Reference
AN9/15
Title
Will of Mary Inskip of Stanford, Southill, widow:
Date free text
8 May 1713
Production date
From: 1713 To: 1713
Scope and Content
- devising and bequeathing to her friends Thomas Inskip of Ramerick, Ickleford [Hertfordshire], yeoman and Joseph Cotton of Chicksands, yeoman all her freehold and copyhold estate in Stotfold, the copyhold being already surrendered to the use of her will, in trust for sale to discharge all mortgages charged on the property and other debts and to keep her dwellinghouse in repair and to place £80 at interest for her daughter Elizabeth independent of the use of any husband, remainder to be shared between the testatrix’s children then living unless Elizabeth had issue in which case it was to be divided between them;
- trustees to divide overplus of the sale equally between her children Richard, Mary and Anne;
- bequeathing £5 to her son Thomas and all furniture of his lodging room (except the pewter), a table standing in the kitchen, a porridge pot, the least kettle but one and one skillet;
- bequeathing 20 shillings to her daughter Elizabeth, one bedstead and bedding, one chest, one table, three pewter dishes, one porridge pot, one kettle and one skillet;
- bequeathing the residue of her personal estate equally between Richard, Mary and Anne equally;
- Mary Inskipp signed by mark, witnessed by Mary Salmon, Mary Joy [by mark] and Thomas Salmon
Codicil of 1 July 1713 reciting that since making her will she had purchased a piece of ground in Stanford from Nathaniel Taylor of Stanford and built a small messuage on it which she devised to her daughter Elizabeth for her life, remainder to Anne; witnessed by Mary Squiers, John Street and Ann Street [by mark]
Attached proof of will in Bedford Consistory Court on 9 July 1726
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