| Description | Will: 1 Sep 1738, Codicil: 6 Aug 1739. Devises capital mess, in Cools and Coole and capital mess, called Longdon Hall in Longdon, co. Staff, and all other premises in Cheshire and co. Staff, to exors. on trust to sell enough of Cheshire estates to raise sums to pay off debts and legacies to the poor of the parishers of Stone ? and Eccleshall, Rev. Bird of Church Eaton, Rev. Matthew Horbery, Rev. William Walker, Rev. Brian Wharton, Rev. Robert Jordan, Rev. Thomas Adderley, Rev. Robert Forster, Rev. Thomas Boycott, Rev. Bray, fellow of Exeter College Oxford; and pay legacies to exors., exors. of Dorothy Jervis, Elizabeth Jervis of Slaughter, co. Glouc., sp., cousin William Bayley of Wistaston, James Bayley of Stapeley, esq., John Jervis of Bradwall, esq., John Starkey of London, esq., Anne Spendelow of the Hill, co. Salop, Mr. Ethell, schoolmaster of Hodnett, co. Salop, godson John Green, son of George Green of Johnson Hall. Exors. Rev. Henry Jervis of the Hill, co. Salop, clerk, John Hickin of Stafford, co. Staff., gentleman Wit: Thomas Snelson, William Garmeson, Edward Adderley. Codicil: bequests to Charles Nicholls, Thomas Hodgetts, Simon Mountford of Cheadle |