BS1416

Probate Will of Anne Pickard, wife of Thomas Pickard of London, esquire. Various bequests [details given]. Executrix: daughter Anne Chetwood. Witnesses: Gilbert Horsman, Richard Farshall, Isaac Malleson

10 Feb 1709/10, proved 5 May 1711

From: 1709 To: 1711

Details given: - To granddaughter Elizabeth Chetwood, £400 at 21 or marriage. - To grandson John Chetwood, £100 at 21. - To granddaughter Anne Cotton, 'my two sleeve jewels' and to her eldest daughter Anne, 'my 2 lockets set with diamonds'. - To the following, certain sums of money for mourning: son in law Doctor Chetwood, Sir Thomas Abney and his lady, 'my sister Shute', brother and sister Gray, grandson Cotton, granddaughter his wife, their daughter Anne, Mr Isaac Watts, minister, Mr Price, his assistant. Other monetary bequests to: sister Shute, sister Gray, Mr Christopher Carlisle and Mr Wroc, ministers at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, to nieces, Mrs Martha Bendish, Mrs Anne Shute, Mrs Mary Gray, Mrs Elizabeth Oake, Mrs Rebecca Caryll, Mrs Anne Newcombe, to William Tonge 'now living with me', 'old Mrs Tutty', Mrs Hephsiba Freeman, Mrs Mary Langley, cousin Bostick senior. To the last an annuity of £5. Recites that she is possessed of a considerable sum in Bank of England Stock, and property in Barwell alias Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, mortgaged to her by Nicholas Tabor, which is bequeathed to nephews John Shute, Henry Bendish, Joseph Caryll, Benjamin Shute, together with jewels, plate, furniture etc upon trust first to let husband Thomas use and enjoy same for life (except 'my damask bed at Theobald's'), then after payment of debts to be disposed of as daughter Chetwood wife of Doctor Chetwood directs. To Shute, Bendish, Caryll and Shute,10 guineas apiece for mourning.

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Pickard, Anne,
Pickard, Thomas,
Chetwood, Anne,
Horsman, Gilbert,
Farshall, Richard,
Malleson, Isaac,
Chetwood, Elizabeth,
Chetwood, John,
Cotton, Anne,
Chetwood, Knightley,
Abney, Thomas,
Shute, Anne,
Gray, Mary,
Watts, Isaac,
Price,
Carlisle, Christopher,
Wroc,
Bendish, Martha,
Oake, Elizabeth,
Caryll, Rebecca,
Newcombe, Anne,
Tonge, William,
Tutty,
Freeman, Hephsiba,
Langley, Mary,
Bostick,
Tabor, Nicholas,
Shute, John,
Bendish, Henry,
Caryll, Joseph,
Shute, Benjamin

will, Doctor of Divinity, clergy, London, Cheshunt, Cambridge Barnwell, Holborn Theobalds Road