Will of Margaret Lady Culpeper
(1710)
From The Proprietors of the Northern Neck
P.C.C. Smith, 145.
Will dated May 8, 1710.
Proved June 19, 1710.
Margaret Lady Culpeper, widow, Baroness Dowager of
Thoresway. To be bur. in prsh. church of Bromfield, to be carried from Leeds Castle to
sd. church on shoulders of six of my own servants, coffin to be bought at Maidstone, not
more than £3 in price, 6 yards of black cloth to be laid on coffin & afterwards given
to six poor women of sd. prsh. To my grandson Thomas Lord Fairfax £4,000 due to me on
malt tickets, also my sixth part of the Virginia estate. To my granddaur. Margaret Fairfax
my £3,000 stock in Bank of England, but if she marry without consent of Katherine Lady
Fairfax her mother & my nephew George Sayers esq. or die before marriage, sd. £3,000
stock to sd. grandson Thomas Lord Fairfax. To said granddaur. my great necklace of pearl
etc. To my granddaur. Katherine Fairfax moneys due to me from her mother-about £800, also
silver chamber pot (sic). To my granddaur. Margaret, silver basin. Rest of goods to my
daur. Katherine Lady Fairfax & she to be exctrix. Signed M. Culpeper, Witns.
John Brisenden, Richard Filmer, D. Fuller.
Prob. by Catherine Lady Fairfax, widow, daur. &
extrix.]