Posted by Dennis Heathcote on July 01, 19101 at 17:19:44:
WILL of JOHN REYNOLDS of MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE,
Nottinghamshire Year 1673 (13th yr of Charles II )
In the name and by the blessing and the goodness of God, amen, I John Reynolds of Mansfield Woodhouse in the County of Nottingham Gent being in perfect memory and health blessed be the Lord therefore, hereby revoking and adnulling all other Wills and testaments by me made and ordained do constitute ordain make and declare this my last Will and testament in manner and form following That is to say first and principally, I do resigne and beqeath myselfe by life, and my soul at my death totally unto God faithfully trusting by the death and passion of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ against all my sins past and to come to be eternally saved, And my body I commit to the Earth (whereof it came until the resurrection, when, I assuredly hope it shall bee again unitted to my Soule in heaven and there shall rest forever with the Lord). And as concerning the disposition of all my temporall means and estate my funerall expenses and burieds charges thereof being first paid and defraid I do trust and bequeath as followeth,That is to say ffirst unto Cornelious my son in mony five pounds to be paid unto him uppon his demand after my death; and also I give unto him our
dwelling house certaine outhouses two Garden places and a croft situatelying and being in a certaine street in Mansfield comonly called Westgate late Henry Daws his of Mansfield aforesaid Joyner in full discharge of this child part and portion. Item I give to William Trippit my son in Law in full
discharge of Mary deceased daughter and his late wife her childs portion the
sume of Twenty Shillings in present mony, Item unto Elizabeth Reynolds late wife unto my son Richard deceased Twenty Shillings in present mony in full discharge of his childs part and portion; Item I give unto Michael Keys
my son in Law the sume of Five Pounds in present mony in full discharge of my daughter Alice his now wife or childs part and portion, Item I give unto
Abigail Turner my daughter all the household goods shee hath which I bought of Master John Newton after the death of her husband which cost me Twelve Pounds in full discharge of her childs part and portion Item I give unto
Elizabeth Champion sometime wife unto my son John deceased Twenty Shillings in full discharge of that my son his childs part and portion Item I give unto John Morley Twenty Shillings in full payment and discharge of my deceased daughter Elizabeth his late wife for childs part and portion; Item unto John Reynolds son to my late deceased son Richard I give and bequeath my title and terme of years in that house in East Retford neahring his mother now lives as also my foresaid right and tenant right in that farme at Tibshall which I hould of the right Honorable William Earle of Devonshire. Item Julyan my now wife I give and bequeath my reversion of time in my Hospitall Lease at Tibshall and alsoe all the rest of my temporall estate of monies Plate debts bonds Rents Arreararayes of rents forfeitures Reversions Titles Rights Legagcies household goods and other goods and chattells xxxx forever and do make and appoint her sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament always hoping that before shee shall
marry to any other man my decease or at the time of her death shee will distribute amongst my best deserveing and children and grandchildren ( except shee shall have a child or children by mee ) all the estate or meanes shee shall reap or get by mee by marriage or other ways, according to
the faith or trust betweene us from first to last And I do hereby constitute and ordaine my two trustee friends Joshuah Silvester and Richard Wilde of Westgate in Mansfield supravizors of this my last Will and Testament In
Witness whereof I have thereunto put my hand and Seale this fourth day of May in the Thirteenth Yeare of the Reign of Sovereign Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland Ffrance and Ireland and defender of the faith Anno dni Signed Sealed published and declared the last Will and Testament of the within named John Reynolds in the presence of Jo Porter Brian Bowlby Dorothy Lineker
William Ffithe Signed by Jo Reynolds Probate 22nd October 1667
(a conflict re date of prove of Will is apparent)
Reynold family but note the signature (his own) as a witness - ie Bryan Bowlby. Is this the earliest 'sighting' of a direct relationship to others? Anyway my view is he will be an acquaintance of William Barker through the Reynold family and hence his son Thomas Bowlby met Martha Barker.An observation or two -- East Retford is close to Man. Wdsehouse and Bawtry.