Archdeaconry Court of Surrey

Testatrix: Catherine Aylett of Bermondsey, widow

Date of Will: 21 March 1697/8

To Joshua Sherman of Whitechapel, Middlesex, citizen & silk thrower and William 
Braxton, citizen & scrivener my messuage etc. in or near Grange Yard, Bermondsey 
in the occupation of Joseph Heaton and John Heaton, tanners and the piece of round 
adjoining the said messuage (two acres) in the occupation of Joseph and John 
Heaton now mainly used as a tanyard and tenements now or late in the occupation of 
Joseph and John and other tenants near the north end of the barn and yard of the 
Grange of Bermondsey all new erections now built or to be built all held on lease 
from the Rt Hon Earl of Salisbury as trustees for my daughter Elizabeth Rutter wife of 
Benjamin Rutter of Bermondsey, leatherdresser for the rest of the term of sixty years 
in the said lease as per the direction of Elizabeth by will or otherwise and not to be in 
any way under the control of her husband and if she dies intestate to her children; to 
my sister Ann Bayesly, widow and executrix twenty pounds; to my grandson William 
Rutter son of Benjamin two hundred pounds at age twenty one with remainder to my 
daughter; to my son in law Benjamin Rutter ten pounds for mourning; to my cousin 
Joshua Sherman and my friend William Braxton above a guinea each for rings; 
residue to my sister Ann Baysely in trust for my daughter Elizabeth; Elizabeth Rutter 
to allow her aunt Ann Bayesly ten pounds as long as she shall remain trustee of my 
estate

Witnesses: John Smith; Elizabeth Reeves (X); John Webster servant to William 
Braxton

Codicil: 6 November 1699: Joshua Sherman is lately deceased and the messuage 
etc. is all settled on William Braxton, and now I am sick and weak; I appoint William 
Jeffereys of Bermondsey, tanner, snr. Trustee also

Witnesses: John Spencer; Hannah Morgan; John Webster, servant to William 
Braxton

Proved: 15 December 1699
DW/PA/5/1699/1