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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of his decease the citizens of London are not allowed to devise tenements within the City in mortmain, as formerly …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… law nor the custom of the City allows a testator to devise to his executor directly an estate of freehold or a …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… A.D. 1333. The said Alice in full court renounced the devise made to her in fee, and claimed only to hold for a … entered upon and was seised of the same by virtue of the devise of the aforesaid William: whence the Court might see …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… and perform all other conditions attaching to the devise. Dated London, 1 September, A.D. 1420. 6 Roll 148 (3). … service. If the land be used for any other purpose the devise to be void. Dated London, 5 September, A.D. 1420. Roll … of Nicholas Clerk, late parish clerk of the said church. Devise of a tenement in the parish of S. James de …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… Vaster, whence Vaster Lane, corrupted into Foster Lane. A devise to a widow in fee was, as has been repeatedly seen, …