BS953

Probate of John Browning of Lincolns Inn, esquire. Personal bequests [details given]. Witnesses: Beverley Filmer, Robert Harper, William Edwards

18 Dec 1756, proved 23 Mar 1780

From: 1756 To: 1780

Details given: To wife Catherine, £500, plate and household goods in house at Chelsea, except his 'scrutore', books in closet, picture and small picture of late father (to only child Catherine); also messuages and lands, freehold and copyhold, in Much Hadham, to wife for life, and then to brother-in-law Edward Nicklin and Edward Wakefield of London, merchant, for use of daughter and heirs, remainder to nephew Edward, son of late brother William, and then to brother Joseph. Also to wife for life, farm and lands at Kitchen End, Pulloxhill, inherited from late brother Hind Browning; remainder to brothers Joseph and James and nephew Edward. To daughter Catherine, chambers in Lincolns Inn. To friend Edmund Hoskins of Lincolns Inn, twenty guineas, also to trustees, executors, and children of late sister Mary Dickenson. To brothers Joseph and James, manor of Britvilles alias Birchfield, and messuages and lands in Barford, Millbrook and Kempston to be sold and divided among: nephew Edward Browning, nieces Catherine and Rebecca Browning, nephew Benjamin Bucknal, son of late sister Rebecca, brothers Joseph and James, and sister Elizabeth Payne, Sophia Nicklin.

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Browning, John,
Filmer, Beversham,
Harper, Robert,
Edwards, William,
Browning, Catherine,
Nicklin, Edward,
Wakefield, Edward,
Browning, Edward,
Browning, William,
Browning, Joseph,
Browning, Hinde,
Browning, James,
Hoskins, Edmund,
Dickenson, Mary,
Browning, Mary,
Browning, Rebecca,
Bucknal, Benjamin,
Bucknal, Rebecca,
Payne, Elizabeth,
Browning, Elizabeth,
Nicklin, Sophia,
Browning, Sophia

will, merchant, manors, Great Barford Birchfield Farm, Lincolns Inn, Chelsea, Much Hadham, London, Pulloxhill Kitchen End, Great Barford, MILLBROOK, KEMPSTON