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In the name of God Amen I RICHARD ARUNDELL of the Castle in the
Parish of Stroud in the Co. of Gloucester, Clothier being in a pretty good state of
health of sound mind memory and understanding (praised be to
God) but calling to mind the uncertainty of this life doe make
and an declare this my last will and testament in manner
and form herein after mentioned (
) inpris?
I
give and devise unto my loving wife SARAH all that my messuage
(a dwelling house with its outoffices and adjoining lands) I now
divide commonly called or known by the name of the Castle
together with the outhouses backsides, garden, orchards, lands,
Tenements, and herediterments whatever what so ever there
to be longing or held there with to have and to hold the said
messuage and all other premises with the apertances unto my said
loving wife SARAH and her assigns for and during the time of her
natural life and from and immediately afterwards her
decease. I give and devise the said messuage and all other
premises with the apertinences unto my son SAMUEL ARUNDELL his
heirs and assignes for ever to and for the only proper life
benefit and behooswe of him the said SAMUEL ARUNDELL his heirs
and assigns forever.
Item, I give to my said wife the use of my cloth press,
press papers, cloth shears, shear bonds, candles and of all my
working tools, what so ever belonging to the clothing trade and
also of my Silver Tankard for her life and after her decease I
give and bequeath
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the same and every part and parcel there of unto my said son
SAMUEL his executors and administrators.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son JOHN ARUNDELL the sum
of five pounds.
Item I give and bequeath unto my said son Richard
Arundell SAMUEL
ARUNDELL the sum of four pounds.
Item. I give and bequet bequeath unto my son
RICHARD ARUNDELL, the sum of five pounds, Item.
I give and bequeath unto my daughter SARAH MARY
ARUNDELL, the sum of one hundred pounds Item. I give and
bequeath to my daughter MARY SARAH ARUNDELL, the sum of
one hundred pounds.
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH ARUNDELL the
sum of one hundred pounds.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter URSULA WEE BB
the sum of one hundred pounds.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter JANE ARUNDELL
the sum of one hundred pounds.
Item
I give and bequeath to my daughter ANN ARUNDELL the sum
of one hundred pounds and fitt fifty pounds.
Item I give
and bequest unto my grand daughter, ANN WEBB the sum of four
pounds and my will is and I do have by direct that all the
aforesaid pecuniary legacy’s, given to my said sons, daughters,
and grand daughter shall
be paid to them each and every one of them
respectively at the end of one year next after my decease
provided always and my will is and I do hereby farther direct
that my said son JOHN ARUNDELL and at his cost and charges grant
release and convey unto my said son SAMUEL and
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his heirs all the estate right title
interet claym and demand whatsoever of him my said son JOHN
ARUNDELL of in and to all Singular the said Messuage, lands and
herediterments above devised I do make Constitute and appoint my
said loving wife SARAH whole and soley executrix of this
My l
my Last will and testament revoking all former wills by me at
any time made and do give and bequeath unto her all the rest and
residue of my goods and chatiles and personal estate what so
ever
where of I am or shall be at
?
the time of my death any ways
possessed of
or intitled unto but not
herein before disposed the pay in all my just debts the above
mentioned
and any funeral expenses and I
doe hereby request and desire my brothers-in-law Mr. Thomas BOND
and your Reverend Mr. Henry BOND to be trustees and over seers
of this my last
will to see the same Duly executed and performed
in witness whereof I have to
this my last will and testament written on one sheet of paper,
Set my hand and Seal the eight day of February
in the year of our Lord 1732
Signed Sealed Published and Declared
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by the said RICHARD ARUNDELL as his last
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Will and Testament
in his presence by us
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JOHN
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SARAH STUART
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RICHARD
PARTRIDGE
ARUNDELL in his 81st year was the last loyalist
stronghold in Cornwall to surrender to Parliamentary forces.
Also
Mason GERARD Stratford the Fifth Earl.
In 1804 he had married Jane TANDY of Waterford, her
father was a Dublin shoemaker.
They were divorced on December 6th 1826.
Some months earlier Mason GERARD had gone through a form
of marriage with Mary, the daughter of Samuel ARUNDELL of
Darnley, Gloucestershire
(the 23rd Sept 1826).
When she failed to get the marriage recognized she called
herself Mrs. GERARD the 5th Earl.
He used his Irish Properties as a source of income.
He sold everything at Belan, the furniture, mantle
pieces, doors, windows, roofs, and carved stonework.
As he only had a life interest in the property
it
he could not sell it.
He died in 1849.
Mary (nee ARUNDELL) lived with her family in Florence
where she died in 1876
What I am wondering is if the ARUNDELL’S of Darby were
connected with those in that fought the Parliamentarians in
Cornwall and if John ARUNDELL
was a of Palatine might
have been a brother of Marys GERARD,
sh certainly
they should have been near the one age.
Certainly John ARUNDELL and his daughters all had tried
to Convey illusion’s if Grandeur.
Also the names of John and son Samuel were in the family
tradition, could it be that the John ARUNDELL of Pal was one
the of the ARUNDELLS OF Ballymore who had lost their lands
to the Fitzpatricks.
The oil painting may have been in
fa the family
for a long time and may even have come from
the members
Cornwall and been one of those earlier
ard ARUNDELLS.
The key to the problem
must is surely the
identification of the uniform and its period.
Palatine
b was a village which had developed from
an influx of Palatinate immigrants.