In the name of God Amen This is the last will and testament of me Dame Ursula Salter of Richinge within the parish of Iver in the County of Bucks widow And first I comend my soule unto the hands of Almighty god from whome I were aved it And as for my body I leave it to the arch whereof it is made to be interred in Iver Church where my late husband Sir Edward Salter Knight is already buried at the discretion of my Executors of this my Will whome I hereafter name and appoint And as for my estate which god in his mercy hath blessed me with all I give devise & dispose of the same in manner following First I give and bequeath to the Lady Anne Salter my daughter in law my best cabinet of Ebony and one long damask table cloth the best but one a square table cloth & one dozen of napkins of damask Item I give my sone Peter & my daughter Mary his wife ten pounds & my best large damask table cloth a square table cloth & towell a cupboard cloth and two dozen of napkins all of damask Item I give my grandchild Xpofer Salter all my husbands books by great cloth the Copp & brewing vessells two leaden Cesternes & the pipes thereunto nelonging & five pounds to buy him a Ring Item to my Grandchilde Wm Salter twenty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Elizabeth Cole twenty pounds Item I give my grandchild Mary Pretty twenty pounds & the feather bed bolster & two down pillows the taffeta curtains & vallance Coverleds & a paire of blankets & the bedstead with are now used in the waniscote chamber & the chaginge which are in the Gallery & her masters picture Item I give unto my grandchils Briana Salter Thirty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Margaret Salter thirty pounds Item I give to my grand child John Peters & Mary his wife & his children twenty pounds & the feather bed bolsters two pillows two blankets a green coverlett curtains & vallance used therewith & the cupboard Cloth in the Prince his chamber Item I give to my grandchild Willm Peters twenty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Clement Peters twenty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Mary Peters twenty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Elizabeth Peters twenty pounds Item I give to my grandchild Ursulanna Hatch and her children twenty pounds Item I give more to my daughter Mary Peters one feather bed a Bolster and two pillows one coverlet of scarlet cloth ayned with greene bayes and laerd with greenish silke lace two blanket curtaines & valance & top covering of orange tawny cloth laced with black satin embrodeeed lace two cupboard Clothes a pair of brass andirons & all the stooles & chatres which are of the same cloth & tryning comonly used in the chamber called my Lady Salter’s chamber together with five peets of arras hanging belonging to the same roome but the bedstead that is now standing there I give to my grandchild John Peters together with his wives picture Item I give to my son Edward Salter one hundred pounds Item to my grandchild Edward Salter his sone one hundred pounds Item to my granddaughter Ursula Salter his daughter fiftie pounds Item I give to my sonne Edward Salter the Beadstead with red post in the prumoe ? his chamber one great down bed which I lye upon myself a bolster and two pillows I use with it a suite of Curtains vallances top & Connferxt all od redclolth & laced with Shrawe coullered silke lace together with A Cupbord cloth & side bord Clothe divers Chayres & Tooles of the same redd cloath and a Chayre of redd silke & gold Item I give more to my snne Edward Salter five peere of arras hunginge in the dyneing room three Turkey work Carpete on couch one dozen of Ruffe leather chayres & stooles six Turkie work chayres a great purple & Gold chayre twp pair of brasse to stand before the great fire & all the tables & cupbords the long curtens & Curtaine rode there come only used Item I give to my grandchildren Elizabeth Peters one feather bead one bolster one downe pillow two blankete the curtens and Camospane of damask the bedsted & covering which are now used in my bed- chamber Item I give to my sonne Edward Salter a long damaske table cloth a cupbord cloth a sideborde clothe a Towell two dozen of napkins of damaske, one cloth of gold cushion two ordinary fether bed & 2 bolsters & two bedstede with their ordinary furniture the great round table in the parlour & the cupboard there a little table in the hall at the buttery dore & two little formed & a wainscote cupbord, a great culdron in the kitchin a great kettle a broad brasse pan one paire of great racks two ? brasse pese two pair of hangers one dozen of pewter dishes of sen all forde fewer spite one iron dripping pan three pye plates six pewter transher plates two flaggins & one paire of fyne holland sheete & one pair of flaxen sheete two fine holland pillowbeers one dray table cloth 3 yards broade & 3 yards long & all my plate & one flaxen tablecloth three yards broade Item I give to my grandchilde Brianna Salter a lougafine diay tablecloth a dozen of fine diay Napkins & a square bordcloth smtable Item I give to my grandchild Margaret Salter a long tablecloth and a long towell of diap. Item I give to my grandchild John Peters one long diap table cloth Item I give to my daughter Mary Peters a great Wainscote Cabbinett which stands in my Chamber and my pictures herowne and her husbande picture Item I give to Mrs Alice Cooke her Uncle Wheeler his picture Item I give to Mr David Salter of Iver forty shillings to buy him a ring. Item I give to the poor of Iver three pounds Item I give to every one of my servants which I shall have in my house at the tyme of my death x s besides their wage All which said severall legacies I am desirous to be first payed to the parties aforemantiond And the residue of my goods & chattels not disposed betweene them, provided there be any surplus when my debts are payed & my funeral expenditure discharged And I doe make and ordayne my much honoured kinsmen & friends Sr John Parsons Knight William Bowyer and Thomas Challoner Esquires executors of this my last will & testament desireing them to accept of fyfty shilling apeece for their paines to be taken and discharge the legacies aforesaid within six months after my decease if it may be In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale the twelfe day of January Anno Dom 1648 & in the xxiiij yeare of the reign of our Soverigne Lord Charles by the grace of god king of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith & Ursula Salter
This last will & Testament of Dame Ursula Salter aforesaid widow was published the sixth day of March Anno Dom 1648 in the presence of us whose names are underwritten James Cowper Signed sealed and delivered and publishe in the presence of us whose names are subscribed below
The mark of Robert Hoskins
the mark of Henry Courtnet
the mark of Anne Bird
The mark of Abigaell Burt
Elizabeth Hoare
PROB 11/208/165