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Will of Alice Reeve

Date of will 30 March 1613
Status widow 
Abode when will written Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
Date of probate 7 May 1617
Summary of will Bequeathed items of clothing and money to her children and grandchildren Also 2 pence apiece to 6 poor people of Hanslope 
Persons mentioned in will:
Name Relation Abode Role Notes
Jane Reeve Daughter    beneficiary   Left best gown and kerchiefs  
Christopher Reeve Son    beneficiary   Left 12 pence 
Thomas Reeve Son    beneficiary   Left 12 pence 
Ellen Reeve Daughter    beneficiary   Left a silver ring 
Jane Panter     beneficiary   Left a silk petticoat 
Elizabeth Bennett Widow    beneficiary   Left blue safeguard 
Alice Drewry     beneficiary   God daughter Left 4 pence 
Anne Willsonn     beneficiary   God daughter Left 4 pence 
Edmund Parkins     beneficiary   Neighbour Left a smock 
Guy Parkins     beneficiary trustee/overseer   Son of Edmund Parkins Left 12 pence 
Joane Halliwell     beneficiary   Left a smock 
Richard Reeve Son    beneficiary executor   Left residue of estate 
Rombald Emmerton     beneficiary trustee/overseer witness   Neighbour Left 4 pence 
John Feilde     witness    
Rowland Hill     witness    
Source:  Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference  probate copy D/A/We/27/49; original D/A/Wf/22/197
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

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Source: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies,  reference probate copy D/A/We/27/49; original D/A/Wf/22/197
The original document from which this image has been taken is held by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, County Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1UU, UK. Copies may be made for private use, but anyone wishing to publish the will, in whole or in part, or to reproduce it on their website should contact the Centre. A photocopy of the will can be ordered from the Centre

In the name of god Amen:  The xxx th day of May anno din 1613:  I Alice Reeve of Hansloppe in the countie of Bucks: widowe, beinge weake and ill in my bodie, but of good remembrance, thankes be to allmightie god, doe make this my laste will and testament, in manner and forme followinge,  First I bequeath my soule to allmightie god trustinge to be saved, by the merittes and passion of my lorde and saviour Jesus Christe, and my bodie to be buried in the churche yarde of Hanslopp aforesaide; allso I give to the mother Church of Lincoln ij d;  allso I give and bequeath to my daughter Jane, my best gowne and my beste neckercher and two kercheifes; allsoe I give and bequeath to Christopher my sonne twelfe pence and to each of his twoe chilldren twelfe pence a peece;  allsoe I give and bequeath to Thomas my sonne twelfe pence;  allso I give to Ellen my daughter my silver ringe; and to her more my best spier cloath;  allso I give unto Jane Panter my silken kirtle;  and I give to Elizabeth Bennett widowe my blewe safeguard;  and to my god daughter Alice Drewry iiij d: and to Anne Willsonn my goddaughter fower pence;  allso I give to Alice Broughtons childe an ould redd peticoate;  allsoe I give to Edmond Parkins my good neighbor, Guye Parkins his sonne twelfe pence;  allsoe I give and bequeath to Joane Halliwell, and to Willyam Giles his wife to each of them a smocke;  allsoe I give to six poore people, at the appointment of my executor and overseers ij d a peece, all the rest of my goodes and cattells aswell moveable as unmoveable my debtes being paide, and my funerall dischardged  I doe give and bequeath to Richard Reeve my sonne whome I doe make sole executor of this my laste will and testament;  and I doe renounce all other wills hearetofore by me made; and I doe ordaine and appointe, my neighbour Guy Parkins and my neighbour Rombald Emmerton, to be my overseers of this my laste will and testament, to be trulye performed, and for theire paines, I doe give them iiij d a peece;  In witnes wheareof I the saide Alice Reeve, have heareunto sett my hande the day and yeare above written;  Witnesses heareof are Rowland Hill, Rombould Emmerton  and John Feilde.

Proved 7th July 1617    

Kirtle - petticoat

Safeguard - skirt worn over a kirtle when riding                                                                                                   

 Spier cloth - wooden frame to keep out draughts

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