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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

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John Jacobs was knighted in 1633, and created a baronet on January 11th, 1665.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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:

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.^[4]

Suggested links

See 1st March 1662/63, Letter from John Jacobs to Sir GO, London

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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN The sixteenth day of February in the Eighteenth yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the Faith xr And in the yeare of our Lord Christ 1665 I Sir John Jacob of Bromley in the County of Midds Knight and Barronett being in health of body and of sound and perfecte mynd and memory All laud and praise be therefore given to Almighty God doe make and ordaine this my last will and testament in manner and forme following That is to say

FIRST and principally I commend my soule into the hands of the Almighty God that gave it hopeing of
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Eternall salvaccon through the merritts death and passion of Jesus Christ my saviour and redeemer To have a full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sinnes and to inheritt everlasting life. And my body I committ to the earth from whence it was taken to bee decently interred in the Vault of Saint Leonards Bromley where my father mother wives and many children are and shallbe with me turned to corruption untill the Joyfull day of resurrection when all of us shall rise againe with hope of eternall glory And if I happen to dye in London I desire my freinds and acquaintance to accompany my hearse to Bromley aforesaid and to see me layd in my Grave And if I happen to dye in Bromley then to attend my hearse to the said Church without further ceremonie or Pomp,

And for my worldly Goods wherein I have had various fortunes with the tymes and have been wonderfully preserved by Gods providence As touching the sisposicon of all and such Temporall estate as it hath pleased the Almighty God to bestowe upon one I give and dispose thereof as followeth

FIRST I order will AND direct That all my proper debts entered into by my selfe alone or with my sone and brother according to a deed in that behalfe, shalbe punctually paid and discharged with all convenient speed upon the first receipts of ?either rents Farmes or other proffitts whatsoever Next haveing by gods providence a good revenue and hopes (if the kings debts be paid and discharged) of a faire personall Estate I give and devise the same as followeth

IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath into my deare wife all the household stuffe both of Lynnen and Plate that was lefte unto her by her mother deceased And alsoe all my other plate whatsoever And all her necklaces Jewells rings and Cabbinetts with the bed bedding hangings & furniture lying and being in her chamber in London where she usually lyes Together with the new bedd and hangings in Bromley house according to an Inventory hereunto annexed with the Provisoe And upon condiccon That my said wife doe give her bond of the penalty Two Thousand pounds condicconed for the Due payment of One Thousand pounds of lawfull money of England into my little daughter Margarett Jacob To be paid unto her at her age of wighteene yeares if shee my said daughter shall then live; The sd goods Plate Jewells and household stuffe aforfesaid and given unto her by her Grandmother deceased To be valued as parte thereof and not to be alienated from my said daughter Margarett which said bond I hereby order to be lefte in the custody of my executor for her my said daughter Margaretts further advancement over and above what porccon I have secured XX to her by my XXXXX bond and an Indenture of Defeazance in that behalfe which said bond I doe hereby order and appoint my said wife to enter into or before any of the said goods plate Jewells and householdstuffe aforesaid be removed out of my house after my decease And which I hope my said wife will not scruple being for the advancement of our Little Peggy, whomew I desire my eldest sonne to Joyne with my said wife to see my said daughter Margarett humbly and decently educated & brought up in the Company of my daughter in law & and my other daughters with all due respect and dutie to her her said mother my said wife is hereby required to deliver those Jewells and the Chyna to my executor that belongs or appertaynes to Sir Robert Wingfield my grandsonne All which being specified in or ?note within one of his Cabbinetts To whome I give a ring of the value of twenty pounds to weare for my sake

ITEM I give and bequeath unto my said wife my right Tytle and interest in the Kentish Lands devideable betweene her and her sister, w:ch I value at five hundred pounds And doe hereby desire my said wife 6 her sisters to sell the same eyther together , or that some one would lay out the
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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 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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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

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

ITEM I give unto my neece margarett Rolt The somme of two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid unto her within six monethes after my decease

ITEM I give and bequeath into my daughter Willmer the somme of fiftie pounds to buy some memorable thing to keepe for my sake

ITEM I give to my brother and sister Holliday Twenty pounds a peice to buy some memorable thing to keepe for my sake

ITEM I give unto my cousin John Andrewes the somme of twenty pounds of lawfull money of England intreating the continuance of his care in what may concerne my accompts

ITEM I give unto George Haddon over and above his wages the somme of Tenne pounds of lawfull money of England

ITEM I give and bequeath into Jane Girdi? over and above her wages due the somme of Thirty pounds of lawfull money of England

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 and bequeath mourning to my wife and all my children sonnes and daughterCompleate 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 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 compleate mourning to all and every of my domestique servants that shall live and cohabitt with mee at the tyme of my decease

ITEM I give & bequeath unto the right honourable Sir Thomas Ingram the somme of Twenty pounds of lawfull money of England to buy a ring or ome other memorable thing to weare for my sake

ITEM I give and bequeath into the poore of Bromley by Bowe the somme of Twenty pounds of lawfull money of England to be added to the Cole stocks To be managed and disposed of by the overseers for the supply of Coles to the poore every Saint Thomas day before Christmas to bee paid within six moenhes after my decease desireing my executor to give and dispose the somme of five pounds to such poore people as shall happen to bee at my funerall by distributing the same by twelve pence a peice

ITEM I give to M:r ?Hill my Chaplin or to the minister that preacheth my funerall sermon the somme of five pounds and cloth for a mourning gowne for his paynes in that behalfe

ITEM I doe hereby ordaine and comand my eldest onne as he expects my blessing to perfect the building of the Almshouses that I have begunne and designed in Gamlyngay in the County of Cambrigde and to endow the same pious use with forty pounds p annum for Tenne poore people after the rate of fower pounds p Annum to each man and payable

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able quarterly And to settle the said pious use to perpetuity as alsoe to secure to that parish that little Charity my father gave to that poore by his last will and Testament

ITEM it is the true intent and meaning of this my will That my houshold and domestique family should live cohabit and hold together for the space of one moneth next after my decease at the charge of my executor with all respect to my deare and loveeinge wife and care of my servants All the rest and residue of my personall estate goods and Chattells whatsoever And alsoe all my lands Tenements farmes rents arrrages or rents and proffitts whatsoever I give devise and bequeath unto my eldest sonne John Jacob who is my heire apparent at the common lawe And whome I hereby nominate constitute and appointe my full and sole executor of this my present last will and testament hopeing of his iust and faithfull performance of this soe greate a truste And for his assistance and counsell herein I doe appoint my loveing brother M:r Robert Jacob to be overseer of this my will, And to whome I give and bequeath the somme of twenty pounds to buy him a ring to weare for my sake desireing my said brother Jacob to assist my said Executor To order all things in peace love and unitie That my said wife and children in all manner of affection and respecte for which and I have soe largely provided heretofore for my said wife, who though shee may alter her condiccon yet I hope will never alienate her love and truest affection to my children whereof hers is one, And soe most love & Cherish one another And soe I give them all my blessing And declare and punlish these presents my last will and testament And I doe hereby revoke disannnnull and make voyd all other and former wills by mee heretofore made

IN WITNES whereof I the said Sir John Jacob To this my last will and Testament conteyned in six sheets of paper have sett my hand to each sheete thereof And to the toppe and last sheete thereof have sett my seale the say and yeare first before written

JOHN JACOB

Signed sealed published and delivered in the presence of William Hill George Haddon Walter Powell

TRUE and perfect Inventory (whereof mention is made in the precedent will to to theirs presents annexed) of all such Jewells Plate Lynnen and householdstuffe as were heretofore the Lady Ashburnham deceased (viz:t)

IMPRIMIS one dyamond Jewell conteyning one very large Tablett and fower lesser dyamonds at the corners thereof and betweene them fower more of a lesser sorte with their large Fassett Dyamonds hanging to it.

ITEM one little dyamond Lockett conteyning fower and Twenty small dyamonds

ITEM one deepe silver Bason with ?Brymmes one lesser without Brymmes one Tankerd one Porrenger six spoones one great ?Candle Cuppe with a porringer cover one lesser one one wrought Cuppe with a salver to it one little Beaker sixt Salts one silver & guilt sugar dish one parie of little Candlesticks for the Chamber two little sweetmeate spoones one little Egg Cuppe Two little Boxes and two ?SawXXees

ITEM one large featherbed and bolster (now remayning in the best Chamber in Bromley house Two new Fustian Pillowes two new fustian Blanketts one paire of fyne woollen blanketts very large Two little featherbeds and bolsters Two ruggs one old paire of curtaynes
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And vallens redd Two paire of blanketts one Turkie carpett and one redd Plush couch cover embroydered

ITEM seaven paires Tapistrie hangings one couch of redd shagg Plush with a yellow cover to it

To paire of brasse andirons fire shovells and Tongs one kettle of Copper and two XXXX

ITEM two paire of very fyne Holland sheets Two paire of Courser sorte very large fower paire of pillowbers ?suteable, and two paire of new Course sheets for servants

ITEM one very large and long Table cloth of dammaske two side board clothes two long Towells Three douzen of napkins suteable one fyne Table cloth, cloth of dammaske with the Queene of Bohemias marke on it one douzen of napkins suteable one other long Table cloth, one other a Size lesser Two side board Clothes two Long Towells and fower douzen of napkins. All suteable of the finest sorte of dyaper of dyed worke one Long table cloth Three douzen of napkins two long Towells, two side board clothes of courser sorte of dyaper of ?dieworke two shorte Table cloths and two dozen of Napkins of Birdseye worke

ITEM one table cloth two side board clothes one towell and two douzen of Napkins of Rose and Crame worke one large Table cloth and one douzen of napkins of Lavan:r Bloome worke

ITEM one Large Table cloth one douzen of Napkins and one long Towell of fyne dyaper called dammaske dyaper

JO: JACOB:

AN INVENTORY of my other Jewells plate and household stuffe:

ITEM one necklace of faire Orientall Pearle conteyning in number forty Nyne in one rowe And one other Necklace of Pearle of a smaller dyameter contayning two rowes

ITEM one paire of dyamon Pendants with a large Saphir in the middel of each, one bracelet of small dyamonds one dyamond ring with three rose damonds and fower sparks in it and one Bodkin of small dyamonds with an Emerald in the middle thereof

ITEM one silver warming panne one silver Baskett two Salvers two cupps to them with Covers A paire of Candlesticks one douzen of Trencher Plates two Tankards one silver box one Chafing dish one XXX XXX one douzen of spoones six salts two little thin sugar dishes one little wrought dish two porringers and two Little strong water cupps

ITEM one darke coloured cloathe bed lyned with watered Tabbywith Curtaynes vallens Comter=poynt fower stools two back Charres w:th two ?Arining ones suteable with featherbed bolster pillowes blancketts and quilt thereunto, One Table and stands of Jamayca wood one other Italian Table inlayed with blacke and white All which said furniture are lying and being in my said wyves Chamber in London

ITEM one other bed curtaines and vallens of watered Mohaire lyned with greene sarsenett with featherbed bolster pillow quilt and blanketts thereunto fower turned frame chaires and one long forme with greene cushions to them and one ?suite of forrest worke Tapestry hangings All which furniture are lying and being in my said wifes Chamber in my house in Bromley

ITEM one large Looking Glasse with a Tortoys shell frame now hanging and being in the dyneing Roome in my house in Bromley

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 upon the XXXXX That my said wife according to my will
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To their presents affixed enter into the said bond of one Thousand pounds principall money for the advancement of our said daughter Margarett according to such engagements and assurances I have receaved from her of her affection & prudent educaccon of our little Peggy as alsoe out of the same, if she happen to alter her condiccon or departe this life or if my said daughter Margarett shall happen to dye before her marriage she will according to her promise remember from whence these things came and to returne parte thereof to such of my daughters as shee shall thinke fitting desireing they may live together with all naturall respect and duty as becomes them which I beleeve she will very conscientiously performe

BE IT REMEMBERED That this annexed Codicill is part and parcell of my last will and Testament before to their presents affixed And whereas I have given to my wife the forrest worke hangings mencconed in the schedule Now my will and mynd is And I doe by their presents give and bequeath the said Forrest worke Tapistry hangings unto my eldest sonne and executor

ITEM I give unto my said sonne all the Marble statues in my wifes Closett and the Indian Cabbinett, which was his mothers ?venturd together with the greate ?Garn and Chyna dishes and one other Cabbinett heretofore sent to my said sonnes mother by my brother Jacob from Lygorne All which said things I hope my said wife will cheerfully deliver to my sonne according to this my mynd I haveing setled all my plate and Jewells unto her as appears by my will

ITEM I give unto my brother & sister SyllXXXd mourning as alsoe unto M:r John ?Thacker mourning Cloth for a suite and cloake

IN WITNES whereof I the said Sir John Jacob have hereunto sett my hand and seale this fourth day of March one Thousand six hundred sixty Five ?Raino ?Octavo Carolj secundi

JO: JACOB

Sealed and delivered in the presence GEO: HADDEY WA: POWELL

PROBATUM fuit Testamentum suprascriptum apud London coram venerabili XXX Thomas Read Legum doctire surrogato venerabilis et egregij viri Domini Willmj Mericke militi Legum etial doctoris curia Prerogativa CantuagXXXsio magri Custodio sive Commissarij Letime constituti secundo die mense Aprilis Anno Dominij Millimo Sexcentesimo sexagesimo sexto Juramento Domini Johannis Jacob Executoris in XXXXX Testamento nominat Qui commissa fuit Administrato omnium et singler XX bonorum Jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter administrand ead ad Sancta dei Evangelia Invat

Notes

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TNA

PROB 4/9632 Jacob, John, Sir, Kt. & Bt., of St. Leonard, Bromley, Middx. 1669 29 Mar.

1. ↑ This is the footnote text
2. ↑ '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." (John Burke, John Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England (London, 1838), p. 279
3. ↑ '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
4. ↑ This is the footnote text