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Description: | Testator: Philip, Lord Wharton.
1. Executors to have: jewels, silver plate, bonds bills, debts, credits, interest in lead mines in Swaldale, Yorkshire, with equipment there, stone, slate, brick, wainscott, glass, lead etc., at his house at Healaugh.
2. All debts to be paid, servants to have one month's board wages after his death.
3. Small money legacies to various servants.
4. Eldest son or heir, Parliament robes, velvet foot-cloth with rich gold lace, saddle, gilt stirrups, all the boards, vessels etc. for Wooburn fair, household stuff at Wharton.
5. Second son, Godwin, to have a messuage leased to the testator for a term of 99 years by the Master and Wardens of the Merchant Taylors, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, and also 4 newly erected messuages in the street to be called Lloyd Street, in the same parish, the ground having been leased in 1688 to Benjamin Stallwood, bricklayer, and William Jackson, joiner, and all the household stuff and building materials at Healaugh, Aske, Townsend in Swaldale and Hartford.
6. A number of smaller legacies on the second skin, illegible from rubbing.
1 February 1695/6. Probate 21 February 1695/6 [P.C.C.].
[Robert, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, married as his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip, Lord Wharton.] | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | Feb 1696 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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