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 '''Sir John Jacob will'''
-PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir John Jacob of Bromley, Middlesex 02 April 1666
+PROB 11/320/104 Will of Sir John Jacob of Bromley, Middlesex 02 April 1666
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 ===Parliamentary Archives===
-[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=061-hlpojo_1-1&cid=1-1-1-1-100&kw=leonard%20bromley#1-1-1-1-100 Parliamentary Archives: Main Papers: Protestation Returns Middlesex
+[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=061-hlpojo_1-1&cid=1-1-1-1-100&kw=leonard%20bromley#1-1-1-1-100 Parliamentary Archives: Main Papers: Protestation Returns Middlesex HL/PO/JO/10/1/99  1642]
 HL/PO/JO/10/1/99  1642]
 - Includes:

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 - Includes:
-MIDDLESEX--EDMONTON HUNDRED.
+MIDDLESEX EDMONTON HUNDRED.
 Edmonton
 Enfield
 Tottenham
-MIDDLESEX--GORE AND PART OF OSSULSTON HUNDRED.
+MIDDLESEX GORE AND PART OF OSSULSTON HUNDRED.
 Pinner
 Stanmore Magna
 Whitchurch alias Stanmore Parva.
-MIDDLESEX--OSSULSTON DIVISION.
+MIDDLESEX OSSULSTON DIVISION.
 Hampstead
 St Giles, Cripplegate

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	PROB 32/52/14 Deceased: Wogan, Sir William, (Wogan con Wogan) Affidavit 1708/9 Feb. 25		PROB 32/52/14 Deceased: Wogan, Sir William, (Wogan con Wogan) Affidavit 1708/9 Feb. 25
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		+	===Parliamentary Archives===
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		+	[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=061-hlpojo_1-1&cid=1-1-1-1-100&kw=leonard%20bromley#1-1-1-1-100 Parliamentary Archives: Main Papers: Protestation Returns Middlesex
		+	HL/PO/JO/10/1/99 1642]
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		+	- Includes:
		+
		+	MIDDLESEX--EDMONTON HUNDRED.
		+	Edmonton
		+	Enfield
		+	Tottenham
		+
		+	MIDDLESEX--GORE AND PART OF OSSULSTON HUNDRED.
		+	Pinner
		+	Stanmore Magna
		+	Whitchurch alias Stanmore Parva.
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		+	MIDDLESEX--OSSULSTON DIVISION.
		+	Hampstead
		+	St Giles, Cripplegate
		+	St Leonard's, Shoreditch
		+	St James, Clerkenwell
		+	Bromley, St Leonard's
		+	Limehouse
		+	Stepney and Hamlets
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		+	Main Papers: Protestation Returns Essex, Hants, Hertford, Huntingdon HL/PO/JO/10/1/91 1642
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		+	Main Papers: Protestation Returns Kent HL/PO/JO/10/1/92 1642
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		+	Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives: Records of the Parish of Bromley St Leonard
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		+	- L/BSL/1 Land Tax Assessments
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		+	- Churchwardens' accounts, 1650-1690 L/BSL/C/1/1 1650-1690
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		+	- Overseers' accounts, 1667-1769 L/BSL/D/1/1 1667-1769

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 "Muschamp, Ambrose, of Rowbarnes, co. Surrey, esq., bachelor, about 24, and Mrs Margaret Jacob, of St. Andrew, Holborn, spinster, about 19, consent of mother, Lady Jacob, alias Wogan - at St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London. 27 July. 1677. V"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/londonmarriageli00fost#page/n505/mode/2up Joseph Foster (ed.), London marriage licences, 1521-1869 (London, 1887), p. 574]</ref>
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 '''C 5/193/47 Wogan v. Jacob: Middlesex, Wilts, Somerset, &c. 1669'''
 '''C 5/582/1 Wogan v. Jacob: Somerset, Dorset, Wilts, Middlesex, Essex, &c. 1668'''
 C 5/582/3 Wogan v. Colvile: Middlesex. 1672
-C 6/2/121 Short title: Stockartes v Jacob. Plaintiffs: Hannah Stockartes widow. Defendants: Sir John Jacob kt. Subject: money matters.Document type: answer only. SFP 1641
+'''C 6/2/121 Short title: Stockartes v Jacob. Plaintiffs: Hannah Stockartes widow. Defendants: Sir John Jacob kt. Subject: money matters.Document type: answer only. SFP 1641'''
-C 6/23/60 Short title: Jacob v Bridgeman. Plaintiffs: Sir John Jacob kt. Defendants: John Bridgeman. Subject: property in Halstead, Essex. Document type: bill, plea. 1662
+'''C 6/23/60 Short title: Jacob v Bridgeman. Plaintiffs: Sir John Jacob kt. Defendants: John Bridgeman. Subject: property in Halstead, Essex. Document type: bill, plea. 1662'''
 C 6/32/67 Short title: Jacob v Crispe. Plaintiffs: Sir John Jacob baronet. Defendants: Sir Nicholas Crispe baronet and others. Subject: real and personal estate of the deceased Sir Nicholas Crispe baronet.Document type: bill, answer. 1674
 C 6/181/14 Short title: Blucke v Blucke. Plaintiffs: Matthew Blucke. Defendants: William Blucke, Sir John Jacob kt, Dame Anne Crispe widow, Thomas Crispe and John Crispe. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers, plea. 1668

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 ===TNA===
 C 6/2/121 Short title: Stockartes v Jacob. Plaintiffs: Hannah Stockartes widow. Defendants: Sir John Jacob kt. Subject: money matters.Document type: answer only. SFP 1641
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 '''C 10/10/110 Thomas Smithsby v Sir John Jacob knight, Robert Jacob and John Ireton: Abbas Combe and Temple Combe, Somerset 1651'''
 '''C 10/27/19 Francis Bacon and William Bloys v Sir John Jacob knight: unspecified manors etc. Answer 1656'''
 '''E 214/1183 Parties: Charles I. George, Lord Coring, Sir Abraham Dewer, Sir John Jacob and Sir John Herby of London, knights, Nicholas Crispe and John Hulls of London, esquires. Place or Subject: Agreement to pay an additional sum of 7,500 l. p.a. on the rent of165,000 l. 4 May 1638'''
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 PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir John Jacob of Bromley, Middlesex 02 April 1666
 PROB 11/514 Smith 45-89 Will of William Wogan of Gray's Inn, Middlesex 03 August 1710

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 John Jacobs was knighted in 1633, and created a baronet on January 11th, 1665.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref> Burke's ''Baronetcies'' confirms that Sir John Jacob had a son, Francis, who died without issue.  Francis was his second son by his second wife Alice Clowes, daughter of Thomas Clowes.<ref>'Jacob, of Bromley', "He m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of John, grandson of Sir Leonard Halliday, knt. lord mayor of London, and by her had two sons, Abraham and Henry, who both died before him issueless, and a daughter, Susanna, the wife of Sir Richard Wingfield, bart. of Letheringham, in Suffolk.  Sir John m. secondly, Alice, daughter of Thomas Clowes, of London, and relicit of John Eaglesfield, also of London, merchant, by whom he had: John, his heir; Francis, d.s.p.; Robert, killed in Scotland, d.s.p.; Alice, m. to Henry West, esq. of Wooham Court, in Sussex; Mary, m. to Walter, son and heir of Sir Arnold Beams, knt. of Bridge Court, in Kent; Helen, m. to John, son of Sir John Hebdon.  He wedded. thirdly, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir John Ashburnham, knt. by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, m. to (N/A) Muschamp, esq. of Row Barnes, in Surrey." ([http://books.google.co.uk/ebooks/reader?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA279 John Burke, John Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England (London, 1838), p. 279]</ref>
-Sir John Jacobs refers in his will to his London and Bromley at Bowe houses, and also to the Bromley at Bowe house of his brother, Robert Jacob.  The Bromley 1666 hearth tax return shows the two Bromley houses: Sir John Jacobs' house with thirty-two hearths and "Mr. Robert Jacob" with seventeen hearths.  Sir John Jacob's London house was in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, and specifically on St Mary Ax east.  It had fifteen hearths.  Also on St Mary Ax East were the houses of William Love and of James Clitherow, both London merchants and subscribers to the ''Smirna Venture Joint Stock''.  Their homes had fifteen and thirteen hearths respectively.<ref>'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Andrew Undershaft ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118509 Date accessed: 06 February 2012</ref>
+Sir John Jacobs referred in his will to his London and Bromley at Bowe houses, and also to the Bromley at Bowe house of his brother, Robert Jacob.  The Bromley 1666 hearth tax return shows the two Bromley houses: Sir John Jacobs' house with thirty-two hearths and "Mr. Robert Jacob" with seventeen hearths.  Sir John Jacob's London house was in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, on St Mary Ax East.  It had fifteen hearths.  Also on St Mary Ax East were the houses of William Love and of James Clitherow, both London merchants and subscribers to the ''Smirna Venture Joint Stock''.  Their homes had fifteen and thirteen hearths respectively.<ref>'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Andrew Undershaft ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118509 Date accessed: 06 February 2012</ref>
-Sir John Jacob's will is unusual in that it has two inventories annexed to it.  One is an inventory of the jewels, plate, linen, and furniture of Lady Ashburnham, mother of Sir John Jacob's third wife, Elizabeth Ashburnham.  The second is an inventory of the jewels, plate, linen, and furniture of Elizabeth herself.  Sir John states after the inventories:
+Sir John Jacob's will was unusual in that it had two inventories annexed to it.  One was an inventory of the jewels, plate, linen, and furniture of Lady Ashburnham, mother of Sir John Jacob's third wife, Elizabeth Ashburnham.  The second was an inventory of the jewels, plate, linen, and furniture of Elizabeth herself.  Sir John states after the inventories:
 ''All which said Jewells plate and Goods I have thought good to specifie in these two perticuler Inventories to avoyd dispute betweene my deare wife and my executor And w:ch I give and leave unto her for her use and our daughter Margarett Jacob''
-A post-mortem inventory was taken of Sir John Jacob's house, which has not yet been inspected.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
+A post-mortem inventory was taken of Sir John Jacob's house, which has not yet been inspected by this author.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/9632 Jacob, John, Sir, Kt. & Bt., of St. Leonard, Bromley, Middx. 1669 29 Mar</ref>
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-NEPHEW Abraham Wilmer doe and shall assigne transferre & sett over into my executor All those Judgements and bonds taken in his name which was only used in trust to my only and proper use had and obtayned against Cadwaller ?Jonts Esquire Any thing in these presents conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding
+NEPHEW Abraham Wilmer<ref>See C 6/295/78 Short title: Wogan v Halliday. Plaintiffs: William Wogan, Dame Elizabeth Jacob Wogan his wife and Margaret Jacob infant. Defendants: John Halliday, Sir John Jacob, William Alington Lord Alington of Killard, Thomas West, Jacob Wilmer and others. Subject: personal estate of the deceased Sir John Jacob, and manors of Temple Combe, and Henstridge, Somerset, and of Poplar, and Bromley, Middlesex, and of Stanstead, Essex. 1669</ref> doe and shall assigne transferre & sett over into my executor All those Judgements and bonds taken in his name which was only used in trust to my only and proper use had and obtayned against Cadwaller ?Jonts Esquire Any thing in these presents conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding
 ITEM I give and bequeath unto my daughter in lawe the wife of my sonne Jacob the somme of Twenty pounds of lawfull money of England to buy some memorable thing to weare for my sake
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 C 6/286/95 Short title: Jacob v Jenkinson. Plaintiffs: Sir John Jacob. Defendants: Durant Jenkinson, Robert Hancocke and Robert Chevall. Subject: lands in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Document type: bill, two answers. 1672
 C 6/286/104 Short title: Jacob v Mainstone. Plaintiffs: Robert Jacob. Defendants: William Mainstone. Subject: personal estate of the deceased Sir John Jacob, of Cambridgeshire. Document type: answer, schedule. 1675
 PROB 4/9632 Jacob, John, Sir, Kt. & Bt., of St. Leonard, Bromley, Middx. 1669 29 Mar.
 PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir John Jacob of Bromley, Middlesex 02 April 1666

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 rest that they may be at peace and unitie And further I doe desire my said wife not to alienate her share or proporccon of the said Kentish lands or the value thereof from my youngest daughter Margarett Jacob  But to settle & entayle the same upon my said daughter Margarett after my decease
-ITEM I give unto my said wife my best Coach and to (sic) Coach horses , and whereas I have settled upon my said wife the some of fower hundred pounds per Annum for her Joynture I XXXX my eldest Sonne to see the same most carefully and punctually payd by quarterly payments The first payment thereof to commence at or upon the first quarter day next after my decease And whereas I have alsoe setled upon my said wife the house in Bromley wherein my brother Robert Jacob now liveth, dureing her life I leave it to her election to accept of the same house or to accept of the somme of Two hundred pounds in lieu of the same: from my executor hereafter named and to release and convey the same accordingly to my Executor his heires and assignes And whereas I have bought for the use of my eldest sonne and his heires for the improvement of his estate and alsoe paid and discharged severall debts Judgements and incumbrances chargeable upon his and my estate lying and being in the County of Cambridge amounting to the somme of foure Thousand pounds and upwards And have hitherto made noe provision for the maintenance and supporte of my youngest sonne Robert Jacob Therefore my will and mynd is That executor his heires executors administrators or assignes shall lay out and disburse the somme of foure Thousand pounds of lawfull money of England for the purchasing of lands and tenements of Inheritance to the value of at least two hundred pounds per Annum to bee setled upon my said sonne Robert Jacob and the heires of his body lawfully begotten And in default of such issue the remainder thereof to my eldest sonne and his heires in such manner as my sonne Robert shall not have power to discontinue the said estate Tayle or to alienate the said lands contrary to the intent and meaning of this my will with provision to make his wife a competent Joynture if he happens to marry And in such manner as counsell learned in the law shall advise and untill the said lands be purchased according to the true intent & meaning of this my will, my executor is hereby required to allowe my said sonne Robert the somme of Two hundred pounds per Annum And to pay the same by quarterly payments for his present mayntenance and subsistance And whereas I have an expectacon that my estate in the farmes of the customes by virtue of the present Granntes or Lease thereof from his sacred Maiestie together with my interest in severall Tallys as will ioyntly and perticularly with the present farmers That will amount to a very considerable Estate And will yield my executor a faire surplusaage or overplus All my debts and Legacies hereby given first paid & discharged Therefore I give and bequeath unto my daughter ?Heldon the somme of one Thousand pounds more than is already secured to her by bond and deed, as alsoe unto my daughter West the somme of five hundred pounds Provided alwayes and upon this condicon That the profitt of the present grannt or Lease of the Customes and the tallys thereupon struck doe yeild the same sommes over above all and all manner of debts and settlements THat are already charged upon the same
+ITEM I give unto my said wife my best Coach and to (sic) Coach horses , and whereas I have settled upon my said wife the some of fower hundred pounds per Annum for her Joynture I XXXX my eldest Sonne to see the same most carefully and punctually payd by quarterly payments The first payment thereof to commence at or upon the first quarter day next after my decease And whereas I have alsoe setled upon my said wife the house in Bromley wherein my brother Robert Jacob now liveth, dureing her life I leave it to her election to accept of the same house or to accept of the somme of Two hundred pounds in lieu of the same: from my executor hereafter named and to release and convey the same accordingly to my Executor his heires and assignes And whereas I have bought for the use of my eldest sonne and his heires for the improvement of his estate and alsoe paid and discharged severall debts Judgements and incumbrances chargeable upon his and my estate lying and being in the County of Cambridge amounting to the somme of foure Thousand pounds and upwards And have hitherto made noe provision for the maintenance and supporte of my youngest sonne Robert Jacob Therefore my will and mynd is That executor his heires executors administrators or assignes shall lay out and disburse the somme of foure Thousand pounds of lawfull money of England for the purchasing of lands and tenements of Inheritance to the value of at least two hundred pounds per Annum to bee setled upon my said sonne Robert Jacob and the heires of his body lawfully begotten And in default of such issue the remainder thereof to my eldest sonne and his heires in such manner as my sonne Robert shall not have power to discontinue the said estate Tayle or to alienate the said lands contrary to the intent and meaning of this my will with provision to make his wife a competent Joynture if he happens to marry And in such manner as counsell learned in the law shall advise and untill the said lands be purchased according to the true intent & meaning of this my will, my executor is hereby required to allowe my said sonne Robert the somme of Two hundred pounds per Annum And to pay the same by quarterly payments for his present mayntenance and subsistance And whereas I have an expectacon that my estate in the farmes of the customes by virtue of the present Granntes or Lease thereof from his sacred Maiestie together with my interest in severall Tallys as will ioyntly and perticularly with the present farmers That will amount to a very considerable Estate And will yield my executor a faire surplusaage or overplus All my debts and Legacies hereby given first paid & discharged Therefore I give and bequeath unto my daughter ?Heldon the somme of one Thousand pounds more than is already secured to her by bond and deed, as alsoe unto my daughter West<ref>Alice West was the daughter of Sir John jacob by his second marriage to Alice, daughter of Thomas Clowes of London and relict of the London merchant John Eaglesfield.  Alice Jacob married Henry West, esq., of Wooham Court, Sussex</ref> the somme of five hundred pounds Provided alwayes and upon this condicon That the profitt of the present grannt or Lease of the Customes and the tallys thereupon struck doe yeild the same sommes over above all and all manner of debts and settlements THat are already charged upon the same
 ITEM I give unto Mary ?Wilmer daughter of my Nephew Wilmer the somme of five hundred pounds payable at her age of Eighteene yeares or day of marriage which shall first happen Provided alwayes and upon this condiccon That my said
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 ITEM I give and bequeath into Thomas Hopkins the somme of forty pounds of lawfull money of England to bee paid him at the age of one and Twenty yeares for a stocke to beginne the world withall And whome I leave to the care of my eldest sonne after my decease
-ITEM I give to my Cousin John Andrewes Francis Rogers John Mainstone Thomas Dods and John Peake and to every one of them a mourning Cloake
+ITEM I give and bequeath mourning to my wife and all my children sonnes and daughter Compleate and to Jacob West and to my Nephew and daughter Willmer , my brother Jacob with one man and to my brother and sister Hallyday and to Sir Robert Wingfeild And I doe hereby appoint and intrust my eldest sonne and my loveing brother M:r Robert Jacob tosee the said Sir Robert Wingfield educated according to his ranke & quallitie to whome I leave the ?concernes of him and his estate untill he attayne to the age of one and twenty yeares
 ITEM I give and bequeath  compleate mourning to all and every of my domestique servants that shall live and cohabitt with mee at the tyme of my decease
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 ==Possible primary sources==
 ===TNA===
 PROB 4/9632 Jacob, John, Sir, Kt. & Bt., of St. Leonard, Bromley, Middx. 1669 29 Mar.
 PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir John Jacob of Bromley, Middlesex 02 April 1666