Reference
ABP/W1726/85
Title
Will of Nicolas Brown of Sutton, bricklayer.
Date free text
10 September 1726, codicil 8 Nov 1726, proved 27 January 1726/7
Production date
From: 1726 To: 1727
Scope and Content
- To son William Brown and his heirs for ever all that cottage or tenement with all appurtenances thereto belonging and a close thereto adjoyning called by the name of Smyths House & Close lying and being in the bounds of Cople. To him and his heirs when he shall attain the age of 23 years and not before.
- To daughter Elizabeth Brown piece of ground called by the name of Woodards Pikill unto her and her heirs for ever when she shall attain the age of 21 years.
My will and meaning is that my trustee or executor hereafter named; my children shall suffer him to take all the rents and profits of all my estate at Cople, until such time as I have given it to my aforesaid children, And my Trustee receiving the rents thereof I desire may be laid out or expended towards my son and daughter's education, and to buy necessaries for them as my trustee shall think most convenient.
- To son William my great chest all my wearing apparel and best feather bed [best feather bed crossed through] two silver spoons one of them being a new one, the other an old one, two gold rings of the least sort.
- All my linen to be equally divided between my son William and daughter Elizabeth, my will is that my son shall have his part of linen delivered to him when he shall attain the age of twenty three years and my daughter's part to be kept by my trustee till she attains the age of 21 and then to be delivered to her.
- To my daughter Elizabeth my wife's trunk and also her wearing apparel and my best gold ring and two silver spoons, an old one and new one.
- All my pewter to be equally divided betwixt my son and daughter to be delived to them at the time my linen is delivered.
- And whereas I have mortgaged that estate given unto my son William for 20 pounds and if it should happen for that moneys to be called in I give my trustee full power to mortgage that estate for the payment of the 20 pounds and likewise to take up more moneys if there should be occasion for it.
- All the rest of my goods and chattels unbequeathed I give and bequeath unto my trusty and well beloved friend Thomas Handley of Sutton in the County of Bedford, carpenter, whom I make sole executor and trustee of this my last will and testament in trust and for the use of my poor orphans.
- and my will and meaning is that whatever trouble or charges my executor or trustee shall be put to in executing the trusts aforesaid he shall have full power from time to time to take and deduct out of the premises all such charges expences and disbursments as he shall expend or lay out or be put unto by reason of the trusts.
Signed Nicolass Brown.
Witnesses: John Laighton, Robert Rayment and Judith Brown [by mark].
Codicill "my will & desire is that Mathew Pedly of Sutton shall Act as Trustee with my other Trustee Tho. Handley" Signed Nicholass Brown witnesses Elizabeth Rayment and Judith Brown [both sign by mark]
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