Mary FENN [25770]

  General Notes:

This will is placed with some uncertainty.
WILL
MARY BENTLY of Langham, Essex, widow,
27 December 1647, proved 3 January 1648.
My son William Bently and his wife.
To Mary Clark my grandchild the whole hundred pounds that is in my brother Howe's hand of Dedham, forty pounds whereof is the legacy that was given unto her by her grandfather at his decease, and the other three score pounds I give unto her with this proviso that she be subject to my executor and my loving brothers John Alfounder and Steven How, to be ruled and advised by them both now while she is in her single estate and also when she comes to enter into the married estate, and to contract matrimony with no man without their advice and consent.
I give her a rug which I bought of my sister Salmon of Dedham.
I give to my grandchildren Mary Clark, daughter to my daughter Clark deceased, and Anna, Elizabeth, Mary and Sara Wall, daughters to my daughter Wall, and John and Mari Rayner, the children of my daughter Rayner deceased, and John and Anthony Boggice, the sons of my daughter Boggice, all that my part in the ship called the Elizabeth of Manningtree.
To my loving brothers and sisters, Henry Fenn and his wife, my brother Alderman and his wife, Steven How and his wife, Margaret Collings, my sister Salmon, Bezaliel Bently and John Bently,and to my sons and daughters Bartholomew Wall and his wife, Edward Rayner and his wife and Anthony Boggice and his wife, five shillings apiece, to buy them gloves with.
My brother Thomas Sebborn.
My brother Edward Bently.
The poor of Langham.
My brother Henry Fenn of Dedham to be sole executor.
Commission issued (at above date) to Bartholomew Wall and Anna his wife, Anthony Boggis and Susan his wife, daughters natural and lawful of the testatrix, to administer according to the tenor of the will for the reason that Henry Fenn expressly renounced the trust.
Fairfax, 16.
Genealogical Gleanings in England Vol II
Ancestry

Mary married BENTLY [25809] [MRIN: 9286].