Part of manor of Elmington and all his land there bequeathed to Nicholas Pedley of Huntingdon, esq., brother-in-law Robert Allen, and Robert Elton of Whaddon in trust; the estate to be sold and profits disposed of as specified, including £2,800 to his daughter, Honor, on coming of age or marriage.
Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in Chancery.

The testator leaves lands in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (Haverhill, Withersfield, Clemsford, Cavendish, Somerton, Hawkedon, Boxted; Shudy Camps, Castle Camps, Harston, Newton and Foxton) to the children of his deceased brother John, and to his two reputed sons and two reputed daughters.

Notes at foot on production of the will and the examinations of Mrs Rachel Croson, alias Stephens, and Mrs Joan Booth in the case of Alice Margetson (widow) and others v. James Margetson in 1692.

His wife Ellen is sole legatee of all his real and personal estate.

Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 14 June 1822.

Certificate of probate in Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk and grant of letters of administration to his widow Mary.

Probably a copy of 27/1, in an inexpert hand

Among other bequests Spencer leaves to the college £50 to be equally divided among ten 'indigent and industrious lads in the college' to be recommended by the Master and Fellows and £50 to be laid out in repairs, and to the university £100 for books for the university library

Proved at London, 7 Nov. 1797.

Will of 11 October 1915 with codicils of October and December 1915 and June 1916; probate granted 30 January 1925. Photocopy.

Probate granted, 1: by the Official of the Archdeacon of Ely, 8 Id. Aug. [6 Aug.] 1361, with administration to Margaret, widow and Sir John Attechurch, executors and 2: in Cambridge Guildhall on the Monday before Michaelmas, 1361.

Typescript draft of E.M. Forster's will with autograph manuscript revisions and envelope in which it was found. This file also includes two photocopies of E.M. Forster's will. 25 June 1965, with codicil 7 Mar. 1967. Not certified official copies of the probated will, but made before E.M. Forster's death.
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The rectory of Alford was bequeathed to the college by John Green, Master 1750-64, Bishop of Lincoln 1761-78, for the purpose of purchasing annually three pieces of plate for presentation to undergraduates who distinguished themselves academically; he also gave £100 for the renewal of the lease (see, in more detail, Lamb's edition of Masters' History of the College at p. 247. and no. 2, below).

The rectory of Alford was bequeathed to the college by John Green, Master 1750-64, Bishop of Lincoln 1761-78, for the purpose of purchasing annually three pieces of plate for presentation to undergraduates who distinguished themselves academically; he also gave £100 for the renewal of the lease (see, in more detail, Lamb's edition of Masters' History of the College at p. 247. and no. 2, below).

The extract includes his bequest to his wife, Alice, his tenement in St Botolph's parish, and an altar cloth to St Botoph's church for tithes forgotten

Henry leaves his freehold and copyhold messuages, lands, etc., in Barton or wheresoever else to his son William.

Includes schedule of lands.

Proved London, 19 Jan. 1811.

Wright leaves the advowsons of Ashingdon and Althorne to his brother John Wright of Hatfield Priory and his brother-in-law John Firman of Witham, miller, in trust: both advowsons are to be sold and the profits divided equally between Wright's widow, Mary, and his sons, William and Thomas.

Extract from parish register of St Giles, Northampton, of the burial of Elizabeth Plackett on 29 May 1787 annexed.

He leaves lands, and the advowsons of East Hanningford and Ashingdon to his son John.

He leaves the advowson of Ashingdon in trust, to be presented to his son Septimus.

He appoints his daughter Frances, John Evans and Henry Wakeham Purkis his executors and trustees and gives them all estates vested in him as trustee and mortgagee.

He leaves the advowson of Norton to his son, George Walker Hall.
Testator died 13 Dec. 1907.