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A37547 An act for confirming and establishing the administration of the goods and chattels of Sir William Godolphin, Knight, deceased England and Wales. 1700 (1700) Wing E1007; ESTC R25053 5,881 6

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Anno Decimo Gulielmi III. Regis An ACT for Confirming and Establishing the Administration of the Goods and Chattels of Sir William Godolphin Knight deceased MOST humbly shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your most Dutiful Subjects Francis Godolphin Esq and Charles Godolphin Esq and Elizabeth his Wife Your said Suppliants Francis Godolphin and Elizabeth the Wife of the said Charles Godolphin being Administrators of the Goods and Chattels of Sir William Godolphin Kt. deceased That divers good Laws have been made to prevent the Conveying Estates of the Subjects of this Realm for the Maintenance and Support of Superstitious Uses And whereas ☜ Sir William Godolphin Kt. a Subject of this Your Majesties Kingdom of England who Lived at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain being there surrounded by Fryers Priests and Jesuits as he lay Bedrid was influenced to consent to an Act before a Publick Notary on or about the Thirtieth of March One thousand six hundred ninety six whereby it was signified that Four Persons named therein viz. Don Mathias de Escolar Abbot of the Basillians Geronimo Guerrero Procurator General of the Jesuits Don Balthasar de Cabredo a Secular Priest and Don Antonio de Cendoya a Lawyer should be his Testamentarios which Designation is thus explained in the Instrument viz. To the end that as soon as he the said Sir William Godolphin departed out of this Life they should Make and Constitute his Last Will and Testament expressing therein the Gifts Legacies Foundations of Memories Good-works Patronages and other Dispositions which he the said Sir William had Communicated to them to be disposed of in such Manner and Form as should appear to them the said Testamentarios to be most Requisite and Convenient giving to each of the said Four a Legacy in the said Instrument and certain Sums for Superstitious Uses adding Two other persons viz. Francis Arthur and Bruno Bernardo de Quiros to be joyned with the former Four to Execute the Will which should be made after his death by the said Four for the Good of his Soul which was declared his Universal Heir in the said Instrument thereby Revoking Disannulling and Making Void all other Wills Codicils Powers to make Wills or any Dispositions which he the said Sir William Godolphin might have made heretofore either by Word or Writing or in any other Form to the end they might have no Force nor avail in any Court of Justice or otherwise and desiring that Power should be fulfilled and execited and the Will which should be made pursuant thereunto as his last and determined Will in such Form as might make it most available in Law And whereas after the passing the said Notarial Act viz. about the latter end of June in the same year the said Sir William Godolphin proposing to make his Last Will Nuncupative or Testamentary Disposition did then declare several Legacies he would give to certain of his Relations in England which Legacies were by his order set down in Writing and Read to and Acknowledged by him to be his Last Will and which has been since proved by the Oaths of Three Witnesses Sworn by Commission out ☞ of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Administration of all the Goods of the said Sir William Godolphin granted to the Two Principal Legatees viz. Francis Godolphin and Elizabeth Wife of Charles Godolphin being also the only surviving persons next of Kin in equal degree to the said Sir William Godolphin with the said Testamentary Disposition annexed in the Words following viz. Memorandum That in or about the latter end of June or beginning of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six Sir William Godolphin Kt. then residing at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain and in the place of his usual habitation there being then sick of the sickness whereof he Died but being of sound and perfect Memory having an Intent to declare and make his Last Will Nuncupative or Testamentary Disposition did order and direct Don Antonio Cendoya to put down in Writing these following Legacies to be the Gifts Legacies and Bequests of him the said Sir William Godolphin in that his last Will and the said Sums of Money and Legacies were accordingly wrote down at the Will and Request of Sir William Godolphin by the abovesaid Don Antonio Cendoya and afterwards the said Writing which contained and Specified the several Gifts and Legacies following was Read to the said Sir William Godolphin and Approved and Declared by him to be his Last Will the which Gifts Gave and Bequeathed to his Nephew Francis Godolphin Esq all his Lands in England and also to his said Nephew Francis Godolphin Seven thousand Pounds Sterling besides to each of his Four Children viz. One Son and Three Daughters One thousand Pounds Sterling Also he gave to his Neece Mistress Elisabeth Godolphin Wife to the Honourable Charles Godolphin Esquire Four thousand Pounds Sterling and likewise to the said Charles Godolphin her Husband One thousand Pounds Sterling and to his Uncle Master Francis Bluet Two hundred Pounds Sterling All which Last Will Gifts and Bequests were Wrote down and Read to the said Sir William Godolphin in the Spanish Tongue and were Approved Agreed unto and Owned by him as his Last Will in the Spanish Tongue likewise in the Presence of us who were desired to take Notice thereof All which we Testifie upon Oath Witness our Hands this Eighteenth day of September New Stile Anno Domini One thousand six hundred ninety six Thomas Gray John March Lewis Cavelero Sworn Signed and Executed in Presence of us William Thomas Jezreel Jones Samuel Alston ☞ And whereas according to the Laws of this Realm no Man can give Power or Authority to another to make his Will for him after his Death And if it were otherwise the Estates of such of His Majesties Subjects who should happen to dye beyond the Seas would run great Hazard of being Alienated from the right Heirs and Relations of the said Persons under Colour of such delegated Authority and yet nevertheless forasmuch as some Persons who have been Trusted in the Management of the said Sir William Godolphin's Estate in England have with several others Imployed therein beyond the Seas used great endeavours to set up the said Notarial Act and a Pretended Will or Disposition made or supposed to be made after the said Sir William Godolphin's Death under Colour of the same And whereas by such Pretext the Legal Administrators of the said Sir William Godolphin have been hitherto delayed and hindred in Recovering his Estate whereby to discharge the several Legacies in the said Testamentary Disposition as well as to Possess themselves of the Residuary Part which being not otherwise disposed of by the said Sir William in his Life time of Right belongs to them as next of Kin. For Remedy therefore in the Premisses may it please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted and Declared And be it Enacted and Declared by the Kings most