BS739

Probate of the will of Sarah Evens of Ampthill, widow. Personal bequests [details given]. Executor: John Richardson. Witnesses: Robert Cooper, William Cooper, Elizabeth Anvill

6 Dec 1686, proved 3 May 1689

From: 1686 To: 1689

Details given: Devises to four grandchildren Sarah and Elizabeth Lammon and John and Mary Butler a messuage in Ampthill wherein she dwells; in default of their heirs to daughter Sarah Butler, and in default of her heirs to kinsman John Richardson of Ampthill. Pecuniary legacies to daughter Sarah, grandsons, Thomas, Timothy and William Butler, granddaughters Elizabeth and Sarah Butler and Sarah Lammon, and niece Mary Cooper, also sons-in-law Thomas Lammon and John Butler. To granddaughter Mary Butler, 'two pare of Hemptar sheets, one diaper board cloath, halfe a dozen of diaper napkins'. To granddaughter Sarah Lammon, 'all the goods in the parlour chamber, that is to say one joyned Bedstead, one sett of Red curtaines, one feather bedd, two feather bolsters, two feather pillowes, one flannel blankett, one coverlid, one parlet bedstead, one wool bedd, a Livery cupboard, a little table with a draw in it, one great chest, a black looking-glass, one wicker cheare, three green cheares, one long oaken table, foure high joynt stooles, two low ones, two brass Kettles, two skilletts, one brass warming pann, one brass chafendish, one bell metall morter, one brass porridge pott, one paire of handirons, foure pewter platters, one pewter flagon, one paire of pewter candlesticks, one paire of flaxen Ellwide sheets, one fine paire of Hemptar sheets, one paire of Holland pillowbears, a Hemptar table cloath, halfe-a-dozen of flaxen napkins'. To granddaughter Elizabeth Lammon, 'one long table, two joyne stooles, one joyne forme, two pewter platters, two paire of Hemptar sheets, one hemptar table cloath, half-a-dozen of Hemptar napkins'.

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Evens, Sarah,
Richardson, John,
Cooper, Robert,
Cooper, William,
Anvill, Elizabeth,
Lammon, Sarah,
Lammon, Elizabeth,
Butler, John,
Butler, Mary,
Butler, Sarah,
Butler, Thomas,
Butler, Timothy,
Butler, William,
Butler, Elizabeth,
Cooper, Mary,
Lammon, Thomas

wills, AMPTHILL