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Reference Number705:73 BA14450/364/5
Hierarchy Browser Number350/3/1/17
TitleCopy of will of Robert Earl Granville
DescriptionWill of Robert, Earl Granville. Dated 13th December 1771. No grant of Probate.
To be buried in the family vault in the parish church at Hawnes, Bedfordshire.
Right of presentation of the parishes Kilkhampton and Week St. Mary, Cornwall, to William, Earl of Coventry and George, Viscount Weymouth. Requests that both livings be presented to William Paddock of Woolwich, Kent.
To Thomas Wood 'my black' [presumably a reference to his race] an annuity of £40. To the poor of the parish of Hawnes £20.
Witnesses: Isa Wilkinson, Thomas Barnes, Edward Cook Junior.
Codicil: 16th December 1771.
Annuity to Thomas Wood, 'my black', raised to £50. To Jack Nightingale, 'my Indian Boy', having made him free, an annuity of £40. Annuity of £40 to William Nightingale, my groom [race not specified, but perhaps a relation of the above).
Witnesses Richard Leach, Isa Wilkinson, Edward Cook Junior.
Second Codicil: 23rd September 1772.
Witnesses Isa Wilkinson, Joseph Topping, Thomas Welch.
No seal.
Condition: good, no tearing.
Paper.
Date23 Sep 1772
CategoryWills
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