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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Nicholas Browne (-1610x1611) of Little Walsingham
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:02:36 -1000
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Marvelous!

This appears to be a plausible candidate for the Nicholas Browne who was
the father of Frances Browne, who married Richard Washington, son of
Lawrence Washington and Margaret Butler Washington of Sulgrave Manor,
Northants, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1627 ---- which is not to say
he's the right one.

Spencer

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| Second posting, 1st copy seems to have gone astray
|
| In a message dated 01/10/03 19:42:16 GMT Daylight Time,
| writes:
|
|
| > Yes, do please post the full text.
| >
| > Thank you,
| >
| > Spencer
| >
|
| Here it is then. I hope I have not made too many errors.
|
| In the name of God Amen Anno Domini one thowsand sixe hundred # and
tenne in
| the eight daie of October in the eight yeare of the raigne of our most
#
| gracious soveraigne lord king James by the grace of God of England
ffrance # and
| Ireland defender of the faithe and of Scotland the foure and fortith
that # I
| Nicholas Browne thelder of little Walsingham in the Countie of norfolk
gent #
| beinge whole in minde and of a sounde and p'fect remembrance (god the
giver of #
| all good giftes be praised therefore) doe ordaine and make this my
testament
| and # last will in manner and forme following ffirst and before all
thinges
| w'th hart # minde and mouthe I give and comitt my soule unto the
handes of
| Almightie god my # most mercifill and heavenlie ffather hopinge and
assuredlie
| beleevinge that throught # his deathe and passon I am one of the
number of his
| elect And my bodie to be buryed # in the northe chapell of the
parishe church
| in Little Walsingham neare unto the # place where my ancestors were
there
| buried when it shall please god Item I give # and bequeathe unto the
repacous of
| the parishe ^church^ in little Walsingham Tenne pounds # to be paide
by my
| executors by twentye shillinges a yeare beginninge w'thin one yere ###
after my
| decease Item I give and bequeathe unto the releif of the poore people
in little
| # Walsingham Tenn poundes to be paide unto them by my executors by
fortie
| shillinges a # yeare beginning w'thin one yeare after my decease Item
I give and
| bequeath unto # Samuell Scallon Clarke five poundes to be paid unto
him
| presentlie after my # decease Item I give and bequeathe unto William
Knowles
| Clarke five poundes to be # paid unto him presentlie after my decease
Item I give
| and and [sic] bequeathe unto Anne # Rainnie my sister twentie poundes
to be
| paide unto her by five poundes a yere # begining w'thin one yeare
afrer my
| decease Item I give and bequeathe unto Robert # Heyhowe my kinsman
Tenn poundes to
| be paid unto him by five poundes a yeare # begining w'thin one yere
after my
| decease Item I give and bequeathe unto Thomas # Heyhowe my kinsman
Tenne
| pounds to be paide unto by five poundes a yeare begining # w'thin one
yeare after
| my decease Item I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth wythe # my
kinswoman tenne
| poundes to be paide unto her by five poundes a yeare beginnge # w'thin
one
| yare after my decease Item I give and bequeathe unto Steven Clifton #
my wairs?
| butler? ffore shillinges to be paid unto him prestently after my
decease #
| Item I give and bequeathe unto Jane Browne the daughter to my sonne
William and
| # unto Nicholas Browne and Joane Browne the sonne and daughter to my
sonne
| Nicholas # Browne to either of them Twentie poundes to be paide unto
them at
| their severall # daies of marriages Item I give and bequeathe unto
Annes Reeve my
| servant ffortie # shillinges to be paide unto her by my executors
presentlie
| after my decease and to # Thomas Garrett Twentie Shillinges and unto
Joane
| fferm Katherine Deele and # Amye wenn my servants to either of them
twentie
| shillings and to be paide presentlie # after my decease Item I give
and bequeath
| unto ffaith Browne and ffrannces Browne # the twines to my sonne
Nicholas and
| William Browne to either of them tenn poundes # to be paide unto them
| presentlie after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto # Elizabeth
Turner the wife
| to Richard Turner of walsingham five poundes to be # paide unto her
w'thin
| twoe yeares after my decease Item I give and bequeathe unto # John
Daniell the
| writer of my Will Twentie Shillings to be paide unto him persentlie #
after my
| decease Item I give and bewueath unto everie one of my god children
tenne #
| shillinges to be paide unto them at their severall ages of one and
twentie
| years by # my executers Item I give and bequeathe unto Barbara Browne
my wife
| and to her # heires forever my close called ffeakells close and
Thirtie poundes
| in money to be # paid unto her by my executors presentlie after my
decease
| Item I give & bequeathe # unto William Browne and to his heires the
close called
| the gravellpitt close & # the fivoe? Closes that were Bakers and in
the use
| of Walter Sheltram? beinge # arrable and meadowe groundes the one of
the
| barkeside of the ffryers and the other # by Levringtons meadowe Item
I give and
| bequeathe unto Barbara Browne my # wife the thirde p'te of all my
imoveable
| goodes and implemants of housholor brasses # pewtor and plate and
cattells
| whatsoever to be equallie devided unto three severerall # p'tes and
she the saide
| Barbara to have the first share the reseidue of all my moveable #
goodes corne and
| other thinges whatsoever not herein before bequeathed I give unto #
Nicholas
| Browne and William Browne my twoe sonnes whome I make joyntlie my #
sole
| executors they to take my debtes and paie my debtes and legacies and
to p'forme #
| this my testament and last will according to my true intent and
meaninge and
| to # the pleasure of god and to the quietinge of my conscience Thise
beinge
| wittnesses # John Knightes the elder William Hill and John Danyell W.
H his
| marke # Nicholas Browne
| Then Probate clause follows.
|
| PRO Web page indexed as: Will of Nicholas Browne, Gentleman of Little
| Walsingham, Norfolk; 22 April 1611; PROB 11/117
|
|
| Adrian

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