• Reference
    RY89
  • Title
    Will (copy) of Thomas Stokes, Layton Stone, Essex, gentleman
  • Date free text
    27 Jan 1726; proved 22 Feb 1726
  • Production date
    From: 1726 To: 1726
  • Scope and Content
    Body to be buried in chancel of church at Boxford, Suffolk to wife Elizabeth £800 South Sea Annuities over and above her jointure, also remainder of lease of house and premises in which he lives, all plate and jewels, household goods etc., but if she remarried the place purchased by testator of given by his relations to go to testator's brother, George Stokes of Dulwich, gentleman to brother George Stokes, £1,000 East India Stock, life interest after death of widow in house in Exchange Alley, London, known as Garroways Coffee House, now in tenure Mr John Morice to George Benyon, son of Henry Benyon of Boxford, gentleman, the same Garroways Coffee House on death of George Stokes, also a house in Sheer Lane, London, in tenure Charles White; to Thomas Lee, Fenchurch Street, London, gentleman, after death of wife, a farm in Eggington near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, in tenure of one Atwell Wells, part freehold, part copyhold, consisting of a farmhouse, barns, lands; £200 to Henry Benyon £200 to mother-in-law Elizabeth Cooke £100 to brother David Petty of Wanstead, gentleman, £30 for mourning to friend Thomas Orbell £50 to widow Allason of Hampton £20 to servant boy George How £20 residue to wife Elizabeth, sole executrix witnesses: Mary Mureil, Joanna Collens, Richard Wise, Burchin Lane, London made 27 Jan 1726 proved: Prerogative Court of Canterbury 22 Feb 1726
  • Level of description
    item