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PROBATE TRANSCRIPTON – WILL
Ref No
AP/S/3900
Title
SALTREN, William of Launceston, preacher
Date of
probate*
26 Jun 1795
Description Bequests:
William Saltren of ‘Dunheved otherwise Launceston…an unworthy
Preacher of the blessed Gospel and Pastor of the Dissenting Church
assembling for Divine Worship at the Castle-Street Meeting House’
‘First and principally I desire to praise my Gracious God that he hath
been pleased of his Mercy to enlighten my Mind, and to impress it with
his Holy Spirit, to discern and feel my ruined state & condition as a
Sinner both by Nature & practice, and enabled me I trust to take
refuge in the Lamb of God who taketh away the Sin of the World. I
would therefore with all thankfulness & humility resign my Soul into the
hand of my blessed Saviour even the Lord Jesus Christ, hoping and
believing that he hath redeemed it by his precious Blood from all
Iniquity; and though after my Skin, Worms destroy this Body, yet that
falling asleep in Jesus, my Spirit I trust will be happy with him: and that
finally he will also change this vile Body and fashion it like unto his
own most Glorious Body according to his mighty working; when Body
and Soul reunited shall I humbly depend, obtain a glorious
Resurrection with all his Saints in his everlasting Kingdom.’
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Kaye Montgomery
to trustees, so that it ‘might become a permanent place for
Divine Worship’, the fee of the Meeting-House in Castle-Street
(purchased by the aid of subscription), after the defrayment of
the sum advanced by the testator above that raised by
subscription, about £35; whatever remains due of this sum on
testator’s death to be ‘extinguished on the behalf of the People
of the Meeting, that they may the better be enable to support
the Gospel amongst them’; 12 pious persons to be appointed
trustees by executor and to include the executor; the number to
be maintained by the survivors electing a replacement for any
who die; a condition of the conveyance of the Meeting House
that it shall continue to be a place of religious worship while
there are any people who can support it by themselves or by
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the aid of friends; if it is not used for worship for a period of one
year, the trustees may sell it and apply to the money to a public
charity or religious institution within three months of the sale;
the property to include the passage between the testator’s
garden and the Meeting House as far as the railings as it is
‘very convenient for the Meeting House and as a way to the
Loft belonging to and over the Meeting House’; the railings to
be maintained at the expense of the People of the Meeting
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to sister Elizabeth Peters, wife of Mr Richard Peters, surgeon,
£21
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to Mrs Catherine Saltren, widow of testator’s uncle Mr
Christopher Saltren, 2 shillings per week for life, also rent of
her apartment up to two guineas £2 and 2 shillings] per year
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to servant maid Elizabeth Pomeroy, if living with testator at
time of his death, £10 10s over and above any wages due to
her
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to brother John Saltren of Bridport in Dorset, Minister of the
Gospel, the residue of the estate
Executor: brother John Saltren of Bridport in Dorset
Signature of testator
Witnesses:
Signatures of Rob. [Robert] Pearse Jun [Junior] of Newport [St
Thomas by Launceston], clothier, Willm [William] Derry, tallow
chandler and George Hender, cabinetmaker
Date of will: 8 Apr 1795
Date proved: 26 Jun 1795
Endorsements:
No Inventory
Stamp £15
Kaye Montgomery
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