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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:

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Copy of will, 1482-08-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/14/120A 1c
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The testator bequeathes his house to his wife Margaret and then to his son William whom he also names as his executors. As his son's will was probated on 13 Feb. 1482/3 the younger William Kent must have died between these two dates.
Note of probate by the Official of the Archdeacon of Ely on 30 June 1484

Dates: 1482-08-28
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Copy of will dated 11 Feb. 1832; proved, London, 18 June 1832., 1832-02-11 - 1832-06-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/43
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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.

Dates: 1832-02-11 - 1832-06-18
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Copy of will dated 31 May 1678, proved 25 November 1679., 1793-08-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N7 60
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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.

Dates: 1793-08-19
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Copy of will made 1 August 1854, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 21 January 1880., 1880-11-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/J 25
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His wife Ellen is sole legatee of all his real and personal estate.

Dates: 1880-11-25
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Copy of will, made 13 Sept. 1742, bequeathing property in Holton in the occupation of his son Thomas to his wife, Mary., 1743-06-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N6/7
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Certificate of probate in Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk and grant of letters of administration to his widow Mary.

Dates: 1743-06-04
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Copy of will made 20 April 1693; proved in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, 13 July 1693. Attested by Robert Grove, Registrary, 19 Jan. 1704, 1693-07-13

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02/M/27/1
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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

Dates: 1693-07-13
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Copy of will of John Walter Cross of Queen Anne's Mansions, St James Park, London, 1915-10-11 - 1925-01-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Davies 4/2
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Will of 11 October 1915 with codicils of October and December 1915 and June 1916; probate granted 30 January 1925. Photocopy.

Dates: 1915-10-11 - 1925-01-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open to bona fide scholars and by appointment only.
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Copy of Will of Thomas of Cambridge, son of John de Cantebri’, knight, providing, in a codicil, that his wife Margaret should pay to the Master and scholars of the gild of Corpus Christi 8 marks yearly to maintain a chaplain to celebrate for his soul., 1361-08-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC01/P/21
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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.

Dates: 1361-08-03
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Drafts of E.M. Forster's will, 1965 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMF/19/13
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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.
To request this envelope, please use the following call mark: 19/13/C

Dates: 1965 - 1967
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Extract from his will (as in 2) with his bequest to Beverley for the provision of a closed scholarship to Corpus or St John's College., 1778-08-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N1/2a
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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).

Dates: 1778-08-17
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Extract from his will, proved 11 May 1779, with his bequest to the college of the lease of Alford Rectory, £100 for the renewal of the lease, and £300 towards the building of a new college., 1778-08-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/N1/2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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).

Dates: 1778-08-17
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Extract from PCC will dated 20 March 1514, proved 24 May 1514 notarially attested., 1516-11-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/11/87
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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

Dates: 1516-11-03
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Extract from the will of Henry Page of Barton dated 4 October 1788., 1788-10-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/37/25/21a
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Henry leaves his freehold and copyhold messuages, lands, etc., in Barton or wheresoever else to his son William.

Dates: 1788-10-04
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Extract from will, made 2 April 1767, proved London, 27 Feb. 1770., 1772-08-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/J 12
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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.

Dates: 1772-08-21
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Extract from will made 24 Jan. 1814, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 31 October 1815., 1880-11-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/J 22
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He leaves lands, and the advowsons of East Hanningford and Ashingdon to his son John.

Dates: 1880-11-10
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Extract from will made 29 May 1844, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 18 September 1846., 1880-11-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/J 23
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He leaves the advowson of Ashingdon in trust, to be presented to his son Septimus.

Dates: 1880-11-25
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Extract from will made 29 Nov. 1866, proved, PCC, 5 Feb. 1869., 1880-11-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/J 26
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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.

Dates: 1880-11-25
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Extract from Will of John Hall dated 21 Oct. 1903; proved 6 Feb. 1908., 1908-02-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09L/K 17
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He leaves the advowson of Norton to his son, George Walker Hall.
Testator died 13 Dec. 1907.

Dates: 1908-02-06
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