Reference
TW1078
Title
File of 4 folios (end missing) being part of a copy of the will of Richard Taylor of Clapham, Bedford, esquire
Date free text
Will made 25 Nov 1667
Production date
From: 1667 To: 1667
Scope and Content
[see also S/AM 75 for a complete copy]
To be buried in Clapham Church in his own pew near his father and mother.
His wife to have her personal jewels and othe ornaments with coach and two best coach horses.
Wife to enjoy Mansion House at Clapham and use of household goods etc. and orchards, gardens, dovehouse, and one of the most convenient stables until male heir come to full age or marry.
As testator has impaired her jointure by about £15 per annum by ploughing up some ground, gives instead an annuity of £20 issuing out of his new enclosed grounds in Clapham known as the Leyfield, the New Field and the Forty Acres.
Reciting Marriage Settlement by which certain parcels of land making c. 125 acre then in occupation of Laurence Williamson and Thomas Fage, were conveyed to uses, and that the greater part of this land has been laid to other lands and the whole inclosed, and are not now distinguishable, grant in lieu an annuity of £32 out of enclosures as described above.
All land etc. in Clapham and elsewhere in Bedfordshire to executors for 31 years on trust together with the manor of Foxton in Cambridgeshire, for as long as he has an interest in it, in order to maintain his eldest son, Wentworth Taylor, until he comes of age or
marries, and to support the two younger sons, Thomas and Compton Taylor. The younger sons are to have £30 each while still at school, then one of them to have £50 per annum at university and Inns of Court until he is 21, in order to read law, and the other to have £10 per annum (after the age of 16) in order that he may be placed apprentice to a merchant or tradesman in London until the age of 21.
His executors to raise £500 for daughter Ursula in augmentation of portion of £1500.
Executors to raise £1250 each as portions for younger sons.
£10 to poor of Bedford St.Paul, where testator was born, £5 to poor of Bolnhurst, 40s to brother-in-law Edward Bosdon esquire, 40s each to testators brothers and sisters to buy rings, £10 to goddaughter Ursula Eccleston, £20 to godson Richard Taylor son of brother Henry Taylor, £10 to niece Cicely Eccleston, £20 to Richard Parker of Parke-end, Bedfordshire, and £10 to Mrs.Goddard his mother...
[William Boteler of Biddenham was an executor]
Level of description
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