Reference
R6/63/35/5
Title
Deed Poll
Date free text
24 October 1620
Production date
From: 1620 To: 1620
Scope and Content
Deed Poll of Francis Crawley of Hardmead [Buckinghamshire], esquire:
- reciting that his deceased father Thomas had an bond of 25th March 1596 to William Duncombe of Battlesden, esquire, now dead and to Hugh Vahan late of Saint Giles-without-Cripplegate, London, gentleman, also dead in the sum of £160 for payment of £90 for the maintenance of Woburn Free School;
- reciting that Hugh Vaughan outlived William Duncombe and that Elizabeth, his wife, was his executrix and she then married Leonard Yeo, esquire;
- reciting that the £90 was owing to Elizabeth Yeo for the benefit of the free school;
- reciting that Thomas Catesby was liable for the £90 and other “great sums” and on 8th July 1620 made a conveyance to Frances [Francis] Catesby [his son] as trustee of all real and personal estate gained by marriage to his wife Elizabeth or which she had as executrix of Bartholomew Morley, Richard Barnard or Abraham Tome;
- reciting that Thomas Catesby died on 26th August 1620 intestate and indebted for the £90 and other debts exceeding his personal estate and Frances Catesby took on the administration of Catesby’s personal estate and wished to discharge the trust in him;
- witnessing that Frances Catesby granted to Elizabeth Yeo all goods and chattels in the following schedule in payment for the debt of £90
Schedule:
- one long pewter plate; six round pewter pie plates; thirty pewter dishes; two basins and two ewers; three pewter baking pans; four pewter pots; three dozen trencher plates; three dozen saucers; three copper kettles; two great kettles of brass; one long “chaffer” of brass without feet; one little brass pot of skillet metal; four great brass pots; one little skillet with a handle; three chafing dishes of brass; two pairs of “crepers” with brass heads with “fire Shoule” and tongs belonging to them; two fish pans of brass; three brass “Brannshes whereof two belonge to the Buckeheads”; one brass strainer; eight feather beds; ten feather bolsters; ten down pillows; two quilts of Spanish wool; three needlework coverlets; one coverlet of “darnix” lined with canvas; five curtains of crimson “grogrape” and “vallans sutable to them with greene fringe”; one “sute of greene say curtaynes”; one “say coverlidd with loopes on the side”; one green rug and two white rugs; one blue rug and two little rugs, two pairs of Spanish blankets, ten pairs of white blankets, one long green carpet edged with a fringe, one other long green carpet, two mixed coloured carpets of “Norridge stuffe”; one cupboard cloth of crimson taffeta edged about with green silk fringe; two green cloth cupboard cloths bordered about with needlework; one long pillow and two cushions of crimson taffeta embroidered with silver and green silk twist; one long pillow and two cushions of matched damask; one long pillow of purple velvet; one needlework pillow; six needlework cushions and six Turkey work cushions; six tapestry cushions and six green cushions; one great chair and two little stools of matched damask; two chairs with backs of needlework; two chairs of needlework with walnut tree backs; eight little stools of velvet and needlework; one court cupboard of wainscot; two little presses; one great press with two cupboards in it; one great safe with two cupboards in it; two trundle beds; one court cupboard with two cupboards in it; three “draweringe” tables two of them little ones; twelve joined stools and two long tables; four bedsteads; thirty six pairs of flaxen harden sheets; one cypress box; one great barred chest barred with iron; four Flanders chests; two other chest [unreadable word] boxes; four trunks; two iron dripping pans; six spits
Witnessed by: Edmund Hardinge; Cavendishe Alsopp; William Stanton; John Carter; Ruben Browne.
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