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Reference Number705:73 BA14450/363/2
Hierarchy Browser Number350/3/1/2
TitleWill of Dame Elizabeth Craven of London, widow
Descriptionthe mother of Mary Craven, wife of Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron of Allesborough.
Requests burial in the Church of St. Andrew Undershaft, London, beside her husband Sir William Craven.
Notable Bequests: £500 to Christ's Hospital, 40 Marks to St. Thomas' Hospital (Southwark), £40 to St. Bartholomew's Hospital (Smithfield), £100 to Oxford University, £20 to the library in Oxford, 44 [?] to poor scholars and students in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, £200 to the Company of Merchantailors in London, £50 to the poor of Tiverton, Devon.
Witnesses: George [?], Thomas Whitmore, William Collins, [?], William Whitmore, Richard Norton.
Condition: Good, some tearing to final page.
Will: English. Grant of Probate: Latin.
Written 26 June 1624.
Date of Probate: 31st March and 1st April 1628.
Date1 Apr 1628
CategoryWills
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