Short Title: Willis v Jackson. Plaintiff(s): William Willis and his wife Mary, the...

Short Title: Willis v Jackson.

Plaintiff(s): William Willis and his wife Mary, the only daughter and heiress at law of Thomas Leigh, late of Farnham, Surrey, surgeon, deceased.

Defendant(s): Margaret Jackson, spinster, Samuel Dodington, Charles Biggs, Cornelius Van Mildert, Benjamin Batley, Gurdleston Roffe, Henry Bunn, Robert Bunn, Elizabeth Carter, John Godspeed and his wife Mary, John Knight, Andrew Bristow, Mary Leigh Willis.

Depositions for: Defendants.

Subject of Depositions: The last will and testament and a codicil thereto of Mary Overman of Newington, Surrey, spinster (copies of which are subjoined dated respectively 25 Nov 1760 and 16 July 1761) in which the following names of persons and places are mentioned, namely: "the family vault at Northaw", Hertfordshire, Alice Shaw Overman (sister of testatrix), William Overman (father of testatrix), messuages etc in Montague Close in the parish of St Mary Overy [or St Mary Overie], Surrey, Margaret Jackson of Newington, Surrey, widow (aunt of testatrix), Edith Brightman wife of James Brightman of Basingshall Street, London (cousin of testatrix), Mrs Maud Watkinson of Kennington, Surrey, Elizabeth Watkinson, Mary Watkinson and Martha Watkinson (four sisters), Mrs Anne Cooke wife of William Cooke of Brentford, Middlesex, shoemaker, her son Richard Cooke, Samuel Shapley of St Mary Overy, carpenter, and his wife Jane, Mrs Mary Biddell of Newington, widow, Frances Smith of Kennington Lane, Surrey, spinster, John Smith, Hugh Hurlbutt of Newington, carpenter and his wife Elizabeth, Margaret Jackson of Newington, spinster (cousin of testatrix), James Manning of Little Horton, Northamptonshire, gent (cousin of testatrix), and his wife Elizabeth, George Doddington of Horsington, Somerset, esq, Francis Webb senior of Wood Street, London, his wife Margaret Webb, his daughter Mary Webb and his son Francis Webb, messuages etc in Newington, Samuel Dodington of Fossington, Somerset, esq (cousin of testatrix), Edith Beedles wife of John Beedles of Piny, Northamptonshire, wheelwright (cousin of testatrix), Martha Dean wife of James Dean of Towcester, Northamptonshire, surgeon (cousin of testatrix), Elizabeth Manning, Mary Manning, George Doddington Manning, James Manning and William Manning (five children of James and Elizabeth Manning) cousins of testatrix, Mrs Margaret Allison (lately the widow of testatrix's cousin Cornelius Herbert), Mary Baker wife of Mr Baker of Pinton, Dorset yeoman, Charles Biggs of Great New Street near Fetter Lane, London, and his wife Margaret, etc.

County: Hertfordshire; Surrey; Middlesex; London; Somerset; Northamptonshire.

Taken at: Baldock, Hertfordshire.

Date of Commission: 28 Nov 1778.

Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (20 Jan 1779); the forms of the oaths to be delivered by the commissioners and their clerk.

See also: E 134/16Geo3/Mich14; E 134/20Geo3/Mich20.