Rev Zaccheus BREEDON D.D. [24793]

  General Notes:

Precis of the Will of:
ZACHEUS BEEEDON of Croulton, in the County of Northampton, clerk, 10 December 1662, proved 1 October 1663. The poor of Croulton. To my son Zacheus Bredon the close of pasture in Apeley Guise, Beds., called Woods Close, and a cottage thereunto adjoining &c., he paying to Margery my wife five pounds yearly during her life, in lieu of Thirds.. To my son John Breedon twenty pounds to be by him employed in the best manner and for the best advantage to and for the only use, benefit & and behoof of my daugher Elizabeth Sedgwicke, and to be at her own dispose during her life and also for her disposing thereof to such of her children as she shall please after her death, and her husband to have no right or title thereunto or to intermeddle with the same. To my said son Zacheus the messuage in Aspeley Guise now or late in the tenure of Francis Coleman &c. I give him also all and every of my books in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. To John Johnson my son in law and my daughter Martha his wife two cows commons &c. in Aspeley Guise. To my said son in law and his wife Martha and to my son in law William Richardson and my daughter Lydia his wife a messuage &c. in Aspeley Guise, to be held jointly. To my son Robert Breedon three hundred and fifty pounds. To my son Charles Breedon ten pounds, I having formerly given him three hundred and fifty pounds to set up his trade. The lesser of two pastures in Aspeley Guise to my wife Margery; and of the greater of the two I give one half to my son Thomas Breedon and the other half to my son John Breedon, upon trust that he shall sell the same for the best price that can be had and the one half of the money so raised to have and keep to his own use and the other half to employ for the benefit of my said daughter Elizabeth Sedgwick &c. The residue to wife Margery and she to be executrix and my brothers Robert Lawson and Charles Michell to be overseers, to whom, for their pains, twenty shillings apiece.
Ric. Kent a witness.
Juxon, 117.

  Other Records

1. Rev Zaccheus Breedon: Will, 10 Dec 1662, Croulton NTH.
Extract

Zaccheus married Margery BURGESS [24794] [MRIN: 8944]. (Margery BURGESS [24794] was born on 11 Sep 1598 in Fobbing ESS and died before 1623.)