| Title | Copy of probate of will dated 18 November 1748, of Elizabeth Holworthy of Elsworth, widow of Matthew Holworthy of Hackney, Middlesex, Esq., bequeathing money to the poor of Elsworth, Hackney, Sporle with Palgrave, Norfolk, Papworth Everard and Fen Drayton; provision for increase of £12 p.a. in salary of master of Free School at Sporle, so that he may teach a seventh boy; 'dormatory' like that at Holkham, Norfolk, to be built near chancel of Elsworth church and a monument erected therein to her husband and herself; £80 for alter piece and communion rail at Elsworth; all manors, lands, etc., to Sir William Heathcoat, of Husley, Hampshire, baronet; and Rev. Edward Lunn, Rector of Elsworth, in trust for Samuel Smith alias Holworthy, her grandson, lately under the care and tuition of Dr. Owen of Great Stowton, Hunts, provided he takes name and arms of Holworthy, failing which to (blank) Mills, second son of Christopher Mills of Nackington, Kent, her kinsman, failing whom to Charles Mills, brother of Christopher, failing whom to Edward Mills, his brother, all upon like conditions. Proved 23 March 1749-50 |