| RefNo | K588/W/7 |
| AltRefNo | 588/W/7 |
| Title | Probate of will dated 10 May 1542 of Dame Alyce Cotton, widow of Sir Robert Cotton. |
| Description | Leaving to Landwade Chapel the blue vestments used in her chapel, and 40s for a tabernacle and various sums for dirges, gilt goblet to her son, Sir Thomas Gryffyn, with 2 gilt basins and a black bed to his wife, a gilt pott to Ann Gryffyn, her daughter, and 2 white spoons to Brygitt Gryffyn, and a gilt goblet to Frances Gryffyn, a gilt bowl to her son Cotton and other plate and furnishings, to her daughter Cotton a white amber bed, various items of plate to her daughter Birgitte Huddleston and her husband, bedding to her daughter Alice Pemerton, black cloth to Fr Young, a hermit, and Dorothy Smith, a nun, various small bequests, and property in Cheveley to her son, Edward Gryffyn and his heirs. Executors: sons John Cotton and John Huddilston [Huddleston]. (Calendared by W.M. Palmer, no. 62, 'Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society', xxxviii, pp. 41-42). |
| Date | 24 April 1543 |
| CreatorName | Cotton family of Madingley and Landwade |
| Repository | Cambridgeshire Archives |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| F/0003 | Cotton; family; of Madingley Hall and Landwade; Baronets Cotton | 1423-1871 |
| P/0024 | Cotton; Sir; Robert (d.1517); of Landwade | d.1517 |
| P/0025 | Cotton; Sir; John (1513-1593); High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire (1549,1556); of Landwade | 1513-1593 |
| F/0005 | Huddleston; family; of Sawston | 13th-20th Century |