I,
Mathew Cradock, of
London, merchant, being in perfect memory and bodily health,--thanks be given to God therefor,--do hereby make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following; that is to say,--
I bequeath my soul into the hands of the Almighty God, trusting, by the merits of the death and passion of our
Lord Jesus Christ only, to obtain remission of all my sins.
My body, when it shall please God to separate it from my soul, I recommend to the earth, in assured confidence of a glorious resurrection at the great and dreadful day of judgment.
As to my outward estate, wherewith God of his goodness hath endowed me, I have ever accounted myself but a steward thereof; therefore humbly entreat the Almighty to enable me so to demean myself in disposing thereof as that I may, through his mercy in the merits of
Christ, be always prepared to give a comfortable account of my stewardship.
I do hereby order, in the first place, that all sure debts as are, any manner of way, justly due and owing to any person whatsoever, be truly and fully satisfied and paid: the accounts of the widow of
Stephen Benister, late of
London, cloth-worker, deceased, that the same be answered and (committed) to the use of my executors; and for dealing with one
Henry Colthirst, if
Mr. Pennoyde, who is best acquainted with the business, see it to be due, which is challenged,
