The College and Rylands Close, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Copy will of Jane Kendall, widow of James Kendall and daughter of John Weston of Ockham in Surrey, esquire, dated 1 May 1766, bequeathing to her nephew, the Revd. John Fullerton all lands and property in her possession and making sundry money bequests to her sister Frances Fitzgerald, her brother John Fullerton, esquire, her nephew, Henry Perkins Weston, esquire, her niece Anne Weston, her nephew the Revd. Weston Fullerton, her niece Judith Finch, to the grandson of her Uncle and Aunt Weston, Richard Skrine, esquire, (and should he die to his wife Elizabeth), to her cousin Mary, her friend Mrs. Sarabella Wigmore of Cavisham near Ludlow, her cousin Margaret Myddleton, to Mrs. Margaret Thomas who raised her son, and to all her servants who have been with her for more than one year, to Mr. Thomas Fladgate, grocer of Conduit Street, St. Georges, together with his wife and two daughters, to the poor people of Stratford-upon-Avon not relieved by the parish and to the almspeople of the parish, with identical provisions for the poor and the almspeople of the parishes of Grafton and Fullbrook; finally a bequest of £100 for the erection at West Horsley Church of a monument in memory of her son, James John Kendall. She further appoints her nephew the Revd. John Fullerton, as sole executor of her will. Signed: J. Kendall Witnesses: Ann Crossby, Thos. Ettricke Cary, Arthur Jones, Chas. Gunning. Proved at London.