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D1196 - Thomas Gray of Kings Newton - [20th cent]

F - Typescript copy will - 20th cent

F1 - Typescript copy of the 1691 will of Thomas Gray of Kings Newton, gent. - to Seymour Doleman, his kinsman, £5 - his executors, with the advice of Robert Harding of Kings Newton and John Fox of Castle Donnington, to lay forth £200 in the purchase of lands - his wife Mary Gray to be permitted to receive the rents and profits of the said lands for life so long as she remain unmarried - after her decease or remarriage, the rents and profits to be used to bestow (a) 6 nobles yearly to buy 6 waistcoats of grey cloth edged with blue galloon lace and (b) 40s. yearly to buy 3 coats of blue cloth faced with blue baize or other blue stuff - 4 of the waistcoats to be given to 4 poor widows or other poor women of Castle Donnington who are of good behaviour and endeavour to live honestly - 2 waistcoats to 2 poor widows of other poor women of like behaviour in the parish of Melbourne - 2 of the coats to 2 poor men of Castle Donnington and the other to some poor and well behaved man in Melbourne - the poor men and women in Melbourne to be chosen by Robert Harding, John Fox or their heirs, the churchwardens and overseers of Melbourne and two other of the most substantial householders - the poor men and women in Castle Donnington to be chosen by Harding and Fox or their heirs, the overseers and churchwardens of Castle Donnington and two of the most substantial householders - a copy of his will to be entered in the town books of Melbourne and Castle Donnington and hung in the churches, to be read yearly on St Thomas's Day or the Sunday next after, for the performance of which the ministers of Castle Donnington and Melbourne are to have 5s. each yearly - 15 dozen of bread to be given to the poor of Castle Donnington and 10 dozen of bread to the poor of Melbourne, to be distributed every St Andrew's Day - whatever surplus there may be yearly from the rents and profits of the land, to be distributed and laid out upon the poor children of the said parishes viz. two parts on Castle Donnington and one part on Melbourne, towards the placing of them as apprentices - to 12 men of Melbourne 18d. each to carry his corpse to be interred at Castle Donnington - 20s to be bestowed in bread on the poor of Castle Donnington on the day of his burial - £10 to his wife for his funeral expenses - she to be sole executrix and to have the residue of all his real and personal estate - to his wife, Robert Harding and John Fox, a guinea each to buy a ring in remembrance of him - 20th cent

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