| Description | Details of the estate of Sir Thomas Maples of Longstowe, Easton, Catworth, Spaldwick and Brampton, Huntingdonshire, with names of the jury empanelled and tenants Sir Robert and Gabriel Throgmorton of Ellington, taken by Sir John Knapp, Escheator.
Transliteration: Inquisitio Post Mortem taken at Huntingdon...26th day of March 1635 in the 1th years of the reigne of our Lord Charles I King of England etc...before JOHN KNAPP (Kt) Escheator...directed to which Inquisition Post Mortem of Sir Thomas Maples of Longstow, Huntingdon. Baronet, deceased-before William Scott, Albert Church?, John Marriott, Peter Ashton, John Phillips, John Draper, Wilfred Sedall?, John Marshall, William Hunt, Gabriel Porter, Robert Lake, Make Bagely, and Thomas Alcock...proved and loyal men of the county...Sworn...Robert Throgmorton of Ellington, Huntingdon, and Gabriel Throgmorton, Gent.
[Here follows a list of Sir Thomas Maples lands in Ellington, and in the County of Huntingdon.]
I give to the aged and such as shall be made blind or extreme poor to those of Stow and not elsewhere, those three houses whereof Widow Bell dwelt in one of them, John Sas..? in the second, and Widow Robertson in the third, during the life of my sonne's. Without paying of any rents at all and those houses to be kept and those poor people to be place by Mr. Mosley the Minister, during his life and after his life ended, then to be placed by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor for Stowe.
I give to Nicholas Barnewell the house wherein John Crockin dwelleth in during his life paying yearly to my executors and keeping my house with all necessary reparations otherwise this bequest concerning the house to be void, and my executors to dispose of the house, as the rent of my lands.
I give to my sonne Thomas Maples first my prayer to Almighty God to mend him with more grace and temperance than hitherto he hath showed. My will is that my executors...pay towards the keeping and maintainance of my sonne's heirs male or eldest son lawfully begotten after he shall attain the age of three years, the sum of £10 a year, sum to be paid quarterly, and that the payment continue until he shall attain the age of 14 years, and after he has attained the age of my son's heirs male the sum of £20 yearly, the sum to be paid quarterly until he shall attain or come to the..(torn and faded out) age of 20 years, then my executors to pay to my sons eldest son towrads his maintainance the sum of £40 yearly and...quarterly (viz) £10 every quarter untl he shall attain the age of 4 years, and my son his father living, but if my son Thomas Maples die and depart this life then my will is that...heirs male for his maintainance after he shall attain the age of 18 years (his father, my son being dead) the sum of 100 marks yearly...
to this my will, and whereas formally I gave my daughter Agnes Hynde to her marriage portion the sum of £2000 I now give in? lieu and in recompense of all her portion and for her whole portion out of my lands and goods the sum of £10 and no more, and whereas I have the wardship of my Grandchild Jane Hynde by composition with the honourable M. and Councell of the Court of Wards, which my grandchild was ward only for ... and whereas about...years after the compounding of the body of the said Jane...compounded by a second composition the third of the lands of Mr Edward Hynde, Kt, her great grandfather, my will is that this my grandchild Jane Hynde marry the consent of her mother or with any Romish Catholic, then my will is that my grandchild pay to my executors for her marriage the sum of £1000 at least.
My will is that if my son die and has no heirs male nor female that my daughter Isabelle's children...2 part of 3 of all my lands, goods and leases over and above £600 formerly given to my sister's childre the other third part to Jane Hynde provided that John Hynde releases my executors of all connections and demands when he shall attain the age of one and twenty years, and which if she refuse, then my will is that my executors for that third part formerly bequeathed her.
My will is that the profit of my land, leases and goods which I now have over and above the payment of my legacies and yearly stipend shall be bestowed in land to the use of benefit to my sons heirs male, the sum to be delivered unto him at his age of four and twenty years, and my will is that my stocke, plate and household stuffs be prized and sold and I would have Mr. Henry Dorrington to be one of my prizors and the money that shall be made all those my fortunes together with such ready money and the money due unto me shall be employed to buy lands to the use of my son's heirs and that land to be bought within three years next after my death.
My will is that whereas I am to have a house, curtain (certain) gardens and orchard in Colchester after death of the Lady Rivers of £1,000 in money after the death of the Earl of Rivers of Brethwell in the County of York, my other executor, which of these shall first happen...the conveyance thereof more plainly shall...my will is that my executors sell that house, gardens, orchard and the money thereof go to be employed as before...for the buying to the use of my son's heirs, male, and for the raising of money for the buying of land to the use of my sone's heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, or to be begotten and the money and profits of land to be bestowed oute in five years, and any land of every five years until my sonne's heirs shall attain the age of twenty and four years, and for that purpose upon the condition and proviso I male Richard Wildbore of Brethwell in the County of York my other executor. And my will is that for the true purpose of this my will, they have the sole and absolute benefit...
I give to my daughter Isabelle the wife of John Rouse, during his natural life the sume of £100 a year yearly to be paid her the said Isabelle half-yearly by my executors..the first begins at the Michaelmas of our Lady's Day in the next year first happens after my death or within 40 days next after each Feast, ..and upon the like same conditions I give unto Anne Wildbore my sister wife of Richard Wildbore of Thretwell aforesaid, whom I make my other executor, I give to her the said Anne Wildbore my other executor, I give to her the said Anne Wildbore during her natural life 20 marks yearly, and every year, the first payment to begin that Michalmas or Lady's Day that shall happen after my death or within 40 days next after the Feast...(Then follows in Latin the formula that this is the true account of the lands, goods, leases of Thomas Maples of Longstow, -before the Escheator on the day and year above written) (sd) JOE KNAPP |