Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WY91-92
  • Title
    Probate Will of John Chetwood, Doctor of Laws, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. & Copy.
  • Date free text
    25 Sept 1733. Probate 23 Nov 1733
  • Production date
    From: 1733 To: 1733
  • Scope and Content
    To sister Elizabeth Chetwood all real and personal estate in Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Cambridge, she paying all debts and legacies. To sister Mrs Ann Cotton and her daughter Mrs Askham £500. To King’s College, Cambridge £100. To Reverend Wadham Knatchbull, Fellow of Trinity, all books and manuscripts sermons of his father (i.e. Knightley Chetwood), and a locket of Lord Roscommon’s hair and a ring at the funeral value £1.1., and £200. To Trinity College, £150 “towards founding a scholarship for a scholar’s due attendance in taking care of the Chapel there”; To Master and Fellows of Trinity at time of death a ring apiece, value £1.1. To Edmund Waller, fellow of St. John’s Cambridge, £10. To Dr. Willymot, fellow of King’s, £10. Other monetary bequests to Dr. Warren of Trinity, Styan Thirlby of Jesus, William Mundy of Pembroke, and to each a ring. To servant Robert Leach £10 and all clothes and linen, “he disposing of my surplice and hood to be used in a proper manner”. “And I do recommend it to the said Mr. Knatchbull that he….. give directions that immediately after his decease all the said manuscripts sermons…. Shall be burnt or destroyed so as never more to be perused.” To poor of Tempsford, £10. Executrix sister Elizabeth. Supervisor and assistant; friend Dr. Stephen Cotterell, advocate at Doctors Commons, with £200. To be buried if a fellow of Trinity at time of decease, in Chapel there, near Dr. Eden. Witnesses. Jeremiah Beard, Thomas Richardson, William Barnes. Gives detailed instructions for funeral etc. With dispositions by Henry Bandysh, John Arnold and Samuel Gateward as to testator’s handwriting, the making of the will and inter-lineation’s.
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