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Copies of receipts in respect of legacies in the will of Gabriel Ayres of Lewes

Catalogue reference: AMSE/AMS5405/2/5412

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AMSE/AMS5405/2/5412
Title
Copies of receipts in respect of legacies in the will of Gabriel Ayres of Lewes
Date
1764
Description

Copies of receipts of £300 each by John Hale of Fleet Street, London, peruke-maker, 1 Dec 1764, Stephen Hale of Highgate in Middlesex, shoemaker, 6 Dec 1764, and of £600 by Mary Virgoe, 14 Dec 1764, in respect of their legacies in the will of Gabriel Ayres of Lewes (AMS5411); certified by John Elliot from originals in the hands of the executor Charles Scrase, 23 Dec 1764

endorsed by John Elliot, Inner Temple: receipts for five legacies [ie a page missing] for Mr Snashall in respect of his purchase of the Iford estate late Gabriel Ayres; that the other receipts are in the hands of the other executor [John] Griffith; that he paid William Stafford and GA's house-keeper at Lewes '3 or 4 years since'; 23 Dec 1767

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East Sussex Record Office
Former department reference
AMS5412
Language
English
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Copies of receipts in respect of legacies in the will of Gabriel Ayres of Lewes