| Content Description | Testator: Benjamin Woodroffe, prebendary of Winchester and rector of Upper Wallop and Chiddesden, Hampshire.
Leaves his farm called Dittons at Methwold, Norfolk to his niece, Mary Metham for life; observes that Mary was 'unhappily educated' by 'a father of the Popish religion' and so makes it a condition of the bequest that she should not return to Catholicism; after her decease, leaves the farm to Henry Wallop and his heirs, grandson of the late Earl of Portsmouth, subject to an annuity of £400 to Bennet Wallop; in default of such heirs leaves the farm to Bennet Wallop in tail male, afterwards to John, Earl of Portsmouth in tail male, afterwards to his [Woodroffe's] heirs at law; leaves other goods, including South Sea Stock and items of furniture and so on to named individuals; also leaves various financial legacies [specified]; sets out details of his burial wishes. |