Town of Mexbrough twentie shillings & to the poore of the said Towne & pish ffortie shillings to be disposed by the Churchwardens of the said towne (accordinge to their best discretion) the next Lords day after my depture All wch Legacies & Sumes my intent & will is shall be payd by my executors out of my psonall estate soe soone as convenientlie they can or as the Lawe provides ALSOE I give unto Wm Horne my second sonne all my Bookes wch are in my plour hopeinge he will & prayeinge he may make a good use of them ALSOE I give unto Elizabeth Horne my deare wife all my apparrell Linnen & Woollen hopeinge she will dispose of them wth discretion to the nearest of my kindred & relations ALSOE I doe hereby constitute ordaine & make her the said Elizabeth together wth my said three Daughters Judith Elizabeth & Sarah joynt Executrixes of this my last Will & Testamt unto whome I doe hereby give and bequeath All my psonall estate after my funerall expences & iust debts shall be thereout satisfied & discharged provided alwayes & my will & minde is That if my said three Daughters or any of them will not be advised ruled & guided as well in their education as in their marriage by my said deare wife or she being dead by my said Trustees & Supvisors or by the survivours or survivour of them That then such Daughter soe refuseinge shall be utterlie excluded from haveinge or claimeing any such pte or portion of my psonall estate onelie as executrix ioyntlie as aforesaid And then that such pte portion or benefitts remaine & be to my said wife & such other Daughter or Daughters as shall be obedient to my said wife in her lifetime or to my said Trustees & Supvisors after her death Lastlie I doe hereby make & constitute my loveinge & faithfull Kinsman Mr Thomas Skeynes of Thirburgh Clerke (formerly mentioned) Supvisor of this my last Will & Testamt giveinge him full power & authoritie yearelie to demand an Account of the aforenamed Trustees And if any question ambiguitie or doubt shall happen to arrise concerneinge any matter clause or thinge in this my last Will That the onely exposition & Judgm1 thereuppon to be had and made by the said Supvisors wch said Judgm' I desire all pties therein concerned to abide & be concluded by And I doe hereby revoke null & make voyd all former Wills IN WITTNESSE whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the seventeenth day of October in the sixteenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God Kinge. of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the ffaith & Annoq Dñi 1664 WILLIAM HORNE SIGNED Sealed published & delivered as it is comprehended in five sheetes of paper in the p'sence of THO: SKYNES HEN. HEATHFEILD The third day of April 1680 THE WILL OF WILLIAM HORNE late of Mexbrough in the County of York Gentleman deceased was proved in the Prerogative Court of York by Elizabeth Atkinson the wife of Henry Atkinson Esquire the natural and lawful Daughter of the deceased and one of the Executrixes in the said Will named, power being reserved of making the like grant to the other executrixes and afterwards on the twenty-third of January 1681 Administration of the goods of the said deceased was also granted to Sarah the wife of Joseph Kitchingman one other of the Executrixes From the pedigree entered by Sir William Dugdale at his Visitation at York in 1666, we are greatly indebted for the genealogical register appended. This shows, as Guppy suggests, how the rise of a family into a condition of opulence is, as a rule, shortly followed by its dispersal, until within a generation or two the home of the name for centuries, knows it no more. Apparently the death of William Horne in 1679 caused the removal of the family to Leeds, where they resided at Kirkgate, then the best residential part of the town. In the old church of St. Peter's, Leeds, which was pulled down in 1839, and replaced by the present handsome structure, Thoresby, in his Ducatus Leodiensis, speaks of a monument in the high quire :Memoria Sacrum, I.M. Hic mortales deposuit exuvias Juditha Nicholai Mascall de Ebor. Gener. vidua, Gulielmi Horn de Mexburgh, Armiger: Et Elisa, Uxoris ejus filia primogenita, Fæmina omnibus Numeris absoluta, & Eulogiis digna, nam illi abundant in sacris Pietas & Reverentia, in moribus Modestia & Prudentia, in magnis cruciatibus mira Patientia, in toto vitæ suæ statu Equanimitas eximia, mulier optima longiori digna vitâ, & meliori Epitaphio, sed illa tum vitæ tum seculi pertesa & cælo parata, valedixit mortalitati, 16. die Maij Anno 1682. & ætatis suæ 39.& nunc placide in Domino quiescit, beatam præstolans Resurrectionem, viator ne lugeas lætantem, nam illa non moritur sed mutatur, & non est hic tumulus. Trophæum est. Upon the next stone, under the arms, ermine, a fesse between three pheons sable:-Henricus Atkinson, Armiger, Vir Legum Patria 1 Probably "abundabent.” VOL. XIX. CI Studiosissimus, Ingenii dotibus ornatissimus, Ecclesiæ Anglicana devotissimus, piis fanaticorum fraudibus infensissimus, mortales hic deposuit exuvias Anno Salutis 1683. ætatis suæ 39. Procul hinc facessant præfica funebribus non usus est hic Naniis Omnes enim animi & corporis molestias Adiitq; superas Liber & Lætus plagas On a brass plate placed on a marble near is inscribed :-Hic jacet Gulielmus Horne, Filius Gulielmi Horne Mexburgensis Armigeri, qui excessit ex hac vita tertio Octob. 1685. natus annos 36. Dum vivimus, non vivimus sed somnus Phantasmatibusq: ludimur, Cum morimur itidem non murimur ast in Novam veramq: vitam nascimur. Of Francis Horne, who migrated to Almondbury, there are descendants of his family still living in that neighbourhood. May we express our thanks to the Rev. W. H. F. Bateman, M.A., vicar of Mexborough, for much information in the compilation of this paper. |