hopes dashed - Mathon Herefordshire
Heraldic memorial with winged cherub - in memory of William Cliffe,gent, who died ye 13th day of February Ao 1684 aged 77
Also of Mr Robert Cliffe ye hopefull vertuous and dutifull son of Henry Cliffe, gent, & Mary his wife. He died at Oxford ye 22nd day of December Ao 1691 aged 18 & there lies buried "
(In 1684, William Cliffe had not very much to pass on to his children when he wrote his will, but he remembered the village folk among whom he had spent his life.
“In the name of God, Amen. I, William Cliffe, of the parish of Mathon, in the County of Worcester, gent., doe make and ordeyne this my last will and testament as followeth. In primis, I give to my daughter, Pitt, five pounds, item, I give to my son William Cliffe of Dod Oak, five pounds, item, I give to my grand-daughter (unnamed) the wife of William Cliffe of the parish of Astly, five pounds, item, I give to the poor of the parish of Mathorne, where I live, and where I intend to be buried, five pounds, and I constitute and appoint my son, Henry Cliffe, who liveth with me, my sole executor ....
Witnessed by Robert Dobyns, John Chandler, and another whose signature is unreadable.
William’s possessions amounted to £84, but this was about average for a yeoman farmer of this period) www.mathon.org.uk/mathons-history/ralph-spencers-historie... - Church of St John the Baptist, Mathon, Herefordshire
hopes dashed - Mathon Herefordshire
Heraldic memorial with winged cherub - in memory of William Cliffe,gent, who died ye 13th day of February Ao 1684 aged 77
Also of Mr Robert Cliffe ye hopefull vertuous and dutifull son of Henry Cliffe, gent, & Mary his wife. He died at Oxford ye 22nd day of December Ao 1691 aged 18 & there lies buried "
(In 1684, William Cliffe had not very much to pass on to his children when he wrote his will, but he remembered the village folk among whom he had spent his life.
“In the name of God, Amen. I, William Cliffe, of the parish of Mathon, in the County of Worcester, gent., doe make and ordeyne this my last will and testament as followeth. In primis, I give to my daughter, Pitt, five pounds, item, I give to my son William Cliffe of Dod Oak, five pounds, item, I give to my grand-daughter (unnamed) the wife of William Cliffe of the parish of Astly, five pounds, item, I give to the poor of the parish of Mathorne, where I live, and where I intend to be buried, five pounds, and I constitute and appoint my son, Henry Cliffe, who liveth with me, my sole executor ....
Witnessed by Robert Dobyns, John Chandler, and another whose signature is unreadable.
William’s possessions amounted to £84, but this was about average for a yeoman farmer of this period) www.mathon.org.uk/mathons-history/ralph-spencers-historie... - Church of St John the Baptist, Mathon, Herefordshire