Will Summary for Mary Hall of Great Marlow 1696

Summary created from my transcription of a will held at the National Archives, Kew.

MARY HALL, WIDOW OF GREAT MARLOW, WILL PROVED 1696

Says she sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory.

Commends soul to God and asks to be decently buried.

After funeral expenses met, brother Christopher Parsons to receive £10. His son William [referred to as "my loving cousin William Parsons son of my brother Christopher Parsons" [Use of the word cousin to refer to nephews or nieces as well as what modern people call cousins was perfectly normal in the 1600s] to be the will's sole executor. He receives all goods, chattels and personal estate of the deceased not bequeathed elsewhere.

Cousin Mary ?Flint? wife of Christopher ?Flint? of Little Marlow £5.

Cousin Elizabeth Lovejoy, daughter of testator's deceased cousin Thomas Lovejoy late of Little Marlow to receive 1 shilling.

Cousin Dorothy Dell wife of John Dell of Little Marlow ? shillings.

Sister Margaret wife of John Burchett of Cookham 1 shilling.

Will witnesses: Elizabeth Bowles who made a mark only, John Oxlade, Thomas Hobbs.

Transcription and this summary of it by Charlotte Day.

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