Reference
P88/25/1
Title
Welbourne Charity. Copy will of Robert Welbourne of Barton, gent
Date free text
31 Aug 1716
Production date
From: 1716 To: 1716
Scope and Content
- appoints wife Mary [Mary named only in probate] and William Carter of Turvey, gent, as executors;
- funeral to be “very private”;
- to Minister and Overseers of St.John’s, Bedford, all that close of pasture called Burgend Close in parish of Barton leading to Bedford in tenure of Benjamin Bishop…which I purchased (among other things) of Nicholas Denton Esq., deceased. To hold to the Minister and Overseers in Trust to the intent that the rents and profits be yearly distributed among such of the poor within the parish as the Trustees shall think fit;
- to eldest daughter Ann, the benefit of my lease from The Bishop of Ely of the moiety of the tithes of Turvey;
- to eldest daughter Anne [sic] £25 per annum to be paid to her by my executors until my assignment of the lease to Mr.William Whitworth shall expire; or to the eldest son Robert in Ann dies unmarried;
- to daughter Ann, the two least silver salvers and the looking glass with a cabinet at the bottom…which “are in truth her own”;
- to executors, the residue of the estate – subject to payment of funeral expenses “which I would have to be very moderate” and settlement of debts and legacies etc.;
- to wife £60 per annum;
- to wife, use of all my jewels, plate, household stuff and household goods at or about my house at Barton and at my house at Mill Bank in the parish of St.Margaret, Westminster, so long as she will continue a widow; after her decease, these goods to be divided equally between my three daughters Ann, Susannah and Elizabeth [clauses re marriage portions];
- to son William £100;
- to son Roger £100;
- to two younger daughters Susannah and Elizabeth £200 each;
- to sister Breadsall and sister Glyn a guinea a piece for rings;
- to son Robert, all books, pictures and the curiosities “which I had from Dr.Waldoe”;
- to eldest son Robert the remainder of the estate…and all my several copyhold estates “which I am forthwith intending to surrender” [clauses re terms etc.]
Witnesses: Wm Longueville, Edward Porter, John Clarke
Codicil attached assigning arrears of rent to executors, witnessed to Robert Cross, Edward Porter and John Clarke (7 Apr 1717)
Will proved in PCC on 21 Aug 1717
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