• Reference
    CD527
  • Title
    Will (copy) of Samuel King of Langford, yeoman:
  • Date free text
    14 Nov 1827
  • Production date
    From: 1827 To: 1827
  • Accession number 1810, deposited 1947; Accession number 1811, deposited 1947 Accession number 1901, deposited 1949; Accession number 2134, deposited 1952; All catalogued at CD1-548
  • Scope and Content
    To kinsman John Rutt feather bed & bedstead & bedding. To friend Benjamin Ryland of Biggleswade, mercer & draper, £5. To nephew Edward Pearson ls.; nephew William Mann property at Langford for life; then to great niece Mary Ann, wife of John Ell, junior, dwellinghouse at Langford occupance Joseph Pateman; and to friend John Street of Langford, dealer in strawplait, 2 houses now occupied as one by James West, & messuage with 3 gardens in own occupance; then to George son of said John & Sarah; subject to £20 p.al to housekeeper Rhoda Brunt, & after Rhoda Brunt's death to Mary Ann Ell. Also to Mary Ann Ell (after death of William Mann) 2 dwellinghouse formerly erected by testator at North end of orchard or close near ford in Landford, occupance Edward Moseley & John Ainsworth; but charged with 3s.6d. weekly to her brother William Pearson on his arrival in England and not before; also best bed, hangings & furniture, 6 best chairs, elbow chair matching thereunto, dressing table, pillar or claw table, brass egg slice, brass ladle, brass pestle & mortar, to housekeeper Rhoda Brunt certain furniture for life, then to Samuel Street, son of John & Sarah; also large lookingglass in parlour & coffer in bedroom; To Ann, wife of neighbour & tenant James West, swing-glass with drawer. Witnesses: Samuel King; W. Thomas Chapman (clerk to Mr. Chapman); Mary Chapman; John Booth of Southill
  • Level of description
    item