Catalogue description Original will of JANE, VISCOUNTESS DOWAGER MOUNTAGUE

Relict of Anthony, Viscount Mountague decd

To be buried in the parish church of Midhurst in the chapel belonging to Francis, Viscount Mountague, her only son

To the poor of Midhurst, Eastbourne, and Westhorsley, to each parish £5

To Francis, Viscount Mountague her only son 100 marks and also mourning clothes for himself and his servants

To daughter Elizabeth Viscountess Montague £10 for a ring and mourning clothes for herself and servants

To grandchild Francis Browne, son and heir of the said Francis Viscount Mountague, £300, with mourning for himself and 3 servants

To daughters, the Lady St. John, Lady Petrie, and Katherine Terwhitt, and Francis Blomer, £10 apiece for rings

To nephew Edward, Earl of Dorsett, £300, and to niece Lady Beauchamp, £250, and to nephew William Lewis, esq., son of said niece, £200. Legacies to servants

To said grandchild Francis Browne until he should attain 21 years, an annuity of £100 issuing out of the capital messuage called Cowdrey House together with Cowdrey Park als Single Park and meadows called Sowdrey Meadows and Blackpond Mead and the Lodge Meadows, Toties Mead and Osborne Mead, and out of Balls Farm, Oxepastures, Culverlands and St. Anns hill in Midhurst, Eastborne and Wollavington, which the testatrix held for a term of years then unexpired under a lease by the said Francis Viscount Mountague of 5 March, 17 Chas. I

Reference to a trust deed dated 28 March, 1649 concerning the manors of Westhorsley and Ripley and Send

Executors:- Benjamin Weston of Ashley House, Surrey, esq., and John Tregonnell of Milton, Dorset, esq, both being kinsmen of the testatrix

Overseers:- Henry Hildyard of Easthorsley, esq., and Edward Thurland of Reigate, esq