I WILLIAM WILLMOTT of Lollingdon in the Parish of Cholsey in the County of Berks Yeoman being at the present very much indisposed in bodyly health (but blassed be God of perfect mind memory and understanding) doe thinke fitt to make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in writing whereby in the first place I doe Commend my Soule into the hands of Allmighty God as unto a faithfull Creator trusting most assuredly to bee saved through the onely meritts of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ And my body I commit to the Earth from whence it was taken to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executors hereinafter named And in the next place as to my worldly Estate I doe hereby order settle and dispose of the same as followeth (That is to say) first I doe hereby give and bequeath unto the poore of Cholsey aforesaid the summe of Twenty shillings To be paid and distributed amongst them by my said Executors at or Imediately after my decease Item I does hereby give and bequeath unto my Cosen JOHN WILLMOTT of Cholsey aforesaid the summe of Tenn shillings to be paid Imediately after my decease Item I doe hereby give and bequeath unto my foure Daughters ELIZABETH MARY FRANCES and ANNE the severall Summes of foure hundred pounds a piece to be paid to them severally and respectively as followeth (vizt) three hundred pounds a piece thereof to each of my said foure Daughter at her and their severall and respective Marriages And the other one hundred pounds of the said severall Legacies or portions of foure Hundred pounds a piece To be paid unto my said severall Daughters within one Month next and Imediately after the birth of the first Child of each and every of my said Daughters lawfully to bee begotten and borne of their severall and respective bodyes And my will is That if any of my said foure Daughters shall happen to Dye or Depart this life before her or their respective Marriage That then the Legacie or Portion of such of them soe dying hereby before given and bequeathed to her or them respectively shall wholly goe [ ] and belong unto my son ALEXANDER WILLMOTT and not unto the Survivor or Survivors of my said Daughters And for the raiseing secureing and paying of the said severall Legacies or Portions to my said foure Daughters in manner aforesaid and finding and provideing some Allowance for their respective maintenance untill their respective Marriages My will is That the same shall be raised and payd out of my Reall and personall Estate whereof I shall dye seized and possessed And for that end and purpose I doe hereby devise and bequeath unto WILLIAM BUTTON of Cholsey aforesaid and JOHN ALLEN of Compton in the said County Yeoman All my good stocke of Corne and Cattell Implements of Husbandry Householdgoods Bonds Bills ready money and personall whatsoever And also I doe hereby give and devise unto the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN their Executors Administrators and Assignes All that my Messuage or now Dwelling House and Farme commonly Called Lollingdon within the Parish of Cholsey aforesaid with all the Outhouses Barnes Stables Orchards Gardens Closes Arrable Lands Meadowes Pastures Feedings and Hereditaments whatsoever with their Appurtenances to the said Messuage and Farme belonging or Appertaining And alsoe all other my Messuages Lands tenements Rents Reversions and Hereditaments whatsoever situate Lying and being in or within the Parish of Cholsey aforesaid and in the Parishes of Aston [ ] Blewberry and Aston Tirrold in the said County of Berks or in any either of them with their and every of their Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Messuage dwelling house and Farme called Lollingdon with all the outhouses Barnes Stables Orchards Gardens Closes Lands tenements Hereditaments and premises thereunto belonging with theire Appurtenances unto the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN theire Executors Administrators and Assignes from and Imediately after my decease for and during and unto the full end and Terme of Fourscore and nineteene yearesfrom thence next [ensueing] fully to bee Compleate and ended If the said ELIZABETH my daughter and the said ALEXANDER my sonn or either of them shall soe long live And to have and to hold all other my said Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Hereditaments whatsoever with their Appurtenances within the said Parishes of Cholsey Aston [ ] Blewberry and Aston Tirrold aforesaid or in any or either of them unto the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN theire Executors Administrators and Assignes Imediately from and after my decease for and dureing and unto the full end and Terme of Fourscore and nineteene yeares from thence next ensueing and fully to bee compleate and ended And I doe hereby nominate Constitute and appoint the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN the Sole and onely Executors of this my last Will and Testament during the Minority of the said ALEXANDER WILLMOTT my sonn And when and soe soone as my said sonne ALEXANDER shall come to and Attaine his Age of one and twenty yeares then my will is That the said Executorshipp of the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN shall cease And then I doe hereby Constitute and Appointe the said ALEXANDER WILLMOTT my sonn the onely Executor of this my Last will and Testament which said goods Stocke and personall Estate And also the said severall Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments and premises hereinbefore given Lymitted and devised unto the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN theire Executors and Assignes for the severall Termes and Estates hereinbefore thereof mentioned and expressed are soe by me given Lymitted and devised to them upon and under these severall Trusts and to and for the uses and Intents hereinafter mentioned and declared that is to say upon Trust and Confidence in them the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN reposed That they the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN or the Survivor of them shall out of the Rents and proffitts of the said premises soe soone as they can conveniently after my decease raise money and thereby renew and new taken the Lease of the said Lollingdon Farme and Estate of the Bishop of Winton and put in the Life of a third person in my Roome or Steed And for that purpose I doe hereby Impower them to Surrender the Lease now in being thereof which said Lease soe to bee renewed or new taken shall bee taken in the name of my said sonne ALEXANDER and his Heires dureing his Life and [ ] two Lives now in being and the Life of the Longer liver of them but to be subject to the Trusts and uses following That is to say as Touching the same and all other my said Messuages Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments hereby before devised In Trust that they the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN or the Survivor of them shall by Lease of Leases Mortgage or Mortgages thereof raise and pay the severall Legacies or Portions hereby given and bequeathed unto my said foure Daughters as the same respectively shall become due and as much as in them the said WILLIAM BUTTON and JOHN ALLEN shall lye to preserve and keepe all the Stocke goods and personall Estate hereby before bequeathed Except ready money and money oweing to mee for the use and benefit of my said sonne when hee shall Attaine his said Age of One and Twenty yeares And then to be delivered to him and in the meane time to keepe and imploy the same where the same are now imployed and to endeavor the Improvement thereof what in them shall lye And untill my Daughters shall bee Married shall out of the Rents Issues and proffitts of my said Messuages Lands and premises allow to my said foure Daughters and sonne such competent maintenance as my said Executors or the Survivor of them shall thinke meete And my will is further That if my said sonne when hee shall Attaine his said Age of One and Twenty yeares shall pay and discharge the said Severall portions or Legacies to his foure Sisters hereinbefore named or such of them as shall not then bee payd and discharged That then the said severall Termes and Estates in the said Messuages Lands and premises hereby before Lymitted and devised shall cease and bee utterly void My will being that the reasonable expenses and Charges of my said Executors and Trustees in and about the Trusts in them hereby reposed shall bee allowed to them out of the Rents and profitts of the said premises hereby revoking all former Wills I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale this Fifth day of January in the third yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queene Mary of England [ ] One Thousand six Hundred ninty One – WILLIAM WILLMOTT – Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of us MOSES SLADE – HENRY CRESWELL – RICHARD SAYER And in the presence of the Testator