Northamptonshire Record Office

Vicar of Ecclesfield 1684-1705
Death 3 April 1705

I Edw Mansole of Ecclesfield in the County of York, Clerk, being in good health of Body and of sound mind and memory blessed be God first but being uncertain how long it may please God to continue these blessings to me and not knowing however and how suddenly I may die do make this my last Will and Testament, I give and devise to my trustee and wole blessed friends and relations Edw Draper of Sibson in the County of Leicester Clerk my Honoured Unkle and John Mansole of Cosgrave in the County of Northampton Clerk my Honoured Cousin and the heir of foresaid Edw Draper all my Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever in Cosgrave and Furtho Yardley Gubbion Old Stratford Pottersperry and Coghanhoe alias Cuckno in the County of Northampton and the remainder and reservations of them and every of them upon their special trust and confidence that the said Edwd Draper and John Mansole and the survivor of them and the heirs of foresaid Edwd Draper shall out of the rents issues and profits of the Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so soon as the same can be raised pay or cause to be paid to my dear wife Frances Mansole the sum of four hundred pounds (in case and upon condition and not otherwise the payout of my present personal Estate being part of my wifes portion of like sum of Four hundred pounds to my Sister Mary Mansole before this will take place which said sum of fourhundred pounds is charged by my Father upon the said Lands as a portion for my said Sister and now due and payable to her) and that they pay or cause to be paid to my Loa? Bro: Christopher Mansole the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds and to my Loo: sister Mary Mansole the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds and to my old Friend Obadiah Brown of Whiston in the County of York Clerk the sum of one hundred pounds to my Neece Mary Mansole the sum of Ten pounds in such order and priority as the same are before herein mentioned and Expressed And from and after the several and respective sums of money shall be so paid and satisfied either by the perception of the rents issues and profits of the said Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments or by such person or persons who shall have the rent and immediate interest in the said premises given him by this my last will and Testament then my Will and mind is that if the said Edw: Draper and John Mansole and the heirs of the said Edwd Draper shall stand and be Seised of the said Messuages Lands Tenements and hereditaments to the Use and behoof of my Bro: Charles Mansole during the term of his natural Life without impeachment of or for any manner of Waste and after his decease to the use of the first son of the body of the said Charles Mansole and the heirs Males of the body of such first son lawfully to be begotten and for default of such issue to the Use and behoof of the second son of the body of the said Charles Mansole lawfully to be begotten and for so default of such issue to the use and behoof of the third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth and all other of the sons of the said Charles Mansole lawfully to be begotten severally and successively one after another in order and course as they shall be in seniority of age and priority of birth and the several heirs males of their several and respective bodies lawfully To be Begotten the elder of the said sons and the heirs Males of his body being allways preferred before the younger and the heirs males of their body and for default of such issue my will and mind is that the said Edw Draper and John Mansole and the heirs of the said Edw Draper shall be and stand seised to the use and behoof of my Bro: Christopher Mansol for and during the term of his natural Life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste and from and after his decease to the use of the first son of the body of the said Christopher Mansole lawfully to be begotten and for default of such issue to the use of the second son of the body of the said Christopher Mansole lawfully to be begotten and the heirs males of such second son lawfully to be begotten and for default of such issue to the use and behoof of the third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth and all other sons of the said Christopher Mansole lawfully to be begotten severally and successively one after another in order and course as they shall be born in seniority of Age and priority of birth and the several heirs Males of their several and respective bodys lawfully to be begotten the elder of the said sons and the heirs male of his body being always preferred before the younger and the heirs males of their bodys and for default of such issue of use  and behoof of all the daughters of the said Charles Mansole and of the said Christopher Mansole to be equally divided amongst them and for want of such issue to the right heirs of the said Christopher Mansole for ever; And my mind and will is and I do devise and declare notwithstanding any devices or limitation herein before mentioned that the said Charles Mansole when he shall have every estate in Possession in the premises or in every part thereof by virtue of this my last will and Testament shall have full power liberty and authority by my deed or deeds under his hand and seal by him subscribed and sealed in the presence of three or more credible witnesses to assign limit or appoint to or to the use of or in trust for any woman or women for or in leiu name or stead of her Jointure or part of jointure and the said aswell before as after marriage that shall be the wife or wives of the said Charles Mansole for and during the term of the natural Lives of such woman or women or any of the said messuages lands tenements and hereditaments herein before devised to him for his life as aforesaid and my mind and will is that the said Christopher Mansole after he shall have any estate in Possession in the premises in any part thereof by virtue of this my last Will and Testament that the aforesaid Christopher Mansole shall also have a like power liberty and authority to make a jointure to any woman or women that he shall Marry as is herein before devised and given to my Bro: Charles Mansole and I do make my dearly beloved Wife Frances Mansole the sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament and I do give and bequeath to her all the personal estate I shall die possessed of she paying out of it all my just debts funeral charges except such portions and Legacys as are charged upon my real Estate for my Bro: Christopher Mansole and for my sister Mary Mansole she paying likewise ten pounds to the poor of Ecclesfield and fifty shillings to the poor of Cosgrave soon after my decease and a Mourning ring to my honoured and dear mother Millicent Mansole the like to my Unkle Draper aforesaid and to my Cousin Mansole aforesaid and the like to my olf Friend Obadiah Brown aforesaid and to my Bro: and sister Westly and to my Bro and sister Kent and to my sister Laughton and to my sister Ann Mansole relict of my Bro: John Mansole deceased and as for all my lands in Ecclesfield I give and evise them to my Lov: Wife for and during the term of her natural Life and after her decease I devise all the said Lands to the succeeding Vicars or Vicarage of the Parish Church of Ecclesfield for ever the better to Enable them to maintain and keep a Curate to Assist them in Holy Officer in their large and populous parish and for the greater concern of their keeping cows and horses for the use of their family there being so very little glebe land belonging to the Vicaridge and I do request of all my successors that they will preach or cause to be preached in the afternoon upon every Lord’s Day during the summertime as sermon in the parish Church of Ecclesfield or else to expound the Church Catechism for the benefit of the people of the parish But in case any of the succeeding Vicars of Ecclesfield shall at any time hereafter in any year for the who[le] or the greatest part of the time betwixt Easter and Michaelmas reaffect or refuse to preach or cause to be preached a sermon or to expound the Church Catechism as aforesaid upon each Lord’s Day in the afternoon during the season aforesaid then upon and for such neglect and failure I give and devise all the said Lands to the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of Ecclesfield for the time being for them to dispose all the rents issues and profits of the said Lands during the time of such neglect and failure and no longer to the use of the best living poor of the said parish that are the freest from open or in [piteous] vice or immorality and that do most frequent the public worship of God upon Lord’s Day and especially that come most constantly to the Holy Sacrament of the Lords supper In Witness whereof I the said Edw Mansol have hereunto set my hand and seal Ninth day of may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and three Edward Mansole [the mark of] sealed signed and published in the presence of Kathrin Townend Regnald Brammall Mary [her mark] Barber

This copy agrees with the original will of the said deceased proved in the Consistory Court of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York being duly compassed and examined therewith by me Richd Mackley Deputy Regester