Transcribed by me from a will held at the National Archives and then summarized here. ©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to use this material if you credit this blog for it and link here.
WILLIAM STUTFIELD OF GREAT MARLOW, MERCER. WILL WRITTEN 1628, PROVEN 1629
Says he weak in body but of good and perfect memory.
Commends soul to God.
5 shillings to the poor of Great Marlow.
Cousin* Thomas Stutfield's two children that were born at Marlow 10 shillings each.
Cousin John Stutfield's two children 5 shillings each.
To my late servant* John Golding 20 shillings.
Rest of goods, chattels, ready money and debts owed to him after all bequests, funeral expenses and debts paid to go to his living wife Grace and William Higge her brother. They are the two executors.
Will overseers friends Thomas ?Holkins and William Holkins. They each get 5 shillings as a token of love and remembrance.
Witnesses: William ?Hiton, Samuel James and Thomas Brangyng [could be Braughing or Brangwyn as they were local names at the time].
*Bear in mind we don't exactly speak the same language as they did in the 1600s. The word "cousin" was loosely given and "servant" could be a domestic, any other kind of employee or, often, an apprentice.
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