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Will of Frances Kedington (copy), Feltwell, Norfolk

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1164
Dates: 20 Sep. 1707
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Francis Dickenson (copy), Upton Grey, Hampshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1197
Dates: 23 July 1729
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Francis Smith, apothecary, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.43
Scope and Contents

He bequeathes to his wife Elizabeth Smith all his real and personal estate and appoints her his executrix. Witnesses: Thomas Ewin, Margaret Travel, Margaret Richardson. Probate is attached, dated 21 March 1733.

Dates: 20 Oct. 1731
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of George Bragg (copy), London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1254
Dates: 4 Dec. 1686
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Golding Constable (copy), East Bergholt, Suffolk

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.120
Scope and Contents Golding Constable of East Bergholt bequeathes a certain sum to the seven children of his late brother John Constable; a certain sum to his sister Ann Constable; to his sister Martha Whaley a certain sum; to his sister Mary Constable a certain sum; to his brother Abram Constable for the purchase of blankets to be distributed among the deserving poor of East Bergholt; a certain sum to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; an annuity to his housekeeper, Mary Abbott; all his real estate...
Dates: 28 Oct. 1837
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Hannah Billing (copy), Shrewsbury, Shropshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1136
Dates: 30 Oct. 1668
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Bradshaw, Marple, Cheshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1118
Dates: 2 July 1637
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Dry (copy), Lincoln's Inn, London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1212
Dates: 26 Jan. 1739
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Francis (copy), Plaistow, Essex

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1158
Dates: 20 Feb. 1701 (Either 1701 or 1702?)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Headley (copy), Martham, Norfolk

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1256
Dates: 22 Apr. 1788
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Hoo (copy), Wilbarston, Northamptonshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1124
Dates: 17 Sep. 1658
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Horn, Ringshall, Buckinghamshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.98
Scope and Contents

He devises and bequeaths to his wife Sarah Horn all his real and personal estate. A certain sum apiece is to be paid to his son Henry Horn and his daughter Ann Griffin after her death. Should either of them die the legacy is to go to their children. His wife is sole executrix. Witnesses: William Rayton, Richard William Runting, Samuel Tibbs. Certificate of Probate is attached, dated 10 August 1813.

Dates: 6 June 1801
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Henry Nicholls, Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3720
Scope and Contents The will of Henry Nicholls of Cambridge, baker. He leaves to his wife Frances a life interest in all his freehold property in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, with reversion to his sister Anne Jury and subsequent reversion to his friend Thomas Dickinson and Dickinson's wife Lettice, their heirs and assigns for ever. His own reversionary interest in the tenements in the parish of St Benedict, Cambridge, now held by his said sister, he leaves to his wife for her lifetime, with reversion to...
Dates: 26 Sep. 1675 (27 Charles II)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Hester Holland (copy), London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1121
Dates: 2 Oct. 1649
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Humphrey Sumner [copy], Cambridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.374
Scope and Contents Humphrey Sumner, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, bequeaths to his nephews, the Reverend Sumner Smith of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and the Reverend John Bird Sumner of Eton, Buckinghamshire [later Archbishop of Canterbury] certain stock; to his sister Ann Sumner the residue of his stock; certain personal goods to Sumner Smith, certain personal goods to Ann Sumner and John Bird Sumner, certain books to John Bird Sumner, his Bible to the Library of King's College, to his nephew Charles...
Dates: Jan. 1814 (Date of Probate: 18 April 1814)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of Isaac Jackson (copy), London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1149
Dates: 13 May 1691
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of J. Davis, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.793
Scope and Contents Joseph Davis, Clerk in Holy Orders, Bottisham, bequeathers £100 to his brother, Samuel Davis, of Hale, Lancs., the residue of his estate to his wife, Ann Davis, for her life-time, and at her death £100 to his nephew John Davis, of Preston-upon-the-hill, Cheshire, £100 to his nephew Joseph Davis of Liverpool, Lancs., £100 to his niece, Mary Hayes, of Preston-upon-the-hill, Cheshire, these 3 being children of his late brother, John Davis, and £100 to his nephew, William Davis, of London, son...
Dates: 28 July 1763
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Blatch (copy), Amesbury, Wiltshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1261
Dates: 13 July 1791
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Burkin (copy), London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1138
Dates: 20 Sep. 1675
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Dawkins (copy), Clarendon, Jamaica

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1233
Scope and Contents Probate and copy of will, in English, dated 5 Jun. 1755. Summarised as follows: 'leaves his manor of Laverstoke and all his plantations, sugar-works, slaves, implements in Clarendon, Jamaica, British West Indies to his only brother Henry Dawkins'. Appointed his uncle, John Pennant, and friends Roger Drake and Beeston Long as executors of his will in Britain, and his brother, Henry Dawkins, and friends Charles Price, Henry Moore and Edward Morant as executors for his Jamaican property. The...
Dates: 5 June 1755
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Fletcher (copy), Heyford Warren, Oxfordshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1133
Scope and Contents Will of James Fletcher, of Heyford Warren. He appoints his son-in-law, Edmund Carter, sole executor, and bequeathes to him his estate near Banbury for his life and that of his wife Mary and then to Edmund their son and his heirs. To his son William £5 to whom Edmund Carter is to surrender the copyhold estate of Heyford Warren (which he holds in reversion as a friend) whenever William wants it. To his wife Mary various household stuff. 5/- to the poor of Heyford Warren. He appoints Gabrill...
Dates: 12 Sep. 1666
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Frampton (copy), Buckland Ripers, Dorset

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1139
Dates: 9 June 1676
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Freeman of Little Moorgate in the Parish of St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.46
Scope and Contents

He appoints his wife Mary Freeman executrix and gives to her all money and personal property. Witnesses: Thomas Asbury, Andrew Keay. Probate is attached dated 17 March 1778, and subscribed by Mark Holman, Deputy Registrar.

Dates: 1 July 1777
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Hockley, Bentworth, Hampshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1137
Dates: 15 June 1674
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Will of James Hossack (copy or draft), St Martin's, London

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1250
Dates: 11 Mar. 1779
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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