CHARLES LOVEJOY SHOEMAKER OF GREAT MARLOW.
Will both written and proved in 1648.
Says he weak and ill in body but of sound mind and in good and perfect memory.
Commends soul to God. Body to be returned to the earth from whence it came.
Loving wife Abigail gets his messuage with appurtenances in Marlow. At some convenient time she is to sell it and pay his debts from the resulting money. The rest of the sale money to go to wife Abigail and dear daughter Elizabeth for their maintenance and livelihood.
All other goods, chattels and household goods after debts and funeral expenses paid to wife Abigail who is named sole executor.
Will witnessed by William FF..r (Farmer?), Robert Young, Robert Bennett.
Transcribed and then summarised here by Charlotte Day from a copy of the original P.C.C will held at the National Archives, Kew.
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