Wills and inventories

Copies of wills and inventories are currently being transcribed by members of the Winslow History Project, and additions will be made to this page on a regular basis. The transcriptions follow the original spellings and punctuation (or, usually, lack of it). Images of the original documents are included with some the transcriptions.

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Will of John/Joan Wattes of Granborough, 1427 Will of John Pyconde of Little Horwood, 1427 Will of John Thomlyn, 1429 Will of Nicholas Colles, 1433 Will of Hugh Jones, 1436 (proved 1437) Will of William Cowper, 1437 Will of Juliana Thomelyn, 1438 Will of John Everesdone, 1438 Probate of John Lane of Shipton, 1440 Probate of Joan Albyn, 1440 Will of John Elyot, 1441 Will of Richard Marston, 1442 Will of Thomas Cordell, 1446/7 Will of Thomas Colman, 1449 (proved 1451) Will of William Eversdon, 1449 (proved 1453) Will of Henry Thomlyns the vicar, 1451 Will of Robert Eversdon, 1451 (proved 1453) Will of Henry Thomelyn, 1452 Will of John Warde of Shipton, 1453 Will of Thomas Cowper of Shipton, 1454 Will of John Kyng of Granborough, 1455 (proved 1456) Wills of William Baker and John Stasy, 1456 (proved 1457) Will of William Baker, 1456 (proved 1458) Will of John Marchall, 1457 (proved 1458) Will of Stephen Janyn, 1459 Will of John Orchard, 1459 Will of Joan Loksmyth, 1459/60 Will of Stephen Asshewell, 1460 Will of John Wayne, poulter, 1460/1 Will of Thomas Perys of Shipton, 1463/4 Will of John Alben, 1463/4 Will of William Tomlyns, 1464 Administration of Hugh Merston, 1464 Will of William Janyn of Shipton, 1464 Will of Richard Elyot of Shipton, 1464 Will of John Davy, 1464 Will of Alice Tomlyns, 1465 Will of Isabel Arches, 1467 Will of John Laurence, 1467 Will of William Nasshe, 1467 Will of John Coke of Shipton, 1467 (proved 1468) Will of Robert Myller, 1468 (proved 1469) Will of Matthew More, 1469 (proved 1477) Will of Thomas Jenken of Winslow, 1470 (proved 1471) Will of Agnes Nasshe, 1471 Will of Donatus Alen, 1471 Will of William Parkyn, 1471 Will of William Thomlyns, 1471 Will of John Roper, 1473 (proved 1474) Will of Stephen Tomlyn, 1474/5 Will of William Punteys of Shipton, 1474/5 Will of Stephen Albyn, 1477 Will of Geoffrey Kyng, 1477 (proved 1478) Will of John Eversdon of Shipton, 1478 Will of John Wynter, 1478 Will of John Elyot of Shipton, 1478/9 Will of William Stevenes of Granborough, 1479 Will of William Eversdon, 1479 Will of John Nassh, 1479 Will of John Punteys of Shipton, 1479 Will of William Cowper of Shipton, 1481 Will of John Hoggeston, 1481 Will of William Smyth, 1481 Will of Robert Kynggeswode, 1482 Will of William Elyot, 1482/3 Will of William Balky, 1483 Will of Richard Lane, 1484 Will of Robert Jay of Shipton, 1484 Will of William Thomlyns, 1486 Will of Richard Tomlyns, 1490 Will of William Chewe, 1491 Will of William Atwode, 1491 Will of William Fooke, smith, 1493 Will of John Borne, vicar, 1494 Will of Thomas Hardyng, 1495 (proved 1496) Will of John Machon, 1495/6 Will of John Schelton, 1498 Will of William Olyver, 1498/9 Will and administration of William Robertson, 1499/1500 Will of John Miller, 1500 Will of John Hobbys of Little Horwood, 1500 Will of William Jenkyns, 1500 Will of Elizabeth Hardyng, 1501 Will of Willam Meedflower alias Roper, 1502/3 Will of Geoffrey Cowper of Shipton, 1503/4 Wills of John Schrop and Andrew Hoges, 1504 Will of John Grene, 1504/5 Will of William Pygot of Little Horwood, 1505 Will of Thomas Davy of Shipton, 1505/6 Will of Richard Bell, 1506 Will of Thomas Genyn of Shipton, 1506 Will of Robert Elyat of Shipton, 1506 Will of William Smyth, 1507 Will of Nicholas Wendylborow of Wynslowe, 1507 (proved 1508) Will of William Mynge, 1509 Administration of Godfrey Stedy, 1510 Will of Henry Illyng, 1510 Will of Edmund Newman, 1512/13 Will of Richard Davy, 1513 Will of John Gose of Granborough, 1513 Will of Thomas Tomlyn of Granborough, 1513 Will of John Davy, husbandman, 1516 (proved 1518) Will of John Adam, 1517 (proved 1520) Will of Thomas Palmer, 1518 Will of Edward Payn, 1518/19 Will of William Milner, 1519 Will of John Alyn, 1520 Will of Walter Palmer, 1521 Will of Robert Honer, 1525 Will of William Elyatt, clerk, 1528 Will of Richard Hartwell, 1530 Will of John Hartwell, 1530/1 Will of Thomas Graunte, 1531 Will of Thomas Glenestre of Wynslow, 1531/2 Will of Richard Wyllowes, 1532 Will of Edward Holland of Granborough, 1534 (proved 1535) Will of Johan Blott, 1535 Will of John Hoggeson, 1535 (proved 1536) Will of John Glenester of Shipton, 1536 Will of Thomas Tomlyn, 1537 (proved 1538) Will of Joan Wyllowes, 1538 Will of William Elyatt of Shipton, 1538 Will of Richard Tomlyne of Shipton, 1538 Will of John Spurr, 1538 Will of Richard Bonyon, 1540 (proved 1543) Will of William Masson, 1541/2 (proved 1543) Will of William Tomlyns, 1542/3 Will of Isabel Jenyns, 1543 Will of Robert Domynicke, 1543 (proved 1544) Will and inventory of Edmund Godbery, 1546 Inventory of William Hellynge, 1546 Administration of William Smyth, 1546 Will of Thomas Whenylborowe, 1546 (proved 1547) Will and inventory of Seth Graunte alias Miller, 1546/7 Will and inventory of Thomas Cowper, husbandman, 1547 Will and inventory of Richard Knyghte, husbandman, 1547 Will of William Robynson of Shipton, 1547 Will and inventory of John Leche, glover, 1547 Will and inventory of John Whenylborowe, 1547 Will and inventory of Walter Graunte alias Miller, 1548/9 Inventory of Thomas Thorn, 1549 Inventory of Alice Godbery, 1551 Will and inventory of William Shelton, 1552 Inventory of William Pigot of Little Horwood, 1552 Will of Thomas Jaye of Shipton 1553/4 Will and inventory of Thomas Elyat of Shipton, 1554 Will and inventory of John Hobs, 1555/6 Inventory of Richard Edmondes, 1556 Will of Richard Stratton, Rector of Aspley Guise (and Vicar of Winslow), 1557 (son of John & Alice Stratton of Winslow) Will and inventory of William Frauncis, 1557 Will and inventory of Thomas Tomlyn, 1558 Will and inventory of Thomas Jeffes of Granborough, yeoman, 1558 Will and inventory of John Boston, 1558 Will and inventory of John Palmer, 1558 Will of Robert Hogson, husbandman, 1558 Will and inventory of Thomas Turner, 1558 Inventory of Richard Boton (Granborough), 1558 Will of John Tomlyn of Adstock, 1558 Will of Thomas Palmer of Tring, gentleman, 1558/9 Will and inventory of Richard Wyllyott, 1559 Will and inventory of Roger Shelton, husbandman, 1559, proved 1562 Will and inventory of Alice Tomlyn, 1559/60 Will and inventory of Thomas Overinge, 1560 (proved 1561) Will and inventory of Thomas Tomlyn of Shipton, husbandman, 1562 Inventory of John Cooper, 1563 Inventory of William Emerton, 1563 Will and inventory of William Adames, husbandman, 1565 (proved 1566) Will and inventory of Robert Brasehede, 1565 (proved 1566) Will and inventory of Edward Mayne, 1566 Will and inventory of Geoffrey Cowper, 1567/8 Will and inventory of Richard Norman alias Capper, butcher, 1571 Inventory of William Jackson, 1571 Will and inventory of Robert Webbe, 1573 Will and inventory of Edward Overinge of Shipton, 1573 Will and inventory of William Costerd of Biggyn, 1575 Will of Robert Hassall, yeoman, 1578 Will of Thomas Fige senior, gentleman, 1578/9 (proved 1580) Inventory of George Elyott, shoemaker, 1580 Inventory of John Clements, 1580/1 Will and inventory of Oliver Denham, gentleman, 1581 (proved 1582) Will and inventory of Jane Fidge, 1581/2 Will and inventory of Walter Hawkins, 1582 Inventory of John Scott, 1582 Will and inventory of John Stonecke, husbandman, 1583 Will and inventory of Thomas Partrige, yeoman, 1583 Inventory of William Jackson, 1586 Inventory of Edward Stevens of Shipton, 1586 + accounts, 1597 Will and inventory of Robert Mychell, baker, 1587 Will and inventory of Thomas Norman, butcher, 1587 (proved 1588) Will of Thomas Cowper, 1587 (proved 1589) Will and inventory of William Tomlyn the elder, husbandman, 1587 Inventory of William Davyes, chapman, 1588 Inventory of William Tomlyn of Shipton, husbandman, 1588/9 Will and inventory of John Graunte alias Myller of Shipton, yeoman, 1589 Inventory of Robert Daunce, Vicar of Winslow, 1590 Will and inventory of Nicholas Lunt alias Spooner, smith, 1591 Will and inventory of Anthony Jackson of The Bell, yeoman, 1591/2 Will and inventory of Edward Stuttesbery, shoemaker, 1591 (proved 1592) Will and accounts of John Snowe of Shipton, husbandman, 1592 Will, inventory and accounts of Thomas Cowper, butcher, 1592/3 Will and inventory of Richard Bancks, 1593 Inventory of Martin & Alice Porter, 1593 Will and inventory of Gilbert Stutsbury, mercer, 1593/4-4/5 Will and inventory of John Geffes, shoemaker, 1594 (proved 1595) Will and inventory of Alice Mychell, 1597 Accounts of the administrator of George Ellyot, 1597 Inventory and accounts of Philip Favor, Vicar, 1597-1600 Will and inventory of Robert Eliot (Elliott) of Shipton, husbandman, 1598 Will and inventoryof Elizabeth Hogson, 1600 Will and inventory of John Shelton, yeoman, 1601 Administration of William Cooke, 1601 Inventory of Richard Hogson of Shipton, blacksmith, 1601 Inventory of Thomas Williams, 1602 Administration of Robert Lownds, 1603 Inventory of John Lane, draper, 1603/4 Inventory of Marian Graunt alias Miller, 1604 Will of Michael Norman, 1603/4 Will of Richard Edmondes, Vicar of Shenley, 1605/6 Will and inventory of William Gibbert of Shipton, 1607 Will and inventory of Frances Shelton, 1607 Will and inventory of Agnes Udden, spinster, 1607/8 Will and inventory of Agnes Hogson, widow, 1608/9 Will and inventory of John Kirbie, weaver, 1608 (proved 1609) Inventory of Hugh Stutsbery, 1609/10 Will and inventory of Alice Scott, single woman, 1610 Will and inventory of Silvester Michell, innholder, 1610 Will and inventory of John Abbot, husbandman, 1610 Will and inventory of William Gilbert, baker, 1610/11 Will of William Hardewicke, yeoman, 1610/11 Inventory of Thomas Hudson, butcher, 1611 Inventory and administration of John Mason, glover, 1612 Will of Thomas Robinson, yeoman, 1612 Inventory of Matthew Miller, 1614 Will of Thomas Kirby, shoemaker, 1615 Will and inventory of Thomas Jackson, 1615 Will and Inventory of John Taylor, 1616 Inventory of Thomas Tapping, 1616 Inventory of Bernard Hogg, 1617 Will and Inventory of Richard Helie, husbandman, 1617 Inventory of Alice Kyrby, 1617 Will and inventory of William Varney the elder of Shucklow, miller, 1617 Will of Robert Norman, 1617/18 (proved 1618/19) Will and inventory of Peter Warner, 1617/18 Inventory of Katherine Snow, widow, 1619 Inventory of John Chinnall, 1619 Will and inventory of Robert Glenister of Shipton, yeoman, 1619 Will & inventory of Henry Wallis, baker, 1620 Will of John Stutsburie the elder, 1621 Will of Thomas Graunt, yeoman, 1621 Will of Marion Wallis 1621 Will and inventory of Thomas Elliot of Shipton, yeoman, 1621 (proved 1624) Will of Thomas Lownes, tallow-chandler of London, 1622 Will and inventory of Thomas Overing, 1622 (proved 1623) Will of Elizabeth Coxe, widow, 1623 Will of Joan Lownds, spinster, 1623 Will of John Burd, labourer, 1625 Will and inventory of Richard Shelton, yeoman, 1625 Will and inventory of Robert Plesteed of Shipton, 1625 Accounts of Richard Stutsbury, 1625 Inventory of Nicholas Mason, glover, 1625/6 Inventory and obligation of Margaret Gyles, 1625/6 Will and inventory of Paul Lancaster, joiner, 1626 Administration of Henry Wendover, 1627 Will and inventory of John Foster, baker, 1628 Will and inventory of Silvester Stutsberie, 1629 Will and inventory of John Graunt alias Miller of Shipton, yeoman, 1630 Will of William Edmunds, gentleman, 1630/1 (proved 1632/3) Will and inventory of Walter Graunt alias Miller, 1632/3 Will of John Stevens of Granborough, 1633/4 Will and inventory of John Glenister, 1633 (proved 1634) Will of Richard Gurney, gardener, 1635 Will and inventory of Thomas Graunt alias Miller of Shipton, yeoman, 1635/6 Will and inventory of Richard Snowe of Shipton, yeoman, 1636 Will of Stephen Janes of Biggin, 1638 Will of Margaret Chinnal, widow, 1641 Will and inventory of Martha Miller, widow, of Shipton, 1641 Will of Margaret Holiman, 1643 (proved 1650) Will of Joanne Ford, 1644 Inventory of Edward Pleasted, 1647 Will and inventory of Robert Maynwaring, Vicar of Winslow, 1647 Will of Robert Stevens, yeoman, 1651 Will of Thomas Fige, gentleman, 1652 (proved 1654) Will of Alice Seaton, widow, 1657/8 Will and inventory of William Norman the elder of Shipton, 1658 (proved 1661) Will and inventory of Christopher Bigg, 1664 Will of Henry Pym, innholder, 1666 (proved 1667) Will and inventory of Benjamin Leach, grocer, 1669 Will and inventory of Henry Wyatt, butcher, 1670 Will and inventory of Robert Eliot, yeoman, 1671 Administration and inventory of William Glenister of Shipton, yeoman, 1671 Will and inventory of Wendover Lowndes, 1672 Will and inventory of Silvester Cleaver the elder, yeoman, 1681 Will and inventory of Francis Glenister, mercer, 1681 Will and inventory of Silvester Cleaver of the King's Head, 1685 Will and inventory of William Townsend of Shipton, husbandman, 1685 (proved 1691) Administration and inventory of Anthony Buckingham, millwright, 1688/9 Will and inventory of Anthony Deely, bricklayer, 1690/1 Will and inventory of Thomas Eden, labourer, 1691 Will of William Wyatt of Shipton, butcher, 1695 Will of Robert Mitchell of London, painter and stainer, 1695 Administration and inventory of Thomas Godwin, innholder, 1695 Will and inventory of William Spooner, yeoman, 1698 Will and inventory of Richard Seaton, yeoman, 1706 Will of Benjamin Bigg, postmaster of Yardley Gobion, 1707 (proved 1708/9) Will and Inventory of Charles King, innholder, 1708 Will of Peter Lowndes, yeoman, 1711 Will of William Gyles, linen draper, 1712/13 Will of Thomas Paxton, innholder, 1713/14 Will and inventory of Robert Elliott of Shipton, yeoman, 1716 Will of John Budd, butcher, 1719 Will of Thomas Henly, yeoman, 1720 Will of William Eden, yeoman, 1720 (proved 1721) Will of Sarah Fyge Egerton, 1721-2 Will of William Lowndes MP, 1721 (proved 1723) Will of Joseph Rogers, furrier(?), 1722/3 Will of Charles Bowler, cordwainer, 1723/4 Will of Thomas Key of Biggin, 1725 Will of Joseph Gurney, 1728 Will of Roger West, yeoman, 1733/4 Will of Benjamin Sanders, baker, 1735 (proved 1745) Will and inventory of Thomas Hazzard, innholder, 1736/7 Will of John Seaton, butcher, 1737 (proved 1758) Will of Benjamin Dudley senior, draper, 1739 (proved 1742) Will of William Goodman, innkeeper, 1745/6 (proved 1749) Will and inventory of George Barrett, glover, 1746/7 Administration of John Morris, dealer, 1747 Will of Richard Mayne, maltster, 1747 (proved 1752) Will and commision of probate of William Tofield, baker, 1748 (proved 1753) Will of John Cox the elder, farmer, 1749/50 Will and inventory of Henry Stuchbury, ironmonger, 1750 Will of John Gibbs the elder, cordwainer and victualler, 1752 Will of John Cox, butcher, 1752 (proved 1759) Will of Elizabeth Seaton, 1758 Will of Matthew Hobbs, apothecary, 1760 (proved 1767) Will of James Budd, lacebuyer, 1761 Will of Thomas Blake the elder, gentleman, 1761 (proved 1762) Will of Augustine Seaton the elder, 1765 Will of George Maydon, butcher, 1767 Will of William Hobbs, gentleman, 1770 (proved 1771) Will of Ann Hobbs, 1771 (proved 1773) Will of Christopher Bigg, 1775 (proved 1780) Will of Thomas Blake gentleman, 1780 (proved 1784) Will of Susanna Bigg, spinster, 1784 Administration of Ann Gibbs, 1785 Will of John Gibbs, glover and victualler, 1788 (proved 1834) Will of William Gibbs, glover, 1789 Will of William Blake of Shipton, yeoman, 1793 (proved 1797) Administration of William Dudley, draper, 1796 Will of Crescens Churchill, gentleman, 1796 (proved 1798) Will of Charles Bowler, cordwainer, 1798 (proved 1802) Will of Joseph Dudley, draper, 1799 Will of William Dudley, 1800 (proved 1802) Will of James Burnham, gentleman, 1801 (proved 1803) Will of William Budd, maltster, 1803 Will of Thomas Morecraft senior, butcher, 1807 Will of John Dudley, gentleman, 1808 Will of William Mayne, saddler, 1809 (proved 1811) Will of Thomas Brandon, yeoman, 1810 Will of James Morris, peruke maker, 1811 (proved 1812) Will of Richard Staniford the elder, bricklayer, 1812 (proved 1814 & 1817) Will of Joseph Dudley, draper, 1813 Will of John Brand, ship's captain, 1815 (proved 1818) Will of John Bull senior of Tuckey Farm, dairyman, 1816 (proved 1817) Will of Thomas Bignell, 1818 (proved 1823) Will of James Hazzard, victualler of the Three Pigeons, 1821 (proved 1823) Will of Mary Burnham, 1823 (proved 1826) Will of Edward Line of Shipton, dairyman, 1823 (proved 1824) Will of Ann Morecraft, widow, 1824 (proved 1828) Will of James Burnham jr/sr, gentleman, 1828 (proved 1837) Will of Ann Nibbs, nee Burnham, 1836 Will of William Jones, victualler of the Three Pigeons, 1838 (codicil 1842, proved 1857) Will of John Bull, dairyman, 1846 (proved 1847) Will of William Jackman, tailor, 1847 Will of George Richard Greaves of Western House, 1895 (proved 1899)

Wills proved at St Albans

Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC)

Winslow wills were normally proved at St Albans until 1857, and many are therefore in the Hertfordshire Records Office. There is an online index to these (search for Wills, and "place=Winslow").