Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    V386
  • Title
    Office Copy of Will. (Prerogative of Court of Canterbury) Richard How of Aspley Guise, gentleman
  • Date free text
    1763
  • Production date
    From: 1763 To: 1763
  • Scope and Content
    Brother-in-law Herman Hingsberg became bound with testator to Joseph Freame for payment of £500 plus interest. Executors to discharge this bond first of all. Testator is bound to said Joseph Freame for payment of £140 plus interest, this bond to be discharged next. There was a settlement of testator’s lands on issue of his marriage with Susanna Briggins, who at the time of her death left two children, both sons, Richard and Briggins. Lands subsequently enclosed. Sons on testator’s advice each agreed to take the part of the settled lands which lie next to the lands which belonged or are appointed to them. There lay near Richard’s lands more than his moiety of the settlement lands to the amount of £16.5s.4d. per annum. Requests sons to find the most legal settlement of the lands of the said value as valued by the commissioners of 25 years purchase being £405.13s.4d. to be assigned to Briggins How and lands assigned to him to be Crab Tree Meadow, Under Steppington Meadow,Plowed Powage and 14 acres of the Hill Land that Samuel Wooden now rents, to be laid out in a straight line drawn to cut off the 14 acres from that which lies next to the Powage To Briggins How new dwelling house testator lately built in which Samuel Wooden now lives and outhouses etc. belonging; also Rositer Lane Field and 15 acres of the Hill Land now let to Thomas Smith at the New Inn; messuage and outhouses now in the occupation of Ralph French; pieces of land allotted to testator by Award on north of road from Aspley to Hogsty End and west of road leading to London, provided Briggins How will advance to executors towards payment of debts £1,230 To Richard How, mansion house testator now lives in and new house adjoining now occupied by son Richard How, William Joyce and self, with Dove House Close, Whitstering Ground Cannalls Moors Dry and Lammas Crickhill with a small close called the Nursery late bought of Walter Scott with outhouses belonging, being a small dairy and new buildings on the east side of the yard, the coach-house with all the new erected buildings on the north side of the yard and the stable on the northwest corner thereof, the Dovehouse in Dovehouse Close, the Summer House in the garden and the two little tenements in Lammas Crickhill; piece of ground called Fulway common and Fulway Meadow; 2 pasture grounds in the occupation of John Walduck and the little enclosed patch of ground adjoining to Berry Lane together with lands allotted to testator by Award on east side of the road from Salford to London and south of road from Aspley to Hogstye End; messuage and appurtenances in the occupation of Thomas Showeler; messuage in the occupation of the Thomas Quarry, John Adkins and Thomas Goodman; messuage in the occupation of Robert Spurford and --- Clarke with closes and orchards thereto belonging; tenement in the occupation of Thomas Hulls. Provided that Richard How will advance testator’s several creditors £2,800. Testaor’s personal estate consisting of debts owing to him, rents and arrears of rents due to him and money in and about London and elsewhere for dung and ashes and other things sold from his laystalls, and from one parish for cleansing the streets, wine and other things. Household goods and other goods at Aspley Guise and Puddle Dock London with all utensils of husbandry used about the laystalls, with corn, wine and hay to be valued; executor may retain them for his own use or sell them. Son Richard How sole executor. Witnesses: William Joyce, Thomas Walduck, Richard Patch. 30 June 1763. Proved at London by the affirmation of Richard How the son and executor 12 July 1763. pencil endorsement: Hoare [see also NC1279]
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