Reference
R6/15/1/22
Title
Copy will of Sir Humphrey Monoux
Date free text
30 January 1675 [1676]
Production date
From: 1676 To: 1676
Scope and Content
Copy will of Sir Humphrey Monoux “at nine of the clock in the night … being sick in body”:
- to be buried in the chancel of Wootton church;
- devising to his eldest son Humphrey a cottage and pightle, orchard, garden and arable land in Wootton of the annual value of £10;
- devising to his second son Lewis the Manor of Cranfield “which I lately purchased in my said son’s name with intention to give him”;
- bequeathing his personal estate jointly to his sons Lewis and Philip except his plain cloth and stuff clothes which he gave to his servant Thomas Rickard;
- appointing his sons Lewis and Philip as executors;
- witnesses William Hastings, Frances Lilley and Rebecka Skelton;
- proved in PCC on 14 March 1675
Level of description
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