• Reference
    O/179
  • Title
    Copy of O/178
  • 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
  • Level of description
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