Sep. 4, 1658 - John Savill, Methley, Esq. To be buried at Methley if I die in Yorkshire. I devise to William Garway and John Garway of London, gentlemen, all my manors, to pay my debts and funeral expenses, if my personal estate is not sufficient, and to pay to every one of my daughters living, except Elizabeth and Katherine who are already provided for, a yearly annuity of �40, until the several ages of fourteen years, and from fourteen till twenty-one or till marriage, �60 per ann., and at twenty-one or marriage, �2,500 each. My manors, &c, to my son John Savill, with power to make a jointure of �600, with remainder to his sons and their heirs in succession; in default to my own daughters Margaret, Elizabeth, Katherine, Anne, Mary, Dorothie and their heirs, equally divided. "Item, I give and bequeath to my said sonne John all bookes, papers, records, pictures, armour, tables, chaires, Stooles, Bedstocks, all the bedding, and the rest of the furniture belonging to the house, my ring, and signett of gold containing my brother Sir Henry Savile, his armes and one hundred Augsburgh Ducketts, given by the Commonwealth, and a gold chaine and a meddall given by the ffree states of the Lowe Countrie, and certaine old gold in a purse, my watch and clock with three motions that which his mother gave him att her death, and the greate brass candlestick in the Hall." If I have no son at my death I give above to my daughters to be equally divided. To six poor people of Methley �12 per ann. To poor of Eland, Stainland, and Barkisland �20. If I die without issue I give my manor of Edderthorpe to William and John Garway, to pay out of the rents to the poor people of Methley which shall be settled in the Hospitall or Almeshouse �20 per ann., and to the poor of Edderthorpe the same amount, and to pay the residue to my next heirs. To my servants, �30, divided. William and John Garway to be executors. To my son John, �60 per ann. from thirteen to seventeen years, from seventeen to twenty-one �150 per ann. allowance. I will that all my children not bestowed in marriage may live and keep house together at Methley, and the charges may be defrayed out of the rents of my lands.Sep 7, 1658. I give my daughter Margaret �500 over the �2,500.
[Pr. June 8, 1659, by John Garway.]
- Extracted from YAS, Record Series, Vol IX, Abstracts of Wills.
[A footnote - page 150 - states that the testator was a son of Sir John Savile, Kt., Baron of the Exchequer, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth of Elmshall, and widow of Richard Tempest; and was probably baptised at Elland, Oct 13, 1588. "The testator, John Savile, married first, Mary, daughter of John Robinson of Rither, and had, according to Dugdale, six children who died young; he married secondly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Garway, Kt., Lord Mayor of london, and had, with a son Henry who died an infant, the children mentioned in the will"]
[Also included as a footnote, is a detailed abstract of the will of the testator's half-brother, Sir Henry Savile, dated 13 June 1632, and proved 2 July 1632.]
SAVILE of Methley, 1665 Visitation of Yorkshire, Part One and Part Two
- Grandson Christopher LEGARD
