• Reference
    AN7/36
  • Title
    Copy will of James Mailes of Stotfold, gentleman:
  • Date free text
    19 May 1728
  • Production date
    From: 1728 To: 1728
  • Scope and Content
    - devising to his father Mathew and mother Elizabeth for their lives: all freehold and copyhold land in Stotfold bought from George Wright; messuage in Stotfold where he dwelt; all his other real estate; remainder to his brother-in-law William Burton and Joanna, his wife for their lives; remainder to their children in default to the heirs of the survivor of William and Joanna Burton; - bequeathing £200 to William Burton; - bequeathing to his Godson and nephew James Burton, son of William, £20; - bequeathing £20 to Thomas, son of his brother Mathew to put him out as apprentice, not to be paid into the hands of Mathew but remain with his executors until Thomas was placed apprentice; - bequeathing £100 to his brother Mathew to be paid on the death of his father over and above any sums of money given him by Doctor Arthur, deceased; - bequeathing £5 to his Goddaughter Anne, daughter of Edward Marshal of Baldock [Hertfordshire], innholder; - bequeathing residue of his personal estate to his father; - appointing his father and William Burton joint executors; - witnesses: Mary Britten, Anne Fisher of Hitchin [Hertfordshire] [by mark] and William Sparhauke
  • Level of description
    item