President Biden in Canada

With our enormous border between us, the United States and Canada have been friends for all the time that Canada has existed as an independent country. Although we continue as part of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom we are an independent country that simply has the King (King Charles III) as our Head of State represented in Canada by our Governor General Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon who greeted President Biden at the airport. It is an honour to have the President of the United States visiting our country and he will speak to Parliament today. 

Yesterday was highly productive. I transcribed a second will this time for the Anne that married Thomas Siderfin (Thomas 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1). Thomas was born circa 1637 at Luxborough  (baptism not located) and married first to Elizabeth Lightmaker before 1665 in London, England (Elizabeth died in 1665). He was a Barrister of the Middle Temple and married Ann (possibly Hinde as her mother is mentioned in her will) next and they had a daughter Anne (Christiana) baptized 12 Sep 1675 at St Dunstan in the West, London, England. This daughter married Johannes Darch and they had four sons - Thomas Darch, Robert Darch, James Darch, and Philip Darch. Still learning more about this particular family since they are mentioned in the will of Robert Siderfin (Thomas 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) who was a younger brother to this Thomas of the Middle Temple. 

Anne Siderfin does leave an interesting will. She is the widow of Thomas Siderfin (Thomas 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) as she mentions that her husband’s clerk at the Temple was a Mr Edward Haberfeild. According to James Sander’s chart they had a daughter named Anne but she does not mention her in this will although her husband has provided for her in his will.

Only an abstract remains of the will of Thomas Siderfin – her husband:

Thomas Siderfin of the Middle temple, London, Esq.: Will dated March 17 1678. Proved 15 June 1681 by Ann Siderfin the Relict (98 North). To my wife Ann, George Evelyn and Henry Pollexfen Esqre and my brother Robert Siderfin, my messuages of Crodon, Manors of Exton and South Quarme (in Exton). Lands in Carhampton, Somerset and in Lambeth, Withypoole, Hawkridge, Cutcombe, Luccombe, Timberscombe and Lands elsewhere, in trust to pay my wife £1000 and £100 a year during widowhood and my daughter Anne £2000 at 21 years of age and £50 per annum and if they die the premises in Somerset to my brother Robert Siderfin his heirs male of his body - Wife Executrix in presence of Robert Darch, Wilmote Westrene, William Jordan, wife's mother Ann Hinde.


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 24 Mar 2023
Source: National Archives, UK, PROB 11/493/121
Place: Lambeth, Surrey, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 22 Mar 1686/7, probated 05 March 1707

Tm: Anne Siderfin

1    I Anne Siderfin of the parish of Lambeth in the County of
2    Surrey Widow being in perfect health of body and of sound and
3    right Judgement in mind doe make this my last Will and
4    Testament in manner and forme following First I commend
5    my Soul into the hands of God in full hopes and expectation
6    of a blessed Resurrection and the forgiveness of all my Sinns
7    through the merits and by the precious blood of Jesus Christ
8    my only Saviour and Redeemer Next I give my body to the
9    earth from whence it came to be therein interred in the
10    Parish Church of Lambeth in the County of Surrey as near as
11    possible to my dear husband and Mother after such manner
12    as is decent and suitable to my Quality and Condition Item I
13    give to the poor of the parish of Lambeth five pounds to be given
14    them on the day of my burial Item I give Twenty pounds a
15    year to the poor of Lambeth Tenn pounds of which to be
16    distributed to them on the Second day of June yearly five pounds
17    of it in bread and five in money The other Tenn pounds to be
18    laid out in frize Coats or Gowns for six old Men and six old
19    women. What is left of Tenn pounds after the Twelve Coats
20    or Gowns are bought to be given equally among them in money
21    to be given on Christmas Eve yearly Item I give to my Cousin
22    Jane Knight if living at the time of my death the summe of
23    fifty pounds to my Cousin       Gould likewise if then
24    living the summe of 40 pounds to Bridget Mott my own Maid
25    the Summe of Fifty pounds if then living with me and five pounds
26    to buy her Mourning and all my wearing Cloaths Which
27    five pounds and my wearing Cloaths I give to whoever else
28    shall be my own Maid at the time of my death To Mary
29    Greene Widow who was a long time my Mother’s Servant
30    the Summe of Fifty pounds if living at my death to Mr Edward
31    Haberfeild of the Temple who was my Husband’s Clerke the
32    summe of Fifty pounds to buy himself and Wife Mourning
33    and something to keep in remembrance of me Item I give to
34    all my Servants that shall be with me at the time of my death
35    a Year’s Wages to buy them Mourning Item I doe give the Summe of
36    fifty pounds to Sir Peter Rich if living them for a Legacy Item to
37    my Aunt Gee I doe give all my personal Estate which is in plate
38    Linnen Rings and householdstuffe and my broad gold Item I doe
39    give to her two eldest sons Orlando and John Gee to each of them
40    the Summe of Tenn pounds and To the youngest my Godsonn
41    Lackery Gee the Summe of Fifty pounds Item I doe give to
42    Thomas Scrivener the Summe of Tenn pounds if then living
43    Item I doe give to my Cousin Gil: East of London                 the
44    summe of Tenn pound to buy him a Ring for remembrance of
45    me Lastly I doe make his Sonn my cousin William East of the
46    Middle Temple Esquire Sole heir to all my Estate of Land and
47    houses freehold and copyhold to which I am or may be any
48    ways intituled which I hereby give to him and the heirs of his
49    body but in case he dyes without such heirs Then I doe make
50    my Godsonn Lackery Gee heir to my Estate in Land and
51    houses as before mentioned And if he should happen to dye
52    without heirs Then to his Brother John Gee and his
53    heirs And for want of such Issue to his Brother Orlando
54    Gee but if they should all dye without Children to my Aunt
55    Elizabeth Gee if she survive them Item I doe appoint all
56    the Legacies which I have hereby given to be paid within halfe
57    a year after my decease Item I doe make my Cousin William
58    East before mentioned Sole Executor of this my last Will and
59    Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my
60    Hand and Seale this 22 day of March in the year of our Lord
61    1686/7 and in the Third year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord
62    King James the Second Anne Siderfin Signed Sealed and
63    Published in the presence of three witnesses John Smith
64    Rebecca Cleeve Jane Smith
65    Probatum fuit humoi Testamentum apud London
66    coram venti viro Willimo Clements Legum doctore Surro
67    ventis et egregij viri domini Richard Raines Militis Legum
68    etiam doctoris Curia Prerogative Cantuariensis Magri Custode
69    sive Commissary etime constitute Quinto die mensis Martij
70    Anno domini Millesimo Septingenimo Sexto Juramento William
71    East Executoris in dicto Testamento nominat cui commissa fuit
72    administrato omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et
73    creditorium dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter admistrando
74    eadem ad Sancta Dei Evangelia Jurat Ex

An interesting will which says nothing about Siderfin and seems to be contrary to her husband's will but it didn't actually matter as Thomas and his brother Robert both died heavily in debt.

More thoughts on the world and how we as Canada fit in. I actually do support the idea of having a border wall (perhaps a satellite system that constantly keeps the entire border area in its sights) between the United States and Canada to control gun and drug trafficking. We are a huge country (the second largest in the world) with just under 40 million people mostly along the border so policing that border is not an easy thing. It has been the longest undefended border in the world but we have entered into a new age where nefarious people deal in drugs and guns that are harmful to people for the simple reason that whoever is behind it is out to create as much havoc in North America as they possibly can. Who is behind it? That maybe a mystery to me but I am sure that CSIS and the FBI know more about that. Greed for land and desire to dominate is the new creed for some countries. I do not believe that we in North America are interested in dominating the world; we simply want to live in it without war and so we were part of creating the United Nations which was to help with that; too bad not everyone is on board with that idea.  

We actually need to have people stop wars when that ability is under their control (the loss of Ukrainian life and property is horrific and unacceptable - they have done nothing wrong; also dreadful the death of all those young Russians). It isn't a world of us against anyone; it is time to think of Mother Earth and preserving her for the future generations (North Korea constantly testing bombs in our oceans is a hazard to fish life/fish ecosystems (and I suspect is part of this ongoing unsettling of the earth's crust giving us so many earthquakes)). This should be a no-brainer as well (that it should be stopped), those who can stop it should for the good of the world (the world will certainly honour your effort at the United Nations)).

On to breakfast. Back to the 2424 hits for Siderfin at Find My Past.

Will of Thomas Blake, Citizen and Merchant Tailor of London - National Archives PROB 11/280/34, probated 13 Aug 1658

The testator Thomas Blake is a Taylor (Free Citizen of London) and has a brother John and a sister Joyce. Joyce Blayke married Henre Simons 4 May 1626 at Saint Mary At Hill, London (M03210-1 Family Search). She was baptized 30 Nov 1606 at Saint Mary at Hill London possibly (C03210-1 Family Search). Possibly Thomas Blake was baptized 5 Aug 1603 at Saint Mary at Hill, London (C03210-1 Family Search). No parents have been specified. That would make Thomas 55 years old when he died.


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 1 Nov 2012
Source:  The National Archives PROB 11/280/34
Name of testator: Thomas Blake, Merchant Tailor
Place: City of London, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 29 Jun 1658, probated 13 Aug 1658
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: 17th century, middle English, small writing
[Margin] Thomas Blake

1    In the name of God Amen
2    the Twenty ninth day of June One thousand six hundred fiftie Eight
3    I Thomas Blake Citizen and Merchant Taylour of London sike in body
4    but of perfect minde and remembrance thankes be given to Almightie
5    God doe make and declare this my last Will and Testament in man-
6    ner ensueing First and principally I commend my soule into the
7    the hands of Almighty God my onlie Saviour and Redeemer hopeing
8    and assuredly believing to have free remission of all my sinnes through
9    the onlie merritts of Christ Jesus My Bodie I committ unto the Earth
10    to be decently buried att the discretion of my Executrix hereunder named
11    And for such worldly Goods which God of his unspeakable goodnes and love
12    hath bestowed on mee in this life I give and bequeath the same as ensueth
13    That is to say, First I give and bequeath unto my Brother John Blake and
14    his two children tenn pounds to be equally devided betwixt them I give
15    my Sister Joyce the Wife of Henry Symonds tenn pounds Item I give
16    unto my Lister Allen fiftie shillings I give unto Master Henchinan Minister
17    of Saint Georges Parish in Buttolph Lane to preach my Funeral sermon
18    forty shillings All the rest and residue of my Goods Chattells Leases
19    and Estate whatsoever or wheresoever I doe give and bequeath unto
20    my loveing Wife Ann Blake and I doe maker her full and sole Executrix
21    of this my Last Will and Testament And I doe hereby revoke all former
22    Wills by mee heretofore made Witness my hand and seale the day
23    and yeare first above written Thomas Blake Signed sealed published
24    and declared this Twenty ninth day of June One thousand six hun-
25    dred fiftie Eight in the presence of Fra: Gillon Francis Hinde
26    Edward Fox
27    This Will was proved att London ye
28    the thirteenth Day of the moneth of August in the yeare of our
29    Lord God One thousand six hundred fiftie and Eight before the Judge
30    for probate of Will and granting administration lawfullie au-
31    thorized by the oath of Ann Blake the Relict and sole and only
32    Executrix named in the above written Will to whome Administr-
33    ation of all and singular the goods Chattells and debts of the
34    said deceased was granted and Committed she being first legally
35    sworne truly and faythfully to administer the same

Will of John Blake of Stoweford, South Newton - SWRO P2/5 Reg/160A, probated 20 Mar 1572

Another will by a John Blake at Stowford, South Newton but dated 9 Mar 1572. John is older as he is mentioning grandchildren in his will. John Blake's will at Stowford South Newton was dated 1545/46 (missing probate) and he mentions his son John and his son Thomas and wife Edith. Perhaps this is that John's son John now writing his will and it is 26 years later. That will be an interesting linkage of the generations.

John the current testator mentions his children John his eldest son and William and Thomas  and also his daughter Johan (perhaps married to Jeffrey Aben), his eldest daughter Alyce Blake (married with children) and another daughter (probably deceased) with a daughter Grace. John and Thomas his sons both have children. He has a son in law Jeffrey Aben (short form but will have to work at the full name). Another grandson John Aben and he is also his godson. Jeffrey's wife's name is not mentioned but possibly Johan.

This John Blake is in the wool business and that was where money was to be made certainly in this century and the centuries following. The earlier wills in this area both by a John Blake will be an interesting match. The will of John Blake probated 1553/54 is John Blake husbandman but does not say that he is of Stowford only of South Newton nor does he have a son John his sons being Walter, Gylys, William, Edward and Robert. The will of the John Blake at Stowford probated 1545/46 (no probation lines on the will so the year the will was written is used as mentioned by the Record Office) again mentions sheep as the primary wealth. That particular John Blake has sons Thomas (with son Robert) and John. Are these two John's related that live at South Newton? It is possible that the father of this John (current testator) is John Blake whose will was said to be probated in 1545/46.


Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 19 Oct 2012
Source:  Swindon and Wiltshire Record Office P2/5 Reg/160A
Name of testator: John Blake
Place: Stowforde, South Newton, Wiltshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 9 Mar 1572, probated 20 Mar 1572
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: 16th century, middle English, copy bleeding through from page opposite
[Margin] Blake

1    In the name of god Amen The ix th day of Marche Anno D[o]m[ini] a thousande fyve hundred
2    threescore and twelve I John Blake of Stowforde in the parryshe of South
3    Newton beinge sycke in bodye and p[er]fett of remembrance thanks be to god do make
4    my laste will and testament in manner and forme folowinge Firste I bequeathe my
5    sowle to almyghtie god and my bodye to be buryed in Christyan buryall It[e]m I geve
6    to the poore mens boxe of South Newton vi d It[e]m I geve to my parrayshe churche of
7    Newton a weather sheape It[e]m I gyve to Johan Elyott fouer weather sheape and an
8    yerlenge It[e]m I gyve to grace my dawghters childe fower weather sheape and a
9    yerlenge It[e]m I gyve to John Blake my eldiste sonnes childen eche of them a lamb
10    It[e]m I gyve to my sonne Thomas Blake chylde a lambe It[e]m I gyve to Alyce
11    Blake my eldiste dawghters children eche of them a Lambe It[e]m I gyve to
12    my dawyghter Johans Chylderen eche of them a Lambe It[e]m I geve to Alice
13    Movne a Lambe It[e]m I geve to Thomas Blake and Will[ia]m Blake a pyle of
14    Clystes by the streate yeate It[e]m I gyve to Thomas my sonne a whitche
15    a heiffer of twoo yere olde halfe a score of weather sheape and three halfes
16    of wheate in brockfurlande It[e]m I gyve to Jherom yonge a Lambe It[e]m I geve
17    to Jeffrey Aben my sonne in lawe three busshells of wheate and halfe an acre
18    of wheate lyinge in the bottom It[e]m I geve to Will[ia]m Blake the beste bedd w[i]th
19    th[e ]app[ur]ten[an]cs therto belonginge a brasse pott a panne a littell cawldron halfe
20    a dosen of pewter dishes and a candelsticke It[e]m I gyve to John Blake and
21    Will[ia]m Blake xl s that Alixender Pearcy owethe me It[e]m I geve  to John
22    Hughes clerke a weather sheape It[e]m I gyve all the reste of my woole
23    to John Blake save one cartloade that John shall delyver to his brother 
24    Will[ia]m Blake It[e]m I gyve to John Aben my dawghters chylde and my godson
25    a hogg of a yere olde All the reste of my goods bothe moveable and unmoveable
26    I gyve to John Blake and Will[ia]m Blake whom I do make my full executo[r]s
27    of this my laste will and testament to see my debts payde my legacies fulfylled
28    and p[er]formed and also to bwoye the yard lande where John Blake now dwellithe
29    for Will[ia]m Blake my sonne w[i]th the aforsayd goods Also I do ordayne and
30    constitute my wel[l ]beloved in christe Will[ia]m Bonldye and John Love to be
31    my overseers of this my laste will and testament to whom I do gyve in
32    consyderacions of their paynes eche of them a weather sheape In wytnes
33    wherof thes p[er]sons hereafter named Mr Walter Bonan Mr Will[ia]m Hinde
34    p[er]son of Wisheforde Ralffe Wrighte and Thomas Kingman p me Johem Hughes

Will of Thomas Rigges, Gentleman, of Fareham - The National Archives PROB 11/178/702, probated 11 Dec 1638

Although this will is for Thomas Rigges and not the usual Blake one, Thomas' mother was Mary Blake daughter of William and Elizabeth Blake of Eastontown. Mary would be a sister to Richard Blake whom I feel is one of the ancestors in my Blake line. The will didn't have anything Blake related as it turned out so will publish for descendants of the Rigges family if they happen to come upon my blog. He does manage to mention most of his nieces and nephews as well as his siblings and other related individuals. It is a colourful will as you can practically imagine this poor man in his illness being visited probably daily by family members curious about how he was going to deal with the family fortune that he had inherited as the eldest son of his father. Thomas never married.

One of the places mentioned near Titchfield was interesting as I wondered if it was misspelled but indeed the name Chillinge belongs to a house of the Elizabethan period and a write up can be seen below and in the attached webpage from British History Online:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41958
Hill Head consisted, till lately, of a few cottages and fishermen's sheds at Titchfield Haven, but is now developing into a seaside resort with rows of houses along the shore. Chillinge is a desolate-looking house of Elizabethan date, now cut up into two cottages, standing alone by the seashore a little to the east of Hook. Hook House Park, east of the parish of Hook with Warsash, is well wooded, but a large tract of bare heather land stretches from there to Warsash. A great part of it is now being brought under cultivation as strawberry ground. Hook House, built by Mr. William Hornby, governor of Bombay, at the end of the eighteenth century, which was a reproduction of Government House, Bombay, was burnt down a few years ago. From Warsash House, the property of G. A. Shinley, the road descends a sharp hill to the shore where, by the Crab and Lobster inn, the crab tank of the well-known local industry is built. The village of Warsash is small, and its inhabitants are chiefly employed in the crab and lobster trade, which occupies them through the late autumn, winter, and spring, many of them in the summer working as sailors on the many yachts which make their head quarters in the Solent and Southampton Water.

The Rigges family can be found on the Visitation of Sussex 1662 and referring to the Riggs of Eastbourne. Raphe Riggs of Fareham (Southampton) married Mary Blake daughter of William Blake of Eastontown near Andover, gent and their son Raphe Riggs (three times Mayor of Winchester) married Mary Johnson daughter and coheir of William Johnson of Reding in Berkshire. Their son Ogle Riggs of Hollis House in the parish of Eastbourne Sussex, gent. 1662 (died 1705 aged 59) and will probated 1705 (Chichester 30, 797) married Mercy Lock eldest daughter of John Lock of Hollis House, Sussex. Their children were Thomas son and heir 11 years of age in 1662, Ogle, Mary, Elizabeth and Mercy.

Looking at the family of Raphe Riggs (buried 16 Oct 1604 at Fareham) and Mary Blake (buried 1 Sep 1612 at Fareham) the following children:

William buried 3 Apr 1580 at Fareham

Thomas (testator) buried 8 Aug 1638 at St Peter and St Paul, Fareham (Find My Past)

Robert (married to Margery Chambers) with children: Margery married to John Earlsman, Margarett married to Thomas Baker, Robert (never married and he was heir at law of Thomas), Mary married to Sir John Otway (knight), and Elizabeth married to Robert Coates

Francis (deceased by 1638) (married to Katherine Knight) with children Francis, Joseph, Benjamin, Alice, Elizabeth married to Mr. Masey, Catherine married to Mr. Mitchell,  and Susan

Mary (deceased by 1638) baptized 27 Jun 1585 at Fareham and married to James Harris (Clerk) 25 Jul 1605 at Fareham with children John (buried 9 Jan 1634) and James

Raphe Blake (buried 8 May 1647 at Fareham) married to Mary Johnson with children: Ogle (above), Francis, Raffe, Thomas married to Elizabeth Bennett, Edmond married to Margaret Savage, Mary married to Anthony Yeldon 8 Apr 1634 at Winchester

John married to Mary Hopgood with children: John, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, Francis and Thomas

Elizabeth baptized 5 Aug 1591 at Fareham

William baptized 14 Jul 1593 at Fareham

Anne baptized 3 Oct 1596 at Fareham and married to Richard Hill

Sir John Shelley of Michelgrove to whom the testator refers is the 1st Baronet of Michelgrove (first named 1611) and he died circa 1644.

Sir Basil Brook of Madeley Court (instrumental in the Industrial Revolution) was born in 1576 so would have been 58 at the time of the writing of the will.

Sir John Ingilby is possibly the John Ingilby admitted to Gray's Inn 8th February 1602-3 which might make him about 18 years at that time and so 52 at the time of the will being written.

It is an interesting will in that Thomas has passed over the two brothers next in line (one deceased) to give his estates to Raphe Blake Rigges the sixth child of Ralfe Rigges and Mary Blake. He doesn't mention William (youngest brother) so perhaps he has died before 1636.

Thomas writes that he is sickened with old age and I estimate that he was probably born circa 1578 and thus would be about 58 at the time of writing his will. The first baptismal date was Mary baptized in 1585 and she was child number 5 with the eldest son William buried in 1580 as an infant/young child. Probably 1577 to 1579 is a reasonable time span for his birth. This is one of the timeline dating that I use for the family of William and Elizabeth Blake. I know that they are buried in 1582 and 1589 respectively and that their daughter Mary is buried 1 Sep 1612 at Fareham after the birth of her ten children youngest baptized in 1596 putting her birth year in the early 1550s likely and she was child number eight in her birth family.

His sisters Avise and Tamosin are somewhat of a mystery (do not appear to be sisters in law) and his sisters were: Mary, Elizabeth and Anne. Mary is deceased (no mention of the Harris family), Elizabeth did not marry (perhaps now deceased) and Anne married Richard Hill (and perhaps also deceased) as the Hill family is not mentioned.

Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 15 Oct 2012
Source:  The National Archives, PROB 11/178/702
Name of testator: Thomas Rigges, Gentleman
Place: Fareham, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Dated:20 May 1636, probated 11 Dec 1638
Read: Electronic file images
Condition: 17th century, middle English,  tiny writing (smudges)
[In margin] T[esta]m[ent] Thome
[In margin] Rigges

1    In the Name of God Amen the twentith day
2    of May Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirtie and six and in the
3    tweleth yeare of the raigne of our Souveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of god
4    King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the faith etc I
5    Thomas Rigges of Fareham in the Countie of Southampton gent being nowe so sicken
6    with old age and thereby being putt in mind of the uncertaintie  of this life am
7    verie willing duringe the contynuance of my perfect memorie and such reasonable
8    strength of bodie as I have to dispose of my personall estate goodes and chattles in
9    suche sorte as may be best pleasing to Almightie god to the nowe quiett of my
10    owne minde and for good of my kinsfolkes and freinds hereafter in this my Last
11    Will named soe farr forthe as they will extend to the end I may lyvieth my daies in
12    more quiet att such tyme as it shall please his divine Maiestie to take me out
13    of this world and to prevent as much as in me lieth that noe variance strife or debate
14    may arrise about ye same after my decease For which causes and respectes I doe make
15    ordaine and declare this my last will and Testament in manner and forme followeing
16    First and principally I commend my Soule into the handes of Almightie god my maker
17    and creator and to his dearelie beloved  Sonne Jesus Christ my onely Saviour and redeemer
18    by whose death merrittes and passion I doe trust and firmely believe to have full and
19    free remission pardon and forgiveness of all my synnes and life everlasting my body I
20    commit to the earth from whence it came and to be buried according to the discrecion of
21    my executor hereafter named Imprimis I doe give and bequeath to ye poore people of
22    Fareham aforesaid five poundes of lawfull money of England to be distributed
23    amongst them Item I doe give and bequeath to John Rigges and Francis Rigges the
24    twoe sonnes of my brother John Rigges to eache of them fiftie poundes apeece Item I
25    doe give and bequeath to Raphe Rigges brother of me the said Thomas Rigges five
26    poundes to be disposed of in such manner as Sara Twyne my kinswoman shall lymitt
27    and appointe Item wherein my brother John Rigges doth owe unto me by bond one
28    hundred poundes I doe freely give and bequeath the same unto him And whereas
29    my brother Francis Rigges nowe deceased did owe unto me three score poundes I doe
30    freely give and bequeath the same unto Katherine Rigges my sister in lawe late
31    wife of the said Francis Item I doe give and bequeathe to my brother Raphe
32    Rigges his executors administrators and assignes All that the Scite of the Mannor
33    Capitall Messuage or Farme of Fareham aforesaid and all the Landes tenementes
34    meadowes pastures and hereditamentes thereunto belonging And all my estate interests
35    tearme of yeares clayme and demande of in and to the same nevertheless upon the
36    condicion that my said brother Raphe Rigges shall paie unto my sister Tamison of
37    Portsmouth in the countie of Southampton within twelve moneths next after
38    my decease all such moneys which hee oweth unto her by bondes billes specialties or
39    elsewise And shall likewise paie unto my brother Robert Rigges within the tyme
40    aforesaid fiftie poundes towards all such charges which he hath disbursed and paid for
41    the buildinge of my hall and kitchin of my said Mansion house att Fareham Item I give
42    and bequeath to my Nephew Francis Rigges sonne of my brother Francis Rigges
43    deceased fiftie poundes Item I doe give and bequeath unto Beniamyne and Josephe
44    twoe of the youngest sonnes of my said brother Francis Rigges to each of them
45    fiftie poundes apeece Item I doe give and bequeath to Anne Terrell of Southwarke
46    in the countie of Surrey my kinswoman five poundes Item I doe give and
47    bequeath unto Margerie Earlesman my neece fiftie shillinges to bestow upon a
48    ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give and bequeath to my brother
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49    Robert Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon a ringe to weare in remembrance of
50    me Item I doe give unto my sister Margerie Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe
51    upon a ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give to my sister Tamison
52    fiftie shillinges to bestowe uppon a ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe
53    give and bequeathe to my said brother John Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon
54    a ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give unto my said brother Raphe
55    Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon a ringe to weare in remembrance of me
56    Item I doe give to Margarett Rigges daughter of my said brother Robert Rigges fiftie
57    shillinges to bestowe uppon a ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give to
58    my sister Avise fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon a ringe to weare in remembrance of
59    me Item I doe give to Mr James Clayton fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon a ringe
60    to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give to Marie Rigges one of ye daughters
61    of my brother Robert Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe upon a ringe to weare in
62    remembrance of me Item I doe give unto Elizabeth Rigges one other of ye daughters
63    of my said brother Robert Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe alsoe uppon a ring to
64    weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give and bequeath to Mistris Bearmont
65    widowe dwellinge in the parishe of Titchfield and neare Chillinges in my County
66    of South[amp]ton five poundes Item I doe give to Alice alias Mary Rigges Elizabeth Rigges
67    Katherine Rigges and Susanna Rigges daughters of my said brother Francis Rigges
68    to every of them twentie poundes apeece to bee paid unto them within twelve
69    monethes next after my decease Item I doe alsoe give to my cosen Mr John
70    Chapperlaine my verie lovinge friend a mourning cloake and suite Item I doe
71    give and bequeath unto John Ingleby of Graies Inne in the countie of Midd[lesex]
72    Esquire the said John Chapperlayne of London gentleman and William Birch
73    of Chillinges in the said countie of South[amp]t[on] gentlemen fiftie shillinges apeece
74    to bestowe in a Ringe to weare in remembrance of me Item I doe give to Thomas
75    Rooper of London Esquire fiftie shillinges to bestowe in a ringe to weare in
76    remembrance of me And as for and concerninge all and singuler the residue
77    of my goodes and chattles whatsoever not before herein given and bequeathed
78    I doe give and bequeath unto Sir John Shelley of Michelgrove in ye County
79    of Sussex Knight and Baronett Sir Bassill Brooke of Meadeley Court in ye
80    countie of Salop Knight John Caryll of Westhartinge in the said Countie of
81    Sussex Esquire and the said Thomas Rooper And I doe hereby make them the
82    said Sir John Shelley Sir Bassill Brooke John Caryll and Thomas Rooper
83    Executors of this my last will and testamente And I doe alsoe hereby make
84    and ordaine them the said John Ingleby John Chapperlaine and William Birch
85    Supervisors of this my last will and testament desiringe them and every of them
86    to see the same performed in every respect according to the tenor and true meaning
87    thereof Provided allwaies and my will and meaninge is that if att any tyme
88    hereafter any questions and diferences shall arrise amongst my executors or my
89    other to whom I have herein given my legacies that then the same questions and
90    differences  shall arrise amongst my executors or any other to whom I have herein
91    given my legacies that then the same questions and differences shal[l ]be decided
92    and determined by the Supervisors of this my last will And if the said
93    p[ar]ties betweene whom the said diferences and questions shall arrise shall not abide
94    and stand to the ends and determinacion of the said Supervisors That then my
95    further will and meaninge is that such legacie soe given to such person or p[er]sons
96    whoe shall soe refuse shal[l ]be utterly voide to the same person or p[er]sons any thing
97    in this my last will and Testamente before contained to the contrary thereof
98    in any wise notwithstandinge In witnes whereof I the said Thomas Rigges
99    to every sheete of this my last will being in number seaven have subscribed my
100    name and to the labell thereof which fast with them on topp have sett my seale
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101    the day and yeare first above written Signed sealed published and declared to be
102    my last will in the presence of Tho Hamond James Hinde the marke of John
103    Dorn George Smithson Thomas Frost Item I give to Robert Rigges ye sonne
104    of my said brother Robert Rigges fiftie shillinges to bestowe on a Ringe to weare
105    in remembrance of me Tho: Rigge [signed] Item I give to my lovinge friend Mr
106    Thomas Hickes of Fleetestreete fiftie shillinges to make him a ringe Item
107    I give to Captain Williams of Cheapside fiftie shillinges to make him a ringe
108    Thomas Rigge [signed] The said Mr Hamond is a Barrister and Counsellor of Graies
109    Inn and att this present lodgeth att Mistress Conynestes house in Holborne att
110    the entrance into Graies Inne Lane James Hinde liveth in Holborne in ye Middle
111    Rowe neare to Mistres Conynestes house att the entrance into Graies Inn lane
112    George Smithson dwelleth att the same Taverne in Holborne right against
113    Chansery Lane Captaine Frost dwelleth in Blomsberry