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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Gifts to Marlow's Poor 1600s

I have excluded famous charitable requests. These have all been found by me while transcribing wills from the National Archives.


Thomas Jordan = 6 shillings 8 pence. Will proved 1611.

John Little, yeoman= £5. Will proved 1622.

John Moore [brewer]= £5. Will proved 1655. 

John Newton= 5 shillings to 40 honest poor men and poor women. Will proved 1669. He also left the church in Marlow a bible bound in blue Turkish leather with gilt letters on.

John Plumridge, yeoman of Lane End = 8 shillings 8 pence. Will proved 1630.

William Stutfield, mercer= 5 shillings. Will proved 1629.


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