- In the name of God, Amen, I Richard Tapps, citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, do make this my last Will and Testament as followeth;
Imprimis I will that my funeral charges and debts be in the first place paid and satisfied;
Item I give to my dear and loving wife Elizabeth one third of my personal estate to which she is entitled by the custom of London;
I also further give to her all my household goods and furniture, linen, woollen, pictures and wearing apparel and one moiety or half part of my plate;
Item the other moiety or half part of my plate I give to my three children Mary, George Jarvis and Richard to be equally divided between them share and share alike;
And whereas I have in part advanced my daughter Mary and son George Jarvis, I do therefore give to my son Richard two hundred pounds to put him out in the world to such employment or trade as my executor shall judge proper;
Item I give to such of my servants that shall be living with me at the time of my decease five guineas;
Item I give to Christopher Emmott of Basinghall Street London Merchant the sum of one hundred pounds and do hereby nominate and appoint the said Christopher Emmott Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and I will that the charges of my funeral and mourning do not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds;
And whereas my said wife hath two hundred pounds South Sea Stock and two hundred pounds South Sea Annuities in her own name purchased with part of a legacy devised to her by George Jarvis Esq. her father deceased, I do hereby declare that therefore the said South Sea Stock and South Sea Annutites are the property of my said wife and are not to be reckoned and accounted any part of my Estate;
Item I will that my said Executor do pay to my said sons for clothes, maintenance and education to each of them fifty pounds per annum to be paid them quarterly until their attaining of their respective ages of twenty one years;
And I do hereby desire that as money comes in and is received by my Executor out of my Estate hereby devised to my said sons that the same be put out at interest or paid out in South Sea Annuities for their benefit;
Item I will that in case either of my sons shall happen to die before the age of twenty one years that then the legacy of such deceased shall go to the surviving son and my said daughter to be equally divided between them share and share alike, and in case of the decease of both my said sons before the attainment of their respective ages, then I will that my said daughter shall have the legacies hereby given to my said sons;
All the rest and residue of my Estates I give to my said three children Mary, George Jarvis and Richard, to be equally divided between them share and share alike;
And I will that my daughter's share and proportion of my Estate be paid to her within one month after my decease and that the parts and shares of my said sons of in and to my Estate be paid to them respectively at their respective ages of one and twenty years within ten days after they shall have attained their said ages;
In witness whereof I have published and declared this to be my last Will and Testament, being contained in three sheets of paper the fifth day of March 1724 [Richard Tapps]. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us Jarvis Clerke, John Scrimshire.
Probatum fuit hujus modi testamentum apud London dicesimo sexta die mensis Novembris anno domini millesimo septuigentesimo dicesimo quinto coram venerabili viro Gulielmo Strahan Legum dottore surrogato venerabilis et egregii viri Johannis Bettesworth legum Doctoris curia praerogative Cantuariensis Magistri custodis sive commissarii legitime constituti Juramento Christopheri Emmot executoris in dicto testamento nominat cui commissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad sancta dei Evangelia jurat.
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1663 - 1725 (~ 62 years)