| Thomas Burges of Truroe, Cornwall, merchant, 22 April 1626, with a Codicil of the same date, proved 20 June 1626. To the poor of Truro, Clements and Kenwin forth shillings. To my daughter Honor Burges three jundred pounds sterling, the one half to be paid her at the day of her marriage the other half within twelve months after, and in the mean time to be maiintained by mine executor as shall be fit for her degree. To Anne Burges my daughter two hundred pounds (in smilar payments). To my other two daughters Constance and Isabel Burges eight score pounds apiece (paid in a similar way). To my son John two hundred and fifty pounds, to be paid at three years end after my decease, and my will is that he spend those three years abroad in the wars in the low country or elsewhere, during which three years my will is that mine executor allow him for his maintenance twenty marks sterling per annum, payable quarterly. To my son Henry my estate and interest in Kenwin Closes and the house, commonly called Thomas Glover's house, which I hold of the Borough of Truro. I give him also one hundred pounds to be paid him at eight years end &c. Provisions for binding him apprentice. To my other six sons, Caleb, Josua, Humphrie, James, Elisha and Thomas, to each of them two hundred marks sterling, to be paid as they severally accomplish the age of one and twenty, and my will is that they be brought up in some honest calling and course of life. To my wife Elizabeth forty pounds sterlihng per annum during her life. Other bequests to her (including) one piece of plate called the "barrell canne." To my brothers in law Anthony Pye of Stl Stephens in Brannell, gent., and George Phippen, rector of Truro, the manor of Trethosa and the barton of Millador in trust to satisfy the legacies &c.648, v48p241 |