Reference
C169
Title
Will of Richard Norton of Mitcham, esq.; (copy)
Date free text
1686; admission granted 1705
Production date
From: 1686 To: 1705
Scope and Content
recites that he had settled on wife Ann his manor of Barton & other lands in Bedfordshire (no details);
to son John rent-charge of £16 from manor of Sharpenhoe, in trust to employ £10 p.a. on a schoolmaster for a Free School at Sharpenhoe for 8 poor children (4 Sharpenhoe, 4 Streatley);
to daughters Mary & Katherine £500 each at 21, & daughter Dorothy;
to son John reversion of property in Barton, Sharpenhoe, Streatley, Farley, Whipperley, Luton, Bedford, Westoning (no details);
to daughter Ann & husband Bezabeel Sherman £10 each;
to daughter Ellen & husband Edward Fisher £10 each;
to son Richard at 24, manor & lands in Ingerthorpe, Wallowthwaite, Ripon & Markinton (Yorkshire);
to grandchildren Norton, Ann & Elizabeth Sherman;
to son Richard property in Newgate St. & St. Martins-le-Grand;
residual legatee & executrix: wife Ann;
witnesses William Grenewell, Jacob Hampson, John Shewell, John Roland; 1686
administration granted to Richard Lawrence (husband of Dorothy) 1705
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