Catalogue description Probate of the will (31 Mar 1648) of Walter Worth of Westmeston, yeoman

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of AMS 1728
Reference: AMS 1728
Title: Probate of the will (31 Mar 1648) of Walter Worth of Westmeston, yeoman
Description:

To be buried at Falmer; executors kinsmen Richard Webb of Patcham and Richard Wickersham the elder of Streat; overseers John Raby and George Kilner

 

To Aunt Townsend wife of Henry Townsend of Lewes the £30 owing on a mortgage of his house; to their children Richard and Henry

 

To cousin Ann wife of Thomas Plaw of Streat the farm he holds of Walter Dobell, esq, late Richard Cheale, with barley bought of Goody Snode and John Verrall; their children Edward and Ann Plaw

 

Pecuniary and chattel bequests to the wife of John Awood of Plumpton and his children John, Mary and Margaret, to Henry Barnden of Westmeston, his wife and six children (named), kinsman Edmund Worth of Lingfield, cousin Rose Underell of East Grinstead, William Langridg of East Grinstead and his sisters, cousin Katherine Baker of East Grinstead, Mary Cryer, cousin John Shoulder of Cuckfield, John Langridg of Chiltington, Judith Barnden, Charity Booker, William Cheale, Thomas Parker of Falmer

 

W: Robert Frere, Peter Ray, John Rabye

 

Endorsed: docketed by Robert Mercer, 31 May 1802

Date: 27 Apr 1648
Related material:

for legacy receipts, see AMS 1489-91

Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Custodial history:

Hove Library Accession 2146 Flint

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