Nuncupative will of Bennet Glenister, 1673

Herts RO 109AW8

Memorandu(m) that Bene\tt/iamin Glenister \of Winslow in Compt bucks/ being sicke in body but of Good & perfect memory did on or aboute the eaight day of May 1673 did declare his \last/ will Nuncupative that is to say by word of mouth in these words following or to the like effect; I Give all my my [sic] moveable Goods unto \my/ wife, and to all my wives and sisters Children being thyrteene in number  the sum(m)e of tenne shilling apeece and this hee spack with a Full intent and purpose that it should stand in Full effect for his last will & Testament in the presence of Rob(er)t Scott and Annis Scott, witnessess

[signed] Robert Scott
[mark] Annis Scott jur.

Iurat' fuerit [sic] Annis [deletion] Glenister Administratix &c testamento pr' supradict' annex' coram me
Johan. Retchford sur(r)og(a)to
Iurat' fuerunt Robertus Scott et Annis Scott testes supradict' testam' nuncupat'
Coram me Johan. Retchford Sur(ra)g(a)to

[verso - summarised from Latin]

Obligation of Anne/Annis Glenister widow and Robert Scott of Winslow for £100, 22 May 1673

Sealed, given and delivered in the presence of:
Samuel Dix
John Retchford

Inventory of Bennet Glenister, 1673

Herts RO A25/3909

A True and perfect Inventary Taken and aprissed by us whose names are here unto subscribed The sixteenth day of May 1673 of all the goods and chattells of Bennet Glenister of Winslow in the County of Bucks who departed this life the first day of May in the yeare abovesaide

 
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Imprimus in the haule one Table and frame and one Joyned Cubberd with other things
01
05
0
Item in the little Roume next the haule one table and frame fower stooles and other things
00
10
00
Item in the parlour one Table and frame whith Three stooles and other things
00
10
00
Item in a little inner Roume one little Table and frame with other lumber
00
06
08
Item In the buttry Three barrells and a drinke stole
00
06
08
Item In the Chamber over the parlour one Joyned bed with the beding thereto belonginge and other thinges
02
00
00
Item \in/ the Two upper Roomes Two beds with the bedinge to them belonging and other lumber
01
10
00
Item for seaven quarter of Mault
05
10
00
Item for Twenty Bushells of barly and Two Bushels of wheat
02
00
00
Item for linnen
01
10
00
Item for brase and pewter
00
15
00
Item in the mault house one kenl kilne haire and Three Tubes with other lumber
00
13
04
Item in the barne Two old fats and a screene with other lumber
00
13
04
Item for working geere in the shop and an old mault mill
00
06
08
Item for three schafolds
00
15
00
Item for Timber and fire wood & hurdles
02
10
00
It(em) for the crope in the feide
03
00
00
It(em) for his wareing apparell and Ready money and debts d(e)sperate
08
00
00
It(em) for goods unseen and forgotten
00
03
04
                 
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  sume totall   
31
15
00

[signed]
John Hogson
Peter Stutsbery

Exhibit(um) quinto Junii 1673 per Annam Glenister vid. relict etc. et Ad(ministratri)cem testamento annexo &c sub protestacione &c

Notes

Bennet or Benedict Glenister lived in "a cottage in Winslow Sheep Market" in 1647. He was the son of Walter Glenister, and baptised at Winslow on 22 Jan 1614/15. His grandfather was John Glenister, d.1633. He married Anne Stutsberie on 3 Nov 1636 (her name is also given as Agnes). Bennet's only recorded child was Agnes (bap. 3 March 1640/1) or Ann (d.1704) who married Robert Scott (d.1695) and had a son Benedict (usually called Benjamin), bap. 1 Feb 1670/1 (see below; he became a butcher, following his father).

Bennet Glenister's siblings are listed below. Most of his sisters' children were not baptised at Winslow.

At the manor court on 30 Sep-2 Oct 1674, Ann Scott sought admission according to an out-of-court surrender made by Benedict Glenister, now deceased, on 22 April 1673, to the messuage where he then lived and 10 acres in the fields of Winslow, except a close called the Little Pickles (Centre for Bucks Studies, BAS 376/22 no.28). To the use of Ann for her life, then Benedict Scott her son, or to Ann's heirs if he died before his mother without issue. Most of the land was acquired by William Lowndes between 1694 and 1698. The messuage was in Sheep Street, and known as the Boot. In 1692, Robert, Ann and Benjamin Scott surrendered it so that Benjamin and his new wife Elizabeth could have half for their lives and the rest after Ann's death. In 1695, William Lowndes bought it for £280. Benjamin bought another messuage from the Chandlers in 1696, probably next door, which he mortgaged to John Wyatt in 1698, and sold to Benjamin Saunders in 1701, when he paid heriot so ceased to be a tenant of the manor.

Copyright 31 October, 2017