“And whereas I haveing a great kindness for Samuel Mico, my deere
husbande kinsman son of John Mico of Croscombe in the county of
Somersett and well knoweing that my deere husband with myself had
thought of marrying him to one of my neeces and when and as sune as he
shall marrey such nece of mine viz: one of the daughters of my
brother-in-law Andrew Barker or my brother William Robinson
aforemencioned then and not before or otherwise, I give and bequeath
to him two thousand pounds lawful money of England, and on the
forementioned condition I give and bequeath to him a farm called the
Littell Parke which I bought or purchashed in the names of my brother
Andrew Barker and my brother William Robinson of the Right Honourable
the Marquis of Worcester in the manner (_sic_) of Crookham scituate
lyeing and being in the severall parishes of Chatcham in the countey
of Barke and Kingscleare in the countey of Southampton now in the
tenor or occupation of Thomas Browne and when the aforesaid Samuel
Mico shall have given a full discharge according to law when he comes
to one and twenty years of age to the executors of my deere husband
for his estate in thare hands then I give him one thousand pounds of
lawful money of England and if hee doe not to thare satisfaction I
then give it to redeeme poor slaves in what manner my Executors shall
think most convenient and I give to Samuel Mico aforesaid my deere
husband’s picter set with diamonds and I give him my crimson damaske
bedd with all that belongs to that sute and my great Lucking Glace and
my marbell tabell when he comes to the age of one and twenty yeares he
dying before that age I give them to my two Executors.
“But if the above Samuel Mico do not marry one of my neces aforesaid
my will is if he be a civel man and doe marrey into a good family and
has a porchone with her answereable to his estate and has a sonne that
lives to the age of a man I then give him the Littell Parke in the
manner of Crookham in the parish Chactham in the County of Barkes and
Kingscleare in the county of Southampton. But if he have no sonne I
give it to his brother Richard Mico sonne if hee have any if he have
no sonne then to my two executors I give it.”
After further bequests she turns to her nephew.
“And furthermore I doe hereby declare that whereas I gave Samuel Mico
aforesaid two thousand pounds when he had married one of my neeces he
not performing it I give one of the saide thousand pounds to redeem
poore slaves which I would have put out as my Executors thinke the
best for a yeerely revenue to redeem some yeerely, and if the
aforesaide Samuel Mico marry one of my neeces I then give him my best
Pearl Necklace and all my plate that I doe not give away by this my
will.”
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