Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X307/27
  • Title
    Office copy of probate of the will of Thomas Faldo of Biddenham, clerk
  • Date free text
    made 12 Aug 1713; probate 2 Apr 1717
  • Production date
    From: 1713 To: 1717
  • Scope and Content
    To nephew Thomas Faldo of Shefford, clockmaker … messuage lately built in Biddenham in testator's own occupation with outhouses and gardens, for his life, and on his death his wife, late Sarah Laurence of Henlow, to have a life interest and an annuity of £12 a year out of the other property in Biddenham for her survivorship To niece Elizabeth Peach of London, sister of Thomas Faldo, the clockmaker … 40s a year for 7 years, charged on Biddenham estate, in particular on land held by John Dawson and the little close by the riverside in tenure of Richard Facey and 1 acre meadow in Broad Mead To said nephew Thomas Faldo for life, then to his heirs male by Sarah, in default to heirs male by any other wife, in default to Lucy, Elizabeth and Sarah, daughters of Thomas Faldo by wife Sarah and their heirs, and in default to niece Elizabeth Peach for life, then to her son John Peach for life, and his heirs male, in default to testator's right heirs … messuage or manor house in Biddenham, now or late in occupation of Henry Woodard or assigns, with barns, stables, outhouses, land etc.; i.e. closes called Home close, Bulls close, and Fallow close, and 2 pightles near the dwelling house with hemp lands and old orchard, and a pightle called the Spinney; meadow in Broadmead and Sundermead; a pightle at the Stone Pitts; grass ground in the Marsh; arable land in Church field, Middle field, Windmill or North field and South field To Thomas Chayne, esquire £10 To four godsons, Whitehead, Prudden, Noads and Moor … a guinea each executors to give Henry Woodard time to pay £20 now owing and his back rent, and if he pays all but £10, then the £10 to be abated To Catherine Cheyne, daughter of Thomas Cheyne, esquire … his diamond ring and two silver salvers To niece Sarah Faldo … hangings in his chamber over the kitchen at the house in "Beddingham" with half a dozen turkey worked chairs; blue hangings in the garret with bedstead, bedding and curtains and also the paper hangings in the small room next the parlour; his eight day clock and his furnace and brewing vessels To kinsman Guy Hillersdon, clerk £5 To Orlebar Fletcher, citizen of London £5 To Anne Tarry, if in his service … £10 and all wearing apparell except testator's silk morning gown To poor of Biddenham 40s to be distributed at his funeral or afterwards To Guy Hillersdon of Castle Ashby, clerk, and to Orlebar Fletcher … all his leasehold messuages or tenements with appurtenances at Queenhithe, "Addle Hill", or elsewhere in the city of London, and in Kirby Street in Hatton Garden or elsewhere in Middlesex, for residue of terms, for the benefit of testator's "daughter in law" Rose Dixon, wife of George Dixon, D.D. residue of goods to same trustees for use of Rose Dixon executors to have 6 months use of house to move goods if he die in winter, 3 months if in summer Executors: guy Hillesden and Orlebar Fletcher made 12 Aug 1713 Witnesses: William Goodhall, William Weale junior, William Turner Grant of probate 2 April 1717 to Rose, wife of George Dixon, S.T.P., [Professor of Sacred Theology] as executors named had renounced etc.
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