Reference
OR738
Title
Will [draft] of Dame Susannah Keate of Middlesex, widow of Sir John.
[Certified as checked with probate copy].
Date free text
13 August 1707
Production date
From: 1707 To: 1707
Scope and Content
To cousin Matthew Orlebar of Polbrook, Northamptonshire, gentleman, £200.
To John Orlebar of Gray’s Inn, gentleman, son of Matthew Orlebar, £200.
To Richard Orlebar of Hinwick, £10 for mourning.
To cousin Judith Butler of Harrold, £100.
To Elizabeth Orlebar of Cornhill, Oxfordshire, widow £10, and to her daughter Elizabeth £10 for mourning.
To cousin John Orlebar messuage on Ludgate Hill, pair large silver candlesticks, and £400.
To cousin Elizabeth Orlebar, wife of John Orlebar, a suit of damask linen for her table and £20 for mourning for her husband and self.
To John Orlebar son of said John Orlebar and wife Elizabeth, a silver plate, tumbler, spoon and fork with coat of arms engraved.
Witnesses. Clement Wakelin, Robert Southam, Edward Wood. 13 August 1707.
[N.B. This will contains many details of household furniture at Hoo, Hertfordshire, and in a house at Holborn; it also contains many financial bequests to relations mainly to members of the Keate family. Only the Orlebar references have been abstracted.]
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