Engels testament

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Deel 4.

We zien het hier haast nooit, maar eindelijk eens iets in het Engels. Op een paar twijfelgevalletjes na was alles leesbaar. (zolang je fonetisch denkt, is de tekst begrijpbaar)

Alleen de onderste Latijnse toevoeging is voor mij wat moeilijk. Anderen kunnen dit beter dan ik.

Translated owte of Dutche

In the name of our Lorde Amen. I Martin de

Visser pinnemaker, borne att Andwarpe in Brabant

att this present resident within the cittye of London

being in perfect health, goeing & standinge and using and enioying every

where my ffyve sences, memory and understandinge

consideringe the ffragillitie and transitorienes of the

humane nature in this lyfe, and that there is nothinge

more certaine unto man in this lyfe then death,

and nothinge more uncertaine than the howre of

the same. And therefore I have with good delibera-

tion, good memory and perfecte understandinge

made and concluded, and doe make and conclude by

these presents my testament and last will

in forme and manner followinge, revoking, annul-

lating and making voyde all and singular other

testaments, dispositions and gyfts whatsoever

they maye be which before the date of theise presents

I maye have made or passed by worde of mouth

or in wryttinge requijringe that this my present

testament onely shall take place and be of effect

in all his poincts and clauses whether it be by

forme of testament, codicill, gyfte or grannte,

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(as if is called by reason of death) or otherwyse, as

any mans testament or last will best maye take

place and be of effecte. Notwithstandinge that all

the solempnites accordinge to ryght requyred,

shoulde be founde herein not to be observed. Allso

notwithstandinge any landes or citties, ryghts

to the contrary. Imprimis, I doe comende my

sowle nowe and att all tymes into the mercifull

hannds of God my heavenly Ffather throwgh Jesus

Christ his onely begotten Sonne our Lord and

Saviour, who hath discharged and ffreed the same

by his bitter death and precious bludshedding of the

perpetuall death and malediction, and my dead

bodye to the earth ffrom whence it is comme, ffor

to be buried decently according to my estate.

And so comming to the disposition of my temporall

goods which the Lorde hath graunted me ffavorably

in this worlde. Thereof I doe gyve and bequeath to the poore

of the Dutche congregation in London the somme

of tenn powndes sterling ones, ffor to be

delyvered to the said poore, and to be employed

for their necessities, att the discretion of the

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deacons of the same congregation to the which I

doe ordeyne that the saide some of halbe presently

paide after my decease by anny of my executors here-

under naimed. Item I gyve and bequeath to Anne van

Bemen whoe dwelleth with me, the lyke somme

of Tenne powndes sterling ones. Item Item I gyve

and bequeath unto the lawfull childeren in generall

of Gilles de Visser my sonne the which he nowe

hath, and hereafter maye have and in the tyme of

my deceasse shalbe lyvinge the somme of twoo-

hondreth poundes sterlinge ones, for to be equally

betweene them devyded when they respectively

shalbe come to the state of mariadges or competent

age of one and twentye yeares then I doe ordayne

by theis presents and my will is that the saide

some of twoo hundreth powndes by any of

the executors of this my testament hereunder

named shalbe sett forth uppon interest, or

other coyse, as they shall fynde most meete,

untill such tyme that the saide childeren shall be-

come to their mariags or competent age of one

and twentye yeares, and that the intereste

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or the proffyt proceeding from the said twoo hondreth

powndes yearly duringe the said tyme shalbe delive-

red unto the aforesaide Gylles my sonne, or unto those

whome after his deceasse shall have the charge

of the saide children for therewithall to mantayne

the said childeren, as much as it shalbe possyble.

And yf all the saide childeren shall come to

departe owte of this worlde before they become to the state

of mariage or competent age, my will is that the

saide twoo hondreth powndes sterlinge shall

succeede and remayne with the aforesaid Gilles

de Visser my sonne, their father, or unto his

next ffrends, yf he shall departe before his saide

children. And all and singular my other

remayning goods aswell movable as unmovable,

chattells and inheritannce, allso actions and credits

whatsoever, which att the daye of my deceasse

shall be founde to appertayne and belonge unto me and my

mortuary howse where and in whatsoever

place they shalbe founde, none excepted nor

reserved (after all my debtes, church dewties

and legacies hereafter written paide & satisfyed)

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All and singular the saide my remayning goods,

actions and creditts I gyve, grannte, leave and be-

queath by theise presents unto the aforesaid Gilles

de Visser my sonne to his owne proper use and

proprietye, inseiratinge and nominating him by

theis presents my whole heyre to doe and dispose

thereof, as with his owne free good. And this

I doe declare to be my testament and last will,

whereof I make executor Mister Tobias Baert

blewe deyer. And yf he before me shall

come to departe so doe I make executor in his

place Joos Otgeer joyner both dwellinge

here in the cittye, and doe gyve unto dither

of them ffyve powndes sterlinge for my

remembrance. In wittnes of the trueth so

have I, the aforesaide Martin de Visser,

this my presente testament with my one

hand subscribed and sealed. Thus donne

in London on the sixteenth daye of the

moneth of August, in the yeare of our

Lord Jesus Chryst thowsand sixe

hondreth and three stilo Anglie Rayninge

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the most mightye and most excellente Prince

and Lord, Lord James (by the grace of God) Kinge

of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defen-

der of the fayth et cetera, our most soveraigne Lord,

in the ffyrste yeare of his raigne over En-

gland, France and Ireland, and in the seven

and thirtyth yeare of his raigne over Scotland.

Subscrybed Marten de Visser and sealled

with a seale in read waxe there uppon

imprinted. Lower is written The aforesaide

Martin de Visser, beinge of good and perfect

understandinge hath subscribed theis presents

with his owne hand and seale, and the teneur

thereof declared to be his testament and

last will in the presence of the persons here-

underwritten. The sixteenth of August anno

xviC and three in London. Cornelius Spirinck

Notarius publicus 1603. Jan ... wittnes, Jooris

Goethals as wittnes.

This presente translation doeth in substannce

aggree with his originall.

Ita attestor Carolus Demetrius Notarius publicus

1603

Probatum fuit huius modi testamentum coram magistro

...                 octavo

die septembris anno dominum 1603 ... 

Tobias Baert executoris ...

 

Heel hartelijk bedankt, Andreas. Het is een interessante tekst en goed voor de beginnende lezer van oude Engelse documenten.