Reference
AN7/56
Title
Copy will of George Hooper of Biggleswade, gentleman
Date free text
2 February 1795
Production date
From: 1795 To: 1795
Scope and Content
- devising and bequeathing to his son John Hooper of Dunstable, gentleman, all his real and personal estate chargeable with annuities and legacies;
- bequeathing £16 per annum to educate and clothe “genteely” his natural son John Hooper Rains “which I had by my Housekeeper Sarah Rains formerly of Great Barford deceased” until he was ten years old and from that age £20 per annum “to educate him at a good boarding school and cloath him genteely desiring may not be put too far from my Executor that he see to his welfare and management being very desirous to make him a Scholar until he attains the age of Sixteen years or a year sooner if he is fit to put out and then if his mind and Inclination turns to the law or Physic which I hope it will do I give and bequeath to him Eighty pounds to put him out Clerk or apprentice and if his Inclination should be for the law could wish my Son and Executor John Hooper would take him himself if they both agree and like it for seven years (instead of five years) during which Seven Years I give and bequeath to him then only Ten pounds a year for Cloaths and Pocket Money”;
- bequeathing £200 to John Hooper Rains when he became 21;
- “Provided and in case a good Vacancy or Opportunity should offer or happen were there is a prospect of his, the said John Hooper Rains’ doing well at any time after the expiration of his Clerkship or apprenticeship of Seven years in the opinion and Judgement of my Executor then and in that case do impower my Executor to pay the whole or any part of the said last mentioned Legacy at his discretion to the said John Hooper Rains to set him out in his business or profession and I do hereby desire my Son and Executor to lend the said John Hooper Rains one hundred pounds on his, the said John Hooper Rains’ own bond, if in his opinion it will do him good and promote him in his business”;
- bequeathing to William Ansell “my late footboy” five guineas for mourning “but do not charge my real Estate with the payment of this small legacy”;
- desiring to be decently buried inside the parish church “where it may please God to Call me hence”;
- nominating and appointing his son John as sole executor “and also Guardian and Trustee confiding in his honor and integrity of doing what is right of and for the poor Orphan my said natural son John Hooper Rains”;
- witnesses: John Canington senior; Samuel Race and John Canington junior
Memorandum revoking the legacy of five guineas to William Ansell, instead giving him all his wearing apparel excepting his last suit of clothes - 22 February 1795
Proved 3 July 1795
Level of description
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