Description:

Documents:
1. Will [2 pages] dated 6 June 1712
Beneficiaries: To 'my well beloved friends and kinsmen William Maddy of the town of Monmouth…gent and my coz Abraham Watters of Hay, Co Brecon' , all land and tenements undisposed of, 'upon this special trust' that they will pay the legacies and bequests:
To his sister, Dorothy Watters of the Hay, widow and mother of Abraham Watters, an annuity of £5 for her lifetime.
To kinsman, William Bond, £20.
To his niece, Joan, wife of John Powell, gent of Eaton, Co. Hereford, £10 and one feather bed, bolster and furniture belonging to it.
To his niece, Anne, wife of Thomas Powell, £10 and a feather bed and etc.
To godson, John Higgins, £10.
To servant maid, Anne Eustance, 'one feather bed and boulster with the furniture there to belonging and also one chest lying at the beds foot of the sd bed and also two of the largest pewter Dishes.
To Catherine Eustance, 'another of my servant maids £5 and one of my largest brass potts'.
To Samuel [unreadable], servant, 50/-.
To all legitimate children of his late brother Marmaduke, 1/- apiece.
'I allow twenty pounds for my funeral expenses and I direct that two pound be given to the poor people that come there'.

Executors: William Maddy and Abraham Watters.

Testator's and witnesses' signature and

Date of Probate: 24 March 1712 .

Observations:

No Inventory. Documents include a coversheet. 3 sheets in total. This is a copy will as testator's signature and that of the witnesses has been included in the text towards the end. The abbreviated Latin 'Cop. Vera Exaiat' at the end verifies it as a true copy with the copyist's signature again Latinised Carolum [Charles] Lewis. The date of probate, 24 March 1712 , on the coversheet appears to predate that of the will but at that time the new year commenced on 25 March, so by modern reckoning it would have been 24 March 1713 .
This will also appears in The National Archive , Kew under reference PROB/11/529 .