Reference
C23
Title
Probate of Michael Knight of Clerkenwell, brewer: (copy)
Date free text
1672, proved 1672.
Production date
From: 1672 To: 1672
Scope and Content
leaves property in Preston Comes & Wallingford, Berks;
devises manor of Plenties (in Stopsley), occupied by widow Gaseley, to daughter Elizabeth Knight; in default of issue, to wife Mary for life; and in default on decease of Mary to cousins Henry Knight (son of uncle Michael Knight); in default, to Michael Knight (son of said uncle);
to daughter Elizabeth £2000 at age 21 or marriage; if she die, then £1000 thereof to Brewers' Company of London to build almshouses at Clerkenwell; and the other £1000 to purchase lands at Luton and build thereon a free school & 6 almshouses (details);
to nieces Martha & Elizabeth Rotheram £20 each;
executors: cousin David Knight & Friends John Freeman, Thomas Read.
[Note: Elizabeth presumably survived; no mention of school in Austin, Luton, or in Reports of Charity Commission]
Level of description
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