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| Probate year | Title | Christian name | Surname | Occupation | Marital status | Bequest terms | Bequest to poor monetary value (s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1609 | John | Browne | brickmaker | 20s to be paid within six weeks after my decease | 20 | ||
| 1609 | Thomas | Shepard | to the poore of [parish] where I dwell .. either in bread or monie at the discretion of myne overseers | 10 | |||
| 1610 | Robert | Henlacke | gentleman | Dependent on victory in law suits. 'then he shall for my sake be myndefull to bestow more or lesse on the poore of this parishe of [STMF], .. | 0 | ||
| 1610 | Mettle | Sincker | widow | 20s distributed in bread amongst the poore of this parish on my funeral day. 20s to poor of Dutch church within one month after decease. | 20 | ||
| 1611 | Agnes | Somerford | widow | 40s in money to the poor of St Martin in the Fields where I dwell, to be delivered ot the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor .. for the time being, and by them to be bestowed upon the poore.. uppon the daie of my buryall | 40 | ||
| 1661 | Mary | Baker | widow | [Dated as probated 1660] £100 to be spent on funeral. | 0 | ||
| 1665 | Ralph | Cue | yeoman | the poore of the parish .. £5 to be disposed and distributed att the discretion of my Execotors.. | 0 | ||
| 1665 | Robert | Peppit | boxmaker | married | unto and amongst the poore of the parish .. 30 dozen of bread to be distributed amongst them upon the day of my funerall | 30 | |
| 1665 | Hugh | Roberts | gentleman | [widower] | the poore of the parish of St Martin..40s .. to be distributed in bread on the day of my funerall | 40 | |
| 1665 | Richard | Munday | porter | unto the poore widdowes of St Martins Almeshouses to be equally distributed amongst them .. 12s; to the poore aged people of this parish the sume of 20s | 32 | ||
| 1665 | Dorothy | Hall | widow | I give to poore freinds the sume of ten pounds whereof to Benjamin Wallis [20s] and the other nine pounds to such as are in necessity to be disposed of by my Executors as they shall thinke fitt | 200 | ||
| 1665 | Edward | Jobson | bachelor | I give £10 pounds to the poore people of the parrish visited but not to be at the disposeing of the Bedle of the parrish but to be given into the hands of some freinds as my Executrix .. shall appoynt.. | 200 | ||
| 1665 | Stephen | Day | Reversionary bequest only: 'if wee all dye my goods to be sould', £20 to John Chamberline and Randall Baxter for the poore of the congregation'. | 400 | |||
| 1665 | Joane | Walford | widow | [bequests to bearers and other named persons, neighbours and church officials] | 0 | ||
| 1665 | John | Saler | Freeman and tallowchandler of London | married | to the poore Children in Soho; tenn shillings to be devided at the discretion of my overseers | 10 | |
| 1666 | Gregory | Kent | victualler | ENTRY INCOMPLETE, MISSING PAGES FROM FILM | 0 | ||
| 1666 | Thomas | Grose | [widower?] | basically lists all his goods | 0 | ||
| 1666 | Thomas | Atkinson | hosier | 'being visited with the plague' INCOMPLETE ENTRY, PAGES BEFORE MISSING | 0 | ||
| 1667 | John | Bedford | citizen & clothworker, at present deputy Clerk of STMF | [widower] | [Burial in St Dionis Backchurch in same grave as dead wife in North Isle]; many outstanding debts recalled and much self defensive protestation, a long rambling debt narrative! Fascinating. | 0 | |
| 1667 | Elizabeth | Parsons | widow | Out of £20 funeral charges, 20s to be laid out in bread and given to the poore of the parishe of St Martins in the Feilds. | 20 | ||
| 1667 | Giles | Hooper | coachman | married | [Some detail of coaches and 'chariots' bequeathed] | 0 | |
| 1667 | Martha | Shepard | widow | [Very small bequests of household stuff to named recipients] | 0 | ||
| 1667 | Alice | Grymes | widow | I give unto the poore 20s to be distributed by my .. Executrix.. | 20 | ||
| 1667 | Thomas | Hudson | gentleman | Unspecified general bequest of residue of estate: Executors nominated 'for divers & good causes me moveing thereunto ' residue transfered in the end to: Anne Roydon of SMF, widow or her appointees. (f. 180) | 0 | ||
| 1668 | Anne | Kynaston | Mrs | spinster | ..further declared that she did give to the poore of the parish where she dyed five pound and to the bearers five shillings apeece. | 100 | |
| 1668 | Mary | Baker | widow | £100 to be spent on funeral | 0 | ||
| 1669 | John | Wells | boddicemaker | [single] | [Long judgement appended to will, in Latin] | 0 | |
| 1669 | Richard | Lock | coachman | married | wife gets hackney coach license and a 'red damask glasse coach with the furniture there to belonging as she shall make choyce of' with horses. Wife to support his father Richard for rest of his life. | ||
| 1669 | James | Hunne | soldier in Sir John Talbots Company in HM regt guards | betrothed | will written at Sandwich, bound to sea. | 0 | |
| 1669 | Mathew | Barker | gentleman | [widower] | Lists goods he received at funerals. | 0 | |
| 1669 | Thomas | Simpson | cooke [servant] | [single] | William Patchell's legacy of £5 dependent that 'he shall make mee a Coffin worth 40s for his legacy' | 0 | |
| 1669 | Jone | Warren | widow | b. at Sunbury, Middx, next to first husband Baptist Keane. To 20 'poore widows of the parish of St Martin .. such as my Overseers .. shall appoint.. to be equally divided and distributed amongst them' £5 | 100 | ||
| 1669 | Judith | Brock | widow | b. in St Clement Danes | 0 | ||
| 1669 | Joseph | Kent | haberdasher | [single] | residue of estate to be distributed by Ex amongst kindred.. 'respect being had to the poorest of my said kindred' (307B) | 0 | |
| 1669 | Thomas | Hewes | gentleman | [single] | includes a cabinent in Prerogative Court, containing 'Dr Hewes his powder' | 0 | |
| 1669 | Anne | Barker | widow | the poore of the said Parrish of St Martin in the fields 20s to be distributed amongst them as my Executors hereafter named shall thinke fitt | 20 | ||
| 1670 | Christopher | Jackson | citizen and ironmonger | [widower] | Annuity to poor of £6 5s pa from property to ChW and overseers of poor of Mansfield, Yorks. £6 to poor of M. 5s to minister for his advice. For term of lease only. To be 'publicly known' and 'kept in memory'. £3 to poor of St PCG, d. in bread at funeral | 60 | |
| 1670 | Joshuah | Oldfield | gardiner | married | bequest to Mr Caughton the minister 20s, and all servants | 0 | |
| 1670 | William | Cooke | married | 'aged and infirm'. Wife's jointure much reduced by 'the fire which lately happened in London'; poor of Lare and Welferd 40s each. Bornin Lare, Leics. 'all to be paid within two yeares next after my decease or sooner if my debts can be so soone satisfied | 40 | ||
| 1670 | Alice | Palmer | widow | unto 'little Ned Pasmore my Grandchilde' | 0 | ||
| 1670 | Isabell | Gunne | widow | £20 on funeral | 0 | ||
| 1670 | Mary | Allnutt | widow | Refs to 'great grandchildren'. Memo: my desire and will.. Mr Jonas Clayton and Margaret.. his wife be Overseers .. and to take care of my poore Grand children which they have now in keeping. Inventories of goods bequeathed attached. | 0 | ||
| 1670 | Thomas | Gennoway | 'see me well buried' | 0 | |||
| 1670 | William | Kendall | bricklayer | married | [mentions 4 brothers and 4 sisters in will] | 0 | |
| 1670 | Elizabeth | Russell | widow | £20 on funeral. 'to bee distributed amongst the poore Tenn dozen of two penny loaves' | 20 | ||
| 1670 | Jacob | Gutter | [single] | [left a half shop in New Exchange] | 0 | ||
| 1670 | Thomas | Seele | victualler | left a house fronting Pall Mall 'not fully built' | 0 | ||
| 1670 | Edward | Barker | coachman | [widower] | Coach to grandchild, 'green velvett coach and harnesses' 6 browne bay horses and license. | 0 | |
| 1671 | James | Halliwell | cooke | married | rent of dwelling 'forehouse' at £30 per year | 0 | |
| 1671 | William | Harrison | victualler | [widower] | some mourning rings bequeathed | 0 | |
| 1671 | Burrage | Salter the elder | bricklayer | married | Much property specified | 0 | |
| 1671 | Thomas | Porter | Blacksmith | had built houses near Haymarket. mourning gifts bequeathed. | 0 | ||
| 1671 | Mary | Bridges | widow of Henry | widow | spoke to Jane Hambleton 'then present in the room with her' | 0 | |
| 1671 | Sarah | James | widow | b. St Giles Fields, next to daughter. | 0 | ||
| 1671 | Sarah | Pierce | widow | land at Knightsbridge in parish of Kensington. Poor of parish of SMF 20s to be disposed of by executors | 20 | ||
| 1671 | Mary | Morcott | widow | gravestone with epitaph to husband and all wives placed over husband's grave in St Pauls. | 0 | ||
| 1671 | Mathias | Ring [King?] | citizen and plumber | married | wife: Pentecost 'Ring'; dwelling house in Strand 'parte whereof is in the occupation of Mrs Chapman' (591), £5 to poor of STMF 'to be distributed according to the discretion of the Overseers of the poore then in being'. Much property left. | 100 | |
| 1671 | Johnathan | Senior | milliner | married | Many weapons left. £25 'in gloves, wyne and other things according to the discretion of my Ex.. for Funerall Charges & expences' | 0 | |
| 1671 | Richard | Tomlinson | [single] | long list of people having gloves, incl. six men ''who I desire should carry me to the Church' | 0 | ||
| 1671 | Richard | Smith | clerke to Mr Francis Blake of SPCG | I give unto Mr George Corkin five pounds and likewise five pounds unto the poore of the Church of which hee is Paster. [dissenter?] | 0 | ||
| 1672 | William | Wheeler | coleporter | married | 'weak in body by reason of age' | 0 | |
| 1672 | John | Rawlings | coachman | married | 'unto such necessited poor people as my Exor shall thinke fitt .. 40s'. Left coaches and horses. | 40 | |
| 1672 | William | Deakon the elder | coachman | married | son got 12d, d. 20s and no more because of ' the undutifullness they have showne towards me from time to time' | 0 | |
| 1672 | Elizabeth | Peppitt | widow | £20 funeral costs. Long preamble re. soul. Poor of parish of STMF 20s 'to be distributed amongst them according to the discretion of my Exors'. Mourning rings. | 20 | ||
| 1672 | George | Harris | yeoman | to the poore of SMF .. 20s, poor of CW, 20s; minister that preacheth my funerall sermon, 20s | 20 | ||
| 1672 | Adriana | Wells | widow | NO PROBATE | 0 | ||
| 1672 | Sarah | Bayly | servant | spinster | includes unpaid wages and debts | 0 | |
| 1672 | Edward | Hinckley | victualler | [single] | 1s bequest to all relatives if they ask. Estate to his female servant. | 0 | |
| 1672 | Alice | Phillipps | widow | beq. goods marked with letter | 0 | ||
| 1672 | Joane | Corker | widow | 'old weareing cloathes .. I give unto Susanne White whoe lookes to me'. Lived in one room. | 0 | ||
| 1672 | Sarah | Brace | widow | NO PROBATE. | 0 | ||
| 1672 | William | Mitchener | coachman | £3 should be diposed of by 'my Exors wife, Mrs Margarett Haskins' 'amongst Foure poore of the parish of St Martins.. as to her shall seem fitt and convenient' | 60 | ||
| 1672 | Anne | Becks | wid of Wm Becks, hackneycoachman, late of SMF | widow | b. next to husband in Marybone. 'unto twenty poore widdows twelve pence a peice tenn whereof shall bee of Marybone and of the parish of St Martins in the feilds' [might have meant 10 from both parishes] | 10 | |
| 1672 | Nicholas | Gulick | Not "given" [bequests to men in Middle Temple] | widdower | 'unto such poore of the parish of STMF as my two Exors shall judge best to bestow itt on' £10. And £10 to 'such prisoners as my two Exors shall thinke fittest to bestow it on'. £15 maximum burial costs specified. | 200 | |
| 1673 | Robert | Duke | married | [RD a SMF ratepayer 1671] | 0 | ||
| 1673 | Elizabeth | White | [servant to 'my ever Honored Lady, R.Hon, Dowthy Councellor] | spinster | burial £20. to 'Nurse Bush ten pounds'. To poor of the parish where I shall be buried £5. Gents d. | 100 | |
| 1673 | Henry | Bridges | cordwayner | married | 'the small estate which God hath given me in this world' | 0 | |
| 1673 | Susanna | Rigle | widow of John R. of Coleman street, London | widow | d. Elizabeth Kneebone of James St, Covent Garden, Ex. Son in law and grandson both called Gilbert Kneebone. | 0 | |
| 1673 | John | White | farryer | [widower] | considerable property investment locally. | 0 | |
| 1673 | Mary | Graverson | spinster | 'being moved to to give her brother something she replied her brother had enough' | 0 | ||
| 1673 | Mary | Middlemore | spinster | 'I desire that tenn pounds may be given according to my directions left with Mr Moore Mr Hoult Mr Froman unto tenn poore men of which number I desire that Mr Route may bee one who lodgeth now at my Lord Arundel's house in the feilds'. | 200 | ||
| 1673 | Sarah | Brather | widow | 'I give to the Widdow Kirby who lives in a Sellar at Mr Bullys house' 10s | 0 | ||
| 1673 | John | Brather | cloathdrawer | married | bequeaths his mourning rings | 0 | |
| 1673 | Elizabeth | Juniper | widow | £20 for funer al expenses. Fourty dozen of bread to the poor of St Martins.. | 40 | ||
| 1673 | Margaret | Tewley | relict of Thomas | widow | 'to four of the most necessitous widdowes in the said parish .. 5s each .. 'to be distributed to them by the Overseers of the said parish' | 20 | |
| 1674 | Alexander | Morrison | gentleman [schoolmaster] | £20 on funeral. 'Whereas there isdue to me from parents and others for teaching their Children one hundred & nine pounds ninteen shillings..'. Bequ. a debt to the 'Scotch Corporacon' | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Jervas | Pigg | [single] | late of Beuchap, county of Derby. lying and boarding in house of Mr Roger Higdon. | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Francis | Gavell | gardner | married | 'in case it shall happen that my Mother Mary Gavell doe depart from my now wife Margarett G. soe that they doe not live together' .. beq. £5 | 0 | |
| 1674 | Rowland | Hunt | £20 beq. to Mrs Hulk for 'lodging and diet I had at her house since my being there'. Bequeathed a cow, sword and horse..? | 0 | |||
| 1674 | Jane | Marshall | widow | estate to Rich. Stubbing of St Brides, London, feltmaker guardian to children: 'that he may be the better enabled to performe my said ..[will].. my desire is he carry on the trade or employment I now use in the Cellar wherein I dwell which I hold by lease | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Mary | Voux [Vox][Vaux?] | £10 'to poor friends amongst the people of God called quakars'. Testified by Thomas Burkenwoad of St Martins. Thos. Leigh of St Clement Danes, gent. | 0 | |||
| 1674 | Sarah | Robins | widow | d. in parish of St Giles in the Fields. | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Christopher | Knight | innholder | [single] | John Knight nephew, turner, to pay out of property 'unto the dumbe son of my said sister Day six pounds a yeare dureing his naturall life.. [Rumsey, Hants] | 0 | |
| 1674 | Thomas | Dimbleby | haberdasher | married | b. in old churchyard, 'neere the end of the schoole house whre my sonn Thomas was buried'. 40s 'to buy bread for the poor of St Martins parish'. £10 on funeral. | 40 | |
| 1674 | Robert | Osbaldston | milliner | [single] | £5 pounds on funeral only. | 0 | |
| 1674 | Margaret | Redman | widow | Odd opening to will. | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Ellinor | Goodwin | spinster | Late of the parish of St Martin, 'but at Stepney' | 0 | ||
| 1674 | Isaac | Saffell | mealman | married | testator died before will could be signed. | 0 | |
| 1675 | Robert | Harrison | [servant] | single | £20 to bury me with six Batchelors with scarfes and gloves' | 0 | |
| 1675 | Mary | Tomlinson | spinster | funeral costs not more than £10. | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Frances | Bunworth | spinster | 'goods in my shoppe' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Abell | Hutchinson | salter | gives man 'Morris my black mare in Tuttle fields' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Angell | Morton | chyrurgeon's second mate of Ship Surat Merchant | [widower] | b. at sea. | 0 | |
| 1675 | William | Sharpe | grocer | married | 12 houses in the Round Rundles, par. StM., with named occupants. | 0 | |
| 1675 | Elizabeth | Sermon | widow | £20 or more for funeral expenses. 5s each to 'James Butler, coachman, Katherine Hide,widow, Mary Lord, widow, Wideow Gerrard, widow Knight and widow Kent' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Ursula | Morris | Mrs | [single] | late of Isleworth. | 0 | |
| 1675 | Thomas | Frith | coachman | married | 40s to poor of Danne parish, Kent; to the poore of SMF 40s ' to bee disposed by my good friend Robert Hayes'. Paid 'immediately after my Body be interred' | 40 | |
| 1675 | Mary | Jefford | widow | 'beeing in a very sicke and weacke condition and in consideration of the great expence in severall sumes of money in this time of my long and tedious (of God Allmightyes) affliction upon me..' Overplus of estate to poor of parish where she dies, if any. | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Edward | Ireland | gunmaker | married | b. in churchyard of Kedbourne. | 0 | |
| 1675 | Alice | Johnson | widow | gives to sister's son 'one chain and peeice of gold which was given mee by his Majesty for the Evill' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Anne | Carstenson | [widow] | b. in parish church 'by my dear daughter'. To poor of parish where I shall be buried £5. To poor of Dutch Church £10. To Mrs Peteers a poore widdow in Kent 40s. beq. included East India Cabinett, furniture of 'my lodging chamber' | 100 | ||
| 1675 | John | Wolfe | citizen and chirurgion | married | [parish not given but rated in 1671 in St Martins] | 0 | |
| 1675 | John | Lindsey | citizen and vintner | b. in the 'greene churchyard .. neare to the place where my late wife and other my children have been interred' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Elizabeth | Druery | widow | b. in parish church 'as neare as conveniently may bee to the vestry dore belonging to the said parish Church'. | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Anne | Reddish | widow | many small bequests and rings 'in remembrance of me' | 0 | ||
| 1675 | Anne | Pell | spinster | to my worthy friend Mr Sanger 'Preacher of the Holy word of God' £5; to 10 'poore indigent people of pious conversation such as my Executors shall thincke fitt' 20s each. Parents executors. | 200 | ||
| 1675 | John | Atkinson | gentleman | married | long list of goods in house, looks like an entire inventory. | 0 | |
| 1676 | Elizabeth | Trimingham | [beq. 'my wares and shopp and stocke of goods'] | widow | b. parish church of Christchurch London 'in the same grave or as neare my husband as possibly may bee'. to the poor of SMF 20s, poor of Christchurch 20s 'to be paid to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the poore.. within two dayes next after my decease'. | 20 | |
| 1676 | William | Cox | bricklayer | married | Wife to 'maintaine in diett and Lodging my father in Law Thomas Ward during his life' | 0 | |
| 1676 | Elizabeth | Coleman | [single] | 'house and garden where I now live' beq. lease. | 0 | ||
| 1676 | Anne | Buckthorpe | [servant to Hildeyard family] | spinster | 'being asked by two of her young Mistrises that were in the Roome', 'gloves to all the servants in the house' | 0 | |
| 1676 | Gamaliel | Gimston | cordwainer | married | b. in St Martins 'ould church yard' | 0 | |
| 1676 | Jane | Winter | widow | 'I give 40s to the poore of the parish of St Martins' | 40 | ||
| 1676 | Sarah | White | widow | b. in or near to grave of mother in parish church of St Clement Danes. | 0 | ||
| 1676 | Raphaell | Courtville | gentleman | married | body buried 'according to the forme of the Church of England' . Witnesses included one Jonathan Dryden and Will Peeres [possibly an actor of that name?] | 0 | |
| 1676 | John | Mose | victualler | married | Large number of houses owned in naked boy court, in Piccadilly, and elsewhere. 40s distributed amongst 'unto all such presons as beare the name of Mose within the towne of Buckingham' | ||
| 1676 | John | Rouse | gentleman | £20 on funeral. £5 to widow Stradling, John Goodlad 'living about St James Market £5' | 0 | ||
| 1676 | Godfrey | Norris | innholder | [siingle] | 'I give to be distributed amongst the necessitated person of the mens meetings called Quakers' £20; £20 ' more to be distributed amongst the necessitated person of the womens meetings called Quakers'; poor of Liddington b. place, 40s to poor widows | 0 | |
| 1676 | Richard | Clayton | citizen and larrimore | [widower] | I doe give unto the poor of the parish of St Martin in the Feilds wherein I have been an antient Inhabitant' £5 | 100 | |
| 1676 | William | Wallter | coachman | married | 'I give and bequeath the sume of twenty shillings to be disposed of as I have directed my Executrix' [bequest to the poor?] | 0 | |
| 1676 | Samuel | Hopkins the elder | grocer | married | b. interred in New Churchyard of STMF. To poor of STMF 20s. Funeral max of £5. | 20 | |
| 1676 | Edward | Salkeild | gentleman | married | £10 on funeral | 0 | |
| 1676 | Mary | Benskins | widow | 'gave Mrs Sarah Brarer her Landlady a Laced Apron' | 0 | ||
| 1676 | Henry | Campleshon | gentleman | married | References to 'goldsmiths and commonly called Bankers of London' | 0 | |
| 1676 | Henry | Walker | victualler | married | 'to receive the Beatifficall Blisse to be pronounced to all those that truely trust in the Lord.' | 0 | |
| 1676 | Richard | Townsend | married | 'sayd Neighbours I give all that I have in the world to my wife' | 0 | ||
| 1677 | Alice | Stedman | widow | son in law Thos Ball and wife to take 'the full sole care and creditt of my grandchild Michael Stedman that he may be brought upp in the feare of God and to put him to a Trade which may be most convenient for him' | 0 | ||
| 1677 | Horatio | Hickman | gentleman | married | son beq. 'my large Bible' | 0 | |
| 1677 | Joseph | Dalton | coachman | [single] | ex. a blacksmith to whom he owed £16 14s 3d on a bond.. and to cover all other debts | 0 | |
| 1677 | Mary | Stone | wid of Simon S. | widow | no rel. preamble. Huge list of bequests of money and goods. 'and to the parish of St Martins .. one hundred pounds and to be disposed of in manner and forme as my Ex shall thinke most fitt. [poor not specifically mentioned]. | 2000 | |
| 1677 | William | Ballet | married | Overseers were Docter Dowde and Mr Edward Leake, both' chaplinns to the Duke of Yorke'. Very short will preamble: 'I bequeath my soule to God that gave it and my body to rest in the grave in hopes of a happy resurrection'.[Catholic?] | 0 | ||
| 1678 | Dorothy | Owen | widow | Lodging in the house of John Hind, Black Dog, SMLane 'where she had inhabited for a bout seaven monthes before her death' | 0 | ||
| 1678 | Robert | Bolton | bachelor | £4 for funeral | 0 | ||
| 1678 | Elizabeth | Clerke | spinster | servant Mary Serle gets £200, linen and wearing apparel | 0 | ||
| 1678 | William | Hand | carpenter | married | Enjoins wife to 'bee both kind and carefall in the education and bringing upp of my said children' | 0 | |
| 1678 | Phillip | Lipscombe | taylor | married | £20 on funeral expenses, unspecified mourning and 'gloves to all my friends'. One chamber in house (left to son) reserved for wife, for 6 months rent free. | 0 | |
| 1678 | Joseph | Brinkelet | yeoman | single | [includes personal testimony of two witnesses] | 0 | |
| 1678 | Ann | Nisbitt | widow | b. in par. church, 'in the Grave of my late Deare husband Henry Nesbit decd was interred' | 0 | ||
| 1678 | William | Ayliffe | citizen & joiner | married | b. 'under the Seate in the parish Church of SMF..and to have the attendance of such of my ancient neighbours as my Ex. shall think fitt' | 0 | |
| 1678 | Jane | Bayly | not given | widow | b. in Covent Garden churchyard 'under the Bellfory by my sonne Francis Birkby'. | 0 | |
| 1678 | Robert | Noakes | blacksmith | married | 'Anvile and Bellowes' beq. to current app. 'in my Middle Shopp'. To poor, 20s 'to bee disposed amongst them, according as my said wife shall think fit' | 20 | |
| 1678 | Nicholas | Le Comte | gentleman | 'and as for the good things of this life which it hath pleased God to bestow upon mee'. Poore of French Church of City of London, £10, to Fr. Ch. of Savoy, £5. poor of SMF £5. Two French children £5 each for setting to trade, one .. Leonard at Mr Tandin's | 100 | ||
| 1678 | Josias | Feilding | victualler | married | wife 'now visited with sickness'. Lived at Sign of Green Dragon | 0 | |
| 1679 | Thomas | Laycock | gentleman | married | aged about 59. body 'privately and desently buryed' | 0 | |
| 1679 | Elianor | Dutton | widow | 'a Tub of butter to be sold'; Mrs Barwell 'my now Landlady'; 'to my present Nurse' | 0 | ||
| 1679 | Ralph | Fuller | baker | widower | died in house 'where hee had lived and dwelt for about Eight or nine yeares next before his death' 'sick or indisposed by reason of a Dropsey then upon him which hee had laboured under for aboute eight or nine monthes'.. sent a boy 'Hugh Eeles' he kept.. | 0 | |
| 1679 | Cornelia | Boninga | widow | to poore of Dutch church in City of London £5. | 0 | ||
| 1679 | Anne | Ireland | widow | 40s ' to be distributed by my said daughters Sarah Watts and Anne Salisbury amongst so many poore widows and poore housekeepers my Neighbours within the said parish as they shall think fit' | 40 | ||
| 1679 | Henery | Mason | citizen & leather seller | widower | Unique preamble. 'to interr my bodie in the grave of my wife after my decease' | 0 | |
| 1679 | Jonathan | Holroyd | gentleman | £3 to 'severall poore people'. Aged 50, body 'to be very privately and desently to be buryed' in churchyard of STMF, 'and to have as few Company as possible may be besides the bearers minester and church officers and to have it prettie late at night' | 60 | ||
| 1679 | Ellen | Taylor | widow | b. in St Martins parish 'wherein I doe now live'. Property in Reading. 'I doe desier that this my last will and testamt be kept by Jenett Taylor till after my desease and Buryall' | 0 | ||
| 1679 | Jane | Bissill | widow | I desire to be buried in that place and among those people unto whom I did lately resort. 'unto Eight poore Widows belonging unto the abovesaid Congregation'' 5s each, and 18d each 'to all the other Penconers thereof' | 0 | ||
| 1679 | Burrage | Salter | bricklayer | married | clause to avoide 'if any of my said Children shall bee abused or misused' | 0 | |
| 1679 | Ann | Stanesby | widow | £10 on funeral | 0 | ||
| 1679 | William | Toplis | [widower] | Beq. wife's clothes. | 0 | ||
| 1679 | George | Thompson | [single] | now lying very sick in the Hospital of St Bartholomew the Less, London. | 0 | ||
| 1679 | William | Browne | howsekeeper | [single] | b. in churchyard of St Giles in Fields. Later testimony that will written at 11 o'clock at night on 20th Feb. | 0 | |
| 1679 | Ellinor | Evins | Many beq. to ministers and their widows, other reversion beq | widow | 'beq 'to a Man and his wife, whoe pretend to be some Kinn to mee' 1s each. Poor of St Brides: 50s; St Dunstans, Fleet St: 50s; St Clement D: 50s; St Giles F: 50s; St Martins: £5 ''equally divided amongst them'; Christ Church Hosp: £10; Staffs £5. | 100 | |
| 1679 | James | Linke | chimney sweeper | married | wife Polixina to maintain and educate two children Richard and Mary, [and child she nows goes with] | 0 | |
| 1679 | Ralph | Wyat | married | Estates in Ireland and Barbados. Short handwritten will. Beq. to 'reputed doughter Margrit Shafild 20s to by her a ring'. [In rate books for SMF] | 0 | ||
| 1680 | Jacob | Keneigh | gentleman | married | lately built two brick tenements on northside of Exeter St, SPCG. Sons to be obedient to wife. | 0 | |
| 1680 | Katherine | Killygrew | spinster | to the poor prisnors in the prison at Wesmister £10 | 0 | ||
| 1680 | Robert | Prichard | gentleman | widower | b. in par. of SPCG 'where my late deare wife lyes'. Leaves books 'to be equally devided in value by Mr Bently or any other Bookeseller'. Poor of STP £10. Middlewich , birthplace; Bostock 'where I was bred'. £5 each 'to be sent them downe' | 200 | |
| 1680 | Richard | Price | victualler | [widower] | Overseers given 'buck-skinn' gloves | 0 | |
| 1680 | Thomas | Porter | esquire | married | son to be Ex and 'deliver over to his care my deare wife' | 0 | |
| 1680 | John | Fisher | blacksmith | married | to wife Mary 'you shall have what I have and take all & pay all: Mary, who should I leave it to but to thee? I am sorry I can leave thee no better' [Or used words to the like effect in the presence of credible witnesses' | 0 | |
| 1680 | Jevesen | Deane | [physician?] | b. in St M. Church.. beq to son Peirsifall Deane inc. 'all my phisicall books'. [Rate books named Jerardus in 1671] | 0 | ||
| 1680 | James | Caton | vintner | married | One guinea peece of gold beq. to Mr Hopkins of StPaul, lectuerer, 'to preach a funerall sermon' | 0 | |
| 1680 | James | Vaughan | Forgave one Mrs Theodosia Hatton £400 out of £500 debt 'judgement .. against her in the Kings Bench at Westminster'. Funeral not above £5. Poor of parish where buried £20s | 20 | |||
| 1680 | Anne | Pease | widow | 'six persons shall hold my Pall and that each of them shall have a ring' of 10s, pair of gloves of 2s & 'mourning hatbands'. To poor 50s 'to be bestowed in bread' | 50 | ||
| 1680 | John | Uffman | bodiesmaker | married | ref. to house and shop. | 0 | |
| 1680 | Deborah | Chambers | embroiderer [from will] | widow | to d. (she had sons too) 'all my stock of worke and all materialls whatsoever belonging to the trade of an Embroiderer and all sume & sumes of money due or owing unto me for or concerning the said trade' and app. Joane Newell remaining term. | 0 | |
| 1680 | Francis | Loveden | [single] | b. in chyd, Dr Lloyd to 'preach my funerall sermon' and 20s for pains. 'A gravestone layd on my grave'. to poor of SMF 40s 'worth of bread to be distributed amongst them and I desire Mr Sexton may bee the baker to make it'. gloves to all Bloomsbury tents | 40 | ||
| 1685 | Elizabeth | Morrice | widow | Rebeccah Gresham 'my landlady's daughter' a silver cup. | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Frances | Mawson | w. of Humphrey Mawson, cit & leathersell | wife | buried in decent and christian manner (without given any almes or mourninge to any one) in Coulsdons Churchyard , as neere as possible .. to my uncle Tymothy Lord' | 0 | |
| 1685 | William | Morrice | baker | married | poore people of St James 20s 'to be layd out for bread adn to be given unto them at the time of my buriall' with discretion of Ex & Chw and Ov | 20 | |
| 1685 | Abigail | Neale | widow | [Founder of Shadwell parish?, ie. Thos widow?] | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Margery | Roberry | widow | re. Mr Morgan Price of the queen's guard 'for his wife I never was I take God to witness' | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Edward | Whitefoot | gentleman | married | £50 on funeral. To poor of parish £5. | 100 | |
| 1685 | Thomas | Roberts | yeoman | best suite of apparell given to father Thos. R 'provided my said father shall come up to dwell with my Executor at London' (Henry R, St Bart. the Great, cit & cooper) | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Thomas | Scrivenor | coachman | [widower] | Inventory attached to will. Incs 5 horses and 2 coaches | 0 | |
| 1685 | Lott | Stalleng | gardiner | married | being 'aged crasy sick & weak in body'. beq. 'gardenware stock & crop' | 0 | |
| 1685 | Magdalena | Skinner (nee Arias) | w. of Thomas S. trans. out of Dutch | married | [long complaint v. sons by former marriage] give for each of them 1s. to such poor person 'as after my decease shall pray to God that he be pleased to look downe with mercy on such of them as then shall be liveing as I now pray for them' | 2 | |
| 1685 | John | Maukes | gentleman | married | To poor of St Paul Covent Garden, 'wherein I lately dwelt' £5 dsposed of by Dean Patrick and Churchwardens. Buried in church of SPCG 'as neare to the seate there wherein I did usually sitt in the North Isle' | 0 | |
| 1685 | Daniel | Tripier | jeweller trans. out of French | to poor of French church of the Savoy, £5 | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Elizabeth | Smith | widow | residue to married d. 'to and for her owne sole use maintenance adn benefitt' | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Francis | Ripan | bachelor | trans. from French | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Anne | Hunt | widow | to the poor of the parishwherein I shall happen to dye.. 20s in bread. Dwelling with Humphrey Webb. | 20 | ||
| 1685 | Mary | Hind | widow | lodging with William Allen, 'for above 7 yeares'. Legacies 'noted down by .. Mr Riches in his Almanacke .. for the better memory thereof' | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Elizabeth | Harding | married | b. church of St James Garlickhithe. £50 funeral. Poor of St James G, £5, poor of parish ..where.. an Inhabitant at the time of my death ?[£5]Christ's Hosp. £5 if convenient number of boys attend funeral.., four poor widows 10s each on approval of ex | 100 | ||
| 1685 | Jane | Hawkins | widow | witnessed by illiterate Mary Lowe and Jane Ducker | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Elizabeth | Gibbs | spinster | Ex. to see me buried | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Margaret | Griffiths | lived in one room. List of small bequests of mostly clothing. Includes: 'an old gowne to the poore woman in Holborne' | 0 | |||
| 1685 | John | Eason | married | much local property with rents and occupiers given. JE's house included 'a coopers shop' and '2 large Rag shades'. Rented dwelling to mother and step father nearby. | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Nicholas | Ditch | oyleman | [widower] | children to be brought up and educated 'in the Protestant Religion as it is now established' | 0 | |
| 1685 | Gabriell | Dallemaine | gentleman | French legatees, incl. 'Prince Phillip' | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Sir | Edward | Cooper | knight | b. in cloyster of St Mich. Cornhill near to father and mother. To poor of parish where I shall be buried £10, £100 for tomb or monument .. for me.. | 0 | |
| 1685 | John | Chastein | chirurgeon | references to lands in France, French witnesses | 0 | ||
| 1685 | Elizabeth | Vasall | widow | sister to look after son, Edmund Bell, 46, Not. Pub., deposed. | 0 | ||
| 1685 | John | Bickerstaff | gentleman | widower | b. next to wife in churchyard | 0 | |
| 1685 | Thomas | Elliott | yeoman [servant] | [single] | one guinea to 'my present nurse Mary Deane wife of John D. of STM, bricklayer. £6 on funeral. | 0 | |
| 1686 | Susanna | Shoare | w. of Matthias, gent. | wife | beq. property devised from a former marriage | 0 | |
| 1686 | Elizabeth | Maydston | widow | b. in chyard of St Martins near to husband | 0 | ||
| 1686 | Anne | Upton | widow | b. in p. church of Faversham, Kent, 'neere to my Dear husband'. beq. mentions 'Books' | 0 | ||
| 1686 | Thomas | Tonge | grocer | married | £20 funeral | 0 | |
| 1686 | Thomas | Tucker | hackney coachman | married | £5 to buy his grandchildren clothes. | 0 | |
| 1686 | Ann | Stonlack | spinster | b. 'church of St Mary le Bone... within the Great Doore over against the Third or fourth Pew on the Left hand in the said church' | 40 | ||
| 1686 | Mary | Read | widow | 20s to 'the poor widows who constantly frequent divine service in the parish church of Stevenage, at the discretion of my Ex. | 0 | ||
| 1686 | Mary | Peacock | widow | b. churchyard of SMF near to h. Mr Henry Peacock. Goods beq. now in 'my lodgings in Green Street'. husband owed money by Treasury Office & Great Wardrobe | 0 | ||
| 1686 | Daniell | Bill | pipemaker | married | includes beq. to pay his mother a quarterly payment of 5s (ie. 20s per year) for life. | 0 | |
| 1686 | Thomas | Moody | cordwinder | son in law 'threatening speeches' if disturb Ex then 1s only to wife Mary | 0 | ||
| 1686 | William | Pratt | bricklayer | [widower] | b. churchyard of St Paul CG, as neere to my late wife as may bee | 0 | |
| 1686 | Francis | Lesseman | sidermercht | [widower] | lands in Hereford. | 0 | |
| 1686 | John | Cunningham | cordwainer | married | sisters in Scotland (b. in Covent Garden) | 0 | |
| 1686 | Edward | Bevin | waterman | [single] | humble bequests, ie. to Nicholas Child and Thos. Fennell 'an old hatt' each | 0 | |
| 1686 | Phillip | Barnett | apothecary | married | to poor of St Martins 40s | 40 | |
| 1686 | Mary | Butler | widow | witnesses give their addresses | 0 | ||
| 1686 | William | Norton | chandler | married | mentions two children 'both infants' | 0 | |
| 1686 | George | Coale | gentleman [servant] | [single] | b. near to mother | 0 | |
| 1686 | Robert | Lloyd | gentleman | beq. to wife for 'maintenance of and educacon of my three helpless children being all of them very younge. I doe not question but my deare father will doe what he can for my most intirely beloved child & eldest d. Mary' [rest with wife] | 0 | ||
| 1686 | Mary | Cooke | widow | long list of small beq. inc. 'spleen pot' 'burial ring' | 40 | ||
| 1686 | Edward | Houlton | coachman | married | dwells with b. 'Henry Bedle' | 0 | |
| 1686 | John | Knight | gentleman | married | late of St James, now of Kensington | 0 | |
| 1686 | Julian | Lermineur | trans. out of French | 0 | |||
| 1686 | Robert | Clough | married | b. in 'some adjaceant country churchyard without any funerall pomp'. Shop in New Exchange. Children to lose portions if they prove 'disobedient, undutiful, lewd in their conversation not serveing God in the true Prot. Religion now Established.. | 0 | ||
| 1687 | Margaret | White | widow | b. in 'parish church' thought fit. Four trustees appt. for overseers of will. 'wellbeloved friends and neighbours' | 0 | ||
| 1687 | Richard | Matthews | victualler | married | estate in Gloucs. Repeated in next roll. | 0 | |
| 1687 | Charles | Ware | poulterer | married | to 'deare & loveing father Matthias W'£50 'as a legacy of my Duty & Love towards his support & maintenance in his Old Age', if dead to mother 'for & towards her maintenance & support' | 0 | |
| 1687 | Mary | Sedley | widow | b. in parish church. rings beq. to Mr Ashfeild & wife 'in whose house I now lodge' | 0 | ||
| 1687 | William | Presly | citizen & plumber | married | wife 'shall have the Education of my said children during their minoritye in case shee so long continue sole, & ummarryed'. poore of STMF £3 'paid for their use to the Overseers of the said parish' | 60 | |
| 1687 | James | Oldfield | gardiner | married | 'have directed her what I would have done Shee beeing a deare and loveing wife to me' | 0 | |
| 1687 | Leonard | Auldridge | clockmaker | married | b. 'in such place as I have appoynted' | 0 | |
| 1687 | Jeffery | Ayleworth | gentleman | [widower] | eldest d. lives with 'brother' in Oxfordshire | 0 | |
| 1687 | Richard | Cooke | bricklayer | refs. to disputed bond with Wm Buckland, a scrivenor, 'which is my only reason of making this my will' | 0 | ||
| 1687 | Ignatius | Dickenson | gentleman | [single] | b. near my father in Kensington. Rings 'for to weare for my sake' | 0 | |
| 1687 | Joyce | Maybanke | widow | b. churchyard of St Giles F. | 0 | ||
| 1687 | Rebecca | Wiggins | widow | b. 'in St Pauls Common Garden' | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Thomas | Lowe | gilder | married | b. in par. of STMF | 0 | |
| 1688 | Roger | Parke | cooke | [single] | to poor of STMF £5 'disposed & distributed att the discreecon of the Churchwardens'. Beq. include 'the pickture over the chimney' | 100 | |
| 1688 | Barnabas | Allen | milliner | much rural property beq. Huge six sheet will. | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Charles | Sharp | [blacksmith?] | married | beq. 'the great bellows and great Anvill' | 0 | |
| 1688 | Christopher | Robinson | goldsmith | [single] | rings with 'this motto [Memento mori]' | 0 | |
| 1688 | John Henry | Maryon | gentleman | [single] | board and lodgings with sister in law. trans. out of French | 0 | |
| 1688 | Eusebius | Mathew | gentleman | married | 'to all my Men Tennants' 10s each to buy ring | 0 | |
| 1688 | Mary | Martin | widow | 20s to poor 'to be disbrituted amongst them as my Ex .. shall thnk fitt. Beq. 'the Angell piece of gold wch I usually wore about my neck.. one Lac'd handkerchief wch was never wash'd | 20 | ||
| 1688 | Mary | Lewes | wid of John L. | widow | £20 to Executors 'to bee by them given and disposed to such use and uses as they shall think fitt, and to such person and persons as they shall see convenient' | 0 | |
| 1688 | Peter | Le Chantre | gentleman | 'I leave five Guineas in Gold to bee prayd for & twenty shillings I give it to the poore'. Signs 'Pierre'. Relation 'now of STMF' testified to an error in the bequests. | 20 | ||
| 1688 | Elizabeth | James | widow | to sell 'my six cows and one horse' | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Mary | Hand | widow of Richard H. | widow | quite a few OCCS given | 0 | |
| 1688 | Esperance | Danian | widow | b. in par. church of STMF 'as neer as can conveniently bee by the Bodies of my late Husbands whoe lye there Interred..' | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Margaret | Biggs | widow | will's only clause to ensure decent burial. Wit: Dorothy Noke, Barbara Day | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Margaret | Bourne | [single] | b. churchyard in SPG 'as neare my late deare father Thomas B as conveniently may be'. 10s to poore, 'twenty poore decayed housekeepers' a 'six peny loafe of bread' of both SM & SPCG | 10 | ||
| 1688 | Isaack | Montagu | gunsmith | married | 'being somewhat aged' | 0 | |
| 1688 | Peter | De Laine | gentleman | married | v. personal pious death centred preamble. More a prayer than a will | 0 | |
| 1688 | Susanna | Dobson | widow | Will designed to provide and maintain her only d. | 0 | ||
| 1688 | Penelope | Fettyplace | widow | b. in par. church 'as neare my Sister as may be'. Poor of Covent garden parish 40s. Ref. to trunk. | 40 | ||
| 1688 | Lancelot | Harwood | gent, servt E. Bedford 'lord and master' | single | b. par. church. | 0 | |
| 1688 | Susanne | Truchet | Trans. out of French | 20 crowns (5s?)'to the poore of the church' | 100 | ||
| 1695 | William | Palmer | tailer | married | b. next to first wife in SMF | 0 | |
| 1695 | Thomas | Stoaks | cordwainer | married | OCCS | 0 | |
| 1695 | Robert | Lered | mealman | married | OCCS | 0 | |
| 1695 | Mary | Reeves | widow | beq. 'my Black Cloathe I Ware every day' | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Mary | Lawrence | widow | includes two cows, 'one called Cherry and the other called Mall | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Gertrude | Leech | widow | 'Barbara the milkwoman' | 40 | ||
| 1695 | Mary Anne | Lonnard | trans. out of French | 0 | |||
| 1695 | Nicholas | Ladd | mariner | married | on a proforma form | 0 | |
| 1695 | John | Rodery | coachman to the RHon. Lady Villers | mentions fellow servants to Lord [and Lady] Villers | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Elizabeth | Okes | servant to Sir Phillip Meadows [aged 70] | single | in form of a letter to mother, two deponent's testimonies included. Includes reference to 'that poor kinswoman which came to see you... for she sent to mee to borrow muny and I refused..' [agonising letter] | 0 | |
| 1695 | Jane | King | widow | bequests inc. 'one copper pott to boyle meate in' | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Anne | Renou | ref. to reformed religion & refugee status | 0 | |||
| 1695 | John | Tomasi | shoemaker | married | trans out of French | 0 | |
| 1695 | Issac | Valete | reversionary beq. only: 'and if there doth not remaines much you must give it to the Poor'. | 0 | |||
| 1695 | Thomas | Stroud | glazier | married | 'funeralls of body be such as shall beseem a Christian' | 0 | |
| 1695 | Alice | Nistone | widow | to the poore of SMF.. 40s to be given to such poore people as the said ... friend and Executor.. shall thinke fitt | 40 | ||
| 1695 | Henry | French | [widower] | [very short: illiterate testator] | 0 | ||
| 1695 | John | Meacock | citizen & pavior | married | Stable and coachouse and two rooms, dimensions given. 20s pa. Residue of estate to wife, 'hopeing she well be kind to my poor Relations' | 0 | |
| 1695 | Peter | de la Fous | milliner | married | [includes testament as to veracity from two ind. who visited him in his sickness] trans. out of French | 0 | |
| 1695 | John | Curd | butcher | married | Long list of legacies which look like debt repayments to chapmen, graziers, kidders etc. Wife's to take priority | 0 | |
| 1695 | Robert | Broad | glassgrinder | OCCS | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Judith | Belin | spinster | trans. out of Frence | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Henry | Browne | Doctor in Physick | married | OCCS | 0 | |
| 1695 | William | Bramley | [single] | [ref. to one end of a Chair which Thomas Hoft works - sedan chair man?] | 0 | ||
| 1695 | Thomas | Butler | gentleman | unto the poor of the parish of St Anne... twenty dozen of two pency Loaves to be disposed and given at the discretion of my d. OCCS. ref. to fishing cane and tackell. | 40 | ||
| 1695 | Thomas | Barrow | coachman | [single] | OCCS | 0 | |
| 1695 | John | Bourk | gentleman | married | to the poore of the parish of St James .. £5 to be paid within six months next after my decease.. distributed as Ex. thinks fit. OCCS. | 100 | |
| 1695 | Ruth | Fewell | [hackneycoach woman] | widow | Hackney coach licence 174 bequeathed | 0 | |
| 1695 | Mary | Hustler | widow | to the poor of the parish of St Martins in the fields five pounds | 100 | ||
| 1696 | Mrs | Elizabeth | Bastin | widow | unto the poore of the ... St Martins .. twenty dozen of bread. | 20 | |
| 1696 | Thomas | Litchfield | baker | married | Wife Mary signed probate to effect 'that I am one of the Dissenters comonly called Quakers' | 0 | |
| 1696 | William | Kemp | victualler | £20 on funeral | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Elizabeth | Jones | gentilewoman | and to the pore 40s | 40 | ||
| 1696 | Thomas | Hooper | gentleman | after d. of wife, 10s pa. to the poore of STPCG for ever to bay them bread and to be distributed ... Feast of St Thomas Apostle by CW and OV.. by Thos Minchin and heirs for ever | 10 | ||
| 1696 | Mary | Gooderidge | widow | hackney coach licence 143 bequeathed | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Thomas | Dore | victualler | kinswoman Jane Hodkinson 'now dwells with mee' | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Sarah | Long | widow | good description of deathbed, lodger | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Mary | Chicot | to the poore of the French Refugees of the Church of Newport Market whereof I am a member .. 20s dist. by the ministers. trans. out of French | 0 | |||
| 1696 | James | Badiffe | married | reversionary: depedent on a recall of Fr. Prots. beq. to 200 livres to be taken out of estate | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Lady | Lousia | de Forain Regne | 'interred in old Soho Church, were the French Refugeed protestants doe meete in this City of London by vertue of the Letters Pattents..' | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Daniell | Marchand | married | trans. out of French | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Elizabeth | Newman | widow | houses in Grafton Street. OCCS. | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Anne | Newell | widow | 'Goods in my Roome' | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Joane | Oldfeild | widow | much property specified. To be buried neare to late husband in STMF churchyard. | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Alice | Bursell | widow | b. near grave of Henry P. in Buckingham | 0 | ||
| 1696 | Alice | Sibly | widow | Dependent on debt repayment. Money to be paid until total debt of £57 16s is in. 20s a year 'to such poore lame and blind people as my Extor shall think objects of charity' | 20 | ||
| 1696 | Thomas | Travis | gentleman | b. in church. £20 for funeral. £5 to be distributed amongst the Poore of the parish of StJ according to discretion of cousin Mr Robt Hodgson scrivenor | 100 | ||
| 1696 | Margaret | Whitecroaft | widow | unto son Richard Boddingham 'my last husbands picture' | 0 | ||
| 1706 | Willam | Hall | gentleman | poor of Newbery,Berks, £5, to most 'necessitated' chosen by overseers and churchwardens | 200 | ||
| 1706 | Robert | Whitfield | cardmaker | married | [mentions Richard Bisle, pawnbroker, son-in-law] | 0 | |
| 1706 | Elizabeth Anne | Lacombe Fourace | married | to poor French refugees of city of London £25, £15 to Committee for distribution, £10 distributed by husb. 'to whose whome he shall judgt worthy of charity. | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Abigaill | Cragg | spinster | unto the poor of the parish wherein I shall happen to dye ...20s | 20 | ||
| 1707 | Renata | Jollan de Malagnet | vestry of Fr church of Savoy £20 for the use of their poore, Fr Church of Berwick St, £20 for poore, body in Church called 'new patent'.. to poor of that church £8 | 0 | |||
| 1707 | Elizabeth | Bevnier | widow | trans. out of French, native of parish | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Rebbecca | Short | widow | 'my hackney coach lycense (no. 206) and the proffitts and income thereof...' 'coaches and horses' to be sold | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Anna Maria | Reemee | widow | unto the poore £5 ... to be paid unto such Poore as my Exectors of their discretion shall thinke fitt | 100 | ||
| 1707 | John | Charles | distiller | [widower] | native of France | 0 | |
| 1707 | Judith | Pearson | 'gold ring with her father's hair in' left to a daughter Martha. Very small bequests. | 0 | |||
| 1707 | Davied | True | taylor [trans. from french] | married | I charge my said wife and Executrix to distribute after my decease three pounds sterling in almes to such poore needy as shee shall think fitt,leaving it absolutely at her discretion | 60 | |
| 1707 | Ann | Grey | wid of Sam Grey, taylor, St Anne's | widow | some detail re. burial, and a few occupations | 0 | |
| 1707 | Margaret | Griffin | widow | £5 unto the Poore of the Parish of St James.. | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Hannah | Goodyeare | widow | poore of the parish of Winkfield, Berks, £2, to be distributed by minister or churchwardens... | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Caesar | Gautier | married | one of the French refugees | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Francis | Dove | tallowchandler | £10 to daughter Mary Might 'to bee by her paid and disposed unto and among such persons of the people called Quakers belonging to the Savoy Quarter as she shall think fit' | 0 | ||
| 1707 | Gideon | de Baron de Lamasia | Baron | married | to poor refugees in Dublin. Testator signed last part of will at Braintford, des. as of St Annes at probate. trans. from French | 0 | |
| 1707 | Mrs | Anne | de la Roche | residue of estate to poor of Church of Leicester Fields and of the Tabernacle. Unspecified amount. | 0 | ||
| 1707 | John | Dumont | married | to the poore members of my saviour Jesus Christ .. 20s.. to be distributed amongst them 8 dayes after my Funerall .. by wife, trans. French | 20 | ||
| 1707 | John | Caignard | married | £50 to Fr Church of Leicester Fields to distribute ther amongst their poore, [conditional on printing of 'my catechize' with some of money, ..give some thereof to all the poore French each one who are here.. £100 to poor of Fr Savoy church, named | 3000 | ||
| 1707 | Charles | Pitts | tyresmith | not parish. 'to the poore people belonging to Mr Burgesses meeting house' 20s to be distributed amongst them. Mr B 40s to preach at funeral. 'preacher of the gospel' | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Rachel | Micheau | trans out of French | 0 | |||
| 1708 | Mr | Francis | Melandiere | Dr in Physick | married | to the poore protestants 5s. Trans out of French | 0 |
| 1708 | Mr | Mark | Romagnae | married | £10.. to the poore Refugees of the City of Montauban who may be found in London or suburbs.. according to their necessity. Trans. out of French | 0 | |
| 1708 | Daniel | Rogers | joyner | property in trust for maintenance of son | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Jane | Skynner | reversionary only. Any surplus 'to dispose of it to the poore as shee in hir consience shall think fit' | 0 | |||
| 1708 | Anne | Orchard | [midwife?] | widow | beq. 'unto my last Deputy Mrs Cherry one read christening mantle laced with a sliver lace and two suits of christening linnen'. wid of Joseph. | 0 | |
| 1708 | Elizabeth | Philpott | widow | b. 'as near to my late husband Roger Philpott as may be' in the 'old Church Yard of' SMF. £5 to poor of SMF 'to be dist. in Bread' | 100 | ||
| 1708 | Isaac | Perriver | £3 to French Church of Rider Court. Testator was blind at reading of will. Trans out of French | 0 | |||
| 1708 | William | Power | coffee man | Servant maid Anne Winstone his Ex and beq. unto her all my right title and Interest in the Coffee House wch I now hould from James Teele basketman', in Pell Mell | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Mr | Thomas | Piersene | chyrurgeon and perwickmaker | married | 10s to poore Refugee protestants | 0 |
| 1708 | Thomas | Skillbeck | cutler | married | 'being ancient and feeble' | 0 | |
| 1708 | Magdalen | de Touchenber | trans. out of French | 0 | |||
| 1708 | Anne | Marion | Trans. out of French | 0 | |||
| 1708 | Katherine | Williams | widow | beq. 'my fether bedd which was lately brought out of the Country and all things belonging to that Bed' | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Lewisa | Groteste Duchesnay | £50 'to the poore' according to the prudence of my Adminstrator... Trans. out of French | 1000 | |||
| 1708 | James | Townsend | married | [nd., colloquial] barey me at Padinton and carey me in a hars and 3 or 4 Cohes with sum of my naborores and frindes and gife them [wind anufe and drincke].. afore you barey me' | 20 | ||
| 1708 | Abraham | Hallee de Narbouel | married | trans. out of French | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Ann | Bellenger | widow | Nephew and wife swore to truth of this will, and confirmed it was of SJames Westminster | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Thomas | Bridgman | glover | married | refs to: 'all the Counters, presses, shelves and cutting boards belonging to my trade in my ... dwelling house in the Strand' | 0 | |
| 1708 | Mary | Corner | widow | [my house at the lower end of Hartshorne lane in the place called the Limewharfe in occupation of Susan Flakney and d. Mary w. of Robert Tatton.. to renew at £3 per annum ground rent] | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Richard | Catchlove | coachman | married | re. his hackney coach license number, 555 | 0 | |
| 1708 | Susan | Detton | spinster | I give unto the poor of the parish where I shall happen to be buryed 40s | 40 | ||
| 1708 | Frances | Ellis | widow | [household stuff in 'my Room'.. in return that the legatee 'take care of my Burying and that it be as Decent as can be Expected for one in my Circumstances...' | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Jane | Howard | widow | small gifts and a female friend an exectuor. | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Renati | Grillet | married | trans. out of French | 0 | ||
| 1708 | George | More | gentleman | detailed list of goods, inc. 'the picture of Mrs Dickinson in the Dining Room' and other pictures and ? miniatures. | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Morgan | Williams | [single] | beq. include a life insurance 'pollicey' | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Thomas | Lewis | locksmith | married | b. in Churchyard of St James | 0 | |
| 1708 | Mr | John | Lapro | married | to poor French protestants 10s. translated out of French. Born in Rouen, France | 0 | |
| 1708 | Mrs | Susanne | Le moyne als Dupless | trans. out of French. Money to bury 'and to pay the Apothecary' | 0 | ||
| 1708 | Mary | Lee | widow | £20 to the poore, such as my Ex. Lora Davis shall find to bee fitt and proper objects' | 400 | ||
| 1708 | Titus | Mounicaist | ref. to shop | married | being now in the parish of Marybone | 0 | |
| 1708 | David | de Fanchon | gentleman [de Fanchaon de la Suardiere] | [trans. of French] | 0 |