Catalogue description Probate of will of Jn. Goodall of Fowey, merchant.   To be buried at Church of Fowey.  ...

Probate of will of Jn. Goodall of Fowey, merchant.

To be buried at Church of Fowey.

To Minister preaching funeral sermon 40s.

To poor of Fowey £20 - interest to be distributed on Christmas Eve yearly. Also £5 to be distributed at time of burial.

To old servant Jane Wilcok £10 and two chambers adjoining Groves Loft in Fowey formerly in poss. of Eliz. Mill, then testator, for life.

To sister Pomery: 20s.

To cousin Jonathan Tringecombe 20s, to buy a ring.

To cousin Margery Major 20s, to buy a ring.

To cousin Clare Goodall 20s, to buy a ring.

To every child of cousin Phillip Goodall, decd. 20s. except his s. Jn. Goodall who is to have £10 when 21.

To Mary, widow and relict of Phillip Goodall £5.

To Jane Sampson 20s.

To Anne Northerne 20s.

To dear and loving w. Eliz., his house, the New Key, the Higher Sellar, the Higher Key, tenement in Carne, tenement at Lawheire, one fld. going to the Windmill in poss. of Wm. Dyer, testator's house in Polkerras. For term of 30 yrs. or his wife's life. All household goods (plate, pewter, brass, ironwork, linen, woollen, bedding, harpsicrons, bedsteads, chest of drawers, round table, couch and chairs - and all utensils except wares and merchandizes and except timber stuff i.e. tables, bedsteads, chairs stools etc., other than furnishings of best chamber of which w. is to have use for life. To w. also stock of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and corn in the barn and growing in the ground. £300 to be paid one yr. after testator's s. in law Hugh Vaughan had been paid remainder of his wife's portion.

To s. Wm. Goodall and Eliz. his w. stable they then possessed. Also testator's term of yrs. in 2 closes near the Windmill then held by Wm. Goodall. Flds. and stable for their 2 lives and that of their s. Jn. if term continued as long. House then in poss. of Wm. Goodall in Fowey which testator bought of his cousin Phil. Goodall for their lives and life of s. Jn.

To granddtr. Eliz. Goodall £500 when of age.

To granddtr. Mary Goodall £500 when of age.

To dtr. Leticia Goodall: £2000 marriage portion at rate of £30 per annum. Only £1000 if she did not marry.

To 'my dtr. Goodall, my dtr. Pine, my dtr. Vaughan and to my dtr. Leticia Goodall' £10 each 'to putt themselves in mourning'.

To grandson Jn. Goodall - testator's ships and parts of ships with merchandize at home or abroad. Also salt in testator's cellars in Fowey, St. Katherines, Polkeres. 'All my Iron Linneing Sugar. Land at Lawhire mortgaged to Lewis Colquite of Fowey and s. Francis. Jn. Goodall to be put to a good school by excrs. for education (if his father Wm. Goodall did not do so) with £20 yearly for clothing, diet and schooling. Executors not to sell salt testator's salt in cellars at Fowey, St. Katherines and Polkerres until it would fetch four shillings per bushell 'at the least accounting Twenty gallons to the bushell.' If s. Jn. dies before 21, then to next s. of Wm. Goodall, in default to 3 dtrs. Mary Pine, Ann Vaughan and Leticia Goodall who would have to pay dtr. of Wm. Goodall £1000.

Residue to grandson, Jn. Goodall (executor), at present an infant. Executors in trust for him son-in-law Hugh Vaughan, esq; son-in-law Malachy Pine; merchant; bro.-in-law Mr. Jn. Symons of Little Collon; cousin Philippa Goodall; cousin Arth. Stribly. To each of executors in trust a ring to be worn in remembrance of testator.

Witd. Sam. Hext, Jos. Ellerrett, Jn. Trewbody, Chas. Trenant.

Codicil 28 October 1684. To be buried in vault built in Fowey Church. S. Wm. Goodall to have after testator's wife's death tenements in Hillhayes, Carne, Lewhyer and Lankellow and testator's house and gdns. and cellars belonging, fld. going to the Windmill called Marry Parke.

Legacies of £500 to gdtrs. Eliz. and Mary Goodall not to be paid until executor is of age.

Letitia Goodall (dtr.) to have full legacy of £2000 whether she married or not by yearly instalments of £50. Remainder to 3 dtrs. of testator charged to legacy to all grandchildren then alive of £500 each but not gdtrs. Eliz. and Mary Goodall who already had legacy of £500.

£200 to w. in addition to £300 of will. Cousin Jonathan Tringcombe of Fowey to be an additional executor in trust.

To cousin Wm. Goodall, s. of cousin Phil. Goodall decd. £10. Excr. of excrs. in trust to erect over testator's seat in Church of Fowey a memorial to the value of £50. Witd. Letitia Smith, Jn. Carew, Jn. Trewbody.

Pr. (P.C.C.) 6 September 1703.