BS821

Probate of Humphrey Dell of Flitwick. Many bequests and codicil [details given]. Executrix Ann Fisher, wife of Jeffery Fisher. Witnesses: Thomas Coleman, Elizabeth Scott, Mary Wenright

16 Jul 1764, proved 13 Sep 1764

From: 1764 To: 1764

Details given: To cousin Martha Dell, annuity of £20 payable out of messuages and lands in Marston Moretaine which are left to friend Frank Nichols of Oxford, doctor of physic; To friend Jeffery Fisher of Maulden, esquire, leasehold lands in Maulden held of Harrow Free Grammar School; To Richard Filkes senior and junior, apothecary of Woburn (in trust for goddaughter Ann, daughter of Jeffery Fisher and wife Ann), capital messuage at Flitwick with appurtenances in Greenfield, Maulden and Cranfield; To Richard Filkes senior £100, junior £50. To the following, various monetary bequests: James Stonehouse of Bristol; Mrs Baresby, widow, of Leicester; godchildren (Doctor Stonehouse's son, Doctor Cotton's daughter of St Albans, Henry Fisk Palmer's son of Ickwell, Reverend Dove's daughter of Hertfordshire); daughter of Reverend Rowse of Clophill; cousin King, late of the excise; Mrs Coppin of Ampthill; Reverend Aveling of Ampthill; James Grassinean, Mrs Grassinean, their niece Miss Godfrey at Bedford; friend Mr Brydall of Ampthill, apothecary; Miss Bett Essex of Felmersham; William Cook of Maulden, thatcher, 'whose integrity I have so often experienced'; Mr Ekins, treasurer of Royal Exchange Assurance; his sister Mrs Banks of Reading; William Sharp, surgeon, of Mincing Lane 'as a small acknowledgment for his unceasing tenderness, Attention and great Skill during my late being his patient'; Mr Waller, now living with Mr Fleming of Bedford, apothecary; 'my old friend Reverend Mr Williamson of Milbrook'; Reverend Rowse of Clophill. To the poor (to put out a child apprentice; and to be distributed at Christmas): Flitwick (£10; £5); Maulden (£5; £5); Cranfield (£8; 40 shillings); Marston (£10; £5); the last to be by advice of tenant Mr Bosworth and Reverend Hatton, rector, as my dear friend Doctor Nichols is a stranger to the parish. Mourning rings: Cuthbert Sheldon, esquire, of Flitwick Reverend Grey of Ampthill Reverend Aveling, vicar of Flitwick Reverend Williamson of Millbrook Reverend Rowse of Clophill Reverend Dove of Offley Reverend Laurence Smythe of Southill Reverend Doctor Crane of Sutton Reverend Shan senior of Chicheley, Buckinghamshire Reverend Shan junior of Linford Reverend Cole of North Crawley Sir Roger Burgoyne, baronet, of Sutton William Lowndes, esquire, of Astwood William Lowndes Stone, esquire, of Oxfordshire Talbot Williamson, esquire, of London Walter Scott, esquire, of Aspley Sir Thomas Salisbury of Offley William Daniel, esquire, of Southill Codicil of same date adds to bequest to goddaughter Ann Fisher. Fee-farm rent at Flitwick for purchase of which he is then negotiating: cousin Martha Dell and sister are not to interfere.

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Dell, Humphrey,
Fisher, Ann,
Fisher, Jeffery,
Coleman, Thomas,
Scott, Elizabeth,
Wenright, Mary,
Dell, Martha,
Nichols, Frank,
Filkes, Richard,
Stonehouse, James,
Baresby,
Cotton,
Palmer, Henry Fish,
Dove,
Rowse,
King,
Coppin,
Aveling,
Grassinean, James,
Godfrey,
Brydall,
Essex, Bett,
Cook, William,
Ekins,
Banks,
Sharp, William,
Waller,
Fleming,
Williamson,
Bosworth,
Hatton,
Sheldon, Cuthbert,
Grey,
Smythe, Laurence,
Crane,
Shan,
Cole,
Burgoyne, Roger,
Lowndes, William,
Stone, William Lowndes,
Williamson, Talbot,
Scott, Walter,
Salisbury, Thomas,
Daniel, William

will, annuities, doctor of physic, Harrow School, apothecary, clergy, excise, thatcher, Royal Exchange Assurance Office, surgeon, fee farm rents, FLITWICK, MARSTON MORETAINE, Oxford, MAULDEN, WOBURN, Greenfield, CRANFIELD, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Ickwell, Hertfordshire, CLOPHILL, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, FELMERSHAM, Reading, City of London Mincing Lane, MILLBROOK, Offley, SOUTHILL, SUTTON, Chicheley, Great Linford, North Crawley, Astwood, London, Aspley