Scope and Content
... To Samuel Wells, Biggleswade, brewer, and John Foster, Biggleswade, merchant,
all freehold and copyhold property in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, on trust for sale.
... To sister Sarah Cooper - silver waiter
... To Susanna Ann Lewin - silver tankard
... To 3 nieces, Mary, Sarah and Dinah, daughters of brother, William Cooper - rest of silver plate to be equally divided between them
... To said Samuel Wells and John Foster - furniture, personal estate etc on trust to convert into money.
Proceeds from trust monies:
... To brother, Henry Cooper, Hitchen, Hertfordshire, yeoman - 20 s a week, for life
... To sister, Mary Cooper, Haxton, Middlesex, spinster - annuity of £100
Funeral expenses of brother and sister to be paid out of residue of personal estate.
... To sister, Sarah Cooper - £1000
... To nieces, Mary, Sarah and Dinah Cooper - £300 each
... To Susanna Ann Lewin 'who now lives with me' - £1000
... To Robert Denis, Kempston, Esq - £1000
... To cousin, George Henry Cooper, son of George Cooper, Clifton, deceased - £500
... To his 2 sisters, Sarah and Rebecca Cooper [i,e, sisters of George Henry] - £300 each
... To John Crouch Priest, Shillington, miller - £600
... To Thomas Caton, Gravenhurst and Thomas Horne, Clophill, farmer - £200 each
... To John Lewin, Stevenage, Herts, baker - £100
... To John Lewin, Islington, wheelwright - £200
... To Elizabeth Lewin, widow of Robert Lewin, late of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, butcher, deceased - £50
... To all children of said Elizabeth Lewin - £800 to be divided between them
... To Laurence Coxall, Sutton, farmer - £400
... To old servant, Robert Larkins - £50
... To servant, Sarah Norman - £20
... To said Samuel Wells and John Foster, his executors - £50 p.a. for their trouble.
If legatees are under 21 at the time of his decease, then to be paid interest at £4. 10s % p.a. on their trouble.
... To son and daughter of Edward Horne, by Elizabeth Cooper, his late wife, deceased - £1000 stock in 3% consolidated bank annuities, to be transferred to them at 21. Dividends to be applied in meantime towards their maintenance.
... To John Lewin, Stevenage, and John Carrington, Biggleswade - all money which may be owing to me at my decease
residue of estate to be divided between sister, Sarah Cooper, and nieces, Mary, Sarah and Dinah Cooper, said George Henry Cooper, and said Elizabeth Lewin, wid, equally.
Said Samuel Wells and John Foster appt executors.