SUSANNA RAWES OF CIRENCESTER

Will of Susanna Rawes of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Made 19th April 1794. Proved 1794 at Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC PRO. PROB 11/1291). (Sedburgh Line)
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In the name of God Amen / I Susanna Rawes in the County / of Gloucester, Widow being of sound disposing / mind memory and understanding but mindful / of my mortality do make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament In manner / and form following. First I commend my soul / into the hands of almighty God my creator and / redeemer and my body commit to the earth / to be decently Interred In the parish church of / Chedworth in the said County of Gloucester In / the same ground with my beloved husband / James Rawes late Vicar of that Parish. And as / to all my worldly Estate and Effects I dispose / of the same in the manner following. That is to say I desire that all my just debts, funeral expences, expences in proving this my last Will and / settling my affairs may be fully paid by my / executor herein after named, and I give / and bequeath unto my sister in law / Susanna Powell the sum of ten pounds. I also / give and bequeath unto James Rawes Porter the / son of George Porter and Elizabeth his wife fifty / pounds. I also give and bequeath unto my / niece Mary Rawes one hundred pounds and the / miniature picture of her aunt and my dear / husband. I give and bequeath unto my nephew / Gerard Rawes my amethist ring set round with / brilliants. I also give and bequeath unto / my nephew John Rawes my silver waiter on / on which there is an Inscription to his uncle as / also my library of books. I also give and / bequeath unto my nephews John Robinson and / John Walker who are trustees to my ffathers / Will ten pounds each to be paid to them at / the time they give up their trusts to my / executors herein after named. I also give and / bequeath unto my ffriend Sarah Tony of the / City of London fifty pounds. I also give and / bequeath unto my beloved ffriend Martha / Patterson widow of Norwich the sum of ten / pounds for a ring. I also give and bequeath / unto my ffriend Charlotte Miles of Cirencester / aforesaid the sum of five pounds. I also give / and bequeath unto my friend Mary Wright / commonly called Glover of Northleach widow the / sum of five pounds. I also give and bequeath / unto Mary Allen daughter of the said Mary / Wright of Glover and now wife of the / now married John Allen of Northleach aforesaid my / gold watch and all that appertains to

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it. I also give and bequeath unto my old servant / Mary Gwen wife of Richard Green the sum of ten / pounds. I also give and bequeath unto the poor of Chedworth aforesaid five ponds worth of bread / to be distributed among them the day after my / funeral. I also give and bequeath unto each of / my poor neighbours that live upon me to whom / I annually give beetn the sum of one pound and / one shilling to be paid by them by my executor / hereinafter named the day after my funeral. I / also give and bequeath unto Mary Mary[?] one / of my present servants the sum of twenty pounds / and housing should she be living with me at / the time of my decease and if she should not / be then living with me then I give and bequeath the said sum of twenty pounds unto whatsoever / servants shall be then living with me share / and share alike over and above their respective/ wages together with a crape gown. I give devise / and bequeath unto my uncle Joseph Cleveland all / that messuage or tenement and premises which I / now live in situate in Black Jack Street in Cirencester / aforesaid to hold to him the said Joseph Cleveland / for and during the term of his natural life and / from and Immediately after his decease I give and / devise the said messuage or tenement and premises / unto my beloved nephew Thomas Powell to hold to / him his heirs and assigns for ever and all the / rest residue and remainder of my real and / personal estate of what nature or kind soever / after payment of the aforesaid specific and pecuniary legacies. I give devise and bequeath unto the / said Thomas Powell and I do hereby appoint the / said Thomas Powell sole executor of this my last / Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and / other Wills by me heretofore made to witness whereof / I the said Susanna Rawes the Testator have to / this my last Will and Testament contained In two sheets of paper to the first sheet thereof / subscribed and set my hand and to the last my / and to the last my / hand and seal the nineteenth day of April / in the year our our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. Susanna Rawes. Signed sealed published and declared by the said Susanna / Rawes the testator as and for her last Will and / Testament in the presence of us who in her presence / and at her bequest and In the presence of each / other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto / David Whatley, Clifford Whatley, William / Baldwin.) Cirencester.//.

Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe, 2002