Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Aston of Tewkesbury.
1719
| First I give and devise unto Nicholas Smithsend the younger of Walton Cardiff in the County of Gloucester, Gent. his heirs and assignes for ever, all that messuage or tenement with the appurtenances, situate and being the Barton Street in Tewkesbury aforesaid wherein I now dwell and inhabit, charged and chargeable with the sum of twenty pounds to my four several legatees next hereinafter named, that is to say, I give and bequeath unto Mary, the wife of John Pittman of Tewkesbury aforesaid, Nicholas Smithsend of Tewkesbury aforesaid, Elizabeth Smithsend, of Fiddington in the said County of Gloucester, spinster, Elizabeth Smithsend, of Walton Cardiff, aforesaid, spinster the sum of five pounds apiece to be paid them within the space of three months next after my death. Also I give and bequeath unto my kinswoman Mary Millington of Tewkesbury aforesaid, widow, her heirs and assigns, ny Estate with the appurtenances situate and being in Guest Lane in Tewkesbury aforesaid. Also I give and bequeath unto my cousin, Mary Bryan, of the City of Gloucester Elizabeth Millington of Tewkesbury aforesaid and to Joseph Jones of Tewkesbury aforesaid five pounds apiece to be paid them by my executors within the like space of three months next after my death. Also I give and bequeath unto the said John Pittman one of my Gold rings and twenty shillings in silver. Also I give and bequeath unto my kinswoman, Mary Tucker living in or nigh London and to her heirs and assignes for ever, all my meadow with the appurtenances at the bottom of Oldbury field, charged with the payment of fifty pounds to her Children to whom I give the same to be equally divided amongst them. Also I give and bequeath unto my first named four legateeys viz. Mary Pittman, Nicholas Smithsend, Elizabeth Smithsend the elder, Elizabeth Smithsend the younger, all my linen, plate and rings not herein before disposed of to be equally divided amongst them. Also I give to the poor of Tewkesbury aforesaid five pounds to be paid out with bread and unto -------- I give twenty shillings to prepare my funerall sermon.
Also I give and bequeath unto Anne Shepherd, the daughter of William Shepherd, shoemaker, the sum of five pounds to be paid her at her attaining the age of one and twenty years or day of marriage which shall first happen. Also I give and bequeath unto Katherine Jenkins of Tewkesbury aforesaid, widow, twenty shillings. All the resdiue of my goods, chattels and personall estate whatsoever I give and bequeath unto Nicholas Smithsend the elder of Walton Cardiff aforesaid, gent. whom I make, constitute and appoint, sole executor of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto put my seal the one and twentieth day of September Anno Domini 1719.. Elizabeth Aston |