-0

For money and wearing apparel -------------------------------------------------------1:10-0

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19:10-0

[...] 15o October

1756

G. George Cooke

de Burbury

[...]

1. ↑ Parish Register.
2. ↑ Parish Registers of Birdingbury.
3. ↑ Parish Registers of Birdingbury.

   George Cook senr of Marton Parish was buried age 71.