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Office copy will of Henry Lowen

3 August 1717 proved 4 February 1717 [1718]

From: 1718 To: 1718

Office copy will of Henry Lowen of Bedford, gentleman: - confirming the jointure to his wife Elizabeth; - devising the Rose Inn, Bedford in the occupation of Richard Boston to his wife to increase her jointure; - bequeathing £10 to his wife for mourning; - devising and bequeathing the residue of his real and personal estate to his father-in-law Robert Bell and his friend William Staines, innkeeper in trust for the child with which his wife might be pregnant at his death, if she was not pregnant then in trust for his sister Elizabeth Horton, widow; - appointing Elizabeth Horton sole executrix and appointing that she should pay Elizabeth Lowen an annuity of £25 during the joint lives of Elizabeth Lowen and Margaret Lowen (as provided for in the marriage settlement) giving security as approved by William Staines and Robert Bell when they conveyed the real estate to her - witnessed by Francis Brace, John Pepiatt, Thomas Howen, notary public and William Goodhall

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Lowen, Henry,
Lowen, Elizabeth,
Boston, Richard,
Bell, Robert,
Staines, William,
Horton, Elizabeth,
Lowen, Margaret,
Brace, Francis,
Pepiatt, John,
Howen, Thomas,
Goodhall, William

BEDFORD, Bedford Swan Hotel, Bedford Castle, Bedford fields, bowling, wills, Bedford Rose, mourning, annuities, notary public