HN2/B3/9

Will of John Thomas Brooks of Flitwick House, esq.

Signed 23 December 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

- body to be interred in family vault at Maulden - debts etc paid - to wife Mary £800 ‘for mourning and her other immediate occasions’ - land in Flitwick, Higham Gobion, Cranfield and Maulden in Bedfordshire and at Irchester, Northants to respected friends Rev Henry Riddel Moody of Chartham Rectory, Kent, Rev William Hale Hale of Charter House, London, Rev Thomas Beach Whitehurst of Flitwick in trust for wife for rest of her life then to John Hatfield Brooks for life and on the death of the survivor of them on trust for the first and every other son of John Hatfield Brooks etc and for the want of such sons to his daughters to be divided equally if more than one, if no issue then on trust for second son George Henry Brooks and his sons and so on ‘.[Note the will is very confused in this part although it appears to be trying to establish a male entail it contradicts itself] - clauses to allow trustees to grant leases - clauses for maintenance and education of wife and children - pictures, prints, plate, books, furniture usually in mansion house at Flitwick and also the curiosities articles and specimens which at the time of my decease shall be deposited in or reputed to belong to my museum or repository at Flitwick to wife during life then with the rest. - linen, china, wines, spirits, etc, in dwellinghouse at time of decease, all hothouse and greenhouse plants, carriage and all houses with harness etc to wife. Mentions wish that if eldest son dies before he is 21 that next son ‘have the opportunity and be entitled to acquire the fee simple’ of the Manor of Flitwick and the mansion house etc and the fee farm rents issuing ‘which by the settlement made previously to and in contemplation of my marriage will on the decease of the survivor of my wife and myself devolve on all my children as tenants in common in tail…’ - 10 guineas each to Henry Riddell Moody, William Hale Hale and Thomas Beach Whitehurst. Wife and trustees made executors and guardians. Annotated in pencil after the death of daughter Mary Ann Brooks, probably in preparation for another will.

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Brooks, John Thomas,
Brooks, Mary,
Moody, Henry Riddell,
Hale, William Hale,
Whitehurst, Thomas Beach,
Brooks, John Hatfield,
Brooks, George Henry,
Brooks, Mary Ann

wills, MAULDEN, FLITWICK, HIGHAM GOBION, Flitwick Manor, CRANFIELD, Irchester, private museums