Catalogue description Probate of the will and two codicils of John Thornton of Clapham, Surrey.

Land in Clapham, Surrey to Samuel Thornton

Freehold in Causton, Norfolk, to Henry Robertson for his lifetime then to Samuel Thornton.

Leasehold at Hull to Samuel Thornton after the death of its occupier the John Barker.

Furniture to Henry Thornton.

'Malt liquor, wine and spirituous liquors' to Robert Thornton.

Freehold and interest in the sugar trade or manufactory and the soap trade 'without the gates of Hull in Holderness' to Samuel, Robert and Henry Thornton.

Advowsons in trust to Rev. Roger Bentley, Vicar of Camberwell, Rev. Henry Foster of Wilderness Row, Goswell St, Middlesex and John Venn, Vicar of Little Iham, Norfolk. There is a list of those who are to succeed them as trustees, and details of those who are to be presented to various livings. Henry Foster then John Venn are to be presented to Clapham.

Pecuniary bequests include £200 to the Rev. William Bull to 'bring up, educate and form youth for the ministry, either for the Church or on the dissenting plan'.

Leasehold premises at Clapham, in which he lives, and adjoining premises occupied by Robert Thornton, together with other premises under a lease made 5th November 1775 with Elizabeth Edgley Hewer, Jane Greaves, Brabazon and Ann Hallows, to any of his sons who will pay £3000. If none wants it, left in trust for sale, provided Robert is allowed to lease the portion he occupies.

Dated 2 April 1790. Executors: Samuel Thornton, Robert Thornton, Henry Thornton and Joseph Dunthorne.

Witnesses: Philip Morshead, William Stephenson, Richard Pritchett Bousfield.

Codicils: 1) Alterations to legacies.

Dated 10 July 1790. Witnesses: Robert Jarratt, James Bower.

2) Annunity to his clerk's daughters.

Dated 21 October 1790.

Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.