• Reference
    KK306
  • Title
    Manor of Leighton Buzzard
  • Date free text
    5 Jun 1707
  • Production date
    From: 1707 To: 1707
  • Scope and Content
    Admission of Rachel Fowlkes widow. On death of Edmund Fowlkes. -- messuage in Heath and Reach in the occupation of Richard Bird. (Reciting surrender, 17 October 1706 by Edmunds Fowlkes to use of will; will of Edmund Fowlkes, 26 May 1706, bequeathing to daughter Catherine £800, to be held in trust by her father-in-law Thomas Gregory gentleman, John Littlejohn junior of Holcote clerk, Ambrose Riddall junior of Eversholt gentleman – if daughter dies before 21 and wife bears testator posthumous child which also dies, lands in Ampthill and Maulden to aunt Rebecca Plumbe for life, remainder to wife Rachel; lands in Heath and Reach, Flitwick, Millbrook and Cranfield to wife Rachel, paying £200 to cousin William Plumbe and £100 to cousin Elizabeth Wilkes and £10 each to cousins John, William, and Thomas Edmunds, Elizabeth Snart, Mary Monck, Ann Allen).
  • Level of description
    item