Any ideas for this word?

[ElizabethHerts]

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It is after "into the handes of" and it must mean something like "protection" or "care". I have looked at it until I'm blue in the face.

So far I have:

".... being sicke in bodye but whol in mynd and of pfit memorie do make this my last will and testament in maner and forme following first I give and bequeath my soule into the handes and /ition of almightie god my saviour and redeemer... "

[ElizabethHerts]

Perhaps it ends "-tion".

[Phoenix]

Tuition?

[ElizabethHerts]

It could be, Phoenix, but not a word I've ever seen used in this context.

Oooh, yes, this phrase is used!
Many thanks, Phoenix. Every time I transcribe a will I come across something new, just when I think I must know most of the standard phrases.

[ElizabethHerts]

P.S. It's obvious when you look at it!:D

[Phoenix]

Having Googled, it looks a very protestant phrase, floating around in the 1560s.

I have some early wills that have the most wonderful preambles, before they all got ironed out into uniformity.

[Phoenix]

P.S. It's obvious when you look at it!:D

Isn't everything, lol!

Inioye and nevvies are two words I still remember puzzling over, it took me so long to work out what they meant.

[ElizabethHerts]

Inioye and nevvies are two words I still remember puzzling over, it took me so long to work out what they meant.

I can work out "inioye" but what is/are "nevvies"?


This is the will of Edward Silverside, made in 1577. I'm not sure yet if he is a direct ancestor, but he must be related somehow to my 9x-great-grandfather, Martin Silverside, whose will was made in 1638, the year he died. They lived in the same village - Bletchingdon in Oxfordshire.

I think it's one of the earliest wills I have transcribed.

[ElizabethHerts]

There are also a couple of words here I'm not sure of:


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I have:
Item I will that if the sayd Elizabeth doth marrye that then she put in / / for the payment of the legaces to my children

[Phoenix]

sufficient sureties

[ElizabethHerts]

sufficient sureties

Thanks! I did wonder if the word was split over two lines.