Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire.: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.Croston, James
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Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire.: A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.
Croston, James
Cheshire (England); Lancashire (England)
The heads of the three regicides were undoubtedly placed upon
Westminster Hall, and Bradshaw’s and Cromwell’s remained fixed on the
spikes in 1684, when Sir Thomas Armstrong’s[13] was placed between them.
[Note 13: Sir Thomas Armstrong, who had taken part in the Duke of
Monmouth’s rebellion, was executed on the judgment of the notorious
Jefferies, as an outlaw without trial, though his year had not expired.]
Among the papers still preserved at Marple is the probate copy of
the President’s will, a lengthy abstract of which has been given
by Ormerod in his “History of Cheshire.” It bears date March 22,
1653, and there are two codicils appended, dated respectively March
23, 1653, and September 10, 1655. By it he bequeaths to his wife,
Mary Bradshaw, all his manors, lands, and hereditaments in Kent and
Middlesex for her life, as jointure in lieu of dower; and devises to
her, and her executors in case of her decease, his manors, &c., in
Kent, for the term of five years, to commence immediately after her
decease, with liberty in her lifetime to dispark the park at Somerhill,
for her subsistence, and for making provision for her kindred, “God
not havinge vouchsafed me issue.” He further devises his manors, &c.,
in the counties of Berks, Southampton, Wilts, and Somerset, with his
reversions in Middlesex, in trust to his friend Peter Brereton, his
nephew Peter Newton (the son of his sister Dorothy), and his trustie
servant, Thomas Parnell, and their heirs, for the payment of his
debts, &c., for the payment of £100 per annum, for ten years after his
decease, to his nephew Henry Bradshaw, and £20 per annum to his cousin
Katherine Leigh, for life, with further trust to pay £300 per annum
to his brother Henry Bradshaw, until the estates settled by the will
descend to him; and also to expend £700 in purchasing an annuity for
“manteyning a free schoole in Marple, in Cheshire; £500 for increasing
the wages of the master and usher of Bunbury schoole; and £500 for
amending the wages of the schoolmaster and usher of Midleton schoole,
in Lanc’r (in which twoe schooles of Bunb’rie and Midleton I had part
of my educac’on, and return this as part of my thanfull acknowledgement
for the same). These two sums of £500 to be laid out in purchaseing
annuities.” Then follow a number of small bequests—an annuity of £40
for seven years to Samuel Roe, his secretary, for maintaining him at
Gray’s Inn, and remunerating his assistance to his executors; £250
to the poor of Fonthill, Stopp, Westminster, and Feltham; a bequest
of the impropriation of Feltham, for the use of a proper minister to
be established there; an annuity of £20 for providing a minister at
Hatch, in Wiltshire, charged on his estate there; legacies to his
chaplain, Mr. Parr, Mr. Strong, the preacher at the Abbey, and Mr.
Clyve, a Scottish minister; his houses and lodgings at Westminster
to the governors of the almshouses and school there; and the residue
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