Reference
FN973
Title
Will of George Francklin of Covent Garden, esquire. 'I resigne my soule into the mercifull hands of my most gracious God, and my body to bee buried in the chancell of the parish church of Bolnhurst near to my deare wife.' [Details of bequests to relatives.] Executors: sons William and John, who are to pay funeral expenses etc with £520 'in ready money by mee' and divide remainder, as also plate, jewels and wife's apparel, and as to whom testator hopes he has made sufficient arrangements by deeds of 1661 and 1668 [see FN 919 and FN 925] Witnesses: William Style, Thomas Kirbye, Thomas Langford
Date free text
15 Jul 1673
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From: 1673 To: 1673
Scope and Content
[Details of bequests to relatives.]
- To churchwardens of St Paul's, Covent Garden, £2 for the poor.
- To churchwardens of Bolnhurst, £5 for the poor.
- To brother John and wife, and to sister Dyer, mourning and gold ring.
- To daughter Anne Daston, diamond ring, value £12 'which was my wife's' and mourning; and to her 3 children, Richard, William and Anne, £5 each and ring and mourning.
- To cousin Dorothy Abdy, £5.
- To cousins Thomas Halsey, Lettice, Theodosia and Judith Halsey, gold ring.
- To son John, household stuff in house wherein I dwell, wife's cabinett and 'camtore'.
- To eldest son William, lease held from Trinity College, Cambridge.
- To servants Anne, 40s, Jane and Grace, 20s.
- Gold rings to as many kindred and acquaintances as overseers think fit.
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