Will of William Adlam, My Genealogy Connections

In the name of God Amen the year of our Lord 1554 the last day of the month of February I William Adlam being sicke but thanked be unto the Lord God of perfect mind and rememberence make my testament and last will after the manner and form following. First I bequeath my soule unto the handes of Almighty God and my body to be buried in the north ---- of the Church of Allhollows of Westbury. I give and bequeath unto my son Edward Adlam ten pounds. Item I give and bequeath unto my duaghter Constance 40 shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Alice 40 shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto my son George Adlam 40 shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto my brother Richard 40 shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto Arthur Adlam the son of William Adlam of Dilltoy 6 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence on the condition that the said Arthur continues and remaynes with Sibbell my wife doing unto her (service) unto the time he be able to be married. Item I give and bequeath unto William Banwell my godson when he cometh to the lawful age 6 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence. Item I give unto William Adlam the son of Robert Adlam 40 shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto Sibbell Tanner the daughter of Roger Tanner 40 shillings on the condition that she will at all times be ruled after the mind of my wife, her grandmother. Item I give and bequeath unto every of my god children not afore named 12 pence. Item I give and bequeath unto Sir Robert Wells my curate of Westbury 6 shillings 8 pence. Item I give and bequeath unto the making and maintaining of the highway between Westbury pounde and Robert Adlam door 6 pound 13 shillings 4 pence. Item I will that my son Ambrose Adlam after the death of Sibbell my wife shall have and -------the years of my house wherin I now dwell and also my mill with all and singular the appurtenances to my house and mill appurtaning. And if it fortune that my son Ambrose depart or die before Sibbell my wife that this I will that the male children of him lawfully begotten shall have the house and the mill appurtaining every one in his order that is to say the oldest first, and if he dye then the second and male children of Ambrose Adlam doth decease and die then I will that Peter Adlam, the son of Edward Adlam shall have the house the mill and the appurtaining. And if that he decease and dye then I will the house, the mill and appurtaining remain unto Arthur Adlam above named. The residue of all my goods both movable and unmovable I give and bequeath unto Sibbell my wife whom I make my full and whole executrix Overseers of this my will and testment shalbe John Adlam my son and Edward Banwell and to every one of them I give and bequeath for their pains forty shillings. Witness unto this my last will and testament are Sir Robert Wells Priest and Cruate, John Adlam, Edward Banwell, Richard Gremhell, John Martyn with other.

Probate - June 1544 London

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