• Born: Abt 1540, Gwithian, Cornwall
• Married: 7 Oct 1565, Gwithian, Cornwall ¹
• Buried: 29 Oct 1624, Gwithian, Cornwall ¹

  Research Notes:

The Will of Richard Robert alias Trevernan of the Parish of Gwithian in the County of Cornwall, written 27 May 1609, proved 3 Mar 1624/5. ²

(document torn in places; paragraphed)

In the name of god amen The xxvii^th daie of Maie In the yere of our Lord god 1609 and in the Sixteenth yere of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord James by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the faith . . . . . . . I Richard Robert als. Trevernan of the parishe of Gwythian in the Countie of Cornewall being sicke in bodie, but of good perfect mynd and remembrance (god be praysed there fore) doe make my Testament and last will in manner and forme folowing

first I bequeth my soule to allmightie god, and my bodie to be buryed after the order of Christian Buriall.

I geve & bequeth to the poore of the parishe of Gwythian xii^d.

I geve and bequeth to Richard sone to William Whyta a yew & a lamb.

I geve and bequeth to John Carthew [h]is chyldren ii yewes & a lamb betwene them.

I geve and bequeth to Maude my daughter v^li of good & lawfull monyes.

I geve and bequeth to Marie my daughter v^li also of good and lawfull monyes.

I geve and bequeth allso and . . . . . . . unto my sone Thomas the one moitie or half of my tenement in Trevernan with all & syngular houses gardens commodities . . . . . . . with their appurtenances whatsoever of the Land & tenement in Trevernan that I bought & purchased to me and myn heires forever To have and to hold the fore sayde moitie or half of the fore saide tenement with all & syngular ther members and appurtenances to the fore sayd Thomas my sone during his natural life paying to John my sone also his brother yerely viij^d and the other moytie of half of the same to be, and . . . . . . . [t]o John my eldest sone, whom I will and chareg to Dwell together as brothers & . . . . . . . upon the . . . . . . . my will is, and I bynd hym there unto, that yf my sone John Durying the naturall lyfe of Thomas his broth[er] shall mynd or go about at any tyme & tymes to sel the said moytie or any part or parcell thereof to any manner of person or persons that he shal not sel it to any but onely to his brother with paying that is reasonable ; or yf he goe about to syll & put awaie the sayde premisses his inherytance, to any manner of person or persons, My will is, and I pass over? . . . . . . . this present, the whole intereste right & tytle in all & syngular the fore sayd premysis wth all & syngular ther appurtenances wth all leases Deedes Indentures & other wryting . . . . . . . to the same unto the fore saide Thomas my sone & his heires forever.

The rest of all my goodes & chattels not geven nor bequethed I geve & bequeth to John my sone & Thomas also equally betwene them, whom I doe ordeyne Instytute & appoynt my full & whole executors. But my will is that my Br . . . . . . . shall be between them, & that they shall not syll the same, But it shall r[em]ayne to the longer lyver of them & to his eldest chyld for ever, and I charge? these my sonnes whom I macke my ex[ecu]tors to agree to gether as brothers ought to doe, and dwell one wth another, and to help one another . . . . . . . in them shall lie, and so see this my last will performed & done and the Legacies by me before geven ---ylled & payd according to the true managing hereof.

And I ordayne and appoynt my well beloved in Christ J----- Tremearne clerck vicar of St. Pawle & my good neighbours & kynsmen my good fryndes James Nycolls and [J]ohn William of Tolsethan overseers, to . . . . . . . & cause these my sonnes & executors to fulfyl this my [la]st will & testament as much as in them shall . . . . . . . and this is my last will . . . . . . . in the name of god, and have put to my hand & seale even the daie & yere above wrytten in the p[resence] of those whose names foloweth

(his sign)

[Joh]anes Tremearne

[Ja]mes Nycolls als Treglysten

John William

An Inventorye of all and singular the Cattells and Chattells of Richard Robert als Jenkin of the parish of Gwithian in the County of Cornewall tynner deceased , taken and praysed the second day of Decembr 1624 by Humphrie Williams and John William . . . .

Valued to £27 0s 8d