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Will of Thomas Wainright, yeoman, 1714
Herts RO 151AW23
In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Wainright of Winsloe in the County of Bucks yeoman Being weakly of Body but of sound and perfect mind and memory Praised bee Almighty god therefore doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say first and Principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty god my Creatour and my Body to the Earth to bee decently Buried at the discretion of my Executrix herin after named and as Touching the Disposition of all such Temporall estate as it hath pleased Almighty god to bestow upon me I give and Dispose there of as followeth. Imprimiis I will that my Debts and funerall Expences shall be all paid and discharged Item I give and bequeath unto my grand son Henry Stutchbery the moity or one half part of all my free hold Estate and Lease hold of Lands tenniments and hereditaments with their and every of their appurtenances in the common fields and Parish of Luton in the county of Bedford To Have And to Hold the said moiety or one half part of the said Lands tennements hereditaments from and imediately after the decease of Mary my now wife and to his heirs for ever Provided alwayes and upon condition never the less that he the said Henry my grandson doe and shall well and truly pay unto his sister Elisabeth Stutchbery the sum of Twenty pounds of Lawfull money of great Brittain within one year after the decease of the said Mary my wife but if the said Henry my grandson shall happen to depart this Life before the said Mary my wife and before the payment of the said Twenty pound or having secured the payment thereof unto the said Elisabeth Stutchbery his sister as afore said Then I give Devise and bequeath the said moiety or one half part of the said Lands tennements and hereditaments unto the said Elisabeth my grand Daughter and to her heirs for Ever any thing before in this my Last will contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith standing Item I give Devise and bequeath the other moiety or half part of the said Lands tennements And hereditaments with their appurtenances from and imediatly after the decease of Mary my said wife unto my Daughter Sarah Wainright and To her heires for Ever Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Deborah Stutchbery Ten pounds of Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her within one year after my decease Item I give and Bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Wainright the sum of ten pounds of Like Lawfull money of great Brittain to be paid her within one year after my decease Item I doe further give and Bequeath unto my said two Daughters Each of them a gold ring Each of them A Large silver spoon Each of them three pair of my best sheets Each of them six napkins a peice marked with S.C. and D.P. and three other Diaper napkins apiece and to my Daughter Deborah one flockbed one Large pewter Dish and A Pewter Bason and to my Daughter Sarah six plates one Bedstead and the Best Looking glass But one and to my two Daughters two holland pillowbeirs apeice
[signed] Tho(mas) Wainright
[f.2] Item I give and Bequeath unto my son in Law Henry Stutchbery all my wearing Apparell Item I give and Bequeath unto my grandson Henry Stutchbery my new Bibles all the rest of my household goods and Implyments of household I give to the said Mary my wife Dureing her naturall Life and after her Decease to my two said Daughters Item all the rest and residue of \my/ goods Chattells rights Credits personall Estate whatsoever not herein before otherwise given and desposed of before I give and Bequeath unto my Loving wife Mary Wainright and I Doe Constitute and appoint the said Mary my wife full and sole Excetrix of this my Last will and Testament hereby revokeing disannulling and making void all former and other wills by mee here tofore made in witness whereof I the said Thomas Wainright have to this my Last will and Testament set my hand and seal this tenth Day of May Anno Dommini 1714
Tho(mas) Wainright
This will contained in Two Sheets of paper was
signed sealed owned acknowledged published
and declared by The said Thomas Wainright Testater
to be his Last will and Testament in the presence of
John Henly
Francis Robinson
Mary Weary Rob(er)t Dorsett
[verso]
26 Maij 1714
Maria Wainwright Relicta et Executrix introit' Iurata fuit Coram me
Johan: Croft Cur Sur:
Notes
Thomas Wainright (his name was nearly always written with only one w) was buried, apparently at Keach's Meeting House, on 20 May 1714, followed by his widow Mary on 11 July. Thomas and Mary got married at Whipsnade, Beds, on 29 July 1690. Mary's mother Mary Baldwin (d.1703) was also a Baptist. Thomas served as overseer of the poor in 1699/1700, and witnessed many wills, not only of Baptists. He first appears in Winslow records in 1696, and could be the son of Robert and Sarah Wayneright who was baptised at Luton in 1657. His daughter Deborah married Henry Stutsbury at Winslow on 30 June 1712; their daughter but not their son seems to have had an Anglican baptism.