Reference
R6/5/12/18
Title
Will of Henry Lowen
Date free text
26 April 1708
Production date
From: 1708 To: 1708
Scope and Content
Will of Henry Lowen the elder of Bedford, vintner:
- devising all real estate to his wife Margaret for her life, remainder to his son Henry and daughter Elizabeth Horton as tenants in common in shares directed by Margaret; if she made no such division then the whole estate was to devise to Henry who would pay an annuity of £30 per annum to his sister for her life;
- bequeathing £1,000 to his son Henry;
- bequeathing £100 to his servant Mary Amner;
- bequeathing £10 to his cousin William James;
- bequeathing £5 each to William and Henry, sons of his brother [-in-law] William Staines;
- bequeathing £5 each to his nieces Ann, Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of his brother William Lowen;
- bequeathing £5 each to his brother John and John’s daughter Elizabeth;
- bequeathing £500 to Henry, son of his daughter Elizabeth when he became 21, his grandson receiving 5% interest per annum on the sum before he became 21 to be used in maintenance, education or putting him out as an apprentice as the testator’s wife thought fit; any interest unused was to be added to the principal and given when Henry became 21; if Henry the grandson died before becoming 21 the money was to be bequeathed to the testator’s son Henry with unused interest going to the testator’s wife Margaret;
- bequeathing the residue of his personal estate to his wife Margaret;
- appointing Margaret his sole executrix
- Witnessed by John Okely, Thomas Dew, J. Goodhall;
- affixed probate of 10 August 1708
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