Copy of will of Humphrey Gower, 1708
- SJCR/SJGR/5/2/22/1
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- Undated [c. 18th century]
Part of The Records of St John's College
With memorandum, 1708
Copy of will of Humphrey Gower, 1708
Part of The Records of St John's College
With memorandum, 1708
Bequest of Books: Humphrey Gower
Part of The Records of St John's College
Includes: a catalogue of books left by Dr Gower to Mr Brome with the remainder to go the College Library; and a list of books sold to Mr Brome.
A signed draft copy of Lady Margaret’s will, annotated with additions and corrections in various hands. It includes a list of her particular benefactions to ‘Cristes College’ and ‘to my lord Prince’ which has been altered to read ‘the kinges grace’. Also includes a paper about the purchase of Bassingbourne in Fordham, Cambridgeshire inserted at front.
A folio paper book of 72 pages.
Pages 1-38: annotated draft will
Pages 39-56: list of legacies
Pages 57-72: blank
A contemporary copy of the will of Lady Margaret, with certain corrections concerning the gifts to those who should attend her funeral, the dispositions of Maxey [Cambridgeshire] and Torpell [Northamptonshire], and those of the Somerset manors which she has enfeoffed with licence of Edward IV.