Will Of Joan Pomfret

Joan Pomfret widow. Will written 1700. Proved 1702.

Says she sick and weak. Commends soul to God.

Asks to be decently buried at the discretion of her executor.

Son Henry: 5 shillings only. She considers this a full and fair portion as he has received plenty from her in the past.

Her second son John, vintner of London: £10.

Rest of goods and chattels after debts and funeral expenses paid to beloved son Richard. He the executor.

Witnessed by John Gibbons, Elizabeth ...... and Margaret ....

Notes:

Joan and her husband William, who were already innkeepers at the Kings Head in Marlow High Street, got permission to convert a property they had just leased into a new inn of unknown name on the West side of the High Street in 1685. Almost certainly this was the Three Tuns.

Joan does not describe herself as a victualer or innkeeper in her will so she may have retired before death.

Joan's son Richard died almost immediately after her. He was an inn keeper too, probably at the Three Tuns.

The son John in the will above was probably the John who was a innkeeper in Marlow by 1709 and was definitely running the Three Tuns in Marlow High Street at the time of his death in 1717. It is virtually certain that the building which William and Joan converted to an inn became the Three Tuns and their sons inherited that business.

Richard left his mother's clothes to his serving maid Margaret.

A Henry Pomfret innkeeper died in Marlow in 1671. Likely a relative of these. A second Henry Pomfrett, innkeeper was around in 1701 when his wife Barbara was fined for assaulting Thomas Elliott the butcher (3s 4d)

Note: the Three Tuns relocated later to West Street. It looks also to have moved premises within the High Street before that relocation.

The PCC of Joan will is held at the National Archives. Transcribed by me and summarised here. I have also transcribed both Richard and John Pomfret's wills but they are not yet on the blog.

Post by Charlotte Day.

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