Certified Copy of Will: Henry Vennor of Warwick; High Street and West Street, Warwick, and Oxhill

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Certified copy of the Will of Henry Vennor of Warwick, gent. extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Bequests: To his wife Betty, sons Henry, Thomas and Edward, and daughter, Susannah Haines, wife of John Haines of Hackney, Middlesex, schoolmaster. To his grand-children, the two daughters of his daughter, Hannah Mayall, deceased, Henry, Mary and Elizabeth, children of his son, Henry, and Maria, wife of Ebenezer Fownes of Warwick, [mercer]. As Trustees, his friend Jonathan Evans of Coventry, silkman, William Cawley of Kingston, yeoman, Samuel Marshall of Sheffield, Yorkshire, ironmomnger and Ebenezer Fownes of Warwick, mercer. Messuages in High Street and West Street, Warwick and a close called Rittens Close in or near Warwick and a messuage and lands in Oxhill. £460 to be invested for the use of the Society or Congregation of Protestant Dissenters at the Meeting House built by the Testator in Warwick [?Brook Street built 1758]. Appoints his sons Thomas and Edward executors. Witnesses: John Parry, Joseph Fortt and Edward Watts. Will proved 22 January 1785. [Walton]