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A07625	The testament of William Bel. Gentleman Left written in his owne hand. Sett out above 33. yeares after his death. With annotations at the end, and sentences, out of the H. Scripture, fathers, &c. By his sonne Francis Bel, of the Order of Freers Minors, definitor of the province of England: guardian of S. Bonaventures colledge in Dovvay: and professor of the sacred Hebrevv tongue, in the same. Electo meo fœdus excidi	Bell, William, d. 1598.; Bell, James, d. 1643.	1632 (1632)	STC 1802; ESTC S113723	71,054	197

Dauid said of himselfe In te proiectus sum ex vtero So from your mothers wombe were you cast vpon God where our Lord graunt that you may fasten your selues foreuer §. 20. Of the effect of prayer and the most sweete comforts therof no man can speake more effectually then I your father and herein I protest before the sacred Majestie of Almightie God to whom I must yeeld account of all my words deedes and thoughts that I will speake no more then truth That from the time of my infancie wherin I was taught to pray to this present day as I haue many and sundry times in my life felt sicknesse neede of many worldly things sorrowes losse of friends false accusations the sting of envie as a matter that did ever oppresse me cloase imprisonment in an innocent cause householde troubles false friends and infinite others and aboue all the lacke of the highest mysteries and sweetest comforts to both soule and bodie so ever in all my necessities repayring vnto God by prayer I haue ever found reliefe comfort and deliverance therby Wherof no creature vnder heaven could shew you more rare and notable examples then I which in this place I omit Onely crying vnto you from my whole heart to be earnest zealous perseverant in prayer and if you had nothing in the world to releeue you yea all the world opposed against you yet shall you prevaile and receiue the blessing from God by faithfull prayer §. 21. Hitherto having made knowne vnto you the Confession of my faith my worldly course and my counsels in the same I am now to make my purposed legacies and bequests among you wherin I first giue commend you all to the mercifull care and protection of God the Father God the Sonne and God the holie Ghost to the assistant prayers of all the blessed companie of heaven beseeching CHRIST IESVS that bought vs all with his pretious bloud to blesse you saue you make you heires of his Kingdome And I desire Almightie God so to dispose of you in your several callings in this world as may be most to his glorie and your owne soules health and that it may please him to powre downe the dew of heauen vpon you blesse you increase you and all your labours and all things that you shall take in hand and evermore deliver you from the power and evill purposes of your enemies Amen §. 22. Concerning my worldly goods as I received nothing in this world from my parents but mine education to them considering the course of my life both carefull and costly so hauing not much in respect of the tyme an enemie to the thrift of a distressed conscience I can not much bestow and yet blessed bee God for his increase shall leaue you something §. 23. The worldly goods I haue I giue and bequeathe to Dorothe my deare louing wife therewith charging and requiring her in the faith shee beareth me and in the loue shee beareth my children to see them vertuousely brought vp and instructed in learning the more readily to prepare them to the service of God and true knowledge of him §. 24. The chiefest thing I doe desire therein is to haue Edmund and VVilliam trayned in schoole to learning as their capacities will admit and so to goe to the vniversitie of Oxford if by any meanes they may obtaine that preferment and there to Balliol Colledge of which house I was fellow and where Doctor Bel founded two schollerships for Worcestershiere men or else wheras it may be obtayned §. 25. After they are entred in their learning and are 7. or 8. yeares of age I would they should be taught plainesong and pricksong skilfully and to play vpon the lute and virginales a shill not alonly comfortable in it selfe to the haver but a verie good meane of preferment or a gratefull entertainement with the best and to such of them as shall best affect the same I bequeathe my best lute sythorne and gittorne Item if either Edmund or VVilliam shall be enabled and haue a desire to studie the common lawes of the Realme which I greatly desire then to him so affected and enabled and doing the same I giue and bequeathe al my law-bookes which I wish should be duely preserved together for that purpose §. 26. Item if Francis my sonne doe hereafter recover speech then I will that he be according to his birthright mine heyre and to haue all my lands tenements and hereditaments to him and his heyres males for ever and not otherwise yeelding paying to my sonne Edmund out of the same after my said sonne Edmund shall accomplish the age of 21. yeares *** by yeare during his naturall life at two tearmes in every yeare that is to say at the feast of S. Michael the Archangell and the Annunciation of our blessed Ladie the vergin by equall portions But if Francis my sonne doe not recover speech and good discretion then I doe now giue and bequeathe to Edmund my sonne to be mine heyre and he to haue all my manour of Templebroughton and lands tenements and hereditaments to him and to the heyres males of his bodie lawfully begotten and not otherwise §. 27. Item I giue and bequeathe to Marguerite my daughter to her preferment in mariage when shee shall accomplish the age of 18. yeares *** and if I haue no issue male then I giue vnto the said Marguerite all my lands tenements and hereditaments to haue to the said Marguerite and her heyres for ever §. 28. Item albeit I haue formerly giuen all my goods and chattels to Dorothey my wife yet is there in the same gift an imployed trust which shee hath promised me and which I doe most certainely assure my selfe shee will never breake nor violate towards me and those that are hers and mine §. 29. Item I would that every one of my children should haue a ring of fine gold weighing 3 l wherin should be written this sentence well enameled Iacta super Dominum curam tuam ipse te enutriet Which may be engraven in two roūds because it is too much for one and these rings to be made presently after my decease and to be delivered them at 18. yeares of age Which rings I charge them on my blessing never to depart withall to their dying day And which of them soever wilfully breaketh this charge it will goe worse with him be he well assured §. 30. Item if my wife be now with childe such care as I haue had of my other children I would should be had of it be it man or woman which care I must commend to my deare wife and shee with that God hath lent vs to provide for it and the rest as God shall enable vs and my will is and I doe giue to Dorothey my wife the issues and profits of all my lands teniments and hereditaments till my sonnes come to 18. yeares of age then so to allow Edmund *** yearely during her life

beleeue all that the Catholike and Apostolik● Church holdeth and beleeveth in the summe and substance of faith and in the godly ceremoniall rights of teaching therof and I protest to hold it and affirme it in the passage of my soule And I desire the eternall God for Christs sake to grant you my children his grace to doe the same without the which you can never possesse the ioyes of heaven And I beseech you in the mercies of CHRIST IESVS and charge you all as a father vpon my blessing that with continuall prayer you call vnto God to direct you this way to bring you to this faith and then no doubt but he will also bring you into life everlasting which CHRIST IESVS graunt you and me and all people Amen §. 10. And from a resolute heart and settled Faith I doe now here make protestatiō that if hereafter either by weakenesse or debilitie of bodie by meanes of sicknesse or for the shunning of any worldly dangers losses or persecutions wherof no part of the world ever knew halfe so many and so great as we now doe or for any torment or trouble wherof there be tragicall and wonderfull inventions or for any carnall affection of wife or children or by any temptation subtilty or shift of the adversarie whatsoever I shall bee of any other minde or my senses abused to offend against this faith which God for Christs sake forbid that then I doe now in perfect minde by the assistance of God his spirit vtterly denie detest and renounce the same as wicked and doe adhere and abide in life and in death to the former declaration of my faith Which protestation and resolution I will you my children and all men to witnesse with mee before God and his Angels in the dreadfull iudgement And I beseech our Lord I may then see the same found in you and all other men §. 11. Thus having briefly made knowne vnto you the faith and religion wherwith and wherin I meane to passe by Gods grace out of this world For as much as I may leaue you young and tender and your ●eere mother and I by countrie farr divi●ed and yet lastly conioyned by God in ●ariage wherby you may be ignorant of ●ome things not impertinent for you in worldly respects to know I haue thought good before I dispose of other things to ●cquaint you with what you are by me I may I hope commend you by descent of honest parentage as the world knoweth whose predecessors haue tasted of such infortune as in the world is not strange and for more Albeit true generositie consist in virtue and is lawfull for euery one to obtaine and not tyed to the only descent of flesh and bloud yet are you not ignoble that way Which I leaue you not by way of a vaine vaunt but rather to excite you therby to endeauour the obtayning and continuing of true generositie §. 12. The first of mine Ancestours by name within this Countie of Worcester was Hugo de Belne a Gentleman who as by tradition it hath continued in our familie was advanced as I take it in the time of Edward the first for service to him done by the long Bowe being an excellent Archer Et haeredibus masculis as it is said This King gaue vnto the said Hugo d● Belne and his heyres the fee-farme of diverse lands and teniments in Kingsnorton within the Countie of Worcester Whic● fee-farme cometh every yeare in charg● to the Sheriffe of Worcester-shiere out o● the Exchequour to this day vnder the title De terris tenimentis quondam Hugonis d● Belne c. the lands are called Blacke greue and Bells in value better then an hundred markes by yeare §. 13. From him the lands descended from on● to another of the heyres males by lineal descent wherof the Court Rolles of the manours of Bromesgroue and Kingsnortton remayning in the steeple at Bromesgroue can witnesse and all in the title o● gentilitie vntill the time of my great grandfather in the dayes of King Hērie the eight whose name was VVilliam Bel or VVilliam de Belne who marying to a second wife the bace daughter of Sir Arthoure Plantagener was for the maintenance of her dissolute life forced to sell all his patrimonie part wherof he solde vnto Sir Edvvard Littleton of Staffordshiere and part to ● r Sheldon of Spettesley whose heyre ●ilipp Sheldon at this day enioyeth the ●ne by means wherof my grandfather ●n Bel his heyre by the first wife was 〈◊〉 inherited §. 14. My father whose name was also Iohn in ●s lifetime vnderstanding that the lands ●ere entayled to the heyre male with re●ainder in the Crowne made entrie into a ●essuage and lands called Blackgreue but ●eing not able to proceede in the tryall for ●ant of abilitie was forced to giue over ●hich moved him to extend his abilitie for ●y maintenance in learning hoping there●y to procure a recoverie of our inheri●●nce for that the commune report of him ●as that the lands were but mortgaged ●ith condition of redemption at any ●me §. 15. At schoole I continued in the Countie ●f Warwicke vntill I was 18. yeares of age From thence I went to the vniver●●tie of Orford where with good allowan●● of my good father whose soule our Lo●● blesse I continued 7. yeares proceeded b●chelour of art and was fellow of Ball● Celledge there and being readie to pr●ceede Maister of A●te by time of yeares was envied by some vngratefull God fo●giue them accused of discontentation Religion and called to answere the sam● But declyning the malice of time I retyre my selfe by favour of my Colledge with cause allowed for on yeare And after r●turning and finding the malice continuin● for the quiet of my conscience I was force to leaue my societie and to commit m● selfe to the fauour of God in the world b● whose direction and vpon earnest reque●● to me made I came then to a right worth● Magistrate and worshipfull Gentleman Sir Iohn Throkmarton Knight chiefe Iustic● of the Marches of Wales with whom ● continued in especiall good favour an● credit and in entertainement as a dear friend of his by the space of 12. yeares i● so great contentation everie way and suc● liking both in minde and bodie as respec●ting the securitie I found not else where t● bee hoped for at that time But perceiuin● my yeares increasing and mine habilitie a● ye● nothing I was in part perswaded by the ●d Sir Iohn Throkmarton to vndertake the ●die of the common lawes of the Realme the Innes of court Wherupon admitting 〈◊〉 selfe a Fellow of Clements Inne in ●amber and bed with that Worshipfull ●entleman M. r George Sherley I fell to the ●●die of the Lawes Where finding vpon ●o yeares experience that the ayre of the ●ttie did vtterly ouerthrow my heath ●eing never well in health one whole ●onth together I was forced to returne 〈◊〉 to the countrie where was willingly af●rced me by Sir Iohn Littleton knight