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From: Melvyn Douglass <>
Subject: Re: Complete Peerage Addition: Wills of Sir John Cornwall,Lord Fanhope
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 07:21:15 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <1187984102.198911.287280@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


What was the date the wills were proven? (I don't have ready access to the sources you cited). Thanks.

Melvyn Douglass
Houston, TX


Douglas Richardson <> wrote:
Dear Newsgroup ~

Complete Peerage, 5 (1926): 253254 (sub Fanhope) includes a good
account of the life history of Sir John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, who
died in 1443. According to Complete Peerage, Lord Fanhope left a will
dated 10 December 1443, directing burial in the Friars Preachers,
Ludgate.

According to the source cited below, however, Lord Fanhope actually
left two wills, one dated dated 1 April 1437 and the other dated 10
Dec. 1443, both of which were probated. Under the terms of the first
will, a life rent of 40 marks payable out of certain London properties
was devoted to prayers for his soul.

Source: Beaven, Reports of Cases in Chancery, 2 (1841): 588-604.

This same addition needs to be made to Complete Peerage, 5 (1926): 200
(sub Exeter).

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah


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