Langton Matravers Wills

Margaret Phipperd, widow, late of ‘Kinghtstowne’ [Kingston], Langton, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 2 October 1663 (given by word of mouth 16 October 1661 in the presence of Thomas Vie,
Margaret Vie and John Cooke)

- Richard Phipperd (eldest son): 1s

- Katherine daughter of Robert Phipperd: £7

- Robert Phipperd (son): remainder of goods

Executor: Robert Phipperd (son)
Witnesses: Thomas Vye, Margeret Vye, John Cooke

William Phippard, husbandman of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 17 May 1668

- ‘weak of body’

- to be buried in the churchyard at Langton

- Margery Chinchen (daughter): 5s

- Elizabeth Savage (daughter): 5s

- William Savage (grandson): £5

- Elizabeth Savage (granddaughter): 40s

- Ellinor Savage (granddaughter): 40s

- Roger Savage (grandson): residue

Executor: Roger Savage (grandson)
Trustees: Robert Burt (‘my friend’) and William Chinchen (son-in-law)
Witnesses: Robert Burt, Anna Burt (X),
Signed by testator with (X)
Proved: 1669

Margery Chinchinof Langton Matravers
Dated: 17 June 1693

- ‘being sick and Weake of body’

- Elizabeth Savage (sister): feather bed and bolster with the rug and blanket

- Rebecca Brownsy (cousin): yellow rug

- Susanna Corbin: ‘my best hat & my grey coat’ and 5s

- Elizabeth Michel (kinswoman) of Isle of Wight: best coat

- Eleanor Scarrifield (kinswoman): a canvas sheet.

- There are 3 bushels of wheat given to me from Edward Cole: I give one bushel to my Brother Savage,
  one bushel to Richard Brownsy and one bushel to John Chinchin (cousin)

- Roger Savage of ‘Knightson’ (cousin): great chest.

- Mary Cole (cousin): little kettle.

- John Chinchin (cousin): rest of my goods

Executor: John Chinchin (cousin)
Signed by testatrix
Witnesses: George King, Thomas Coorues
Proved: 9 June 1694

Sarah Colens, widow of Langton, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 15 December 1701

- ‘being in health of body’

- Martha Colens (daughter): £56, with a bed and the furniture belonging ‘that now standes in the
  chamber over the hall’, chest of drawers ‘and all my beese and my to worste silver spoons and my
  to silver dram dishes and my case of bottels’

- Elizabeth Smith (daughter): great silver cup, silver spoon, ‘a cubarde that is in the chamber over
  the outer roome’ and my green rug

- Mary Hayward (daughter): best bed and furniture belonging, best brass pan, ‘my tenstitcht cushen
  and the box that I put my clothes in’

- Children of Elizabeth Smith (daughter) ‘that are now borne’: ten sheep

- Sarah Hayward (granddaughter): best Bible

- Three younger children of Mary Hayward (daughter): 3 best silver spoons

- Sarah Smith, daughter of Elizabeth Smith: ‘my salme book that is woorked and my Cabened’

- Mary Hayward: to ‘bury me at hir one charge with the mony that is in hir husban's hands’

- Elizabeth Smith (daughter): black mantel

- My three daughters before named: rest of my goods to be equally divided

Executors: Richard Smith and John Hayward (sons in law): £8 5s each
Signed by testatrix ‘Sarah Collings’
Witnesses: the mark of Jone . Chinchen, Thomas Coomes, John Franklin jun.
Proved: 28 October 1702

Stephen Phippard, son of Dinah of Langton, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset (died intestate)
Bond dated: 14 February 1705/06

- Dinah Phippard, widow of Langton, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, Richard Phippard, Taylor and
  Peter Vye, farmer, bound to the Court.

Condition: Dinah Phippard, widow administrator of goods is to make an inventory to be exhibited
on or before 29 September and a make an account of administration before 25 March.
Signed by administrators except Dinah Phippard (X)
Witnesses: Peter Phippard, William Seilles [?]

Peter Phippard, bachelor of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset (died intestate)
Bond dated: 27 November 1708

- Richard Phippard, taylor of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset and John Franklin, yeoman of
  same place, bound to the Court in £100.

Condition: Richard Phippard, brother of Peter Phippard deceased, and administrator of goods
of Peter Phippard is to make an inventory to be exhibited on or before last day of May and to
make an account of administration before last day of November next.

Signed by administrators
Witnesses: Richard Fitzherbert, Thomas Lutton

Richard Phippard
Dated: 31 July 1724

- Sarah (wife): my house and household goods for her life on condition she continues unmarried.

- Richard (son): my house and lands after decease or marriage of my wife. Feather bed with
  all things belonging, one of the largest brass pots, one of the great and one of the small brass
  kettles when 21 years.

- Sarah (daughter): all other goods after decease or marriage of my wife. £10 to be paid by her
  brother Richard 2 years after he shall be possessed of my estate.

Signed by testator with (X)
Witnesses: Thomas Manning, Lewis Cole, Elizabeth Vye

Further date given at end [does not appear to be probate date]: 8 October 1724

Thomas Bower, Marbler of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 30 October 1726

- Rachell (daughter): 2 houses and buildings in Langton now in possession of Joseph Talbutt
  and Thomas Cribb, and 11 acres of arable land lying in the 2 fields called Maynehide North-Field
  and Maynehide South-Field, also 1 acre and a yard of meadow lying in the meadow called
  Herson Mead and opposite to the said houses I lately purchased of George Trenchard Esquire
  and Trustees for the lives of Thomas Bower, Marquess Bower and Rachell Bower (my son and daughters)

- Rachell (daughter): also £5 in 6 months, bed bolster and pillows with the bedspread, curtains,
  ‘valling’ and bedding standing in the inside of the Outer Chamber, 2 kettles, between the biggest
  and the smallest half of my pewter, warming pan, large trunk in the Outer Chamber, 6 [?] in the
  Inner Chamber, 2 best pots (the one bellmetal the other iron)

- Thomas (son): messuage and tenement which I purchased of George Trenchard, Esquire and
  Trustees, and rest of goods

Executor: Thomas (son)
Signed by testator
Witnesses: Daniel Masters, John Tarrant
Proved: 29 July 1728 on oath of Thomas Bower

William Bower,of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 5 March 1726 [? could be 1727]

- Robert (eldest son): house at Okenfield which he now lives in, he paying 20s to Sarah Bower,
  William Bower, Anna Mabe and Abigall Dore (my 4 children) each in 12 months

- William (son): wearing apparel and my ‘Quarr tools’

- Sarah Bower and Anna Mabe (daughters): ‘1 bord and 1 foorin and bedsted which is up at my
  hows att Akenfield an a fether beed’ and 2 pillows which is in the ‘hows’ I now live in within
  12 months of my decease.

- Jean (‘beloved wife’): rest

Executrix: Jean (wife)
Signed by testator with X
Witnesses: Daniel Masters, Simon Sheron ‘S’ his mark, Ann Sheron

Renunciation: 9 October 1730
Jeane Bower, executrix in the will of William Bower, late husband of Langton Matravers,
renounces her right in the probate of the will and conveys probate of the will to Simon Sherwood (her brother)

Signed by Jeane Bower with X
Witnesses: Daniel Masters, ‘Bess Edemens’
Administration bond: [?] October 1730
Simon Sherwood, Husbandman of Langton Matravers and Richard Fitzherbert, Gentleman
of Blandford are bound.

Condition: Simon Sherwood, brother-in-law to administer the goods of William Bower etc.
Signed by Simon Sherwood (X), Richard Fitzherbert
Witness: Thomas Fitzherbert

Richard Keat, of Langton Matravers, Dorset
Dated: 23 June 1726

- ‘weak in body’

- John (second son): East End of my house called the Hall and the Chamber and Garret over
  it together with part of the garden that runs the length of the house southward. Then to Hanna
  his present wife, then to Richard (my youngest son), forever.

- John (son): also parcel of land (25 Goad) situated in Frankins[?] Meadow in West Street, Corfe Castle.
  Then to Mary daughter of John (son), then to Richard (my son), forever.

- Mary daughter of John (son): £10 when 18 years old to be paid by Richard (son)

- Joseph (third son): £10 to be paid by executor in 6 years. If he dies the sum is to remain with executor.
  Featherbed with belongings in the Little Chamber at the West End of the house and the largest brass kettle.

- Richard (youngest son): West part of my house the Hall and Buttery with the 2 Chambers over it and also
  part of the upper ‘flat’[?] of the garden which is freeland and the new fuel house standing in the lower end
  of the said ‘flat’[?]. Bed and its belonging in the Best Chamber over the Hall.

- James, John and Richard (sons): other household goods

- James (eldest son): the Kitchen with the Chamber over it and the bed in the said Chamber and the largest
  chest in the other Chamber at the East End of the house. The stable adjacent the East End of the house
  and part of the garden that lies from the end of the house eastward and that part of the upper ‘flat’[?] which
  was taken out of the ‘bast’[?] and lies next the roadway. If James dies without issue, then goes to Richard
  (son) forever.

- James (‘beloved son’): rest

Executor: James (son)
Signed by testator with X
Witnesses: Thomas Manning, John Knowles, Betty Knowles (x), Ann D Cole

Administration bond: 22 October 1730
Richard Keat, Mason of Langton Matravers and Christopher Keemer, Victualler of Blandford are bound.

Condition: Richard Keat to administer the goods of Richard Keate of Langton Matravers, deceased
Signed by those bound
Witness: Thomas Fitzherbert
Proved: 22 October 1730

Samuel Dowland, marbler of Langton 'Wallas' [Wallis], Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 16 February 1730/1731

- John Cull ('unckel'): my house 'which have two dweelings and the gardens
  belongeeing to the houses and the land of the houses and gardens'

- 'Trefeny Dowlan' (mother-in-law): 1s

- James Dowlan and Joana Dowlan (brother and sister): 1s each to be paid in 12
  months after decease

- John Cull ('beloved' uncle) of 'Langton Wallas': rest

Executor: John Cull (uncle)
Signed by testator
Witnesses: Daniel Masters, John [?]pear, Thomas Edmonds, Edmund Nineham
Proved: 16 May 1737

Henry Bower, Marbler of Langton Matravers, Dorset
Dated: 19 May 1744

- ‘beloved wife’: 1s

- George, Henry, Joseph and Aston Bower (my four sons): 1s each in 12 months

- Aston (son): my bed ‘which I now lieth upon’ with all its furniture and my ‘quarr’ working tools

- Martha (‘beloved daster’ [daughter]): 2 dwelling houses that I and my son now live in with garden during
  the lives upon it. 2 gold rings and household goods. And the rest.

Executrix: Martha Bower (daughter)
Signed by testator with X
Witnesses: Henry Cross, Daniel Masters
Proved: 1747

Stephen Purbeck, Yeoman of Langton, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 25 March 1748

- Endorsed on cover: ‘received the fees to be sent to Mary Brown, junior at Langton in Purbeck’

- Elizabeth Cooper (granddaughter): living at Worth and to her children after her during the lives on it

- Mary Brown (daughter): house she lives in and all goods. Then to my two grand‘dasters’ Elizabeth Cooper
  and Mary Brown.

- Betty Cooper (granddaughter): must pay Samuel Smith £10 which was borrowed of him.

- Thomas Brown (son-in-law): 1s

- Jane Purbeck (daughter-in-law): 1s

- Mary Brown (granddaughter): house and garden at Blacklands, my living at ‘Acken’ and rest of goods

- Mary Brown (daughter): £6/year to be paid by Mary Brown (granddaughter)

Executrix: Mary Brown (granddaughter)
Signed by testator
Witnesses: John Brown, Mary Mudge (‘M’) her mark
Proved: 1748

Samuel Serrell, Esquire of Langton Matravers, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Dated: 25 January [?] 1747

- Whereas the capital farm and demesnes of Durnford with closes of land called Bindlidge, Woodhide
  and Easthide at Langton and in Worth and Sandwich, other lands belonging except plot of ground
  containing 15 Goads lying on west side of house of Henry Bower and lately enclosed out of a meadow
  belonging to the premises were made chargeable with payment of £1000 to Mary and Jane Serrell
  (daughters) each as set forth in a Release 2 January 1728 between Samuel Serrell (me) on one part
  and John Vincent, deceased (brother-in-law) and Robert Joyce (brother-in-law) on the other; and whereas
  on marriage of Jane (daughter) with William Melliar I advanced £400 of her £1000 leaving only £600 left to
  raise from the capital farm; whereas Mary Serrell (daughter) died intestate and administration of goods was
  granted to me. The £600 and £1000 is not to be raised from the capital farm. Jane Vincent’s £600 is to be
  raised from lands hereby given to Elizabeth Serrell (wife). Capital farm of Durnford except closes called
  Bindlidge, Woodhide and Easthide and part of my Manor of Sandwich lying in Langton and other freehold
  lands in Langton to John Haskoll (brother-in-law), Gentleman of Stourton Caundle for the use of Samuel
  (son) to receive rents. If Samuel has no issue then to John (son) and his issue intail.

- Samuel (son): leasehold estate in Langton for remainder of term to Elizabeth Serrell (wife) discharged
  from raising of £1000 or any part of the closes Bindlidge, Woodhide and Easthide in Worth and Sandwich
  and 2 meadows at Lynch called ‘Ten Acres’ (10 acres) and Hills (4 acres) and part of Manor of Sandwich in
  Sandwich alias Swanwich with the rents and tenement at Ulwell, Studland part of the same Manor held by
  William Clavell. And my 2 garden plots in Borough of Wareham and lands at Woolgarston in Corfe Castle
  lately purchased of Thomas Serrell (kinsman) and other lands in Purbeck except such as lie in Langton
  chargeable and given to Elizabeth Serrell (wife) with payment of the £600 raisable to Jane (daughter) wife
  of William Melliar out of my farm and demesnes of Durnford.

- To Elizabeth Serrell (wife) £20/year which I engaged in my Marriage Articles to pay her.

- Samuel (son): silver tankard ‘that was my grandfather Salter’s’

- Melliar (daughter): silver tankard marked with a cock and ram

- James Melliar (grandson): the bowl given by my sister Vincent to my daughter Mary

- Joyce’s (late sister) children, my children and James Melliar (grandson): 1 guinea each to buy a mourning ring

- Elizabeth (wife): residue in trust for use of my children

Executrix: Elizabeth (wife)
Signed by testator
Witnesses: John Combes, Elizabeth Combes, Jane Ford
Proved: 31 August 1749 by oath of Elizabeth Serrell (widow), sworn by John Combes