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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D518/MF/71
TitleProbate of will of Sir Henry Agard
Date1635
DescriptionLeaving wife Pheales Agard 20 best Welsh kine, 1 bull, 40 loads cropwood per annum, 20 loads coals per annum (from tenants bound to fetch it), her clothes and a chest, moiety of a silver-gilt vase for life, coach and 4 geldings, best bay trotting mare, 8 best draught oxen, 2 wains and ploughs, 2 silver-gilt bowls, moiety of furnishings; to brother John Agard residue furnishings and a gelding; £100 to godson Henry, son of Agard's nephew Edward Sprotte; £100 to brother Thomas Sprott and wife Mary; £100 to godson Agard Brooke; £100 to cousin William Brooke and £5 to his wife Elizabeth; £10 each to sisters Pheales Price and Jacquett Daniell; to brother in law Benjamin Hall the house and common he holds in King's Bromley for life, at £20 per annum; farmhouse and lands at Handsacre to godson William son of cousin George Agard for life (if William's grandfather Robert Newton surrenders bond for £30 per annum jointure to George's wife Mary); £10 to sister in law Mary wife of John Agard and £5 to her father John Adderley; ... £20 to poor of King's Bromley, Tutbury, Hanbury, Foston, Scropton, and Boylestone; £10 to cousin Thomas Milward of Easton, esq,; £3 6s 8d to Milward's son Henry; 30s to mother in law Mary Milward for a ring; house at Foston to wife ... 20 marks per annum for life to cousin Mary wife of George Agard
22 Aug 1635
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorStanhope family of Elvaston, Derbyshire, Earls of Harrington
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