will
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of will, 1482-08-28
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
Copy of will dated 11 Feb. 1832; proved, London, 18 June 1832., 1832-02-11 - 1832-06-18
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.
Copy of will dated 31 May 1678, proved 25 November 1679., 1793-08-19
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.
Copy of will made 1 August 1854, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 21 January 1880., 1880-11-25
His wife Ellen is sole legatee of all his real and personal estate.
Copy of will made 4 Mar. 1822., 1822
Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 14 June 1822.
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
Certificate of probate in Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk and grant of letters of administration to his widow Mary.
Copy of will made 20 April 1693, 1710 - 1760
Probably a copy of 27/1, in an inexpert hand
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
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
Copy of will making the college his residual legatee conditional on the college's paying an annuity to his widow, 1742-04-02
Copy of will of 17 Aug. 1795, with codicil of 15 June 1797., 1797
Proved at London, 7 Nov. 1797.
Copy of will of John Walter Cross of Queen Anne's Mansions, St James Park, London, 1915-10-11 - 1925-01-30
Will of 11 October 1915 with codicils of October and December 1915 and June 1916; probate granted 30 January 1925. Photocopy.
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
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.
Drafts of E.M. Forster's will, 1965 - 1967
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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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
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).
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
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).
Extract from PCC will dated 20 March 1514, proved 24 May 1514 notarially attested., 1516-11-03
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
Extract from the will of Henry Page of Barton dated 4 October 1788., 1788-10-04
Henry leaves his freehold and copyhold messuages, lands, etc., in Barton or wheresoever else to his son William.
Extract from the will of Thomas Norgate, M.D., of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, dated 12 Feb. 1811, proved 17 July 1818., 1818 - 1825
Includes schedule of lands.
Extract from will appointing Joseph and John Hall his executors., 1811
Proved London, 19 Jan. 1811.
Extract from will, made 2 April 1767, proved London, 27 Feb. 1770., 1772-08-21
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 Will made 19 June 1783; proved Archdeaconry of Northampton, 3 Feb. 1785. Attested by William Gates, 28 Mar. 1828., 1828-03-28
Extract from parish register of St Giles, Northampton, of the burial of Elizabeth Plackett on 29 May 1787 annexed.
Extract from will made 24 Jan. 1814, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 31 October 1815., 1880-11-10
He leaves lands, and the advowsons of East Hanningford and Ashingdon to his son John.
Extract from will made 29 May 1844, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 18 September 1846., 1880-11-25
He leaves the advowson of Ashingdon in trust, to be presented to his son Septimus.
Extract from will made 29 Nov. 1866, proved, PCC, 5 Feb. 1869., 1880-11-25
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.
Extract from Will of John Hall dated 21 Oct. 1903; proved 6 Feb. 1908., 1908-02-06
He leaves the advowson of Norton to his son, George Walker Hall.
Testator died 13 Dec. 1907.