Reference
R6/5/13/8
Title
Office copy will of John Cooke
Date free text
31 May 1803
Production date
From: 1803 To: 1831
Scope and Content
Office copy will of John Cooke, alderman of Bedford:
- appointing his wife Eleanor sole executrix;
- bequeathing to his friend John Gotobed of Norfolk Street, Strand [Middlesex], esquire, ten guineas for a ring “as a small mark of my respect for him”;
- John, 4th Duke of Bedford had borrowed £3,700 from him on 5 May 1803 and the testator bequeathed the principal and interest to John Gotobed as trustee until the death of the testator’s wife when the money was to be called in (if all or part was repaid before the death of the testator’s wife it was to be invested) the income was to be paid to the testator’s wife for her own use;
- after the death of his wife the principal and accrued interest was to be transferred to his sister Elizabeth, wife of John Bolding of Eversholt, gentleman for her own use and not liable to her husband’s debts;
- devising all his real estate to his wife and her heirs;
- bequeathing the residue of his personal estate to his wife;
- provision for transfer of trusteeship from John Gotobed;
- witnessed by Samuel Brown, John H. Farlow and William Saffery of 15 Norfolk Street, Strand;
- proved in London on 16 July 1831
Level of description
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