Christopher Dominick Esquire of Great Marlow.
Proved 1762. Written 1760.
Says he has good health in his body and a sound and perfect mind, memory and understanding [this sort of information was put in as a matter of routine to prevent anyone challenging a will by alleging the writer was sick and delirious or of wandering mind when they wrote it].
Commends soul to God and asks for a decent burial at the discretion of the will's executors.
Niece Frances Dominick youngest daughter of brother Thomas Dominick the copy hold or customary messuage or tenement standing near Durham Green, Chiswick currently lived in by the Right Honourable Lady Am...ale and all the barns, stables, yards, orchards, gardens, backsides, ways, waters, commons, pastures, profits, commodities etc that go with it. Subject to the custom of the manor of the prebend of Chiswick. Also all the furniture and household implements in that messuage, plus the furniture and implements removed from that house when he leased it to the Lady.
Also to Frances all his pieces and parcels of plate and linen in the house Christopher dwells in.
To Frances and also other niece Sarah Dominick who is also daughter of his brother Thomas his messages and their appurtenances in the parishes of St Clement Danes and St Mary Le Strand [in London]. These are in the occupations of Thomas (Vigues?) Esquire, Joseph Davies a tailor, John Boon a milliner, Elizabeth Nicholls (unreadable occupation possible something maker), William Wilkes innholder, Mathew Hamsey a joiner, Richard P...ley a tailor, Thomas Gardner brazier and William Sellwood or their under tenants or assignees. The nieces will hold these properties jointly as tenants in common. They to pay out of their rental income for these £20 a year to Christopher's brother Thomas to be paid in quarterly installments. If any payment is 20 days late or more Thomas or his assignees may enter into the properties and take what he needs to make up the worth of the money owed plus any costs incurred in the legal process [this was a normal will clause and does not imply mistrust of the nieces].
Brother Thomas gets all wearing apparel too. Executors to deliver this to him within one month.
To all the servants who may be living with him when he dies one year's wages on top of any due to them anyway. To be paid within one month.
All rest of goods, chattels, debts owing, ready money, any stocks in any company or in public funds, bonds, any other personal property (after any debts, the funeral costs and the legacies paid out) to go to the nieces Frances and Sarah are paid who are also made the executors of the will.
Witnessed by James Digweed, Giles Hancock and William Deeley.
This P.C.C will was transcribed and then summarized by me Charlotte Day from the original held at the National Archives Kew.
Note= in the 1760s in Marlow there was a lace dealer called Giles Hancock and a grocer called James Digweed who may be these will witnesses. I suspect William Deeley may have been a lawyer.
Christopher Dominick was the executor of his father Andrew's will which will appear on the blog in the future. Andrew won a grant of a coat of arms for the family in 1720. He was apparently the first of the family to live in Marlow after having married Joan / Jane Langley of the town.
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