Reference
O/178
Title
Will of Margaret Osborne of Forthampton (county Gloucestershire) widow
Date free text
20 Oct 1661; Probate: 1 Apr 1663
Production date
From: 1661 To: 1663
Scope and Content
To neice Lady Martha, Countess of Monmouth, her sister’s daughter:
- pair of silver candlesticks price £40 and her mother’s picture
To Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Mullgrave, her neice:
- pair of silver candlesticks price £40
To Mr John Osborne’s wife:
- “my great diamond ringe”
To John Osborne, son of said John Osborne:
- “my great quilt button cupp”
To Margaret daughter of said John Osborne:
- “my wedding ring and my little cabinett with spiritts”
To Elizabeth daughter of said John Osborne:
- “my wrought silver drinking cupp”
To Mr Phillip Frowd’s daughter:
“my Great Silver Tankerd”
To Phillip son of said Phillip Frowd:
- 5 pounds in gold
To Corney Frowd:
- £100 “and the trunke full of bookes standing in the Chappell and all my English bookes about my house”
To William Dowdeswell, grandson, son of Dr Dowdeswell:
- £10
To “Mrs Coomes her two sons”:
- £8 each
To Mrs Hester James:
- “the silver porringer I last bought”
To her mother and sister:
- mourning rings
To Thomas Dowdeswell, junior “whom I bred up”:
- £25
To Thomas Dowdeswell senior:
- 40s
To William Brighton:
- £5
To Amy Browne:
- £8 and 2 pair of sheets “the one flaxen and the other hempen”; also a “suite of my wearing lennen from head to foote and my workeday gown and petticoate”
To Nicholas Hutton:
- £10
To Mary Hutton:
- “the bedd and all the furniture belonging to it that she lieth on and the yellow chaires and stooles suitable to itt”; yellow curtains, a silver porringer, 2 silver spoons; small silver candlestick; “all my wearing apparell linnen and woollen”; “three paire of flaxen sheets”; three pairs of “pillowbeares”; “ a long Turky worke cuishion”; “the second Beefe pott”; “the great Brasse kettle”; half a dozen pewter dishes; warming pan; baking dish; a large flagon; £50 in money
To Thomas Frowde:
- £20
To godson John Smither:
- £10
To the poor of Forthampton to be distributed by Mary Hutton:
- £10
To Mr Christopher Ward and his wife and Mr Sayers of Worcester and wife:
- 40s each for rings
To Margaret Hale “a poore widdow sometime my servant”:
- 20s
Executors: Cousin John Osborne (son of Sir Peter Osborne) and Phillip Frowde
Witnesses: William Biddl; Hopewell Heyward; John Smyther 20 October 1661
PROBATE: 1 April 1663
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