Reference
J158
Title
Probate of Dame Mary Crowley, St Anne's Westminster, widow.
Date free text
Will 11 April 1723, probate 13 February 1727/8.
Production date
From: 1723 To: 1728
Scope and Content
-- burial in Mitcham (Surrey) parish church, with husband. £300 for monument.
-- to sons-in-law Sir John Hynde Cotton, Baronet, and Richard Fleming, £8000 in trust to invest for maintenance of daughter Mary Hallett and her children, exclusive of her husband James Hallett.
-- after Mary’s death, £5000 to be divided among Elizabeth Crowley, Lettice, John and Sarah, the younger children of Mary.
-- to trustees £6500 to invest for daughter Sarah Parsons, and after her death for her children, exclusive of her husband Humphrey.
-- to trustees £6500 similarly for daughter Anne, wife of Richard Fleming.
-- from the mortgage of £7600 by Sir John Hynde Cotton to testator, (manors of Wilsford (Wiltshire), Lamwade (Cambridgeshire) and Exning (Suffolk), her grandchildren Sir John and Mary Cotton (children of her daughter Dame Lettice Cotton, deceased) are to have £6500.
-- to her daughter Elizabeth Crowley: manor of Broughton (Huntingdonshire), or £6500.
-- bequests for mourning, £500 to Humphrey Parsons, Richard Flemynge, daughter Mary Hallett, daughter Elizabeth Crowley, £50 to uncle Thomas Burgess, £20 to each of his three children.
-- messuage, the ‘Bell’, Bristol, to be charged with payment of £30 per annum for niece Mary Burgess.
-- estate at Hendon to be charged with payment of £10 per annum for servant Dorothy Took, if still in her service.
-- to servant Mary Hodges £20, if still in her service.
-- to other servants 1 year’s wages.
-- to daughter Ann Flemynge and Elizabeth Crowley in trust to sell, estates in Cheapside and Bow Lane, London, and at Hendon (Middlesex), and messuage in Bristol.
-- to Charity School, Allhallows, London, £100 to be invested.
-- to poor of Mitcham, £20.
-- daughter Ann Flemynge and Elizabeth Crowley to be executors.
-- Reciting: release to her son John Crowley, estate in City of London of her deceased husband.
-- to granddaughter Mary Crowley £1000 at 21 or marriage.
-- to Elizabeth Crowley, dividends in South Sea Company.
-- use of plate and goods, formerly James Hallett’s, ‘which I bought for her own special and peculiar benefit’, to daughter Mary Hallett, after her death to grandson Crowley Hallett.
Witnesses: . . . . .Hamersley, W Cottrell, Knevitt Rawlette.
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