Wellesbourne papers

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Copy will of John Venour, Kings Mead, Wellesbourne Hastings, Esquire Executors: brothers-in-law Walter Landor, Warwick; Reverend John Landor, Rector of Colton, Staffs. All real estate in Warwickshire, not subject to marriage settlement 18/5/1766, to executors of trustee for son Thomas for life with remainder to heirs of body. In default, to other sons and their heirs successively. Legacies of £612.10s.0d to each of sons John, William and Walter Askell at 21. Legacies of £612.10s.0d to daughters Sophia, Mary Ann, Eliza, Caroline and Harriet Isabella: £412. 10s.0d at 21 or marriage; £200 at death of their mother Catherine. To wife Catherine: £100, furniture in bedroom, right to stay in house for one year. To poor of Wellesbourne: £8. To executors: £50 to build monument to testator and late wife Mary in chancel. Real estate at Willesley to executors to sell, invest and use for maintenance of children. Residue of personal estate and household effects to son Thomas.