• Reference
    HY765
  • Title
    Copy will of William Richardson citizen and merchant tailor of London.
  • Date free text
    23 May 1688. Proved: 19 June 1688.
  • Production date
    From: 1688 To: 1688
  • Scope and Content
    Property in London to son John; in Surrey and Berkshire to son William; in Middlesex to son William. £2000 mortgage from John Harvey, to 3 sons of son William and children of daughter Katherine. Bequests to son William and daughter Hening for mourning. Monetary bequests to Thomas Smith and his eldest son, John Watson, “my nurse Abigail”, Mr. Nobles, daughter Hening’s nurse, poor of St. Dunstan’s in the West, and St. Clement’s Dane. Executors: Edmund Bolsworth, John Walton, Francis Sambrooke of the Middle Temple, London gentleman, and John Rawling of Inner Temple, London gentleman. If son William and his wife Sarah, recover £500 which by will of Robert Harvey is to be laid out in land, real estate is to be charged therewith, not personal estate.
  • Level of description
    item