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The Will of Anthony WINDYETT of Plymouth in the County of Devon Clothier
Made: 19/12/1684, WITNESSES: John CROSSING 1684 Samuel ?CAUNT Joseph ? John
WESTLAKE
Proved ? Thomas CROUCH Nathaniel ?NORTHROLT Joseph WILCOCKS at Johanni HARRIS
(Anthony's appointed 'Overseers') have sworn something at the bottom of the Will
but my Latin is very rusty and I can only make out the statement that the
children were under age.
SOURCE: PRO
For a list of other WINDGEAT (and variants) Wills please go to the WILLS page.
FAMILY
We don't know anything about this family and, as Anthony is a rare Christian name among the WINDEATTs, I was wondering whether this seventeenth century Anthony was an ancestor of the one in London who left a will in the eighteenth century (see 1760 - Will of Anthony WINDYETT, Stay Maker of Saint Martin in the Fields). Unfortunately, this Anthony's only surviving son is a Joseph so a neat direct line of Anthony WINDEATT descendants does not present itself. It is possible, of course, that Joseph himself may have had sons called Anthony who passed down the family name.
This is a fascinating early will which would be very helpful to a researcher who already knew something of the family. Anthony tells us, for example, that he was born in MODBURY so we stand a good chance of identifying him from his baptismal record. If you know anything about this family, please leave a message on the Message Board.
Here is a speculative family tree based on this will and IGI baptism data.
John WINDEAT m. ELIZABETH
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Anthony WINDYETT
cd.1613 Modbury
d. ?
m. ?1636 Plymouth Mary HEARD
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Joseph Margarett
SUMMARY
This will was both difficult to read because of the handwriting and difficult to understand as it was full of conditions that were themselves conditional on the conditions. A happy day for the lawyers sorting all that out I imagine!. So this summary may well contain mistakes - you are strongly advised to consult the original image at the PRO for accuracy.
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Name |
Relationship |
Bequest |
| Phillip ?TREWATHEN, Widow | tenant | twenty shillings |
| Susannah ?CHALLANGE | servant Maid | five pounds of lawfull English money |
| Margarett WINDYETT | daughter |
(but with conditions until she is 21 or married) |
| Joseph WYNDIETT | son |
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Cozens |
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| Thomas LOCK of Plymouth, ?Woosted Comber | Cozen |
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| ?AVANT the wife of Richard ?AVANT of the Town of FOYE in the County of Cornwell Chirurgion | Sister-in-Law Mary ?AVANT |
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trusty friends |
Links
- Steve
Johnson's Old Maps of Plymouth web page
There are quite a few maps here showing the Frankfort Gate but I couldn't work out which stretch of water the Horseing pool is? Perhaps it was just somewhere for horses to drink? [Later: the documents from the A2A search reveal that the place in question is "Horse Poole Meadow, alias Toddy Poole Parke, near Stonehouse Lane"]
TRANSCRIPTION
This transcription has been made from the scanned image held at the PRO. I have made this very rough transcription and it was difficult to read and probably contains lots of errors. Check the original for complete accuracy. I have changed the surnames to uppercase to aid family historians. For a list of other Wills please go to the WILLS page.In the Name of God Amen.
I Anthony WINDYETT of Plymouth in the County of Devon Clothier being in good health and of sound and perfect mind and memory thanks be unto Allmighty God for the same but calling to remembrance the uncertainty of this present life and the certainty of death and being willing to settle and dispose of such
Estate Goods and Chattells where with God hath been pleased to blesse me in my life time and to
_______ [?prevent] all differences and controversies about the same after my decease Do make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say Item I commit my soul unto the hands of Allmighty God my Creator and Redeemer And my body to
Christian buryall in such decent manner as my Overseers hereafter named shall think fitt Item I give to the poor of Modbury in the said County of Devon being the
plavce of my Nativity the sum of Twenty shillings Item I give to the poor of Plymouth aforesaid the sum of forty shillings Item I give to my Tenant Phillip
_______ [l?TREWATHEN] Widow Twenty shillings in case she happen to survive me but not otherwise Item I give to
my servant Maid Susannah ______ [?CHALLANGE] the sum of five pounds of lawfull English money to be paid within twelve months after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margarett WINDYETT the sum of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid her when and as soon as she shall attaine the age of one and
twenty years or be marryed and I give unto her our featherbeds and Bedstedd with curtaines vallainces rugs pillows blanketts and sheets - fully
________ [?performed/perfumed] throughout And above I give devise and bequeath unto my said Daughter Margarett WINDYETT All and singular the said Messuage Tenement and Courtlage with the appurtenances lying in
______ [?Petherick Street] in Plymouth aforesaid which I lately purchased among other things of
Michael HOOK Grocer now in the possession of Thomas ______ [?CROOK] Taylor To have and to hold the said Messuage Tenement and
Courtlage with the appurtenances unto my said Daughter Margarett and her Assigns immediately from and after my death and decease for and during the term of her naturall life she paying and
____ [?soe] as she doth pay unto my Executor hereafter named her Brother Joseph WINDYETT and his Heirs during her life four shillings yearly at the four quarter dayes
_____ [?attyformed] in the years of payment as a high rent or acknowledgment for the same Item I do give devise and bequeath more unto my said Daughter Margarett immediately after my decease the Messuage and Tenement with the appurtenances lying and being outside the
Frankforte Gate neare the ______ [?Horseing] poole in Plymouth aforesaid by me lately bought of Mary CROMPTON Spinster now in the possession of John COLE husbandman to
have and to hold the same Messuage and Tenement with the appurtenances unto the said Margarett her Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during all the
_____ [?estate] and terms which I have therein by Lease or otherwise that shall be then to rent and unexpired And my will and desire further is that if my said Daughter Margarett happen to dye before she reaches to the age of one and twenty yeares or be married that then and in such case I do give and
bequeath unto my said son Joseph WYNDIETT all the aforesaid estate goods and chattells which is
mentioned to be and is given unto my said Daughter Margarett WYNDIETT Item I give devise and
bequeath unto my Cozens Constance PEARD wife of Robert ?PEARD of Plymouth and Anne PORSMOUTH wife of Thomas PORSMOUTH in or near London equally between them all my right by the and interest which I have in certain houses and Tenements with the apurtenances lying and being outside the
Frankforte Gate neare the ______ [?Horseing] poole in Plymouth aforesaid being the Lands of John HARRIS of Plymouth, Esq. except what is formerly given to my Daughter Margarett WINDYETT Item I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Jospeh WINDYETT ALL and singular my Messuages Houses Gardens Closes Lands Tenements and Hereditatments wherein I now
live and all other my Lands Tenements and hereditaments whatsoever wherein I have any estate of
inheritence in fee simple in possession ______ [?reversion] remainder or other wise lying in Plymouth aforesaid or elsewhere except
which is given unto my said Daughter Margarett WINDYETT and unto my cozens Constance PEARD and Anne PORSMOUTH aforesaid To have and to hold all and singular the said Messuages houses Gardens Closes Lands Tenements and hereditaments aforesaid except as before excepted unto my said sonne [sic] Joseph and the heirs of his body lawfully to be begotten And further all the residue and remainder of my estate goods and chattells whatsoever and wheresoever not before given and bequeathed I do give devise and bequeath unto my said sonne Joseph who I appoint nominate and ordain the full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament Item my will and desire is that if my said Executor Joseph WINDYETT happen to dye and depart this life wihout heir or heirs of his body lawfully to be begotten That then and in such case all and singular my said Messuages Houses
Gardens Closes Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattells before mentioned
and given unto my said sonne shall now remain and be unto my said Daughter Margaret
and the Heirs of her body lawfully to be begotten and I do hereby give and devise the same accordingly Item in case both my said sonne and Daughter happen to dye without leaving any heir or
heirs in such case I do give devise and bequeath all my right and interest which I have in the aforesaid Tenement lying in
_______ [ ?Petherick] Street above given to my said Daughter unto my Cozen Thomas LOCK of Plymouth aforesaid
_______ [?Woosted] Comber and to his
heirs forever Item in case both my said sonne and daughter do happen to dye and leaving not heir or heirs of either of their bodys as aforesaid That then and in such case I do give devise and bequeath all of my right and
interest in my whole estate before mentioned except the said Tenement in _______
[?Petherick] Street given unto my Cozen Thomas LOCK aforesaid unto my Sister-in-Law Mary
______ [?AVANT] the wife of Richard ______ [?AVANT] of the Town of FOYE in the County of Cornwell Chirurgion and to my Cozen Constance PEARD wife of Robert PEARD aforesaid joyntly between them equally to be divided and to their heirs forever hereby revoking
______ [?disannulling] and making void all former or other will or wills and Testament or Testaments by me heretofore made or
declared either by or in words or writing and this to be taken for my last Will and Testament only and not other And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my
trusty friends John LIGHT of Plymouth aforesaid Clothier Thomas ______ [?COUTH
or CROUCH] of Plymouth aforesaid
Mercer Nathaniel ______ [?NORROLT] of Plymouth aforesaid, Grocer Joseph WILCOCKS of Plymouth aforesaid Goldsmith and John
HARRIS of Plymouth aforesaid Clothier to be Overseers of this my last Will and Testament and to see the same duly performed And I do hereby impower and authorize my said Overseers or any
three of them and the survivor and survivors of them to have and take the said Legasie of two hundred pounds given as above said unto my said Daughter and what money my said sonne shall have at the time of my decease into their hands and to put out the same at interest for them untill they attaine their respective ages of one and twenty yeares or be marryed and to act and doe any other thing or things as they shall think fitt and convenient for my said Childrens best advantage and benefitt and I do give to each and every of my said
Overseers the sum of twenty shillings apiece In witnesse whereof I the said Anthony WINDYETT to this my last
Will and Testament which I now publish have sett my hands and seal the nineteenth day of December in the six and thirtieth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord King
Charles the second over England _____ [?a symbol I can't decipher followed by
what looks like Anno Dni] One thousand six hundred eighty four.
Antho: WINDYETT
Signed sealed published and delivered by the said Anthony WINDYETT to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us whose names are
underwritten The words Constance being first ____ [?interlyned] John CROSSING 1684 Samuel
_____ [?CAUNT] Joseph _____[????????] John
WESTLAKE
SECINO septimis die mensis F? Anno? ? septimo ? ? ?? Thomas CROUCH Nathaniel?NORTHROLT Joseph WILCOCKS at Johanni HARRIS Supervisoribus fiduciarijs Testament in Testamento nominatis Anthony WINDYETTT defuncti heutis bona jura et ?dita disti defuncti juxta tenorem et ? TEstamenti ipsino defuncti in usum et benefitimus et durante minori atate Josephi WINDYETT ?M fily et Executoris in disto Testamento de bene et fideliter adnistrand ? ad sancta Dei ? (v? Commissionis)
jurat.
NOTES
[14/08/03 - I have now found several documents indexed in the A2A records database under Bewes, Dickinson and Scott, Plymouth, solicitors, Parlby and Arbuthnot Families, Section 10:
- Reference: 81/R/10/1/1 Creation dates: 1658
Scope and Content Counterpart lease: 1 John Harris of Plymouth, woollen draper and John Bonney of Plymouth, yeoman; 2 Francis Jervis of Plymouth, mason; Plot of ground called Horse Poole Meadow, alias Toddy Poole Parke, near Stonehouse Lane; Rent: 2s pa - Reference: 81/R/10/1/4(a-b) Creation dates: 1660
Scope and Content Lease and counterpart: 1 John Harris; 2 Anthony Wyndeatt of Plymouth, clothier; Property as in 81/R/10/1/1 - Reference: 81/R/10/1/8(a-b) Creation dates: 1669
Scope and Content Lease and counterpart lease: 1 John Harris and Anthony Wyndeatt; 2 John Stevens of Plymouth, clothier; - FILE [no title] - ref. 81/R/10/1/13(a-b) - date: 1677/8
Lease and counterpart:1 John Harris and Anthony Windyeatt; 2 John Stevens; Messuage near Stonehouse Lane and Horse Poole Meadow, alias Toddeyparke, Plymouth - Messuage near Stonehouse Lane, Plymouth
- FILE [no title] - ref. 81/R/10/1/14 - date: 1684
[from Scope and Content] 2 Anthony Wyndeatt of Plymouth, clothier
Scope and Content Counterpart lease: 1 John Harris and Anthony Wyndyett; 2 Nathaniel Northcote of Plymouth, mercer; House in Stonehouse Lane, Plymouth - Reference: 81/R/12/1/14 Creation dates: 1684
Scope and Content Counterpart lease: 1 John Harris of Manadon and Anthony Windyett of Plymouth; 2 John Stevens of Plymouth, clothier; Newly erected messuage in Stonehouse Lane, and land in Horsepoole, Plymouth; Rent: 35s pa - Reference: 81/R/12/3/2 Creation dates: 1684/5
Scope and Content Lease for 99 years: 1 William Savery of Slade, esq, and William Drake of Buckland Monachorum, gent; 2 John Windiatt of Walkhampton, yeoman; Tenement in Sampford Spiney; Rent: 4s pa
These records are held at the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office and may (or may not) cast more light on this family if further inspected. It would be very interesting to know whether William WINDIATT of Walkhampton was related to Anthony WYNDEATT of Plymouth.
