In the name of God Amen |
| I Sir William Batten of London Knight being in good health
of body & of sound and perfect mynd memory and understanding
(praised be Almighty God) doe make ordaine publish and declare
thro my last will and Testament [.....] |
[.....] after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my
grandchild Mary Leming the like somme of Tenne pounds to buy
her a ring to bee paid within the said space of Twelve monethes
next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandchild William Castle the
like somme of Tenne pounds to be paid within the said space
of Twelve monethes next after my decease Item I give and bequeath
unto my sister Martha Bradford the somme of five pounds of like
money to be paid within the said space of Twelve monethes next
after my decease Item I give and bequeath to Thomas Wilson and
James Norman To each of them fiftie shillings a piece Item I
give and bequeath to my servante Mingoe a Negroe That now dwelleth
with mee the somme of Tenne pounds to be paid within Twelve
monethes next after my decease And I doe alsoe give unto him
the said Mingoe the Custody and keeping of my Light houses Att
Harwich, and the somme of Twenty pounds a yeare of lawfull money
of England during the Terme of his naturall life for his paines
therein Item I give and bequeath to my two maid servants Rachell
Underhill and Martha Peake the somme of Tenne poundes a piece
of like lawfull money be paid within the said space of Twelve
monethes next after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto
the poor of the parish of Walthamstow aforesaid The somme of
Twenty shillings a yeare for and during the Terme of seaven
yeares next after my decease to be distributed amongst them
by the Churchwardens and overseers of the poore of the said
parish; And whereas the Kings most excellent Maiesty by his
Highnes letter Pattens under the greate Seale of England bearing
date at Westminster the fower and Twentieth day of December
in the sixteenth yeare of his highnesses reigne hath given and
granted to me the said Sir William Batten my executors administrators
and assignes free Liberty Lissence and power and authority to
make build erect and set up continewe renewe maintayne upon
a certaine peece or parcell of ground granted by the Inhabitants
of Harwich in the County of Essex aforesaid to me the said Sir
William Batten two convenient Light houses or Beacons with Lights
to be continually burning in the night season, And the same
to Change remove and alter upon the said ground as occasion
shall require for and during the Terme of Threescore and one
yeares And to be demand collecte have and take of and for every
Ship Hoy Barke Crayer Katch or other vessell that shall passe
that way Laden, at Newcastle, or Sunderland the somme of one
halfe penny upon every tunne according to the burthen of the
ship or vessell And one halfe penny upon every tunne of all
other English shipps and vessells passing by the said Lighthouses
And one penny upon every tunne of all strangers shipps vessells
and Bottomes as shall happen to passe thereby And shall put
into any porte Rode or harbor of the Realme although they doe
not unloade and discharge any goods there [...] |
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