Stephen Dagnall

Prerogative Court of Canterbury will made: 23rd January 1684/5
Probate Date: 13th February 1684/5
Proved by Matthias Dagnall, son of the testator
National Archive Catalogue reference: PROB 11/379

The original document is in the custody of the National Archives

Transcript

In the name of the father the sonne and the Holy Spirit Jahova Elohim Sebatheoth and in the name of Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse and the first begotten from the Dead and the prince of the Kings of the Earth being hee that loved us and washed us from our sinns in his owne blood and hath made us Kings and Preists unto God and his Father to him bee Glory and Dominion forever Amen I Stephen Dagnall late of Alesbury in the County of Buck[ingham] Stationer now of Layton in the County of Bedford of the same trade and Calling being weake in body but in sound and perfect memory of mind thankes bee God for it Doe make constitute and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following that is to say First I give and bequeath my Spirit into the hands of Jesus Christ the glorious King preist and prophet of our Profession, who hath purified my heart by Faith on whose name I called when I was baptized in water and I doe beleeve on his name and I doe beleeve that hee hath baptized mee into the name of the Father and into the name of the sonne and into the name of the holy spirit as it is written Acts the eighth and twelfth the sixteenth and seaventeenth and I beleeve that hee will keepe mee and that I shall stand before the throne in the last day I doe Rest in the grace of God and in the grace of the Father and in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ And I doe love all the true congregation of God throughout the world and in perticuler those that walke in the profession of the Faith which they and I have confessed together Item I will that my debts and funerall charges bee discharged by my deerely beloved sonne Matthias Dagnall whom I make constitute and appoint the sole Executor of this my last will and Testament Item I appoint my sonne and Executor to bury my Corps close by the Corps of my late deare wife his mother But if my sonne cannot obtaine it lett mee bee buried according to the discretion of my deere sonne and Executor Item I give unto my deare Daughter Elizabeth Bayzon the summe of Tenne shillings and I give to her husband One shilling and to my deere Daughter Anna Clarke the summe of Tenne shillings and to her husband one shilling and to my deere Daughter in law Dorothy Fen Ten shillings and to her husband one shilling All these legacies to bee paid a yeare after the solemnizeing my funeralls and I give to my grandsonne Onissimus Bayzon ten shillings and to Elizabeth Bayzon my granddaughter tenn shillings and to my granddaughter Mary Bayzon tenn shillings and to my granddaughter Sarah Bayzon tenn shillings and I give to my grandsonne Thomas Clarke tenn shillings and to my grandson Stephen Clarke tenn shillings and to the Child with which my Daughter Anna Clarke is now with child Tenn shillings and to my granddaughter Joanna Fenn ten shillings and to my Granddaughter Dorathy Fenn tenn shillings \and to my Grandson Thomas Fenn Ten shillings/ and to my granddaughter Susanna Fenn ten shillings these legacies to bee paid to these my grandchildren as they come respectively to the age of One and Twenty yeares but if any of them shall happen to die before they come to age w[hi]ch God defend then the legacies which they should have received shall bee divided amongst the survivors by equall parts All the rest of my personall estate goods and chattells whatsoever I doe give and bequeath unto my deare and loveing sonne and Executor Matthias Dagnall before named whome I make full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I doe hereby revoke disannull and make void all former wills and Testaments by mee heretofore made In witnesse whereof I the said Stephen Dagnall to this my last Will and testam[en]t being conteined in two sheetes of paper sett my hand to the first and last sheete thereof sett my seale the twenty third day of January in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred eighty and foure. Stephen Dagnall Witnes hereunto Richard Leach Henriy Millard John Trulove.

Bee it knowne to all men by these presents That whereas I Stephen Dagnall late of Alesbury in the County of Buck[ingham] Stationer now of Laiton in the County of Bedford of the same trade and Calling have made & declared my last Will & Testament in writing bearing date the twenty third day of January one thousand six hundred eighty & foure I the said Stephen Dagnall Doe by this present Codicill confirme and Ratify this my last will and Testament and doe give to my loveing grandsonne James Fenne all my stocke and workeing tooles which I have at Laighton in the County of Bedford with this Reservation that whereas I stand bound in one obligac[i]on with one John Trulove and James Fenn my sonne in law to one Mr. Rose of Wing in the County of Buck[ingham] for fifty pounds that my loveing sonne and Executor Mathias Dagnall shall have power out of the said stocke and tooles to pay what shall remaine unpaid of the said Obigac[i]on And my will is that what remaines of my said stocke and tooles at Laiton after the s[ai]d obligation is Cancelled paid and fully satisfied shall bee and remaine to the only use and behoofe of my said grandsonne James Fenn And I doe father make Reservation that if my grandsonne James Fenn shall obtaine the estate at Witney and Northmore in the County of Oxford to which hee is heire that then my stock and workeing tooles at Laiton shall goe to my Executor and the said Obigac[i]on shall bee fully satisfied without any part of the said stock and tooles any thing in this Codicill to the Contrary notwithstanding and my Will & meaning is that this Codicill or schedule bee and bee adindged to bee part and parcell of my said last Will and Testament and that all things herein conteined and menc[i]oned bee faithfully and fully performed and as fully and amply in every respect as if the same were soe declared and sett downe in my s[ai]d last will & Testament In witnesse whereof I have sett to my hand and seale the twenty third day of January one thousand six hundred eighty and foure Stephen Dagnall Witness hereunto Richard Leach Henry Millard John Trulove.