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Jacquart, John. Affirmed his will with a mark not a signature. Will translated out of French.
Date written: 1592 July 7.
Date proved: none recorded.
Family members named: his wife, unnamed [named Mary in the probate record]. No other legatees.
Executor: none recorded. No overseers named.
Witnesses: Simon Clerk; Abraham Clerk; Remy le Clerke; John du Quesne; John Gerard. Translated from the French by Dionise le Blancq notary public.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/80, f.166r-v (register copy).]
James, William, of St Mary Overy. Bequests to the Dutch Church, and to the poor of St Mary Overy. Has a dwelling house in Southwark.
Date written: 1595 December 29.
Date proved: 1595/6 February 11.
Family members named: his wife ‘Scychen’ [perhaps Sysken, a Dutch diminutive of Frances]. His brother Jacob Jacobsonne of Delft, Holland. His late son Henrick Williamsonne, Henrick's widow, and their three underage children. His daughter Katherine's underage son Robert Barthalmewe. His cousins Roger James and Matthias Otten. His daughter Cornelia; his son Isaac.
Others named: Paul Tippottes, notary.
Co-Executors: his wife Scychen and his cousins Roger James and Matthias Otten.
Overseers: his cousin Arnold James; Christian Derna.
Witnesses: Jacob Wittewronghell; Thomas Peeke, scrivener.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/87, ff.91r-93r (register copy).]
Jenkins, Thomas, of St Saviour, weaver. Testator affirmed his will with a mark not a signature.
Date written: 1625/6 February 13.
Date proved: 1626 June 20.
Family members named: Elizabeth Williams, widow, his mother. Roger Jenkins his brother. Hester his sister. Dorothy Askwith, widow, his aunt. William Sweetinge his uncle.
Others named: Thomas Ware his apprentice.
Executor: William Sweetinge his uncle.
Overseer: Dorothy Askwith, his aunt.
Witnesses: Thomas A Moore; Catherine Towers, widow (her mark); Frances Mathewes; Thomas Ware.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/149, f.191r-v (register copy).]
Jermine, Thomas, of St Saviour, yeoman. Testator is sick and weak in body. Asks to be buried in St Saviour church. Has a messuage called the George in Christchurch Twynham, Hampshire.
Date written: 1637/8 January 18.
Date proved: 1637/8 February 26.
Family members named: Frances his wife. Thomas Jermen his married son. Mary Taylor his daughter. Margaret Bowyer, widow, his daughter. No other legatees.
Executor: Frances his wife; no overseers named.
Witnesses: Stephen Rippington; William Hapeny; Thomas Page (his mark); John Guy, scrivener.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/176, f.95r-v (register copy).]
Jobson, William, of St Saviour, blacksmith.
Date written: 1619/20 March 9.
Date proved: 1623 August 20.
Family members named: Elizabeth his wife. No other legatees.
Executor: Elizabeth his wife; no overseers named.
Witnesses: Robert Walker, notary public; Henry Williams; Thomas Williams; Henry Lancaster (his mark).
An Addendum to the will, dated 1622 November 21, affirms that the will was read again to the testator and again affirmed by him to be his last will and testament. The same witnesses, except Henry Johnes in place of Henry Lancaster.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/142, f.94r-v (register copy).]
Johnson, Garrat, of St Saviour, tomb maker. Testator is sick in body.
Date written: 1611 July 24.
Date proved: 1612 July 3.
Family members named: Marie Johnson his wife. Nicholas and Garrat Johnson his two sons. No other legatees.
Executors: Marie Johnson his wife; Nicholas Johnson his son; no overseers named.
Witnesses: Joachim Mathewe, notary public; James Bristowe; Edward Freeman.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/120, ff.49v-50r (register copy).]
Johnson, Thomas, of St Saviour, brewer. Testator affirmed his will with a mark not a signature.
Date written: 1623 December 18.
Date proved: 1623/4 January 5.
Family members named: Amy Johnson his wife. Thomas, Israel, Joan, and Ann Johnson, his four underage children. No other legatees.
Executor: Amy Johnson his wife; no overseers named.
Witnesses: Robert Banckes (his mark); Richard Humfrey (his mark); Richard Gardner, scrivener.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/143, ff.35v-36r (register copy).]
Johnson, William, of St Saviour, citizen and grocer of London. Bequest to the poor of St Saviour. Has many properties in Kent, names of persons associated with those properties not recorded here.
Date written: 1594 August 14.
Date proved: 1594 August 24.
Family members named: Ann his wife. William and Thomas his sons. Sarah and Ann his daughters. His father, unnamed. His daughter Slye [sic]. John Baldock of Tonbridge, his cousin. Richard, Thomas, and Daniel, his brothers. His sister Casinghurst. His sister Maudlin. His wife's sons John Fardell and Nicholas Fardell.
Others named: Mr Phillips, preacher at St Saviour. Francis Yomans, schoolmaster at St Saviour. Mr Ratcliffe, minister at St Saviour. All his servants. Robert Hennynge of Arrundale, chapman.
Executor: his wife Ann.
Overseers: Richard Denman the elder, citizen and grocer; William Cownden, citizen and goldsmith.
Witnesses: Andrew Turner, notary; Nicholas Slater; Elizabeth Bedill (her mark).
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/84, ff.117r-119r (register copy).]
Jones, Rebecca, of St Saviour, widow. Testator is sick in body.
Date written: 1626 October 11.
Date proved: 1626/7 March 7.
Family members named: Rebecca and Richard, her underage children. Margett Lucke her mother.
Others named: John Watts, brewer, and Elizabeth Watts his wife, her neighbors. Henry Hawks, chandler, and Jane Hawkes his wife, her neighbors. Christian Ireland. [blank] Gundy.
Executor: none named. A marginal note records that on 2 December 1629 administration was granted to her son Richard.
Overseers: John Watts; Henry Hawks.
Witnesses: Henry Underwood; John Hardham.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/151, f.229r (register copy).]
Jones, Robert, of St Saviour, gentleman.
Date written: 1608/9 January 25.
Date proved: 1609/10 January 12.
Family members named: Alice Jones his wife. George Jones, his only son. No other legatees.
Executor: none named; administration granted to his wife and son jointly.
Overseers: John Price esquire, his cousin; David Griffith, dyer.
Witnesses: none recorded.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/115, ff.53v-54r (register copy). Abstracted in SAC vol.24 p.57.]
Jones alias apJohn Griffith, William, of St Saviour, bargeman. A precautionary nuncupative will; says he is in bodily health, but has been impressed by the Queen for service in the Low Countries. Owes money to the hostess of Ware, and to the brewer's wife of Henley upon Thames.
Date declared: 1591 June 21.
Date proved: 1593/4 February 4.
Family members named: David Powell his cousin. His unnamed sister's two daughters. No other legatees.
Co-Executors: David Powell his cousin, and James Powell. No overseers named.
Witnesses: Edward Powell; Parnell Powell his wife; Thomas Browne; and others.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/83, f.6r (register copy).]
NOTE: this will was proved a second time [Prob.11/83, ff.186v-187r], with substantially the same text, but with a probate date of 7 March 1593/4; and in this second entry the testator's name is given as William apJohn Gryffeth alias William Jones.
Juby, Edward, of St Saviour, gentleman. Nuncupative will.
Date declared: on the day ‘whervppon he dyed’.
Date proved: 1618 December 19.
Family members named: Frances his wife. George Juby his brother [see his will below].
Others named: Alexander Kippynge his neighbor.
Executor: Frances his wife.
Overseers: George Juby and Alexander Kipping.
Witnesses: Frances Juby; George Juby; Alexander Kippinge; Mrs Kippinge; Luce Wall.
[Reference: LMA, DW/PA/7/10, f.47v.]
[Transcription in Playhouse Wills, p.113.]
Jubye, George, of St Saviour, weaver. Testator affirmed his will with a mark not a signature. He is sick and weak in body. Asks to be buried in St Saviour parish, ‘whereof I am a parishioner’.
Date written: 1624 November 23.
Date proved: 1624 December 1.
Family members named: Richard Juby his eldest son. Frances Parker his eldest daughter, wife of Richard Parker, and their two underage children George and Steven. Sarah his daughter. George, Rebecca, Deborah, and Martha, his underage children. No other legatees.
Executors: Thomas Juby, minister, his cousin; Alexander Keppen; Andrew Lucas. No overseers named.
Witnesses: William Hunt; Humfrey Bachelers, scrivener.
[Reference: TNA, Prob.11/144, f.350r-v (register copy).]